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Hey guys! I'm super sorry, but I can't deal with porn and fetish bloggers reblogging me, messaging me, and generally invading my space that's specifically just for nail polish, anymore. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable, especially because so many of them want me to participate in their fetish without asking for consent (no!!) from me. I'm going to shut this blog down. I'll still be at @agaucu and on Instagram under agaucunails. I'll be wiping this blog of all posts but this and a couple of advice posts. 🖤 Thank you for all of your love!

-Enna

bigheadmilf

shout out to the followers that aren’t porn bots

I have a question about your China Glaze pictures. The bottom picture always looks more dull than the top pictures. Is it the lighting or are the top pictures wet while the bottom picture is dry?

The bottom photos are, generally, with matte top coat. Very occasionally, it flips, when the polish naturally dries matte or textured, and I apply a shiny top coat for the second photo. 😊

Can you please tell me how you get your cuticles so nice? I have deep nail beds, and I struggle with this.

The first, most important step is constant hydration – cuticle oils, lotion, etc. And I mean alllll the time. The next step is a cuticle remover. I use Sally Hansen's, but I doubt it's the best one. I've found that using it once or twice a week keeps my cuticles free of dead skin, and makes it so I don't have to trim them. I just use a cuticle stick to scrape off everything the cuticle remover softens, and gently push back the rest. And then moisturize again! (It probably took me a week of using cuticle remover every day to get my cuticles to the point where I can just maintain them.)

Let you me say, you have excellent taste in nail polish and beautiful hands. I have a couple of questions: how do you manage glitter polish removal? I've tried many methods, but can't get one to work. What's your favorite matte and clear coat? Do you apply your glitters with sponges or just brush them on? And where do you find crackle polish? I have looked all over Denver and I can't find it. Is it only online? Your blog has just become my favorite nail blog ever. Keep up the good work! Scarlet

Thank you so much! I’m very flattered! Here are some answers for ya:I remove glitter polish with cotton balls soaked in pure acetone, wrapped in foil (for anyone who doesn’t know, like I didn’t, you can unroll cotton balls and use just about two inches for each nail). After a few minutes, scrub the cotton ball around, and most glitter should come off. I then do the same again if all of the glitter isn’t off. It’s a labor, but glitter is worth it, and this process is a lot gentler than most. AND, I soak my skin in cuticle oil or lotion before wrapping my nails so that the acetone doesn’t dry it out.My favorite matte top coat is currently Wet ‘n Wild’s, which is nice on the wallet. My least favorite is Revlon’s. My favorite clear topper is Seche Vite, and my least favorite is also Seche Vite. It’s very definitely love-hate.Depends on the glitter and its base. If the glitter is dense and the base thin, I just paint it on. If the glitter is sparse (and I want full coverage), and/or the base is gloopy, I sponge. For glitter gradients, it depends on how lazy I’m feeling, haha.I got my crackle polishes all from destashes - two from a local beauty store, the rest from destashes on Instagram. I don’t know of any brand at all that’s making any right now, sadly, so the chances of finding them in a store are slim. :(THANK YOU! You’re very kind! I hope it’s alright that I posted this publicly - these are good questions.

AND - Hello everyone! I will be back to posting soon. I just moved to a place with a very dry, cold winter, so between packing/unpacking and the weather, my nails have been in blah shape. But they’re looking better! Thanks for sticking around.-Enna

clavid

I broke a nail and if you think I'm filing the other 9 to make their new ugly sister feel better U are dead wrong. Idc what ppl say about her. She betrayed me. She betrayed this family

Instead of nail art for Nine Zero’s “Wallmaster,” I went with drenching my hand with a suiting shade of red acrylic paint to loosely look like a wallmaster. :) To anyone seeing this after I’ve deleted everything: 😈 suffer with my most alarming manicure. Hahahah. 🖤

#wallmaster #legend of zelda #nine zero lacquer

Thanks so much for answering. My nails are super thick and super hard, I recommend Salon Sciences 'Fiberglass Network' for a protectant top coat. It has a bit of a white sheen but it's not noticeable if you apply it in thin coats. OPI nail envy of course is good too, but too many cross links might form if you use it repeatedly, creating brittle nails. Thanks for your advice about stilettos, I think I'll grow my nails out even longer to try stilettos, so if I don't like it I'll chop em.

Thank you! I’ll look for the Salon Sciences top coat. Nail Envy works alright for me, but I do like the flexibility my nails have. I use them literally as tools (I make jewelry), so flexibility has saved them from breakage many a time. I’m sure there’s a happy middle ground where flexibility and rigidity meet and they don’t rip anymore, lol.Heck yeah just try growing them out longer and filing them then! They’ll always just grow again, anyway. And let me know how it goes! :D

Hello again friend! I've noticed that your nails are shaped in an almond/dulled stiletto shape. How is your experience with breakage? My nails are extremely long, and they naturally take a coffin shape. I get urges to file to stiletto sometimes, but I was wondering if you had any warnings or suggestions. Tell me all about your experience with nail shapes!

Hello again! This is apparently going to be a very long answer; I hope you are ready. My nails rapidly change shape, so here’s what I’ve got for ya from my personal experience:The very, very tip can snap off easily, but if I keep them polished, the tip just eventually dulls, which is when I transition to a softer almond. Very occasionally a whole centimeter or so will snap off, but that is almost always on my pointer nails, which are weak to begin with. I’d say that’s down to your nails’ strength, and I’m gonna guess you have pretty strong/healthy nails for them to be extremely long (I can only dream).My suggestion would be to try edge nails first - as in, the natural nail kind where you file the tip of the nail into a triangular point.. ask google, because I’m sure that makes no sense, lol. That way you can see if your nails will survive with a sharp point without sacrificing a lot of length to the side filing of stilettos - and if you want to deal with the upkeep that a sharp point requires. I have to lightly file them pretty much every other day to keep the point fresh, which is fine with me as I paint them practically every day, anyway.ALSO - if you want to apply a lot of polish (like it’s a polish that takes several coats to be opaque, or you want to put glitter on top, or your top coat is thick) - you want your nails to be filed extra sharp. I use seche vite as my top coat, and it really rounds out the point, so when I do have super pointy nails, they are VERY thinly pointed without polish.My general advice is, always, no matter what shape you’re going for, keep your nails polished, even with just a clear polish. That protects them better than anything....and in conclusion, I find almond nails to be the easiest in terms of upkeep and breakage-resistance. The corners of square nails break off more frequently than almond tips, and ovals are too boring for my inner witch aesthetic desires. I’d love to try coffin and true stiletto nails, but my danged pointer nails are so weird that I’m not sure they’ll ever grow long enough to fulfill my dreams, lol. Thank you for the ask, and thanks for reading my essay! Haha.

wingdingle

guide to telling when your nail polish is dry

step 1. It Is Not

Oh my goodness bless your blog. I was looking for more true to colour swatches of some zoya polishes and your blog had all of them! Thank you so much I'm so in love with all of your content

You are so welcome! This is the highest praise, exactly what I hope to provide (other than a catalogue for myself). Enjoy!!