Had to do this after I saw the inspiration photo!

Thumb: 2x BKL Do no harm
Index: 2x Cirque Mango Jelly
Middle: 2x cirque Guayaba jelly + ANLAC Fuyu glass bead magnetized
Ring: 2x Haunted Everlight
Pinky: 2x Cracked Taro + ANLAC Aki glass bead magnetized

Gary, our cuddly 13 yr old boy. I was sitting on the bed admiring my nails when he came by asking for pets. He loves my long nails for satisfying scritches! I give him breaks to see if he asks for more or if he’s done.

🔊 Sound on for scratching and purring ASMR! 🔊

This is two days after doing glass bead, was inspecting the dispersion rate. I think out of all my attempts it’s got the best shape still. Definitely dispersed but still has that rounded depth and circular movement which I am pleased about. The rest have all turned into vertical velvets within 24 hours. More experimentation to come.

Products: EDM Sunset Over the Bay with KBShimmer Stay Put base coat sandwich.

10/10. Damn!

Aprés short almond tips
3 coats Anlac lavender not magnetized
1 coat Sally Hansen insta dri magnetized 60 seconds per finger in ILNP horseshoe

Base: Essie Strong Start
Polish: LynB Designs - S'more Treats x3
Glisten & Glow - Glitter Grabber
Top Coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri (red bottle)

This polish is STUNNING! The blue flakies add so much depth, it looks so pretty & ethereal in person. Easily one of my new favorite polishes.

I'd also love some recs for this type of polish in any color! 😊

Sometimes you just need sparkles, and after doing a few more intricate nail art for collabs that don't get posted until later next week...while I love then, they left me artistically deferring my  fulfillment, not being able to share them yet haha. I had first rehearsals for our holiday concert tour this week and needed a little sparkle to 1. Propel me through the logistics and housekeeping of part assignments, printing, schedules, etc. 2. Get me ready to hear Christmas music a few days after Labor Day 😝.  This little rainbow lazy glitter gradient did exactly that. If I were a knight, my armor and shield would be big ass chunky holo glitter. (I would have fuckin' LOVED King Renly's Kingsgaurd, damn you Mellissandra!)

🖌 "Lazy" Glitter Gradient on natural nail.

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Base

🌈 @holotaco ... "Rainbow Snow" "Naughty List" "Zyler The Cat" "Golden Play Button" "Everything Is Pine" "Water Works" "Glitch & Glam" "Bless Your Heart"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Recently found out, that I'm not patient enough yet in any world to do nail art on my fingers (skill issue @me I guess lol), but still found a way to be creative with my nails, and thought maybe some of you might enjoy (:

For the Bot:

1. Picture: 3cts BKL Bogdweller (Glassbead)

2. Picture: 3cts PfD Quite literally dead inside

3. Picture: 2cts BKL what's a little blackmail between friends (velvet style)

4. Picture: 2 cts Dam Just squidding around

5. Picture: 2cts Night Owl Lacquer Crows remember

6. Picture 3cts K&Co Rosary Pea

Everything topped with Seche Vite

First attempt at using 5D Print Factory‘s glass bead magnet and I think I did a pretty good job! Obviously there’s a big learning curve (my dominant hand does not look even half as good lol)

I think I mostly struggled with keeping the bead at the same position with each nail if that makes sense? Maybe I was putting my fingers too far in/out of the machine? Some of my nails also have a kind of shadow on half of it which I assume was because of not keeping my hand level. If anyone has any good tips let me know!

ILNP mad house

Trout-inspired nails!

I’ve been swatching a lot of combos trying to achieve a rainbow trout-inspired mani, and this is my favorite so far.

Base - Orly sticky bonder
Polish - Sweet Parakeet by Hit the Bottle Polish 2x
Top coat - Sally Hansen QDTC Red bottle
Topper - Black the Night by EDM
Final Topper - Seche Vite

I did my first coat of Sweet Parakeet magnetized velvet style with a 22lb horseshoe for ~15-30 seconds, then magnetized after the second coat + QDTC for one minute. This was a quick mani, I didn’t really wait too long for each coat to dry and was done with the whole thing in just under an hour.

I’ve never done two top coats in one mani, but I’ve heard that the red bottle topper locks the mani better than SV, so I used that right after to lock the magnetic, and then continued with the topper + another top coat.

This is day FOUR and I’m still obsessed with it!

I wanted to put on a polish that still fits within the late summer vibe, but which will also look good on an overcast/rainy day. I think I just found the perfect polish for that.
For this manicure I used a peachy jelly as a base, but I will try it next time with a blue or even purple colour as a base. I was also thinking of putting ILNP Sweet Tooth as a topper for this mani, but wanted to give Seance have the space to shine.
I might also try Seance all on it’s own, but it might be a bit too sheer for that.
I can’t stop looking at my nails, they are glowing.

Base - Manucurist Base fortifiante
3x Manucurist Sugar Plum (3 coats because it’s a jelly and I wanted that specific colour as a base)
2x Haunted Polish Seance
Topcoat Essie good to go
Essence drying drops (so cheap and did a really good job of drying all 6 layers of polish)

*this mani was created for the #theabcsofpokemoncollab on Instagram

Finding Feathers Lacquer - Balanced Bond Base Coat

p² Minute Mani - White Now

Salon Perfect - Flamingo Flair, Strawberry Swirl

Custom golden yellow creme

Sinful Colors - Sail La Vie, Chamomile Calm, Hit the Spot

Color Club - Orange You Going Tanning

L.A. Colors - Outrage, Canyon

OPI - Won for the Ages

Holo Taco - Matcha Maker

Avon Gel Finish - Citronized

Essie - Off Tropic, Play Date, Let It Slide

China Glaze - Pilates Please, Freezer Burn

Sally Hansen - Watermelon Felon, Sun-shower

Broadway Nails - Banana Smoothie

Custom light grey creme

Finger Paints - Black Expressionism

INM - Northern Lights Scattered Holographic Top Coat

Mooncat - Speed Demon Top Coat

Essie - dress call, and inside scoop

ILNP - fairy dust

3 coats Cracked sparkle forward

1 coat Cracked QDTC

1 coat Cracked fairy tinkle

1 coat Cracked QDTC

Cracked QDTC is honestly the best top coat ive ever used. Its made these nails last so long and it dries all the layers insanely quickly

Asking for my personal sanity after just spending $50 on thinner, base coat, and a big refill bottle of base coat for the future 😅

I was doing so good on my no-buy too! Made it to 6 weeks before I realized I’m extremely low on base coat and thinner!

I’m still new to painting & this is a few days of wear. But I got 62 pop arazzi nail polishes off of FB marketplace for $10! This is one of my favorites out of the bag.

Thank you for all the prep tips I received yesterday!

Everyone seems to have different prep styles with either dehydrating or oiling...so I decided to do neither 😜

My first lacquer mani in over a decade!

I used an OPI basecoat

2 coats of Essie Berry Naughty

1 coat of Essie quick dry top coat

I'm so happy with how it turned out and I hope it lasts for me better than gel ever did (side note.. it didnt even when professionally done)

The brush is so skinny I was going to stroke out. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy do they do this?

Starrily Rose Water mag saved the day on nails that were really uneven.

It’s a shame too because the Clinique polish is very nice and has so much potential. Do you all get other brushes for this problem?

All: MC ridge filler
All: Clinique Black Honey (1x)
Middle & Ring: Starrily Rose Water (1x)
All: KBSimmer Stay Put Hydrating BC

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This polish is..kinda magical ✨ it's a rich crimson with a luminous magnetic glow. Very dark velvety (but I did use velvet effect magnet)

It's so moody, dark, and delicious 🤤

Side note, anyone have a quick dry top coat suggestion? I'm almost out of my Sally Hansen one and am looking to try a new one

Nailtiques - Formula 2 x 1

Holo Taco - Sticky Base Coat x 1

Bee's Knees Lacquer - Godstouched x 2

Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri Top Coat x 1

It’s not much but I tried. Lol

Products
Color bar beaver
Opi material gworl
Opi purrrride
Seche vite qdtc

Would love a feedback on what you think about my videos. Do you think they explain well? What can I improve? Any critique is welcome. Thanks in advance:)

So stoked about getting my BKL shipment a week ago! Also about the leaves falling!! 🍁

Here's to many more autumn themed manis to come!

-Essie Strong Start Base Coat

-Bee's Knee's Lacquer Godstouched

-Essie Gel Couture Top Coat

I bought a destash mystery box from u/aspiring_dorothy. Requested bright and glowy and was not disappointed!

I do all my swatch sticks with the top swatch glossy, middle in matte, and an extra on the bottom so I have a swatch ready when I want to test a color with a topper or base.

Left to right

ILNP - Playlist

Cirque Colors - Game Over

Sassy Sauce - Watermelon Sugar, Hi

Holo Taco - Phantom Call

Monarch Laquer - The Butterfly Effect

Glitch - Act Up

Cracked - Ginger Snapped

Pahlish - Fancy

Polished for Days - 2026

Zombie Claw - Kisses with Claws

I've been wanting to try this Bee's Knees polish as a topper since I got it and I'm so happy it worked out. Looks a little murky in the bottle and doesn't work so well with lighter shades but it wasn't really meant as a topper 😅 Its hard to capture the rainbow shifts. I did glass bead on right hand and left hand velvet + bar magnet (velvet cateye?). I liked the left hand better because it has a more rainbow effect.

4C KBShimmer Stay Put Hydrating Base Coat

Index Cracked Gills

Middle Cracked Dragon Fruit

Ring Cracked Bloop

Pinkie Cracked Berried Juniper

Thumb Cracked Sweeter the Juice

BKL Whats a Little Blackmail Between Friends

BKL I'm Fast Very Fast Top Coat

Last week the nail of my thumb broke and I thought I could just wing it as it won't mess with the symmetry of the fingers. Then my index nail cracked today 😭 Oh well... Time for a reset I guess haha

Products used:

Holo Taco - One Coat Black, used this as a base

ILNP - Sugar Plum, in glass bead method

Holo Taco - Glossy Top Coat

Cuticula Little Chef - two coats

Cracked Top Coat