r/male_polish

It's summer. I fuckin' love ice cream. Boom. Ice cream nails. 🍦🍧🍨 Sometimes it's just that simple.

🖌 Freehand on natural nail.

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Base

🍧 @ilnp ... "Chocolate"

🍦 @holotaco ... "Banana Medicine" "Stay Grounded"

🍨 @sally_hansen ... "Hot Pink-tensity"

🍧 @colorclubnaillacquer  ... "French Tip"

🍦 @prism.parade ... "Gummy Bear"

🍨 @atomicpolishmn ... "Pastel Neon Lavender"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat"

They were an idea born from a previous set I made, and yes, I'm still obsessed with animal print.

Wasn’t totally happy with my last colour change so went back to the tech to fix and ended up getting the full set of cat eyes. Love ‘em! ❤️

Happy birthday America.

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Sally Hansen383 ASAP Apple red

L.A. Colors 424 blue

L.A. Colors 402 white

Fourth of July stickers from Amazon.

Seche Clear base coat Vite top coat as always.

I've gotten TONS of compliments, more than ever.

*this mani was created for the #theabcsofpokemoncollab on Instagram

Finding Feathers Lacquer - Balanced Bond Base Coat

L.A. Colors - Hooray

Color Club - Orange You Going Tanning

Salon Perfect - Purple POP!, Strawberry Swirl

Navy blue creme

Sally Hansen - All That Glitters, Mud Mask

Green glow paint

OPI - Won for the Ages, Exotic Birds Do Not Tweet *modified, That's What Friends Are Thor

Essie - Off Tropic, Off The Grid

Holo Taco - Matcha Maker

Broadway Nails - Banana Smoothie

Sinful Colors - Hit the Spot, Chamomile Calm, So Matcha Better

Believe Beauty - Boot Scootin

P2 Minute Mani - Expresso

Custom pastel yellow creme

Pueen stamping polish - Black Jack, Pure White

Moyou London - Tom & Jerry 04

Color Vibe - Cold as Ice

Mooncat - Speed Demon Top Coat

My birthday is on July 4th, and my gift this year was nails for my two favorite movies. I watch both movies as a traditional on the day every year. Can you guess which movies?

Still learning how to polish nails and my girlfriend gave me some more practice today! To celebrate the 4th, some red and blue glamor.

For my girlfriend: Cracked Rhubarb Pie Guts, the red polish on the left.

For me: Cracked Another Day in the PNW, the blue on the right.

For both of us: Olive and June primer base coat and quick dry top coat.

Still learning and lord knows I have a ways to go, but we are pretty happy with how this turned out!

And man, painting your own nails is challenging. Using my non-dominant hand is hard. Any tips or pointers for self-polishing? So far I am much better at polishing my gf's nails than my own.

Happy 4th! Enjoy the fireworks! Fight the good fight against fascism!

This time I went to Nail Art Bar on Queen West in Toronto. Lime did these gel nails for me. I need to stay short to play bass every day. Sorry, I didn't catch the actual products being used. (My first manicure was at Natural Nail Bar on Yonge Street). When I did the first manicure, I had a 4-5" beard, but they were all very nice, regardless.

I rarely "schedule" a mani out ahead of time (I say this as I finish a whole collection of pride flags...granted I came up with each of those when I sat down to paint, so na na boo boo, it still counts 😝) but I KNEW this year my 4th mani was going to be reflecting pool nails. So did everyone else, apparently, and I LOVE IT. Seeing SO many people with algea nails helps drown out the constant drone from the adminsitartion, reminding us WE have the power and there are far more of us, we just need to be LOUDER than the hate. 🇺🇲 Nothing is more American than the ability to protest.

I did fluid art with a whole slew of colors and formulas to get the perfect blooming algae look! 🦠🇺🇸🗽

The whole algae debacle literally reflects some of the biggest issues with this historic administration. Corruption, cronyism, disrespecting history, not listening to experts, corruption, poor execution of skilled labor, clear obvious failing, finger pointing, quick fixes, corruption, cover ups, lies...the list can go on and it's just the scratching the surface of how incompetent, dangerous, and anti-American it is. America isn't perfect, but there are millions of kind-hearted Americans that get up every day and do the right thing for each other and fight, however they can, to make this a more perfect union. We're on stolen land, and no one is free until we're all free. Happy 4th! 🇺🇲

🖌 Fluid art on natural nail.

💪 @findingfeatherslacquer ... Balanced Base

🇺🇲 @piantedpolish ... "Boys In Blue WS Champs '24"

🦠 @sally_hansen ... "On The Download" "Hard Drive Me Crazy"

🗽 @holotaco ... "Not Milky White" "Pier Pressure" "Salt Water Taffy" "Acid Drip" "Topaz Tears" "Born Ugly" "Not Milky White"

🇺🇸 @cuticula ... "Havasupai Falls"

🦠 @baronessx ... "Porthole"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

*this mani was created for the #reflectingpoolcollab on Instagram

Finding Feathers Lacquer - Balanced Bond Base Coat

Blue creme base

Sinful Colors Quick Bliss - Bite

Avon Gel Finish - Citronized

OPI - Olive for Green

Studio M Pro - Garden Party

Mooncat - Speed Demon Top Coat

I thought I joined this up but I guess I didn't...? Anyways my nail polish is from LA colors glitter vibes. It was gifted to me by a coworker when I took her shift for something. Hope you enjoy the sparkles!

Ok, here’s my attempt at algae nails! There’s some depth that got a bit lost in the photo, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

Products Used:
•KBShimmer Stay Put
•KBShimmer Fillin’ Groovy
•Essie Grass Never Greener
•Kokie Wild Child
•Zoya Wyatt
•Zoya West
•LA Colors Wispy Blue
•KBShimmer Clearly On Top

*this mani was created for the #rainbowconnectioncollab on Instagram

Finding Feathers Lacquer - Balanced Bond Base Coat

Salon Perfect - Life is Blue-tiful

Color Club - Basics stamping plate

Pueen stamping polish - Pure White

Believe Beauty - Chill Touch

Kleancolor - Metallic Aqua

Color Club - Spell It Out

Sinful Colors - Shimmarine

Salon Perfect - Siren Song, Cotton Candy, Coming In Hot, Make It Flashy!

Nails Inc - Chrome is Where the Heart Is

Rogue Lacquer - A Little Dark and a Little Gloomy

Essie - Ice Ice Navy

Holo Taco - Crystal Skies

Pure Ice - Splash

L.A. Colors - Wired

China Glaze - Freezer Burn

Cirque - Splash

OPI - Yoga-ta Get This Blue!

Finger Paints - In Retrograde

Color Vibe - Cold as Ice

Custom blue jelly

Mooncat - Speed Demon Top Coat

This was for a nail art collab I host on instagram where everyone is assigned a color and you make a monochromatic .ani/skittle/swatch based on that, putting a rainbow together in the end. This round I was assigned 💙Team Blue💙by the rainbow gods! I usually put an extra random theme onto the mini collages because I'm whimsical and love adding more work to jobs I invented for myself and don'tget paid for. I went with a tropical theme for this round and while making the template I used a Blue Tang (aka the fish the Dory is) for the Team Blue collage and immediately said out loud, well there is my mani! 🐟💙 Great inspo, got to gradient which you know I love...but then I was like...how the fuck do I do "Blue Tang Print" on my nails? I basically laid it out like someone just pasted a picture of a blue tang across my fingers and then cut off the excess, and I kinda LIVE for it haha. Abstract, but super obvious. Love! If you want to join the next round, reach out!

🖌Freehand and sponge gradient on natural nail.

💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balanced Bond Base Coat"

🐟 @ilnp ... "Pastel Neon Blue"

🐟 @holotaco ... "Royal-Tea Blue" "One Coat Black"

💙 @sally_hansen ... "My Ca-Banana"

💪 @glistenandglow1 Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Asked my wife to do my nails for yhe first time. She normally doesnt so a design so it was an experiment but i like them

Rounding out this year's pride flag series with the progress pride flag!

In 2017, the city of Philadelphia adopted a revised version of the pride flag that adds black and brown stripes to the top of the standard six-color flag, to make a statement and draw attention to the issues of people of color marginalized within the LGBTQIA+ community.

In 2018, designer Daniel Quasar released a redesign dubbed the "Progress Pride Flag" incorporating elements from both the Philadelphia flag and the trans pride flag to bring focus on inclusion and progress within the community.

🤎🖤 The brown and black stripes put focus on marginalized people of color in the community, those living with HIV/AIDS, and those who have been lost.

🤍🩷🩵The white, pink, and blue represent the trans community.

The arrow points to the right to show forward movement while being along the left edge showing that progress still needs to be made.

In 2021, Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK redesigned the Progress Pride Flag to incorporate the intersex flag.

Now, these two progress pride flags variations are widely used alongside the "traditional" 6 stripe pride flag across the globe.

Hopefully throughout this pride flag series, you've learned something new or even had some curiosity to do your own research. At its heart, Pride is about empathy. Learning each other's stories reminds us that behind every flag is a person simply hoping to be seen, respected, and loved. The more we understand one another, the stronger and more compassionate our communities become. 🏳️‍🌈

🖌 Freehand and sponge gradient on natural nail.

💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balance Bond Base Coat"

🏳️‍🌈 @sally_hansen ... "Rapid Rose" "My Ca-Banana" "On The Download" "Time Warmth"

🏳️‍🌈 @cirquecolors ... "Guilty Pleasure"(

🏳️‍🌈 @holotaco ... "Cyantific" "Red Licorice" "Orange Drink" "Lemon Sucker" "Green Taffy" "Blue Freezie" "Purple Slushie" "Ginger Snatched" "One Coat Black" "Green Screen" "Happily Ever Aqua" "Pink Fizz" "Burnt Bridges" "Circuit Breaker" "Electrostatic"

🏳️‍🌈 @tylerstrinketsny ... "Not A Phase, A Formula"

🏳️‍🌈 @pluslifelacquer ... "Extra Fizz"

💪 @glistenandglow1 🐐Quick Dry Top Coat🐐

Finally got around to trying the Vettsy Galaxy Shine gels. Love the colours!

Used a builder gel as the base. Two coats of galaxy shine and some drop top coat!