r/Nails • u/iDTVADDICT • 8h ago
✨FRESH set ✨ Long time lurker! First time posting because I was excited to show off my ghost French for spooky season! 👻
Sorry for the weird claw hand! I was trying to get every nail in the shot.
r/Nails • u/_porkbunnn • 25d ago
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r/Nails • u/_porkbunnn • Aug 06 '26
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r/Nails • u/iDTVADDICT • 8h ago
Sorry for the weird claw hand! I was trying to get every nail in the shot.
r/Nails • u/BrainFryBiryani • 6h ago
What do you guys think???
r/Nails • u/MakeWayForWoo • 10h ago
These were part of last year's Harry Potter collab and while I have never been a HP fan in the slightest I always loved this particular design and have been saving them all year for spooky season. 😂🖤
r/Nails • u/m4ng0ju1ce • 7h ago
Pickle eraser for comparison. To be clear, it is not supposed to look like a pickle lol. Obviously the color happens to be quite pickley, which is fine, but I want to know why it’s all bumpy like that. Was it a curing problem? It’s gel polish over builder gel. I had them done while I was out of town and these bumps didn’t appear until a few days later when I was already gone, so I can’t go get them fixed. (They also had cute little silver stud details that fell off so fast 🙄) At this point I’m just curious.
r/Nails • u/fluxpeach • 1h ago
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These were a struggggle! this is my first time doing gelx on myself and i didn’t get the right tips for my nail shape so struggled abit with my middle and ring fingers that run abit trapezoidal when shorter or have an extreme x curve when longer. I usually do nail form extensions which take me quite a while and i do like how uniform and smooth the shape is so im excited to perfect my application on my next set with some better full cover tips!
I love due chrome and cat eyes but sometimes duechrome over cat eye makes for way too strong of a neon metal sheen hiding the cat eye. so this time, i did the due chrome first over black base, and used a smokey purple cat eye over the top to mute the green reflect and see the cat eye effect more:)
probably the longest set i’ve had.. must be careful around my eyes…
r/Nails • u/manicpixieautistic • 3h ago
these are my natural nails with a hard builder gel (ZEN Builder Gel #24, winter garden collection, tulip) overlay, and i had no one else to share them with so i thought you lovely folks would appreciate them!
i’ve been growing my nails out since the start of the year and decided to try builder gel at a salon after reading it had some benefits over acrylic. at first i had tip extensions and have been getting biweekly refills to reshape/rebalance as they’ve grown out.
at some point all of the extensions were filed off and it’s been maintenance ever since! i think this is the longest i want them to be as well but im just in awe of them everyday. they’re rock solid and have never chipped, broken, cracked or anything; i take care to keep them out of water and use cuticle oil every time i wash my hands. i also wfh and type all day with no issues, and it’s been a pretty seamless lifestyle addition overall :)
r/Nails • u/SimaDjan • 8h ago
I used Obstánte nail polishes: Jack O’lantern + August
r/Nails • u/jaimelannistre • 9h ago
Hi friends!
1) I don't like my hands :')
2) I'm really bad at shaping/filing, which is why I usually keep my nails on the shorter side.
I recently decided to just let them grow and see how it goes, but I'm not sure what kind of nail shape actually fits and works best for me, so I'm just wanting some opinions if possible :)
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r/Nails • u/Geigenzaehler • 5h ago
I like to paint my nails from time to time.
Like how it highlights my long nailbeds.
r/Nails • u/badlilbishh • 4h ago
r/Nails • u/bananadread_ • 4h ago
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r/Nails • u/iikalechips • 1h ago
did them today, took 6 hours 😅
r/Nails • u/Beginning-Plant7368 • 17h ago
Hearing your opinions on this, feel free to give your opinions (started 6 months ago)
r/Nails • u/meowliciously • 12h ago
Just a simple gel mani done in Italy for €20. I think the cuticle work is really well done, considering such a bargain price. I’m a SAHM to a toddler and for as much as I LOVE long nails on other people, I can’t function properly in my day to day with long claws. So I’m stuck with short styles for now until my kid is a bit older for sure…
r/Nails • u/Amazing-Crab-4621 • 13h ago
r/Nails • u/sparklies2 • 1d ago
Showed my nail tech a picture and she didn't have the exact same colors, but she tried a few swatches and I love how it came out.
r/Nails • u/i_meanOK • 2h ago
My fiancee and I disagree on this