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Summery nails for upcoming water festival!

My family will be unprepared for the water guns 🌊

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Maybe my favorite nail trend of the year. Happy 250th USA! Who knows if you'll get another, but the algae will be doing just fine.

Used a mix of old del sol colors that I think used to be sliver/gray to red solar colors that are now all some shade of green.

Polished for days - I wish I had wings

Holo Taco - Playing with Sapphire

And my unknown vipera color used for the base and everything swirled together on top.

Also, shout out to Nailtiques Formula 2! Usually when I take off my old polish there's a lot of nail peeling at the ends. Saw Nailtiques recommended on Reddit and I've used it twice under my base coat. Now no peeling at all! Amazing. Highly recommend.

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Feeling like summer! Going for a Barbie pink and Lisa Frank-ish neon tiger stripes.

Color club's "Hot n' Steamy" topped with Zombie claw's "I wanna have boobies" for the pink. The blue underglow from zombie claw makes it look more electric in person.

Salon perfect's "Traffic Cone", LA colors "Zany", and Vipera's "Speedo" for the stripe colors over initial striping done in white.

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Mooncat: a galaxy far far away

Trying the magnetics again! The lines almost immediately blew out, but it's still pretty so I don't mind.

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After the recent rain, my elderberry flowers were scattered like confetti.

Trying magnetics again with some painted flowers on top.

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I might be a little too excited to go to a crawfish boil this weekend!

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Recreating a mossy marble look from Reddit.

ILNP: Ferris Wheel

Vanessa Molina: Let's Boogie Up

OPI: Hot & Coaled

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Trying to capture my wisteria before they're gone! Plus a blurry bumblebee doing the same.

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ILNP: Ferris wheel 🎡

I think I used like half the bottle to get this density with sponge on method.

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Beaux rêves: Blooming Azalea

This one is also technically magnetic, but the pull is VERY subtle to the point of not being worth the effort (did magnet on 3 of these nails and you can't even tell). Thankfully the color is gorgeous and the shift is so much fun that I don't mind!

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Tried playing with some new magnets/magnetic nail polish.

Mooncat: Lord Vader

think the flower shaped magnet ended up looking like a sphincter....

Cirque Colors: Dream within a dream

Used a pen shaped magnet to make the swirl design.

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Easter Egg nails!

Essie: the more the merrier

NK: pastel light blue

Revlon: lucky in love

Pure ice: show stopper

OPI: sickeningly sweet

Holo taco: not milky white

Orly: la selfie

+ stamping plates

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Did my nails in a baby boomer ombre with white floral stamping for the Sake & Sakura event at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Holo Taco's Emerald City with some floral stamping accents. I feel like it's so much more green in person.

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Trout season just opened yesterday, so here are some fish lures!

ILNP: "Moon Dust" and "Comet" for the body, "Orbit" and "Poison" for the gills.

Holotaco for the black, white, base, and top coat.

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Some late lunar new year nails.

ILNP: Poison - velvet style magnetization

Essie: Pep in your rep

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Zombie claw's "I wanna have boobies". Pretty pink with blue underglow and red glow-in-the-dark.

Accent heart in ORLY's "LA SELFIE"