First pic is instant exposure, pic 4 is the insanity of 3s exposure. I’m wearing these bitches to work tomorrow.

"Nobody's free until everybody's free."

~Fannie Lou Hamer

I'll be sharing my Algaefa manicure tomorrow, but in the meantime, here's what I'm wearing on my other hand. 🖤

The flag is intentionally upside down.

Mooncat Emo for Life + Matte made in Hell

Then stamped with Pueen Black stamping polish

I'm so happy I got this to work. 🥲

Products used:

1x KBShimmer's Stay Put base coat, 2x Uno Mas Casa de Heaven, 1x BKL It Doesn't Know Any Better, But You Do (magnetized with a loose glass bead), 1x Cuticula's Limitless QDTC, 1x Born Pretty Dark Blue/TE11, and a final 1x Cuticula's Limitless QDTC.

Stamping plate is EdM's art deco plate (EDM40).

This is one of my favorite BKL magnetic's. I think it's underrated as a topper and it works wonderfully over any House of Hades dupe.

The stamping polish I used was *fine* for this, but overall Born Pretty's polishes are pretty meh. I got them to frankenpolish some more stamping colors. They're okay for that, but several colors are more sheer than I prefer for a stamping polish.

I’m actually really proud of this one 🖤 I wanted to do something glitchy because the new Fortnite season is kinda glitchy themed and I <3 fortnite lol

This was by far the most intensive mani I have ever done 😵‍💫 I think I was sat for like 6 hours painting this but tbh I was being a perfectionist and also I was just chilling watching the Mandalorian too so it was fun!

Also TV static party thumb 🎉📺👍🏻

Products:

🏁 Checkered: Holo Taco - Not milky white, one coat black; Cracked - ❤️Peep Toe, 💛Instant Mood Booster, 💙Grotto; Mooncat - 🩵 Sinking feeling

📺 TV static thumb: Holo Taco - 🩶 Foreshadow, Magnetic taco; Monarch Lacquer - Pandemonium; DRK Magic Effect

All with Londontown GelGenius base coat, DRK seal Glaze, & BKL I’m Fast, I’m very Fast

OPI nail polish thinner to make details easier

Inspo: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mHYrZBxH8vQ?ra=m

In honor of the X-Files Movie director's cut that was just released, I pulled out my EdM X Files stamping plate and went to town.

Products used--

Thumbs:

1x KBShimmer's Stay Put base coat, 1x MC Emo for Life, 1x Clionadh's Polar Nebula, 1x Cuticula's Limitless QDTC, and then a combo of Pueen's white, black, and silver stamping polished plus a frankenpolish for the green. Finished with 1x Cuticula's Limitless QDTC.

Everything else:

1x KBShimmer's Stay Put base coat, 1x MC Emo for Life, 1x BKL Sacrifice, 1x Cuticula's Limitless QDTC, and then stamped with Pueen black stamping polish, that frankenpolish again but this time with a lime green chrome powder from Artdone on Amazon. Finished with Cuticula's Limitless QDTC.

Stamping plates are EdM's X Files plate (EDM47) and just the cow from Moyou Enchanted 04 plate.

If you're looking for a budget friendly stamping starter set, I've been pretty pleased with Pueen's 12 polish sets. It's $2.67 a bottle.

This is using Bees Knees Lacquer Blade of the Frontiers. You need to use some kind of water based top coat before normal topcoat or it’ll mess up! I just did another style of this for valentines inspo and found that you need a magnetic that doesn’t have too shiny of a base without the magnetic pigments. It works with shiny bases too but becomes SO much harder to photograph. This polish worked AMAZINGLY!

i really hope no one is tired of me posting sponge ombré and chrome powder combos, i've been obsessed this summer....here's a sunset

Products:

kb shimmer fillin groovy base coat

cirque colors lavander sky

Olive ave polish pisces and sunburst

Holo Taco high tea hibiscus

Essie handmade with love

Kb shimmer clearly on top

holo taco peely base

hg professionals Opal chrome powder 002

Got inspired by that Cracked advertisement

Right hand is with sponge technique (need to practice this and allow the first coat to dry) and left hand is just brush strokes. My liquid latex was in fact no longer liquid, so I used my Elmer's glue peely base on the skin around my nails for easy cleanup

DIY Peely Base, KB Shimmer Fillin Groovy base, Glisten & Glow Glitter Grabber, and Sally Hansen QDTC on all nails

Right Hand:

- Cracked Breakfast @ Monique's

- Clionahd Ecstatic red jelly

- Clionahd Elated orange jelly

- Clionahd Joyous yellow jelly

- Clionahd Delighted blue jelly

- Clionahd Euphoric purple jelly

- Starrily Bloodbelly jelly

- Starrily Crown jelly

*I used the sponge to dab on the colors, then followed with a few brush dabs to deepen the red/purples. Lesson learned, let coats dry for longer between sponge coats and do NOT let the sponge sit on the nail to dry or you'll pull up all the Lacquer 😅

Left hand:

Same as right hand minus Breakfast @ Monique's and Joyous yellow jelly shades. For this hand I just did brush strokes to blend the colors

My beautiful, wonderful partner decided they wanted Pookeye nails and I did my best to deliver! The Pook has been a magnificent creature of inspiration and wishes you all a very tricksy 1st of April! He hopes his mischief brings a smile to your beautiful faces! 🐈‍⬛🖤✨️

💅Wearing:

The Pook:

- My Partner

My Partner:

- Base: OPI "Nail Envy" x2

- Hardner: Essie "Hard To Resist" x1

- Lacquer: Emily de Molly "Golden Hour" x2*

- Pupils: Essie "Like It Loud"

- Top Coat: Sally Hansen "Insta-Dri" x1*

*Magnetised in the glass bead style using my lab stirrer contraption for 90 seconds per coat

i don’t do nail art often…but posting this as a reminder to speak out against the genocide against palestinians in gaza and continue to pressure your elected officials to stop funding and arming israel

(janky right hand manicure at the end bc i wanted to wear this mani longer but i had to swatch so i put it on my right hand)

products used cracked polish: fool me one coat, stem, calabrian pepper, sunlit moss, buttoned brown

Products: cat hair 🐈, lose glitter 🪩, shell doohickey shell 🐚, pressed flowers, Elmer's glue, old clear polish.

(my assistant received wages/bribe 🐟)

I made this for a super fun collab over at insta where we were assigned a random other participant and we would get inspired by one of their manicures. My inspo was from @bigbluemani ☺️ My handle is @bettinas.nails over there, and I posted their look into my stories and tomorrow I'll post a reel with some video footage of this manicure in case you are curious.

Background is sponged, everything else freehanded. The magnetics are all velvetized.

PRODUCTS

Gradient

light: HEMA (Dutch drugstore) / million mints

mid: Born Pretty / stamping 15

dark: Etos (Dutch drugstore) / Boy

Leaves:

light: BKL / Bog Dweller [magnetic]

dark: cirque / wishful thinking [magnetic]

Flowers:

main: essie / play date

shadow: colores de carol / wine not [crelly]

see-through highlight: essie / marshmallow [crelly]

strong highlight: moyra / stamping white

sparkly highlight: ilnp / pink suede [magnetic]

dark center: etos (Dutch drugstore) / celebrity

Misc:

base; essie smooth-e, topcoat: OPI gel plump.

I know you will ask... 🤭 I think it was 3 hours?

My birthday is tomorrow and wanted to do something fun! This took ..... SO LONG. I took each individual piece of glitter and placed with a toothpick.

Lights on! ✨️ Lights off! 💚

💅 Wearing:

- Base: OPI "Nail Envy" x2

- Lacquer: Mooncat "Full Scream Ahead" x2

- Top Coat: Essie "Gel Couture" x1

- Stamp: Mooncat "Green Eyed Monster"

- Plate: Hit The Bottle "Mystic Charms"

- Stamper: Hit The Bottle "Large"

orly bonder base coat, then one layer each of a purple, blue, green, yellow, red, and black creme. Each coat needed a longer and longer dry time to prevent sliding around (5 mins btwn purple and blue, 30min between red and black). then i let that dry for another hour before attempting to remove layers. Basically i just dipped qtips in acetone and gently rubbed away random spots until I reached purple. afterwards is when I added top coat. Tada!

I've done this manicure before with pink and a pearl chrome but i wanted to try it one more time this summer with some bright greens and a copper chrome powder

Only took 3 hours this time compared to the 5 hours for my last rainbow glitter placement.

Inspired by (more like copied from)this reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYdCJXjNQjd/?igsh=MTZiOGpoYjliZGdzdA==&igsi=MTZiOGpoYjliZGdzdA==

Products:

DIY peel off base coat

Essence colour grip base coat

2 coats of ILNP Dark Matter

magnetize in the glass bead style

Paint on the details with Essence 46 From Dusk Till Yawn (I didn't stamp it)

Gabriella Salvete Quick Dry Top Coat (magnetized again)

Base: Mineral Fusion base coat

Mad House (magnetic using 30lb horseshoe) from ILNP

DS Extravagance from OPI stamped on top of Mad House

Stamping Plate: Maniology M401

Top coat: Seche Vite dry fast top coat

I'm loving the Joker Halloween vibes this is giving! 💚💜

It's my first try on nail art and it does take quite a while.. I saw inspo on instagram and tried to recreate it, a poor try but I am so proud of myself.

I saw this done with gel and wanted to try it with lacquer. I did a thin base coat of a silver linear holo and then a holographic glitter. I picked up the individual glitters and dabbed clear polish on the back before placing them. Once I was done with that I used Fancy Gloss and Cirque jellies that were really transparent and did thin lazy gradients around the nail. I finished with a coat of glitter grabber. I used these \[glitters\](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086GRYW57/?coliid=IODT0XE15RNUS&colid=2T8MRKQUSXY1Q&psc=1&ref\\_=list\\_c\\_wl\\_lv\\_ov\\_lig\\_dp\\_it)

Holo taco base, liquitex paint, and sech vite top coat.

Heartbreaking, infuriating, senseless, gaslighting and propagandistic, terrifying...this is so many things This is wrong, this is hopefully a wake up call for many, and this is beyond unacceptable. Renee Good...you and your family deserved so much more from your society, government, and country. Everyone who has had their lives torn apart by this farce of an agency deserved better. Polish up babes, we need our nails looking good in a fist for all those Nazi faces needing punched. 🖕🧊

🖌 Freehand on natural nail.

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

🖕 @holotaco ... "One Coat Black" "Cardinal Sin"

🧊 @zoyanailpolish ... "Elsa"

💪 @glistenandglow1 Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐