Belated Easter French Nail Design

A nail broke on my left hand. Right at the quick. So now, all my nails are short and slo-o-o-owly growing back out. Good thing French tips make the whole nail look longer, eh? (Compare the length in the photo below to this one. Yes, they're shorter. >.>)

Taking a picture of my right hand, using my left hand, with a right-handed camera. IT WAS NOT EASY.

This design... just kind of happened. I wasn't expecting anything Easter-like. I just picked up my purple, painted one nail, decided to do a different color - all nails ended up different colors, and then SILVER TIPS! The pinkie wasn't originally yellow though, it was a teal, but I changed it for better warm/cool balance.

There isn't anything special to how I created this, either. Just, one color for each nail, freehand silver tip, topcoat. Ta da!

Colors used: China Glaze Grape Juice, Sinful Colors Aqua, Wet 'n' Wild Lavender Pearlescent, Kiss Neon Yellow (sidenote: that stuff REEKS), Wet 'n' Wild Sage in the City, Zoya Trixie.

Nail noob makes nail noob mistake

I lied. My first real, successful, actually-pretty-and-even-elegant nail design post is not this post, but will be the next post. Why? Because NAIL PROBLEMS.

I'd noticed a bit of flaking off the top of a couple of nails recently, but didn't think anything of it beyond buffing the flakes off.

Then, to my consternation, the flaking got worse. Off to google I went, and lo and behold: Acetone can damage nails! I'd thought it could only damage skin, but that's because I'm a nail noob. Google further provided me with information on how to fix this problem, so cuticle cream and olive oil soaks are the order of the day.

I do have on a very pretty purple polish by China Glaze at the moment, and I'm thinking I'll wear that for a few days, remove it with non-acetone, then go natural for a while.

On the bright side, this Grape Juice color is very pretty!

This is what happens when I use my real camera instead of my cell phone.