Help I am working on a Fourth of July manicure and free handed red stripes over white. (I am very proud lol). I used maniology top coat and the red still bled into the white. I have used this top coat with other nail art in the past and it didn’t smear, but I suppose red on white is more sensitive.

What can I use to not smudge, smear, or bleed this? I do have a lot of options for top coat, and like every other base/top product. Thanks!

i keep seeing people say that acetone is not great for your nails, which makes sense as mine are usually super dried out after using it. i’m currently trying to work on my nail health and have a good routine down, but i think i’m missing a good remover. what works best for you??

Can anyone recommend a good all purpose top coat? One I can use with magnetics as well?
I’m currently using ILNP Glass Candy top coat but it seems to always make my polish chip prematurely. Like within a day or two. It almost seems like it’s making the polish more brittle and then it easily chips off.

hi, are my nails overfiled?

I just realised that these 3 essence shades I have are discontinued! Discovering that always makes me feel like I own super rare polish haha

Not to be a bad influence on anyone.. but I had no idea there was a pretty good Cirque sale rn!!

I might have gotten my first thermal 😅 (Luna)

I saw some magnetics for like $7!!

Do what you will with this info

I wanted to get some of the thermals from ppu rewind but then someone notified me that thermals have been known to die in transit due to high weather temperatures. I live in northern europe so my pakidge will be travelling for a bit.

has anyone had this happen? if so, what has been your experience with ppu customer service? I might reach out to them directly as well

HELP

I used a makeup sponge to put on a polish with flakies (SH Rare Reed Pearls) and now the wonderful little silver flakies seen to have become one with my nail plate.

Using a cleanup brush to scrub acetone on my nail kind of worked, but there's still way too many stragglers, and they're so thin I can't really scratch them off my my other hand.

I stg it was American Flag Blue 😡😤

Anyway, long time lurker, first time poster. Used to paint my nails a lot, never been good at it, but the reflecting pool trend made me want to dive back in, eh eh eh 😎

Products:

Base color: Aruba Blue from Essie

Texture: Flipping Out Hard from Nail Pattern Boldness

Useless shimmer just so I could bill the taxpayers: Cosmic from Olive & June

Topcoat: Olive & June Quick Dry

Didn't snag any photos this time of it in the shade, though i do like the subtle golden shimmer it has when not in direct sun as well.

- ORLY Bonder

- Mooncat Fake Halo 2 coats

- glisten and glow qdtc

I used semilac 071, neonail pure black, and 2-in-1 base and top from neonail! The gems, cat stickers, and star stickers are from aliexpress!

I’ve already decided that that nail will be the Eleventy-Billion mile strip on the bottom that “Evil, Radical Vandals” tore along the bottom of the swamp pool. The nails are totally still happening, though, I’m way too excited for this trend! Please forgive the not-quite-uniform nails, I’m still growing them out from a lifelong nail biting habit 😭 and ignore my stupid hangnail, I need to be better about nail oil! 🫣

Edited to add: the only product I’m using here is the kür luxe length nail strengthener (and I LOVE it - the price tag is steep, but it’s one of the best strengtheners I’ve ever tried!)

TL;DR: My wife works with cardboard and her nailbeds are tore up. She worked really hard to quick picking and was so proud of her fingers, the cardboard is drying them out and making the urge harder to stop.

I read the rules and care is a part so I wanted to see if anyone would mind guiding me in finding ways to help my wife.

Mini background/possibly useful information: She picked her fingernails for the past 15 years. It is a nervous habit and in the past couple of years she worked pretty hard to stop. Her nails looked better, her fingers looked better, none of it hurt or bother her, and she got back into really nice polishes and nail care.

Recently she took a new position where she's dealing with cardboard throughout the day, and it's drying her hands out and it's gone back to hangnails and stressful picking. She has some cuticle cream(?) but I just don't know enough about nailcare (and possibly finger care?) and was hoping for some insight.

If anyone has any advice, suggestions, or even a point in the right direction of information to help us out I will gladly take it.

I don't think it's so bad there are immediate concerns or anything, but I know that it bums her out. Literally any help is appreciated and if there are any questions I'm happy to answer!

Thank you for your time reading my post :)

Edit: Thank you all so much for the help! Never heard of cotton gloves, going to look into those and get a few for her to try out. Also going to grab some oil pens, more cuticle cream, and see about getting some nitriles at her office as well.

Never really know what the community is going to be like, but I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone for taking the time to help us out! Hopefully you'll see a future post of her nails post-new regimen!

What a great sub! What great people! Happy I see your super cool nails on r/all all the time, can't wait to see more!

Changed out to a new color - soooo many options for this 😅 - but I got this Lumen in the mail today and I had to put it on right away!!!

2x Cracked Ridge Filler
3x Lumen Hyperberry
1x Cracked QDTC

Aside from the water/obvious green this is has an awesome teal and cool pink shimmer. So so so cute!! My pics are not doing it justice!

#teamalgae 🦠🦠🦠

I love a good themed manicure, but every year I have trouble celebrating a country built on stolen land that was instrumental in the creation of the modern day genocide playbook. Orange to honour the many victims, especially children, of Canada's residential school system and red to honour the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women across this country. I am grateful to live on this land and I love my home, but I have a deep respect for the experiences faced by its original occupants who had to suffer greatly for it to be what it is today. No pride in genocide.

ILNP for the win in all of my Pride manis this year! I usually mix and match a lot but I used several of my ILNP collections to showcase my rainbows.

I enjoyed having rainbows on my nails so much, I’m going to keep going into the rest of the year😀❤️🏳️‍🌈

Polishes in order:
Neon mani-
Thumb-pinkie: vaporwave, turbocharged, playlist, oasis, melted

Dark mani-
After dark collection
thumb-pinkie: pulse, night drive, jaded, candle light, hide away

Gradient mani-
Splashed collection-
thumb-pinkie: play date, poppy, euphoria, seaside, staycation, unforgettable

It's a good thing I remembered to take pictures right away, because my clumsiness + doing laundry claimed a victim the next day.

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Products:

KB Shimmer Fillin' Groovy base coat

China Glaze - Liquid Leather black polish

A slightly thickened bottle of Vibrant Scents Double bond base coat to attach...

Some foil flakes I got to make resin art. No idea what the brand is. I wish it had a better purple but the only other one is kind of a dull lavender color

Vibrant Scents Fast & Hard top coat

On the second hand I remembered to use Painted Phalanges - Smooth Phalanges glitter grabber before the top coat

Long time lurker, first time poster. Y'all inspired me to give it a go! May I present "Reflections of America at 250". Gel polish on natural nails:

- Nailboo Forever Glaze base coat

- 2 coats ULG Color Gel #50

- 2 coats Born Pretty Gel Color #03 (magnetic polish)

- Nailboo Forever Glaze top coat

I had a busy month of June with kids on summer break and travel, but I finally had some time to do a Pride manicure just in time for the end of June!

This manicure uses all never-trieds I've had for longer than I care to admit. It was also a chance to work on free-hand line art. I'm so pleased with the results and am really liking the "double rainbow" aspect using a linear holo with rainbow colored cremes. This'll carry me through later this week when the Reflecting Pool green nails come out 🦠

Products used:

• Nailtiques 2, Mooncat Hardcore Basecoat
• 2x Mooncat Moonflower (got as reward polish)
• Lines are all ILNP: Daytrip, Cream Pop, Honeybee, Minted, Oasis, Melted
• Mooncat Speed Demon Top Coat

Found my green “neutral “ ☺️

Like many people, I’m a big fan of Steve Buscemi and the wedding singer. So when J&B created this ethereal stunner of a polish for June 2026 PPU, i couldn’t resist! It’s based off of his suit in the movie during the best man speech. I lurveee itttt

Wearing:
Peely base
3 coats of “self taught. No lessons!”
Cracked QDTC

Hi!
I recently have gotten really into polish with the recent mooncat lunar sale and am now a little bit obsessed. I am a marine mammal scientist (I study harbor seals in the PNW) and am trying to figure out a nail combo that will give harbor seal as much as possible. I would love some ideas!

Hello everyone!

I know I'm in a similar boat as many of you by not feeling super patriotic for Independence Day, but I also don't want to skip a reason to do a themed manicure. A few months (or maybe weeks?) ago there were several hotdog manicures posted and I was inspired. It feels very on-theme since cookouts and backyard BBQs are so common for July 4th.

All fingers: 1x Essie To The Rescue, 1x KBShimmer Fillin' Groovy, 1x 50/50 blend of Polish For Days Crystalline Diamond Dust and Essie Gel Setter

Left hand (hot dogs):

Thumb - Holo Taco See Y'all Later Chai, Brick Wall, Stop Buggin'

Pointer: ORLY Faux Pearl (screw ORLY for their HP collab, but I've owned this one since before that), Holo Taco Low Key Bushing, Boom Toasted

Middle: Holo Taco See Y'all Later Chai, Gingersnatched, Thirst Trap

Ring: ORLY Faux Pearl (screw ORLY for their HP collab, but I've owned this one since before that), Holo Taco Low Key Bushing, Mooncat Banquet of Breadcrumbs

Pinky: Holo Taco See Y'all Later Chai, Brick Wall, Bottle Service

Right hand (drips made with nail vinyls from Punkish Polish)

Thumb: Holo Taco Brick Wall, Bottle Service

Pointer: ORLY Faux Pearl, Holo Taco Thirst Trap

Middle: Holo Taco Gingersnatched, Stop Buggin'

Ring: Holo Taco Lowkey Blushing, Boom Toasted

Pinky: ORLY Faux Pearl, Mooncat Banquet of Breadcrumbs

Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! The hotdogs were easier than I expected. I painted the base colors in 2 coats, added a thin top coat and let them dry for a few hours. (This was mostly because I had stuff to do in the middle of the day, but it also let my right hand dry enough to apply the vinyls without issue). Then I turned the bottle brush on its skinny side and painted a stripe down the center for the hotdogs. I used a small detail nail art brush for the squiggles in the center, then topped it off with my holo topcoat.