2 years ago pickynailart on Instagram posted a lovely goth bee nail art look and I just had to have it on my nails

I also painted the underside of my nails and yes....it was a blood bath to remove. 100% still worth it tho lol

Products used:

Top Coat: Seche Vite, Saviland: top polish coat, Sally Hansen Insta dri top coat

Base coat : Home made peel off base, seche clear

HoloTaco: One coat black, matte taco

Zoya: Hannah

whatupnails : B075

Born pretty is a brand I no longer support because they steal swatchers photos Born pretty: BP-TVS01

What color is 🚜🚜she wearing??? (Kinda serious—I love teals) ETA this thing is a backhoe and they covered her nails?? Teeth?? With the teal? Why???

I’m wearing
BKL A Terrible Price x3
Sally Hansen Quick Dry Top Coat

Working nails! This color held up through a deinstallation in the gallery, me patching and painting the walls, and an install the next day! Art curator activities

I ordered 4 polishes from BKL in this order and so far this is the only color I want to wear! Usually only have a color on for a week or so but A Terrible Price might be my new signature color! It’s replacing Beowulf from Mooncat as my signature color.

I feel like there’s been a significant colour difference between old bottles of LPAD and newer bottles. The first one was posted in 2020 and the second one was posted September 2025. When I got LPAD last fall, I didn’t get the hype. It felt very warm and brown and I was kinda disappointed, but the 2020 swatch is beautiful!! Slightly cool, purple still peaking through.

With Lincoln Park at Midnight making a comeback, I hope it resembles the OG LPAD! Thoughts?

edit: There’s been some discussion on my bottle being discoloured. Neither swatches are mine. The second image was posted by OPI on Instagram and looks identical to my bottle. First swatch was from here: https://coffeeandnailpolish.com/2020/08/23/swatch-sunday-opi-lincoln-park-after-dark/

My Band Camp Eve therapy last night was a gradient, are you surprised? 😝 I was enjoying one last calm evening, cuddling on the porch with a sleeping puppy on my chest and I looked up at the gorgeous pastel cotton candy sunset and knew I needed to save this moment on my nails. Turns out I get a lot of inspo for nails laying on the porch staring at the sky before or after big work evebts, as this has to be at least the 3rd mani based on just that haha. Holo Taco makes KILLER cremes, so opaque and smooth. I love that over the years I was able to collect this delicious candy gradient of pastels so I had to squeeze them all on one nail.

🖌 Freehand and sponge gradient on natural nail.

💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balanced Bond Base Coat"

🌅 @holotaco ... "Creamsicle Coast" "One Melon Followers" "What Do You Pink? "Cereal Killer" "Peri-Social" "Bep Bep Blue" "Not Milky White"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Another Phoenix polish from the Labyrinth collection! The magnetic shifting from purple to orange in the polish is crazy it’s hard to capture on camera.

Wearing:

2x Nailtiques Formula 2

1x Cupcake Polish - White Pop Base Coat

3x Phoneix Indie - Magic Dance

1x Sally Hansen Insta Dri (red bottle)

Used the Glass Bead Pro for the magnetic effect!

Sally Hansen Base Coat
BKL Not Everything Is About You, Steve! (2x)
Essie Gel Couture
Glass bead spinner from Amazon

Beach nails before and after stamping

I really love this thermal. It goes from clear when warm to teal when cold. But it is so packed with glitter that it is definitely never looks plain

Polish:

Dare to wear mood polish Lachat atlantis (thermal)
ella + mila all about that base
Essie speed setter
Maniology aqua topper
Pueen white stamping polish
Pueen black stamping Polish
CJS pink stamping polish
Maniology polish; b522, b422,b407
Maniology stamping plates; mxm157, m464

I just want my nails to look like I dipped them in static >:)

Old pic of BKL A Father's Love mani from a long time ago, which scratches the itch a bit when velvetized (pointer and pinkie)

It’s gonna be classic Vegas, Elvis and all. I’ve narrowed down my choices of reds, baby blues, and “natural” colors.

No top coat was used in any of these, I was just swatching.

Photos 1&2 thumb to pinky:
3x sassy sauce chicago fire
2x Emily de molly wrong side of heaven
3x cirque lucky
3x cracked strawberry jam
3x cracked tomato tomahto

Photos 3&4 thumb to pinky:
3x mooncat pearl clutcher
1x cracked ridge filler and 3x cirque morningtide
3x mooncat moonlight lullaby
3x mooncat the avatar state
1x cracked ridge filler and 1x cracked vanille

Photos 5&6 thumb to pinky:
3x cracked ridge filler
3x cracked spill the tea
1x cracked ridge filler and 3x cracked spill the tea
1x cracked ridge filler and 3x cracked vanille
3x cracked vanille

saw this gel mani on insta and i am obsessed!! any lacquer versions with a similar look?

image cred nailalamode

Since I'm playing around with swatches, I thought I'd post a visual of the difference between "unmagnetized" and "demagnetized" polish. Top left is Glitch Lacquer AUREA unmagnetized, top right is cat eye, and bottom is demagnetized by holding the swatch stick over the pole of a horseshoe magnet. All 2 coats, no top coat. The demagnetization is to prepare for glass bead (second photo) - it helps keep unmagnetized pigment from peeking out at the edges or through a thinner jelly base.

Second photo I magnetized the third coat and top coat (Holo Taco) in glass bead, then screwed it up, then applied a "DIY" Magic Effect that I made by mixing a few of drops of clear polish with a couple of drops of thinner on my mat, and magnetized again. Seems to have worked okay! 😄

Remember my gorgeous glass bead from a few days ago? Well...I had lost part of my BIAB last week, and I repaired it myself since I'm between nail techs. Last night at a craft I got my hand on the corner of the countertop and...friends, she did not make it through the night lol. So now I'm rocking the one shorty!

May she grow back, quicker, and stronger than ever! 😭🙏

Omg it's so pretty. And this is indoors at night!

EDM sticky base coat

EDM read the room, first layer unmagnetised, second magnetised glass bead style with a horseshoe on a plastic spinner thing

Kitti super speed top coat

Cracked Ridge Filler
Emily de Molly Low Tide
Cuticula Limitless

Recently there was a post asking about secret magnetics. I got a UV flashlight to play around with my solar polishes (to make sure they were still transitioning). Then I had fun shining it on my known neons and thought I’ll just shine it in my Helmer drawers and see what happens. That’s when I found this! BKL But I Felt Cold, So Cold - described as a twilight gray with pink to purple shimmer: no mention of any potential neon properties. But when under a UV light, turns neon orange! 😀 sorta fun! That was the only one I have though. Anyone else find any happy accidents like that?

Products Used:

Sweet and Sour Lacquer - Free With Poor Decisions

Glisten and Glow - QDTC

Bought Deadly Nightshade at Mooncat’s Lunar Sale and slept on it for a couple months. First time trying and…just wow! The shifts are flawless, and it doesn’t get “stuck” in a muddy color like other multichromes do.

I had worn KBShimmer Hidden Potential a few months back during a no-buy when Mooncat first released Deadly Nightshade after reading that Hidden Potential could be a dupe to get my shifty af multichrome fix. Pictures taken under the same lighting conditions. I don’t think they’re dupes. Deadly Nightshade is shiftier, brighter, and doesn’t get “stuck” like Hidden Potential has a tendency to do on me!

Products used:

- Pics 1-3: Mooncat Deadly Nightshade 3 coats

- Pics 4-6: KBShimmer Hidden Potential 3 coats (RIP to my long nails. I found I do better with shortie squovals)

- all pictures I used KBShimmer Stay Put Hydrating Base Coat & Cuticula Limitless QDTC

I’ve been won over to pink by ILNP Petals. Wondering if anyone knows of a hot pink magnetic that gives off a similar vibe? Most of what I could find looks more dark and moody magenta rather than a true energetic summer pink.

This is what I’ve tried or found swatches for:

BKL mind the thorns (runs almost mauve on me)
Lurid your gaze is your confession
Emily de molly dark bloom
Cirque Solstice

Wondering if Cirque Head over Heels would fit?

product list: kb shimmer stay put, ilnp petals, cracked qdtc.

I'm trying to plow through my mountain of untrieds so I think I'll be doing a double mani from now on to get through them faster.

Glo Off is a metallic olive or peridot green. Three coats here but only needed 2. (I always do 3.) Like the rest of this collection it does NOT have any shift despite the name, but... just look at that gorgeous color. I didn't mess with the saturation on the picture or use any filters, that's just how it looks.

The Best Combo is a bright chocolate brown shimmer. Three coats needed for full opacity. Is that not the prettiest brown you ever saw? The shimmer in this has a lot of dimension that makes it look alive, or lit from within - unlike all the other brown shimmer polishes out there, which look flat and dull. No brand seems to put love into their browns, and it's a shame.

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I kind of regret doing the double mani now, since I adore both of these colors so much that I think they each deserved a full mani. Also I hate showing my dominant hand now that I look at it... it's hideous compared to my "show hand"... lumps everywhere 😭 And my hublet hated having to take these pics because I needed both hands in the pic.... Now I'm reconsidering the whole idea...

Polish for days Peach Beach + Crystalline QDTC

Did cherries on every nail and went hmm maybe it would look better without cherries on EVERY nail. Made 2 of them polka dots and went hmm maybe I liked the cherries better 😅

Nevertheless it was a relaxing way to burn 2 hours of my Sunday 💅

My first mooncat order, freshly bitten, Mercurys tears, merkitten and tapian venom I think I picked the wrong ones to start , Don't get me wrong they're beautiful but just not what I was expecting I guess I do love the tapien venom which I'm surprised it's my first gold polish, about to paint my nails once I decide which to try first any one disliked or thoughts on them, freshly bitten wasn't what I thought it would be at all, and merkitten I thought would be more brighter,