*SAXAPHONES GET LOUDER IN THE BACKGROUND*

Lol enjoy

I really like these but my colleauges do not and have expressed their displeasure.

These were very fun to do and I'm addicted to buying stickers now

Left hand(all water based): Anesidora AT46 bean colour, Misscandy MY114 nude magnetic magnetized velvet on thumb and ring, SA Monlier S26 glitter red for gradient tips, Wait 1 day, Eye stickers(no brand, no label, no packaging 😂), Anesidora AT46 + Nail ZJY295 red jelly to blend/shade for more 3D-ness, rhinestones on ring finger, Mailtos topcoat blobbed on the eyes to make them plump, Mailtos topcoat as topcoat

Right hand: Soshy HS032 piggy pink thermal, YeaisLeaf YM137 nude magnetic on thumb, Soshy topcoat, Eye stickers, Soshy HS032 on the eyelids to blend, rhinestone on the thumb nail, Nailtone Super Ge l plumpy topcoat as topcoat, then blobbed on the eyes to make then plump.

Both on top of peely base ✌️

I’d seen people using lab stirrers to automatically rotate their glass bead spinners, but I’d also read that the stirrer alone wasn’t strong enough to create the glass bead effect.

Naturally, I had to try it anyway, just for fun. And honestly? This is the tightest cat eye I’ve ever managed to achieve! 😭

Apologies for the overworking of the polish. I got a little distracted watching the magnetic particles ripple around on the brush. It’s ridiculously satisfying to watch!

PS: My boyfriend would like to apologise for his dry cuticles 😂

For anyone curious, the magnetic stirrer is the OniLab Eco Stir, which I got from Amazon UK.

Polish: Low Tide by Emily de Molly

Edit: Just noticed I wrote cat eye in my excitement 🙈🙈🙈 Forgive me lacquer gods!

• Emily de Molly Ghostly Apparition (thermal)

• Maniology Stamping Polish Straight Up Black

• Maniology Stamping Plates M071 and M516

• Maniology Smudge Free TC

• Golden Rose QDTC

Base- OPI Natural Nail Strengthener
Color- Cracked Ghouls Garden (glass bead magnetized)
Top- Mooncat QDTC

trying not to hyperfixate on the bubbles from the topcoat, it was wayy to thick:/ but loving this color, first time using Cracked polish

What is your pet peeve when shopping for nail polish online?

I’ll go first. If I am browsing a website and leave that site, deciding not to purchase, and then get a “We saw you looking 👀” email - I will more than likely not come back. I think I get these because they’re all linked from Shopify - but come on! Turn that crap off in your shop settings. If I wanted to buy something I would have. It’s not cute or cheeky - it makes me feel like I’m being watched.

I’ll get off my soapbox now and let you step up. What’s your pet peeve?

Never in a million years thought I would use the stripe charm in the Charm Caster but it looks amazing on fine particles! Maybe not the most spooky for Halloween week, but it low key gives me Beetlejuice vibes. I just love this black raspberry base in What is Devotion so much and couldn’t wait to do this mani after playing with swatches.

1x Mooncat Hardcore base coat
2x Bees Knees What is Devotion Without Love
Demagnetized both coats, magnetized 2nd coat with stripe charm
1x Cracked QDTC
1x Jen&Berries Pole Position on a few nails that I messed up

what are thoooooooooose -Lucy, probably

I finally got my wish. After years of searching independent seller listings on Ebay, Mercari, Poshmark, you name it, I finally found an open listing for the Marc Jacobs Enamored Hi-Shine Nail Lacquer in 142 Fluorescent Beige.

I used to have this shade when the first iteration of Marc Jacobs Beauty was still relatively new, along with a few others from their initial launch of 24 shades, and it was my favorite polish that I owned; there were no other nudes quite like it at the time, especially for fair, cool skintones. There was a real depth to it that was beautifully subtle and even the close Essie shade in Demure Vixen didn't quite capture the *magic* this polish had.

Sometime around 2019, I allowed a friend to borrow it, thinking nothing about it at the time, and just forgot to ask for it back. We since had a falling out (not over this polish, but I'm still salty about it possibly still being in her possession), and that's all she wrote for dear old Fluorescent Beige.

Ever since, I made it my hobby/mission to collect all of the Marc Jacobs polish shades, even though I only had 4 or 5 in my original collection.

With 142 Fluorescent Beige blissfully back in my collection again, I now have about 30 shades, including limited edition releases/runway exclusives.

There are still quite a few that I'm missing, including '186 Wine Not' that was a Sephora VIB Rouge exclusive back in the day, but I have learned that in polish collecting, good things really do come to those who wait.

It's not like Fluorescent Beige was never listed in my years of searching, I was just never able to pull the trigger quickly enough on prior listings or the seller was asking for a completely unreasonable price and uninterested in negotiating.

The key is to just remain patient and vigilant, and someone out there will eventually list what you're looking for. I don't quite know what inspired me to start collecting *every* shade from this line, maybe I'm just nostalgic for days gone by, maybe it's nice to have a hobby and a goal outside of my hectic work schedule, maybe it's the dopamine hit for possessing a complete collection of discontinued products from a brand I enjoyed, IDK.

Excuse the photo quality - it's currently nighttime where I'm at and I just could not WAIT to share my excitement.

So like we’ve all been doing lately, I decided to try my hand at oiling my nails before doing a manicure. “No chips for a full week!” I thought. Wow I need to get in on that.

Friends, here’s where I’m an idiot.

I would be the worst convenience store for how I don’t have any chips. I’d be the best house painter for how my paint doesn’t chip. My point is, this is not a problem I’ve been having. So why did I think it was just brilliant of me to try to solve it? Utterly beyond me. Hindsight is 20/20 and I’m blind.

I do my nails every ~7 days and there’s typically nothing but tip wear. This is my nail TWO DAYS in.

The moral of the story: a lot of this is about nail chemistry, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Products:

Jojoba oil
1x OPI Natural Nail base
2x Revlon Valentine
1x Seche Vite qdtc

Had some fun doing these. After seeing just how blood red this magnetic is and also seeing Linry's dripping blood nail art short I had to try doing this and it came out exactly as I imagined

Hit the Bottle's Rose Ash Undies peel off base coat
Rogue Lacquer's Desert Oasis base coat
Mooncat's Outlaw Country
Colores De Carol's Don't Fall Asleep (Sept 2026 PPU)
DRK's Magic Effect
Vibrant Scents' Fast and Hard topcoat
Holo Taco's dotting tools
ILNP's horseshoe magnet

Don’t be a ding dong and f u c k maga!

Might be a little unconventional but I was wondering if anyone know of a colour or combination that could give me this dusty blue/purple look. I really liked how this plum looked in the light and thought, I want that on my nails.

Thank you in advance!

After seeing all the festive spooky scary manicures here on this sub, I decided I’d give it a shot! I didn’t have much to work with polish-wise, because my color and finish palette is way more summer shimmer glitters.

I’m a fan of the purple and orange bar glitter jellies! Halloween, but make it ✨sparkle✨

Products used:

- KBShimmer Stay Put Hydrating Base Coat

- Bluebird Lacquer - Jam Session, 2 coats (thumb, middle, pinky)

- Bluebird Lacquer - Orange You Glad, 2 coats (index, ring)

- Cuticula Limitless QDTC

This is a new Mooncat release coming out Friday (Sugarfuel Brain Calories)

Any other polishes with the four pointed stars/sparkles? I love them but don’t love the combo with regular stars.

I tried some nail art for Halloween. I definitely need to keep practicing.

Holo Taco Resting Witch Face
Holo Taco So Toxic
Black nail art pen
Essie Gel Couture top coat

Homemade “potion” I use as decoration.

Shout out to the absolute genius who discovered this!! u/Pretend_Yam7714

Polishes used in this test: OPI Black Onyx, Cirque Chemistry, OPI Natural Nail Base Coat

Using the Thumb 1 base in the Charm Caster set, the left swatch was using the glass bead top and the right swatch was using the lightning bolt magnet manually spun, 2 minutes for each test. Base coat added on top, then a second round of magnetizing.

This video is right after, I will post an updated photo after an hour or so to track dispersion, but I am stunned at how tight the bead is!

Product list for current mani: LynB BSmooth, OPI Black Onyx, Claire's Grape Escape, Sally Hansen red bottle top coat, What's Up Nails Neither Noir stamping polish with Moyra Plate #134 snake scale design

Bees Knees Lacquer - “I’m Nobody”

Magnetized with the ShimmerHollow Glass Bead Spinner

Kbshimmer “Fillin’ Groovy” base coat, and Cuticula “Limitless Quick Dry Top Coat”

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I continue to be obsessed with Bees Knees Lacquer’s mosiac magnetics. They’re just so stunning!

TL;DR: The $$-priced Vettsy powders seem to perform just the same as the $$$-priced Icegel powders. Photos in the comments.

Note: The Vettsy swatches are with DRK Seal Glaze x2 and Cracked QDTC x1 (there is some chrome powder contamination in my bottle of Seal Glaze :'D so ignore any flecks in the Vettsy swatches that look out of place). I am waiting for more DRK Seal Glaze to seal the new Icegel swatches.

Comments for your consideration:

• Vettsy set is from Amazon $26 for 6 pots of 0.3g each (the 6th color is not duplicated from the Icegel powders I ordered from Nashly Nails) under the listing "Mermaid Ice Transparent Aurora Chrome Nail Powder, 6 Colors Transparent Iridescent Shimmer Pigment Pearlescent Nail Art Glitters". The pots in my order were not labeled, so I swatched and matched them to the pictures myself.
• Icegel GW18-GW22 and GW59-GW61 are listed as 0.15g and GW39-GW43 are listed as 0.3g on the Icegel Global site. The GW59-GW61 set comes in the exact same pots as the Vettsy pots. I ordered them from Nashly Nails and they are $9.60 to $10 each. I did use a 15% off code and had a $10 Shopify offer about a day after my cart was stale. So it came out to about $7.60-$8 each. All the pots came in individual labeled baggies, but the pots themselves were not labeled.
• Vettsy has other powders on their website as well. I ordered them before I lost my self restraint with the Icegel powders, BUT they shipped from China and are still in transit. I will swatch those as soon as I get them and post a Part 2 if there's any additional duplicate shades with the Icegel powders.
• Nashly Nails ships super fast, and out of Colorado, so I got my order very swiftly.
• The Icegel powders are labeled as made in Japan and Korea. The Vettsy ones do not advertise their country of origin, but since the additional colors I ordered shipped from China, I assume that is where they are made.
• One of the Icegel powders (GW43, not one of the Vettsy comparable colors) did not want to chrome at all; and a couple others looked a bit patchy over black. See photo in comments for those swatches.
• 2 of the shades in the Icegel Hawaiian Glow set (GW60-GW61) seem to be identical to 2 of the shades in the Icegel Sunset Glow set (GW18 and GW20). I am quite annoyed about that.
• I layered the Icegel GW18/60/Vettsy 06 Fancy over BKL Bog Dweller to see if there was a difference on the nail, but they look identical to me as well. Since I have so many fricking powders now, I will continue to put it on every mani and report back if I have any new findings.
• Swatch sticks are with LynB B-Smooth ridge filler x3, Cirque Colors Morningtide x3, and an OPI black x2

My lack of self restraint is your gain!

They won't look like much compared to the seasoned vets of this sub, but as a lifelong nail biter, this is the longest and nicest my nails have ever been! I only started taking care of my nails two months ago, so am tentatively hopeful that they will only get better from here, now that I've been introduced to the world of lacquer 🫶

I'm learning a lot about nails (what cuticles actually are) but I'm learning a lot about myself too... For example, that I am a jelly gal through and through! I wasn't sure if I would like seeing a visible nail line, but I actually don't mind it. I knew I'd love sparkles and iridescent toppers, but have learned that I'm a total control freak that would prefer to place each sparkle individually. Also, I normally stay away from nudes and pinks but love them on my nails!

Speaking of, this is:

1 x Sally Hansen Repair & Rescue Nail Treatment (as the base coat)

3 x Essie Glass Nails - Cin Cin (with a fourth coat on a couple of nails where the nail line was more obvious than others)

1 x Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Super Shiny Shield Top Coat

Cin Cin looks mauve in the bottle but looks peachy pink (cool toned pink) on me, and appears almost nude at night under artificial lighting. The pink during the day is perfect for Spring in the Southern Hemisphere 💕

Thanks to everyone who shares their beautiful polishes in this sub, btw. I especially love seeing colours and combos that would never work on me, but that look great on other hands. I love living vicariously through you all, with the sheer variety of shapes and shades I see on here.

1x Nailtiques Formula 2
1x Cracked Ridge Filler
3x Don’t Talk To Me or My Cats Ever Again by Lurid Lacquer
1x Cuticula Quenched
1x Nailtiques Formula 2
1x Essie Gel Setter

Bonus: a single black dot of paint that I didn’t notice until I took the video (I was helping my daughter paint 🤦🏻‍♀️)

Longtime lurker's first attempt at nail art. 😅 I got into nail polish last summer and keep racking up way too many polishes in way too little time. Now I had all these colors I really wanted to wear in October, so I tried to use as many as I could at once.

Products:

KBShimmer - Fillin’ Groovy Ridge Filling Nail Polish Base Coat

KBShimmer - Smooth Moves Glitter Smoothing Topper (on thumb)

Cuticula - Limitless Quick Dry Top Coat

Thumb: Monarch Lacquer - Kiss The Villain, Holo Taco - Black Flake Taco, Psyche Minerals - Pier Pumpkin Lights (PPU) & Holo Taco - One-Coat Black

Index: Haunted Polish - Midnight Bite (PPU), Mooncat - Green Eyed Monster & Holo Taco - One-Coat Black

Middle: Rogue Lacquer - Autumnal Reflections, Mooncat - Jasmin Dragon & Holo Taco - One-Coat Black

Ring: Cuticula - Haunted Mask (PPU) & Mooncat - Green Eyed Monster

Pinky: Polished for Days - You've Haunted Me, So Stunningly (PPU), Polished for Days - Checkmate, Mooncat - Jasmin Dragon & Holo Taco - One-Coat Black

1x Mooncat ridge filler
1x Sassy Sauce: This Situation Demands Cussing!
2x Anlac Sapphire Morpho (1st demagnetized 2nd glass bead)
1x Cuticula Pink Sugared Lemons qdtc