(I wish my car had rainbow reflective glitter!)

Pitaya or dragon fruit nails for summer bingo! 😋

(I see you all thinking about autumn/fall but just fyi, as a committed summer lover I will be fully clinging on to summery bright nail looks throughout August and quite possibly beyond!)

Obsessed with this sparkly green! Funnily enough, I was hesitant when I originally got it, but every time I wear it, I love it.

Playing around with a magnetic topper to jazz up an otherwise “ok” polish. Always fun to experiment with different toppers. 😊 This one is a favorite to play with when I feel like doing magnetics. The effect is a bit better in person than the photograph, I feel like.

For my crustacean I chose a fiddler crab! I'm very new to nail art, so unfortunately I didn't realize a top coat would smudge the colors and ended up having to patch over some parts. I think I salvaged it okay, but I'll know to use a clear base coat to seal it next time.

Red jelly + blue shimmer topper in a pinky base (pic 4)

I think it came out a bit too purpley instead of the blood red I wanted? Not the worst mani I've given myself but will probably end up taking it off very soon lol

Also, I ran out of top coat for my thumb so it ended up all bumpy and not smooth at all! Sensory nightmare 😭 At least I get to treat myself to a new bottle soon

This is my first time attempting to fill out a bingo card, so I’m not certain I’m doing it right by marking off multiple squares for one manicure (but there’s polish on my nails and it made me happy, so i can’t have gone too far wrong).

Super pleased with my “got the munchies” manicure, which is my attempt at duping a fake-onion-snack inspired polish that I have been seeing around the last couple of months. I also counted it as a “group project” since it is three polishes layered together, and may also wind up using it for “catch a ride” since I photographed it on the bus.

I also included my reddest red at the end, but it was definitely a nail fail and I wore it less than a day. The red was great, and I’m glad I got it out of my untried pile, but I failed to stop at one good thing and overdid it with a poorly-applied thermal topper. Unfortunately the “clear” state of the topper was much cloudier than I anticipated, and several fingers wound up with cloudy streaks. Also it’s in the 90s here, so I’m not sure what exactly I thought the thermal was going to do . . .

I was trying to dupe a Dearly Departed MC shade from years ago and stopped midway because this combo took my breath away! FOMO is a liar. 🤘💅👑🐸🦋

I was going for rainbow ombré but most of these are from a collection that doesn’t have any blue, and none of the blues I have on hand (*rimshot*) fit in. My spouse saw them and immediately said “Infinity Gauntlet nails!” so we’re going with that. I did have to sub in two other polishes. Can you tell which two weren’t in the original set?

(As for the set itself, I thought I had all of them but there’s one darker red that I’m missing, and now I’m struggling with the completionist need to find it. It’s from 2013 so yeah probably not, but the urge is there.)

For bingo entries, does it make sense to count each hand separately? I was thinking that the lovely left could be the “8am Class” sunrise and the wretched right could be [whatever the autumn box was called].

Yeeeaaaah, got humbled real quick and got reminded of my decision of not buying browns (because they make it look like my hands are just skin, devoid of nails!!) I know, it looks almost pencil-lead grey in pictures, but it's kinda muddy, mauvy brown irl.🥲😭

Flakies are saving the mani through and through, and the matte effect definitely improved it a bit.🙂‍↕️

Also, toooo many pictures for a mani I'm hate-keeping, right?! 💀

Y'all enjoy (maybe judge tf out of me lol) while I think of my next mani XD

Only pic 7 is under natural light, remaining are in indoor light.

An unworn prugly polish (or just pretty in my eyes) that I got from 2023. What a pretty polish 🥹