i hate my nails, they’ve always grown square and i’m wondering how i can get pretty round nails… i know i can just file them but i’m asking because i’ve heard you can train your nails to grow a certain way? please help (also what shape would look the most flattering? i usually just clip them, i dont have much experience filing them)

I take decent care of my nails and don't pick or bite at them. I have these black lines (broken blood vessels?) on several of my nails on both hands. Also, the nail bed separates from my nail on several of them. Is this some kind of health related issue? Or is there anything I can do?

Hi Lacqueristas, I got my nails done in Japan about a month ago. I’m obsessed with them, but they’re starting to look super grown out.

They’re GelX extensions, and I’m wondering if there’s a way to loosen the extension glue between the gel x and my nail so the extension can pop off fully intact. When I’ve done research, I’ve only seen info about drilling/soaking off the extension, or using a peel off base and removing with oil (which this doesn’t have).

I feel silly asking this question, but it was always a dream of mine since I was 13 to get my nails done in Japan. So preserving the integrity of them in some way (if possible) would be a nice sentimental token for me. Maybe reuse them as press ons in the future?

TIA for your insight!

I’m sure this is stupid, but it’s driving me crazy — Not sure what this is, can’t find it anywhere online, reverse image search, even at the maker’s site.

Went ham on Dollar Tree polish when I went to buy the Tiffany blue someone posted about here. LA Colors had a display of wrapped bottles with little extras included, mostly nail decor like mini pearls.

The color I chose had a circular thing stuck to it instead of fun nail art stuff … seems like a lil double-sided file. ?

Just want to make sure I’m not missing anything (on this $1.25 splurge 😂) and am v annoyed that I can’t find anything about it!

Anyone know?

I love love love this color when I first apply it. But after a day or two it completely changes and it gets so much darker. I’ve never had this happen with any other color except maybe a cream color. Does anyone know why this happens? My thumb pointer and middle are freshly painted. The other two fingers are slightly less than a week old.

Lighter blue: Frankenpolish, 2x all fingers Orly - Holy Holo!, ring finger Holo Taco - Scattered Holo Taco, thumb ILNP - Encore, thumb

Darker blue: Cirque - Morningtide, 2x - thumb and ring finger, 3x - pointer, middle, and pinky finger Orly - Shine On Crazy Diamond, thumb and ring finger Orly - Holy Holo!, ring finger

I wore a HT Peely base coat for 6 days and now there’s yellow spots on two of my nails. Nothing feels weird. Just weird yellow spots(picture 3). Anyone have these before? Should I just ignore it?

Wearing - HT peely base, glisten & glow ridge filling base coat, Ethereal creature, glisten & glow QD TC

This is Confetti Cannon from Sassy Sauce — a thermal that shifts from blue when cold to clear when warm. It’s packed with black and glow flakies that look just like a confetti explosion.

Other products - tenacious glaze topcoat and allisa long almond nail tips filed

Wondering if I'm the only one who does this. As my mani ages throughout the week I get tired of it as is, but rather than replace the whole mani I tend to add onto each nail.

So a few days ago I posted my plain crème mani (see final slide). As the week went along I got a chip here and there and started to add a topcoat or a stamp to cover up/freshen. By the end of the mani I don't have any original nails.

Am I lazy or do yall do this too?

*note left thumb (4th slide) went through two edits; first a stamp and then a shimmer (thanks ILNP for completely transforming every single color I put your shimmers over!)

Inspired by Cracked's Another Day in the PNW!

Index: this is a homemade polish using alcohol inks in clear polish

Middle: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri black, SH Insta-Dri Euphoric, topped with Zoya Frida (I'm obsessed with how this nail turned out?)

Ring: Mooncat Millenia

Pinky: ILNP Moonlit

Thumb: Cracked Another Day In The PNW

Polishes used:

Thumb: Olive & June Besties Pointer: Essie Turquoise & Caicos Middle: OPI My Dogsled is a Hybrid Ring: OPI Rated Pea-G Pinkie: Olive & June Still Life of Flowers

Base 1: Nailtiques Formula 2 (pink bottle) Base 2: OPI Natural Nail Strengthener Top: Seche Vite (dry fast)

And in sad news, my thumb nail has snapped since taking the photos. 😭

I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but I've wanted to reserve some of my painting time for skittle manis. I started out doing skittles because, if you know me it will be no surprise to you that I couldn't pick just one color or polish...so why not all!? Time for Sunday Skittles!

Today is international Asexuality Day. "Ace" is a spectrum that also falls under the LGBTQ umbrella. Being Ace is valid and beautiful. I originally had a different skittle on, and when I saw a horrible tweet from our intetnational billionaire queen of petty hate JKRowling about Asexuality day, I immediately shelved it and started a new one. As I did with my pride flag collection last June, here's some info about Asexuality.

Asexuality is a sexual orientation where the person does not experience sexual attraction to anyone regardless of gender. It's also an umbrella term that can cover a whole spectrum including demisexual, gray-asexual, and others. While it differs from being Aromantic, many are AroAce which is a combo of both.

🖤Black represents asexuality 🩶Gray represents gray-asexuality and demisexuality 🤍White represents partners and allies 💜 Purple represents community

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Bond Base Coat

🖤 @holotaco ... "Black Holo Wish"

🩶 @holotaco ... "Pearl Grey"

🤍 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "French Tip"

💜 @holotaco ... "Crytals Mommy"

💪 @glistenandglow1 Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Excuse the slight messiness and my very pink hand, I just finished these and had to capture the magic. Arcana Laquer's The Magician, three coats, magnetized cat eye on the thumb, velvet on the index and pinky, and the new combo method of bar+horseshoe middle and ring. No basecoat, Essie speed-setter top coat. I magnetized every layer, top coat layer for 4 minutes each nail.

I had high expectations based on their swatches and damn does it deliver!! The magnetic didn't seem to move quite as quickly as my ILNPs (sandbar and light wave) but the shimmer/jelly/holo effect is so stunning.

Begged my mom for this one when I was in highschool 😂

Sorry for lack of cleanup- but I haven't even finished my mani 🙈 it's a beautiful day out so I'm doing my nails on the patio & then sun started hitting my finished hand (aside from cleanup) just right 😍 I don't normally do my manis one hand at a time but this was my 1st time using the DRK magic effect so wanted to see how it went (I love it)

kb shimmer filling groovy base, 2 coats Colores de Carol Wavelength (ppu 3/25, magnetic) , 1 layer of DRK magic effect- then used 30lb horse shoe magnet for velvet effect, 1 coat G&G qdtc

Gel overlay on natural nails

Base coat is Sally Hansen Color Therapy. Red hand is Sweet Cheeks by Sinful Colors topped with Hall of Mirrors by Mooncat. Blue hand is Blue Valentine by Death Valley Nails topped with Hall of Mirrors.

Everything topped with Glossy Taco by Holo Taco

There was a recent post here that compared a few red magnetic polishes in the velvet style. So I decided to do a comparison in the cat eye style!

Here’s what’s being shown in this video clip:

Pinky and middle fingers:

• ILNP: Poison (2 coats unmagnetized; 1 coat magnetized for 1 minute)

Ring and index fingers:

• Emily de Molly: Fiery Attraction (2 coats magnetized; 1 coat magnetized for 1 minute)

Thumb:

• Left side: Poison (applied as described above)

• Right side: Fiery Attraction (applied as described above)

All fingers:

• ORLY: Bonder Base Coat

• DRK: Magic Effect (magnetized for 1 minute)

• Glisten & Glow: Quick Dry Top Coat (magnetized for 1 minute)

I hope that this comparison is helpful, especially for those of you whose skin tone is similar to mine. Poison definitely leans more orange-red, whereas I would describe Fiery Attraction as a true red.

I wasn’t sure what I would think of wearing these together as a skittle, but I like it! I think that this combination actually helps to give even more depth to both polishes, due to how they bring out different pops of color from within each other.

This is the closest I can get and my hand is cramping. Every time I see someone with long nails do this I am enthralled and amazed. Is there an angle I’m missing or something🤣🤣

Polish used in this is Moon Shine Mani Awfully Pond of You!

I mean, is this not the happiest yellow in a hot minute?

The blob on the pointer finger is a heart glitter that got bubbles on top of it, ignore that lol

Yellow: Alchemy Lacquers Cempasúchil

Purple: (you know her, you love her) Sassy Sauce's Cock-a-doodle Doom

All of them have Starrily Stars (a scattered holographic topper) on top, though that shows up better in the sun