u/kotominammy

i used to be an obsessive nail biter, my nails were so thin and brittle they would bend if pushed a little and break at every little impact. now they’re so much sturdier and also look wayyyy better, not only my nail plates but also the surrounding skin is so much better cared for. i’m starting to feel a bit of awkwardness with the length where it gets kind of uncomfortable because my nails hit stuff so might trim them a little bit soon, but pretty proud of where i’ve gotten!

Not sure how to properly explain it but it’s when the tip of the polish starts wearing off at the very tip and you can start to see the free edge under it. I don’t think it’s shrinkage from top coat bc comparatively it happens a lot more to my indexes than pinkies. usually starts around 2-3 days after i paint them?? anyway does anyone have tips?

ETA: polish is mooncat werewolf’s bane (3 coats)

I was kind of regretting this one and wishing I had gotten Death’s Trumpet instead but holy crap is it GLOWY. I like it a lot. My mom said it looks like Starry Night and I love that image

I like this color but it’s unwearable right now in summer, lol. I had to take the transition pic at the supermarket because in my house they are only ever in warm state - even water from the tap isn’t cold enough to change them to dark green!

never in my life thought i’d have nails this long without heavy gel usage! (excuse the peeling on my ring finger, got a bit rough with it a while back)

Earth to Gaia is forever one of my faves. And what it really needed was MORE glitter. Perfect combo.

silly question but i got this awesome tote bag that i wanna bring to work next week and i want to match my nails to it. left is mooncat spaceoddity right is illo cosmetic dance flamingo. i am kind of leaning spaceoddity cuz its more glittery but dance flamingo matches the color reeeeally well???!

as a fat girl, it is my absolute joy (/s) to constantly be belittled and dehumanized by others. and see people saying “we need to bring fat shaming and bullying back (like it ever left…?) so people feel motivated to lose weight”

anyway, got my day really really soured this morning by an exceptionally rude comment about how fat people aren’t really humans and have failed at the most basic aspects of being a person and that i was “celebrating being ugly” instead of fixing myself to “go back to being a person”

now, i know that that kind of absolute nutcase has something deeply wrong and miserable in their own life to be taking it out on me like that. but i’ve been fat shamed since i was in first grade (at which point, i was a healthy weight. i was a healthy weight until my mid 20’s, but i still got bullied from age freaking six) and it is a very old wound that’s very hard to heal, so it did hurt me quite deeply.

anyway, i was feeling sad about it so instead of going home after work and cooking myself a healthy meal, i turned to one of my coping mechanisms and had a really huge meal at mcdonalds instead. so yeah, congrats. bullying definitely works/s

2 coats Deadly Nightshade.

It’s so impossible to capture how gorgeous the constant shift is in person. Even a video doesn’t do it much justice. I was wowed with how shiny and gorgeous a single coat already was, and it’s so deep and completely opaque with 2!!

I usually redo my mani after a week but might try to leave this one on for 2.

Big fan of this combo since the shimmer in GEM is the same color / shift as Foxfire.

3 coats of Green Eyed Monster, 1 coat of Foxfire

happy community day everyone!