your nails are super PRETTY!

Burt's Bees makes a lemon butter cuticle creme. I think any kind of cuticle cream might help.

Hey I have a really dumb question.

How long does it take for your nails to completely dry and compress? I'm so sick of mine because I wait for hours for them to dry, but when I go to sleep I unconsciously rub them around and they're all squashed when I wake up.

clear nails...
floral....
so cheap...
a buck for 3 different design sets...
cheapooooooooooo

I like em.

Just wondering, do the nails you put on yourselves damage your nailbed as much as the acrylics at the salon? When I had my nails taken off, I looked at my real nails and DAAAAAAAAAAAMN, they were effed up to the max. My poor nails.

i've never tried the ones from the salon..
but after i take mine off... my nails have scratches...
i just even them out with the rough side of the buffer...and buff them smooth and shiny after...
^^
but they don't get paper thin like how my cousin's got after she got them done at a salon

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I like em.

Just wondering, do the nails you put on yourselves damage your nailbed as much as the acrylics at the salon? When I had my nails taken off, I looked at my real nails and DAAAAAAAAAAAMN, they were effed up to the max. My poor nails.

acrylics harm ur nails like BADD! so if u can, avoid acrylics. try gel or silky. those are better alternatives. OR. even those fake nails that u just use glue to stick them on.

=)

nails take a full whole day to completely dry i suggest you do them in the mornings or early afternoon there are product like the instant nail spray or the oil that could make the drying faster but to completely dry it will take hours

Yeah that's what I'm talking about. The ones that I just stick them on like glue. They're not as bad right?

^nope.........................................................

I haven't done my nails in months. (getting acrylics, that is.)
But I haven't painted them in awhile too. And yesterday was valentines day, so I thought i'd paint them pink. ^^


People always ask me if my nails are fake (when their painted), which I have no idea why, and when I tell them they're real they don't believe me. Lol?

^ i wuld think theyre fake too XD theyre so long and not chippd or nothing =O
lolz

nyways i still wanna kno how to do tht crazy thing tht iamme did about tht whole fading thing on her nails XD did nyone finally learn how to do tht? =S

ahh thank you everyone for the comments on my nails ^^! keke

i just clipped all my nails off cos they were starting break and chip T_T

so before i did it i took one last pic...haha

oh and i think someone asked me wut base coat i used?

i used this thing called "sally diamond strength no chip color"


here you go~~

i was bored on valentine's day because i didn't have school (snow day) so i did my nails...
its a dark to light purple gradient... i don't think it quite shows up in the picture..

juicebox: Same here! i want to know too. i havnt figured it out yet... but i think i am going to retry right now... but i hope she posts a tut soon! i really want to learn.

Ook. Question, does anyone know where I can buy yellow nailpolish?

i like the color pink in bebexlove's nails.

for all those pplz that wanna learn how to fade...
i found a clip on youtube showing you how to fade two colors together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWvziGyAI8

basically.. u can use normal nailpolish..
and u dont need to blob it like that..
just apply it the normal way.. 2 to 3 coats...
just apply the two colors as show on both sides..
and blend the colors....
i prefer blending the lighter color onto the darker color...
stroking downwards as shown in the video...

^AYU!!!!! OMG thanks a lot!!! you're the best ever!!!

I was bored. ^^;

gorgeous!you guys are all so talented. does anyone knowwhere i can get turquoise nail polish?i've been looking for forever and its like they dont exist or something...thanks =]

btw-any cute ideas of how to use turquoise nail polish?

omgg. i totally love your nails! the flowers look perfect! im so gonna try this next time i do my nails.

er



those were the nails that I took of yesterday (the nail polish was starting to chip, needed a new design)

so now it's different and I'm in lack of pictures because some of the rhinestones fell off :x lol

omg whenever i do tips (ex/ black?) it gets UNDER my nails!! how do you stop doing that but still make it neat at the same time?

i'm not sure if this has been asked, but how do u make hearts on ur nails?? i tried, but it didn't work out. is there a way?? please help.. thank u!

^ why don't you just buy the heart stencils/nail art pieces? glue them or paint them on.

THANK YOU AYU FOR POSTING THAT TUTORIAL

this is a pair that i made a while ago, never got the chance to finish them until yesterday:
its semi transparent in person but it looks really opaque in the pictures



closeup:

snowbunny: when i make my hearts, i just free hand them with the brush.... just try it.... oh also, you can try using toothpicks... i think that they work well too. and better for smaller hearts.

what's a good choice for a clear overtop layer?

^the rimmel ones are good..they dry really fast...........
doesn't give time for the polish to streak or smudge ^^

does any body have pictures of nails that have different designs on each nail that are black and white? thank you!

@sdubbi

they look... WOW XD
i like them so much!
great designing

sdubbi- they look like the professional japanese 3d fake nails. simply gorgeous!

c K4ng- wow, i really love all of your creations. <3

c_k4ng: i really like your pink tipped ones! it looks beautiful! :]

i found some yummy acrylic nail designs from other sites..

pretty impressive..because they look really yummy.



link to the nail gallery; http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/oyashumi/nail_art.html

LOL.. now that i think of it.. yea does look yummy

@c_k4ng - nice job
ilike the second to last and last one hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2buyWsfnlE

Watch it! It's hilarious!


Note in advance: sorry if this offends anyone. Some guy told me it was disrespectful to vietnamese nail ladies. I showed it to my mom who does nails and she found it funny. So did my friend's cousin who does nails as a hobby.

^i don't find it that funny, and i'm just a slight bit tired of asians being stereotyped and made into caricatures like this.

^ i only thinks it funny because my aunts talk to me like that all the time... lol... but i dont like her FOB accent... she's horrible at it... lol.

sdubbi: your nails look cutell]

its funny listening to her..but that girl's probably mixed with vietnamese or something to do the accent really good..

or else she's really good friends with a vietnamese person.her accent sounds kind of thai or laotian too.

its kind of funny..but then it provokes others people to intentionally make cruel comments too.. either way.. *shrugs

I think she's Latina. Not sure.

I don't know how you girls can have such bulky rhinestones or designs on your nails.
They'd bother me so much. ToT

^ yeahh same here! =X

i decided to do my nails todayy. i've never done this before so i somewhat messed up

hehe thats for the compliments ^^

i love that food nail one!!
so purtieeeeeeeeeee

^ hey christineee. ( :

haha i did these like 2 weeks ago-ishh

for me..i like it so it doesn't bother me...^^;;..what bothers me most..are rigged nails..like when they start cracking and chipping... or dirty nails...i hate it because....my nails get dirty easily.

conzerz: they look pretty ... did you do the fade thing for it.. i've been really wanting to try the fading thing too.

My first time posting here ><
I suck at painting my nails but i try my best haha
I did the first one for fun and the second one was for Chinese New Years (:
The french tip one, i messed up on it alot because i didn't use those tape thingies, i cutted the tape out (using clear tapes haha) myself and smacked em on. LOL
I love everyone's nail here! Especially the fake nails! O_O Their so dang pretty! I wanna try 3D designs like that >o<!

^ your french tips looks really good!

haha yeahh i did ^^; 1/3 pink (2 coats), paint another pink coat over the 1/3 part and then swipe down with clear nailpolish (someone wrote that down somewhere on this thread i think) ^^

yea i HATE it when my nails chip!! it looks so disgusting, then i have to cut it short =(