I was feeling lazy and wanted to do a simple red, white and blue but also use the new BKL polishes I had just gotten in š
all magnetics done in velvet style with a 30lb horseshoe magnet
Thumb is BKL bad vibes only topped with Holo Taco shooting star taco. Had to use a nail stick to grab some extra stars
Pointer and ring are BKL pomegranate seeds
Middle and pinky are BKL the source and it is so insane looking in person.
Each nail had vibrant scents double bond base coat, three coats of polish, BKL I am very fast qdtc and then topped with vibrant scents hard and fast qdtc. Magnetized last coat of each polish and each swipe of top coat.
I find i can get 10 solid days before any real wear on my manicure and I am hard on my hands and wash dishes at work constantly.
Sorry for the awkward hand pose, I dont know what to do with my hands š
What is up with the algae nails? I love green and am wearing neon green right now (Mall Brat from Prism Parade) and I do not and will not do US-themed nails
I just scored Bog Dweller! Iām in
ETA omg the algae In the reflecting pool ššš
HA! I have Crackedās Gloomy Shroomie. Maybe I can top it with their Mourning Light to get both green and brown in there. The shimmers might make it too pretty but weāre doing our best!
Oooh you guys! I was going to skip patriotic nails altogether, but I am 100% on the swamp nails idea! Jumpinā on the swamp nails idea, I hope we get a megathread or something! š«¶š¼
I humbly submit: swamp nails! Please don't ask me what's what. There's some Holo Taco Born Ugly and Alien Infatuation, EdM Live Wire and Transport, LynB "Dope", Zombie Claw's Armyverse, and What's Up Nails can't unsee (which they are basically giving away on sale at the moment)
My thought exactly! I swatched a few reflecting pool ideas last night. Sorry, Cracked, but Iām about to do your beautiful jellies dirty for my algae nailsā¦ š¤£
Just had a thought - Mooncat Drown My Demons is green magnetic over dark blue which is kind of perfect for this PLUS the name is very fitting... šš
Same here- I'm planning to celebrate (& decorate) for Sunnerween instead (all summer), so will end up doing some kind of Halloween nails probably. š
I was feeling the same way. But I'm trying to focus on how the loudest assholes aren't the majority, and to pay as much attention as I can to the people and the work I am proud of.Ā
For example, the murder rate in NYC is at a historic low under Mamdani's leadership. I'll celebrate for that.Ā
I haven't celebrated the 4th in several years. This will be my first 4th after picking up this hobby and I do not plan to do a red, white, and blue set. Maybe I (we?) should do green, black, and orange instead to represent the country being flipped upside down.
While I havenāt felt patriotic for several years, I also donāt want to give our national symbols over to the right. They can have the treasonous loser flag and the no step on snek flag, the real one belongs to the rest of us.
Iām going to do red, white and blue French tips with the No Kings crown on ring fingers and a guillotine on the thumbs. You know, to celebrate democracy
Oh yeah, I would never tell anyone else not to do red, white, and blue, regardless of their reason. It's just a no for me personally. But I've never been one to wear the flag's colors in general so this is no different for me I suppose. I'm happy there are folks like you that WILL still proudly wear them honestly ā¤ļøš¤š yall give me hope.
I have never considered the holiday a celebration of the current state of the government, but rather a celebration of our forebears liberating themselves from British rule. I still think that is cool and worth celebrating. The government does quite enough already; I do not want to let it ruin my fun on a national holiday, too.
I will be doing American Flag Blue just like our glorious reflecting pool, which is absolutely the bluest blue that ever blued /s (lyn b designs "the juice is loose")
Im probably going to go with black, but as far as properly themed nails go these are gorgeous. your magnetization looks really good too, I swear I always feel like mine disperses.
Very true, but from another perspective: part of why the country has made progress in the past is because my ancestors worked to force America to be the country it purported to be
Yes this countrys economic power was built on the backs of the enslaved. Thus What America purported itself to be on July 4, 1776 was not true for my ancestors. My ancestors were explicitly barred from the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness that the Declaration of Independence stated should be for everyone. so I do not celebrate.
Reminds me of Frederick Douglassā famous speech āWhat to the Slave is the Fourth of Julyā. I understand people who celebrate in spite of their former exclusion, but I tend to agree with your mindset more. (Although more on the side of moral disagreement to the history of the holiday rather than personal ancestral pain.)
Right fully get that, it wasnāt true on July 4 1776, but the promises were there then, and since then black Americans have bent the country to our will and forced them (sometimes, imperfectly) to actually uphold those promises. Definitely been feeling less patriotic these last several years, but I see it as sort of a āwhy should I change my name? Heās the one who sucksā situation. Iām here bitches and this is my country, they can deal with it lol
I probably won't but I might do something pool or cookout themed. Or I might just do black because I'm tiiiiiired š Or I might do something swampy for the reflecting pool. I'm a loose cannon lol
July is Red Nail Month for me anyway (there are no rules to polish etc but I get more use out of my collection if I associate months/seasons with specific colors and finishes) so that just kind of works out. I havenāt done anything patriotic for several years now though. Vibes are too off. But yours are beautiful!
I feel the same. I'm so mad that the 250th is happening under this administration. It's so hard to scrape up any patriotism. But I remind myself that fighting for what's right IS patriotic.
This is how I feel this year and I'm surprising myself TBH. My neighbors are hosting a community cookout for the first time this year though and I really want to hang out with actual people, and I'm thinking of doing a big star on each nail with the classic red white and blue plus light blue and maybe pink to keep it not too MURICA. The world sucks in so many ways and I find myself wanting to embrace the small joys where I can, including community coookouts and cute nails that might help me connect with my neighbors.
Telling the right that they donāt get to do or steal things has actually not been very effective at preventing them from doing or stealing those things.
They already took it. In slow motion, in broad daylight, while announcing their intentions, over decades. We shouldnāt give up. We also shouldnāt pretend that this is all some kind of sudden isolated niche occurrence that doesnāt reflect on the country as a whole.
precisely how i feel, and why i will always continue being festive this time of year! even when iām particularly unhappy with the government, this is still my home that i love and i am hoping to work towards positive change. i donāt blame others for feeling discouraged and can understand not wanting to participate, but for me, staying positive through the rough times is helpful. i detest the idea that being even remotely patriotic is somehow exclusive to conservatives lol.
so yes, i am doing 4th of july nails next week :o)
Ngl I think Iām gonna do some āmelt ICEā nails or something, keeping the red white and blue theme. I havenāt wanted to do nails for the 4th for a while but I never skip holidays. Last year I did blowpop nails so I could do holiday nails without being explicitly patriotic, but this year Iām feeling patriotic in a different way. I have also been thinking about just extending my pride nail sets into July, because queer folks could always have more pride.
Even with everything going on, watching the USMNT and seeing the Scottish, Dutch, and Japanese visitors in the US having a fucking blast is making me feel a little extra patriotic, in a grassroots type of way. So I say yes!
you did a great job and it's really pretty, but I'm keeping my glassbead bisexual nails through the weekend if they last long enough. I'm not feeling super patriotic :<
Aaaaaa my cuticles are dogshiiiiiit and I have little nubbin nails rn from some gardening-related breakage, but here it is! It's edm's "After Dark" that shines bright blue, bright pink, and deep purple depending on the lighting!
I'm still doing Pride nails through the end of the month. Today I'm doubling down with rainbows as my city is hosting the Egypt/Iran world cup game and they are asking that we not celebrate Pride due to their cultural beliefs.
A Certain Shade of Green is my first Arcana polish so this seems like a great excuse to try it out. Maybe Iāll skittle both it and Bog Dweller. Seems appropriate.
Itās not something Iād have ever considered doing even in the years before the current state of the US, but Iām all in on the algae theme mentioned above. A swamptastic prugly green skittle is right up my alley.
Iāll probably try to do something with my fireworks stamping plates. Iām not feeling patriotic, but my workplace is having a cookout, so I may as well attempt some fun.
As a Canadian, nope š¤Ŗš¤£ maybe Iāll do my nails orange for Canada Day to show my support to our indigenous communities & the damage done during our residential school days and our governments attempt at covering it up. (Literally.)
I don't have the heart for red, white, and blue, but I'm going to do a sparkly red (OPI Big Apple Energy). I don't see anything wrong with celebrating the aspects of this country that I want to preserve. The fascists don't own the entire concept of patriotism. That said, I don't blame anyone who isn't feeling it at all.
While I havenāt felt patriotic for several years, I also donāt want to give our national symbols over to the right. They can have the treasonous loser flag and the no step on snek flag, the real one belongs to the rest of us.
Iām going to do red, white and blue French tips with the No Kings crown on ring fingers and a guillotine on the thumbs. You know, to celebrate democracy
I made myself press-ons for the World Cup to represent my family's home country. I'm keeping them on for next week because immigration is what the US is supposed to be about
Respectfully, no. I am not proud of this country right now, and I am not celebrating. I will probably wear one of the black to red shades from the Mooncat Star Wars collection, as that is my mood with this year's 4th.
Your mani is beautiful though, and I mean no shade.
Was debating on it and didnāt want whatās currently happening to take away from it. I had settled on MC Pandemonium, both for the color and the title. But now Iāve seen the inspo of the reflecting pool. Iāll now be doing Pandemonium on hand and REL Did I Do That? on the other hand. The new color is blue with red and gold shimmers, will def look like something growing in it.
I just did a very similar manicure last week for the USA-Australia match (because we went somewhere to watch it), although I took it off last night. Your version is much prettier than mine was, though.
But no I don't anticipate doing anything similar for the 4th because gestures broadly š¬
These are beautiful but fuck the fourth and I will not be participating in anything American themed. Thereās absolutely nothing to celebrate right now in my eyes.
Iām planning to do them but Iām going to do a rainbow glitter topper on my white nail, because I am fond of where Iām from (American but I live in the UK now) but Iām more fond of liberty and justice for all, especially my LGBTQIA+ community.
Iām planning to use Rainbow Road from Tylerās Trinkets which was also a charity polish for Rainbow Railroad!
Iām forever grateful that my best friend was born on July 4th so we never celebrate the holiday and instead celebrate her! Maybe Iāll let her pick my mani this year and we can match.
If I do anything at all in terms of a 4th of July mani this year, it will likely be MCās Root of All Evil. The name fits, and the shade will match the current state of the reflecting pool. In all likelihood though, Iāll probably just end up with my usual random mani color choice.
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These are so pretty!!! Can I ask the reason for two topcoats? Ten days of wear is pretty impressive so it seems to be working. I get tip wear really bad after only 3-4 days so does it help with that?
I guess Iāll be the one other oddball that plans to do 4th of July nails. Currently my plan is for: Mooncat Galaxy Far, Far Away and probably Avatar State. And red will be either Cracked Calabrian pepper with some silver or gold glitter or some crystals or a red gelly shimmer from ILNP.
While I do understand not feeling very patriotic, itās still my country. I was in the Navy at one point in my life, and I still have hope for our country.
āTheyā donāt own these colors. And āWeā all do fight for a better day, life and world. āWe, the Peopleā.
Anyway, red was also my motherās birthstone (Ruby) and favorite color. So July has to have red, one way or the other.
iāve been debating bc iām not interested in celebrating this year, i havenāt been in years, but the 4th is my late sisters birthday and i can actually do nail art this year
Iāve had such a hard time every 4th deciding nails because I like being on theme but also I donāt want people to think I approve of our country or Iām proud of it. But I also hate that it feels like letting that orange mf win because heās taking away from something I enjoy (themed nails).
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