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

base: BKL - Spirit (x1)
polish: ILNP - Eclipse (x3)
top: Mooncat - Speed Demon (x1)

Someone in the RL Discord shared an email received from Fail Polish today that uses abduction and torture as a punchline in marketing its newest polish. I am including screenshots of this email in this post. The email makes a “joke” about how the polish helped the abduction victim keep “most of [her] fingers,” and that with fewer fingers, the polish “bottles last even longer.”

Fail also shared a reel on instagram that is similarly gross. That link is here, but * trigger warning * + if you are sensitive to these topics, please do not watch.

I am not planning to rehash the April 2026 CPS marketing incident here. However, Fail never apologized, and this newest email builds on its history of “edgy” marketing.

I would strongly encourage anyone looking to purchase from this brand to first research Fail’s history and its values before supporting.

i'm a recent college grad & have been trying to get my foot in the door for months. i got an interview w/ a company i really wanted to work for, and when i showed up to the meeting they said they invited the wrong candidate (me). staring at my nails helps me feel marginally less bummed

2 coats of bkl blade of frontiers

essie gel couture top coat

1x Mooncat ridge filler
1x Lakur Chim Cher-ee
1x Glitch Habibi (magnetized in the hollow of the U magnet with a small bar diagonally over it)
1x KBShimmer hydrating base coat
1x Essie gel couture top coat

My quest to complete my personal line of BG3 themed polishes continues. Technically this is another side quest, I was working on the polish themed for Astarion. The idea was cold, polished, unfeeling gold hiding a sparkling blood red, but just like the Dekarios side quest polish, it’s giving more Ascended than The Boy Chose Healing lol 😂

Red is the same base I use for my dupe of Sunset over the bay with a layer of my red jelly over it, then a gold chrome with just enough silver and bronze mixed in to make the gold colder. See here for some warmer golds and other failed attempts lol 😆

I did my nails for what I thought would be a birthday celebration. Little did I know, they would turn out to be my engagement nails!! I’m obsessed with how these turned out. (And the man I get to call mine forever)

I loved it unmagnetized in one coat, will add a picture in comments. I was committed to velvet this time but I like that it has a quick and easy setting as well!

Aprés short almond tips
1 coat ILNP lockup
2 coats BKL the water remembers unmagnetized
1 coat Sally Hansen insta dri magnetized 1 minute per finger in ILNP horseshoe

September is autumn, right? 😅 I’m getting a head start on my fall manis and I’m loving this one already! It’s impossible to photograph because the multichromes are all so shifty, but it’s especially pretty in indirect light. Bonus leafy stamping!

Products used:
KBShimmer Fillin Groovy
ILNP (thumb to pinky in first photo): Greatness, Abundance, Highline, Mutagen, Reminisce
What’s Up gold stamping polish, Amazon stamping plates
SH red bottle QDTC

Inspired by the ad and another post here earlier today I decided to try some gradient.

I used Cracked’s Back to the Fuschia, Catch Those Rays, Shmexy, Antioxidant, and Love You So Matcha.

I painted this on. I tried to sponge it, but it just wasn’t working for me - it was very light.

Anyway, I’m feeling very unsure about it and I wonder what you all think. (Actually now that I put the pictures in. I hate it and I’m going to take it off.)

Suggestions? Corrections? General Help?

Products in order:

Essie hard to resist advanced base

Essie cremes - white, brown & pink

Loose orange flake glitter off Amazon

Matte top coat

Gouache paints for the freehand painted design

Base coat agin - seche vite top coat

When in doubt, put a mosaic magnetic over it.

Base: Mooncat Getting Even Nail Primer

Color base: 3 coats Polished for Days Goblins and Ghoulies

Magentic layer (middle and ring fingers): BKL Enemies to Lovers, magnetized for 1.5 minutes over a lab fish magnetic stirrer

Top coat: Mooncat Speed Demon Top Coat, magnetized for 1.5 minutes

It’s DragonCon time, which means I needed nails honouring the old carpet in the Marriott.

Products used:
Glitch The River
Acrylic paints
Holo Taco Glossy Taco

(Gifted PR)
Okay maybe I’m late to the party but these are my first real GITD neons. 😂 These are way too much fun!!

Artie Mae Polish polishes 💛 CdSe Platelets, 🧡CdSe/ZnS Dots, and ❤️CdSe Dots (all science themed to celebrate her phd thesis)!

Also used DIY peely base coat, KB shimmer hydrating base, and Mooncat speed demon.

Normally I LOVE doing shiny shimmer skittles and magnetics, but I've been doing a ton of those lately so my brain got fed up and couldn't decide what to do 🤣 So I went scorched earth and we're doing a plain crelly/creme!! It's also feeling like fall here so I wanted a color to fit that :)

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled shinies very soon though (layered on top of this mani probably!) I already have ideas...

Base coat: Cracked Ridge Filler

Top coat: SH insta-dri in the red bottle

Color: Essie Berry Naughty in 2 coats

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x1 essie strong start bc
x3 bkl godstouched (thumb & pointer) mag glass bead
x3 bkl what is devotion (rest of fingers) mag glass bead
x1 sally hansen red bottle top coat

godstouched isn’t wowing me as much as i thought it would but i still like it!!! definitely my best glass bead attempts yet. I used a 30lb magnet on top of the 5d spinner

I fear my thermal is dying. It basically goes pink to darker pink, no white to be found.

That said, it is still so freakin' cute. People were able to clock the inspo for this polish almost immediately.

If you are looking for something similar, Tyler's Trinkets sells the glitter as a topper that you could easily pair with a pink to get the same effect. (They are closed right now, but will hopefully be back soon.)

Products:

Base - LynBDesigns B-Smooth

Tyler's Trinkets - Stop and Taste The Frosting

Top - Vivid Scents Topcoat

Product’s used:
- KB Shimmer’s Ridge Filling Base Coat [PURCHASED]

-Emily De Molly Sheer Tint Nightshade [PURCHASED]

-Fancy Gloss Lunar Pull [PURCHASED]

-Hyena Lacquer’s Nightshade [GIFTED]

-ILNP Frosted Glass [PURCHASED]

- Angry Harpy Polish Glitter Grabber [PURCHASED]

- Tyche Lacquer’s Aura Farming Top Coat [PAID]

Full disclaimer I am a now a swatcher for both Hyena and Tyche, however my nart looks are never commissioned and I do them because I want to.

3 coats of Essie Orchid Jelly

Catrice Quick Dry Top Coat

Essence UV Rescue Nail Repair as Base Coat

I've been making an effort to change up my manis more often, which resulted in 10 manis in August (12 if you include adding a topper!) I also received my first PR last month, which felt like such an accomplishment! All polishes will be listed in the comments!

I had this pastelly warm sunset vibe French Tip gradient mani a friend did saved for a few weeks now, and it was burning a hole in my inspo folder. She had done it with the Holo Taco crushed holo and shimmer collection, but I was craving more linear holo. They had just come with this orchid and link linear with shimmer, so I pulled out this warm holo shimmer and this delicious warm yellow linear with red shimmer. They blended into this shiny, holo, shimmery, pastel, delicious, almost metallic sunset shield to help protect my mental health for the start of another week. 😝

🖌 Sponge Gradient on natural nail.

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Base

🌅 @holotaco ... "Berry Loud" "Hyper Punch"

🌅 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "All Charged Up"

🌅 @moonshinemanis ... "The Sixth Sense"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Welcoming September with something kinda summery but with some fall touches. This is a really juicy, sparkly flaky polish. I wish I had 10 more like it.

Cuticula base coat
2x Glitch Lacquer Fallen Rose Petals
Mooncat Speed Demon

Base polish: Beauty Secrets (not great, I think it’s making my nails peel)
Main: Essie Bikini So Teeny
Butterflies: Sally Hansen Holo-Back
Top Coat: Gaoy Gel Top Coat

I wasnt in love with these when I had finished because the sally hansen color is more jelly than opaque. But now that I’ve worn it a few days, I like that it’s a little subtle.

I have a feeling stamping with glitter is a loosing battle, but if anyone has tips, I’d love to hear them!