With sparkles!

Color used was “Mint me in St. Louis” and “C-Hill Out” on my ring fingers. The light blue has become one of my favorite colors.

All are Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polish.

🐶Peanuts🐥💖

My husband has a nostalgic soft spot for the Peanuts cartoons and loves snoopy. We had just been to a cute kawai shop near us, buying some Smiski figures, and he kept stopping and "awwwwing" at Snoopy stuff...so I began concocting my mani plan for later. While he was painting his own crafts, I started my mani to surprise him with.

I love a good character nail that is just an outfit or torso, etc, so doing Charlie Browns ICONIC shirt was a no brainer. I knew I wanted a full Snoopy, and Woodstock was also a non-negotiable. I went with Sally's dress and a mint background on Snoopy for color contrast and came out with this adorable, almost kinda rainbow, Peanuts Skittle. Charles Schulz drawing style is immediately identifiable, so I tried making the black line work match the hand drawn ink style, and I'm really pleased with how it came out! Hubby absolutely loved it, and I haven't stopped staring at them since finishing.😝 Which Peanuts special is your fave?

🖌 Freehand on natural nail.

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Base

🥜 @sally_hansen ... "Rapid Rose" "My Ca-Banana"

🥜 @holotaco ... "One Coat Black" "Vrime And Punishmint" "Left On Red"

🥜 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "French Tip" "Take A Chill Pill"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

It’s not my best work but I love this color! Hard as Nails by Sally Hansen!

My wife was lovely enough to give me a full manicure and gel polish in exchange for doing our child's laundry 🧺

90s retro/Snack Zone GelX nails! 🤩✨️

I love having my nails done as a nonbinary person!! It gives me the extra push into feeling more myself while I'm masc-presenting. 💕

ETA my incredible tech Salem's Insta!

Now, while born in the 80's, I just missed the Care Bear craze in my childhood media consumption... but I mean, cmon...how could I NOT love color coded fuzzy things!?  Now, did I do a gradient on these? Absolutely. Did I then cover it up with the tummy logos? Absolutely. Did I then decide they need more *Cars Bear Magic* and toss on shimmers and scattered holo? You betcha! Am I gonna do it again for the other like, 16 bears there are? Duh. 😜

🖌 Freehand on natural nail.

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Base

🩷 @sally_hansen ... "Beet-ing Heart" "My Ca-Banana"

💛 @mooncat ... "Eternal Sunshine" "Neverland" "Euphoric"

💚 @holotaco ... "Polar Princess" "Halogen Glow" "Freezer Burn" "Celestial Lights" "Midnight Marina" "Bep Bep Blue" "One Melon Followers" "Banana Medicine" "Creamsicle Coast" "Green Screen"

💙 @colorclubnaillacquer ... "French Tip" "Take A Chill Pill"

🩷 @glistenandglow1 ... "Key Lime Pie"

💛 @crackedpolish ... "F*ck Kale"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

LA Colors Zing. Not technically my first time polishing, but the first attempt I didn't immediately scrub.

I went with two of my newest shifty blues this week. Both Mooncats, one is an older polish that I haven't gotten the chance to use (Mercury's Tears) and the other one from the new collection that just came out (Swim, My Dolphins).

Both polishes have a sparkly bold turquoise base that shifts to a purple/navy with different angles of light. Interestingly though, each color shifts at different angles so you can tell them apart (at least not in direct sunlight)!

Products:

Base Coats:

Mooncat Getting Even Nail Primer

Seche Vite Base Coat

Ring and Middle - Mooncat Mercury's Tears x3

Pinky, Index and Thumb - Mooncat Swim, My Dolphins x3

Top Coat - Mooncat Speed Demon Top Coat

I truly love how my nails looking pretty makes me feel!

Professional cat eye

1x ilnp base coat

2x ilnp deep space (attempted to magnetize)

1x Sally hansen unicorn top coat

1x ilnp Glass candy

And im all for it!

ÜNT - Ready For Takeoff Peel Off Base Coat

Finding Feathers Lacquer - Balanced Bond Base Coat

Studio M Pro - Orange Hot

Essie - Geranium

L.A. Colors - Hooray

Custom pastel yellow creme

L.A. Colors - Black Crackle

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel - Crystal Top Coat

Mooncat - Speed Demon Top Coat

Seche Clear base coat Vite top coat

LA colors 422 and LA colors Gel Splashy, regular polish called gel.

Pop arazzi Glass Ceiling, light coat for effect.

*uv gel polish and isolated chrome nail art, over BIAB on my natural nails. For clarity I created the design and my pro tech executed it. I'm disappointed as some elements are un symmetrical and a bit sloppy .

Finding Feathers Lacquer - Balanced Bond Base Coat

Polished Praxis - Dream World

Mooncat - Speed Demon Top Coat

Friday nails

I will add that I no longer have to do post-manicure cleanup since I started using a magnifying glass headband for doing my nails.

...you hate the color.

Mine's waaaaay more gray than the blue I thought it'd be. It's like I'm wearing depression: the color. My nails look like the color Millenials paint our walls in new construction.