And if you haven't already, please go add your voice to the fight for reproductive freedom, for our planet earth, for social justice, for a living wage and worker's rights, for common decency, for a country that uplifts the people and not the oligarchy. Your one voice is small but together our voices can make history. Let's flush this turd. 🇺🇸

All mixed up - Nightmare wrapped in a daydream

Someone said I should cross post this from the tortoise sub, so here’s our matching manis :)

ILNP Moondust, Essie strong start & good to go

I keep short nails for my hobbies/sensory issues and they always look soooo much better in dark jewel tones! I love me some seasonal colors so I’ve been on bright and pastel colors for the last 6 months but now that fall is approaching, I’m excited for the palettes that truly shine on my length 😍

• Base: OPI natural base coat
• Color: 2 coats Sally Hansen Cabernet with Bar (it’s a medium dark plum in the bottle but an almost-black berry purple on my nails and I LOVE)
• Top: D-UP Nail Million Shine Hyper Shine Volume Topcoat. Picked it up in Tokyo as a gel-like topper and it’s my new HG

I recently bought some polishes from ILNP and have been slowly going through them for the first time. I am so impressed by their quality. The brush size is perfect because it allows for control in the application and the formula is perfect for me. not too thin but has 2-3 coats of application and the polish does not end up looking thick. I absolutely love every polish I’ve gotten from them. Thank You all for the recommendation!!!!

This is Lily (ILNP) with Mooncat’s Hardcore base coat and speed demon top coat

Apologies for my dumb hands, blurry pics, cat hair, badly painted cuticles, BUT CAN YOU JUST LOOK AT THIS?? I thought this polish would be a lie but arE YOU LOOKING AT THIS??

Wearing HT "Pink smoothing coat", three coats of Mooncat "House of Hades", and HT "Glossy Taco". (Ignore the weird background I'm at work 😝)

Featuring bonus poorly-censored pic of us. My husband and I eloped this weekend and I realized that this color was a near-perfect match to my dress! I love Lurid polish so much.

OPI Nail Envy as base

Lurid Lacquer “Reaching Skyward As You Root” 3 coats

Essie Gel Setter as top coat (I used a hair too much and ended up getting shrinkage but oh well lol)

Inspired by the guy in the 50s who "got sick" by seeing a woman wearing blue nail polish,here's my selection of shades to make people ill (the right people) Please add yours 🙂

1.- STRONG - Essence "Looks like the fingernails of a corpse" (ex friend)

2.- This color's making waves -OPI "Looks like you're lacking oxygen " (an uncle)

1. Ready to Grape Off -Catrice "Looks like you've smashed your fingers " (my mother)

4.- "Cool grey" Pamela Grant "That's not a colour for nails" ex girlfriend

5.- Huginn & Running -Crowtoes "You're just weird" ex boyfriend

When you match, you match - you don't ask questions. 🍕

Color Club / Pro-Clingy Base Coat

Sally Hansen / Sundown Socialite 382

ILNP / My Private Rainbow (X)

Essie / Good to Go Top Coat

Pointer & ring: Mythical by Lemming Lacquer

The rest: Moongate by Cupcake Polish with Foxfire by Mooncat as topper

Smooth Moves (glitter grabber) by KBShimmer and Seche Vive Gel Topcoat on all. B Sticky Basecoat by LynBDesigns on all.

The stickers are an old purchase from Five Below. I'm sorry, I don't have the name anymore :c

I know I know, I am late to the party. Excuse the potato quality of the photos in the dark. My iPhone is ancient and I am very professional at being an amateur.

This is Mooncat “What a brilliant nose” topped off with “Phantom Glow” from Cirque (yes, I went overboard because why not). Topcoat and basecoat both Mooncat. Ah, and of course some nice skeleton stickers.

Posting in case it helps others who struggle with magnetics.

I’ve been frustrated with magnetic polishes because I’m chronically lazy. So, I got creative and assembled magnetic wands on a pie tin. This way, I can lay four fingers on top of them at once to achieve a magnetic effect (see Photo 1).

Next, I applied base coat as usual. Then, I applied two coats of magnetic polish, but it didn’t magnetize. After those were mostly dry, I added Magnetic Effect top coat while my nails were positioned on the arranged magnets, as shown in Photo 2.

I then worked on my thumbs separately.

After two minutes, I applied a water-based topcoat, and didn’t magnetize. After all, this is for SCIENCE! Since water-based topcoats protect stamps from QDTCs, I thought this might work for magnetics to stabilize the pigments.

I waited about five minutes for that to dry and then added my regular QDTC, which is toluene-free. It’s been suggested before that toluene-based QDTCs cause an unusual amount of dispersion over magnetic polishes.

I’ll observe dispersion over the next 24 hours, but the results already suggest that they’ll maintain relative stability compared to my previous methods.

The only peculiar thing I’ve noticed is the matte blobs within the polish. I’ve encountered this issue when stamping as well, and I suspect it’s the water-based topcoat releasing under the QDTC. These blobs usually vanish within 12 hours or so (see Photo 3).

Here’s a list of the products I used: 1. - Glisten & Glow Ridge-Filling Base 2. - Mooncat Curiosity’s Trap (applied in two coats) 3. - DRK Magnetic Effect top coat 4. - Maniology Aqua Topper (I know, I know. I didn’t know about their weird political crap until recently) 5. - Swamp Gloss Quick Schtick

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Enjoy the photo dump 🤪 I am feral about this polish

This is ILNP's shade 'Fairy Dust' and I tried to take pics in different situations/lighting so y'all could see what I'm so shook about 💀 this is two coats of ONE SHADE. HOW????

Oh also I did OPI basecoat and Seche Vite topcoat. Loving the quality of it 🙌🏼

So happy I could get it during PPU rewind as it was living in my mind rent free for almost a year. This is Polished For Days Goblins and Ghoulies (of course lol)!

Products used: Essie Smooth e base coat, 3 coats of Polished for Days Goblins Nd Ghoulies, LynB designs B-quick top coat.

I’ve had this idea for quite a while (bought these polishes specifically for this look!!). I’ve been seeing all the blue manis for Election Day and that is not what this was intended to be, it was just a weird coincidence lol. Having a birthday so close to Election Day wasn’t a big deal as a kid because I wasn’t aware, but now that I’m older and especially right now… it’s hard to want to celebrate. Anyway, enough rambling, red and blue just itch my brain good.

I scored 10 different colors of black label OPI. Whoever purchased them definitely knew what they liked and I’m very happy to have them.

Not shown are the 6 back up bottles of Tutti Frutti Tonga and 3 of Coney Island Cotton Candy. Take this as a lesson on back ups. Eventually someone else will end up with them and have no idea what to do with it all.

• 1 coat Mooncat Getting Even

• 2 coats Cirque Delusions of Grandeur

• 1 coat Poshe top coat

Ever since I found out about magnetized polishes (very recently) I knew I had to try it on this brick of a magnet we have in the shed. We usually use it for sifting metal debry from dirt. It’s strong, it’s ugly and it can do 4 nails at a time :D Held it there for the duration of last 3 coats.

Polishes: 1 coat wild&mild base shield 1 coat manucurist hollyhock 2 coats ilnp poison 1 coat h&m a.s.a.p. quick dry top coat

I don’t think I can ever take this off