Not just cute, Super Cute
So very cute, and really almost steampunk. Just missing some watch parts.
But let’s not stop there! Here are some ideas for hipster manicures we think are really, really, seriously uber cute!
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March 9, 2012 at 4:37 pm
OMG, I WANT the barn wood mani-pedi. Especially the pedi, since my feet are just about that gnarly.
March 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Maybe you can convince Sally Hansen to make nail strips like that.
(Unsolicited product plug: Sally Hansen nail strips are the FUCKING AWESOMEST.)
http://sallyhansen.com/products/nails/nail-color/salon-effects-real-nail-polish-strips
March 9, 2012 at 5:49 pm
they are pretty awesome…
March 9, 2012 at 6:56 pm
I know you can commission nail strips from somewhere. This can happen. (I can’t find my links but I swear this can be done.)
March 9, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Found it! You can upload your own photo and make your own design in nails.
http://www.inquenails.com/cgi-bin/nails/index.pl
Someone please get a barn wood mani and photograph it.
March 10, 2012 at 3:36 pm
i want the Zooey ones!
March 9, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Ooh this has to happen! The possibilities are endless! Couldn’t you just see custom nail strips for lactivists, intactivists and those people who shriek if you dare shave?
March 9, 2012 at 7:08 pm
OOOh lactating boobie nails? I’d buy a set!
March 9, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Hairy pube nails?
March 10, 2012 at 1:58 pm
I am now picturing people shrieking like this whenever someone shaves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FspWLKvdTyA
March 9, 2012 at 8:33 pm
I can’t get those damn things to come OFF my nails afterward though. Took forever to get them off and all my nails broke.
March 9, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Those cracks aren’t in the barn wood, I’m afraid. She really needs to get that checked.
March 9, 2012 at 4:55 pm
That picture gave me the jibblies! Can’t stop thinking of the Lamasil goblin…
March 9, 2012 at 5:06 pm
He’s one of the few reasons I’m glad I don’t have a TV at the moment. I’d dive for the remote when those commercials came on. *Shudder* The print ads in magazines are bad enough.
March 9, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Or the tree-hands guy.
March 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm
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March 9, 2012 at 4:38 pm
So, uh… Where can I get those gluten-free nail decals?
March 9, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Oh come on, those things are corny.
March 9, 2012 at 4:43 pm
As long as they’re not wheaty. That’s all I’m worried about.
March 10, 2012 at 8:02 am
There isn’t a grain of truth to that statement.
March 9, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Seriously, if they existed, my husband would buy them to make fun of me with them.
March 9, 2012 at 6:16 pm
If they existed, I would buy them to make fun of myself with.
March 9, 2012 at 6:39 pm
The whole GF fad has really been a mixed blessing for the Celiac. On the one hand, there’s more stuff in the stores and restaurants don’t give you as many funny looks when you ask. On the other hand, everyone else thinks you’re just being pretentious.
March 10, 2012 at 11:27 am
I sympathize. I am seriously, explosively, and “pretentiously” lactose intolerant. I get weird looks when I buy lactase enzyme tablets, or milk that’s had the lactose removed.
People who don’t have to live within limits will never understand those who do. Why they even care what anyone else eats or drinks, I dunno.
March 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I haven’t gotten too many weird looks,but I was really surprised when the guy at Starbucks (I refuse to call them ‘baristas’) asked whether I was allergic or something or if I just didn’t like milk, so he’d know whether to use the special “dairy free” mixer for my Frappuccino.
March 10, 2012 at 6:35 pm
I haven’t been to a Starbucks in ages. Not only did the last local franchise I went to not have non-dairy “milk,” but they also offered absolutely NO sugar-free drinks. If that’s changed, I’ll try them again, because I really did like my Cafe Mocha back in the day…
March 13, 2012 at 9:52 am
Oh my gods….
I’m not lactose intolerant, or have gluten allergies, but I have severe gastro issues, including IBS, which makes it impossible for me to eat MANY things (peppers of any type, raw onion, tomatoes, etc), and people think I’m picky.
I LOOOOOOOOVE peppers, it’s not like I went “hey, I think I’ll make the person serving my food want to spit in it”.
March 9, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Come on… It is cute!
March 9, 2012 at 7:01 pm
If I wanted a mustache I’d stop plucking my upper lip.
March 9, 2012 at 7:59 pm
trust me. doing that doesn’t result in cute.
err. not that I would know.
March 9, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Start ‘em young!
March 9, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Calling Portlandia…
March 9, 2012 at 5:48 pm
wow this made me want to punch someone in the face. for a child’s birthday? come on people
March 9, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Well don’t waste your time punching the kid.
That ‘stache will absorb the impact.
March 9, 2012 at 8:04 pm
i am making horking sounds at that party right now. hork hork
March 10, 2012 at 7:15 am
we have “mustache day” at my preschool where we draw funny mustaches on all the kids with face paint. We mostly do it because it’s freaking hilarious!!
That reminds me… I need to plan a mustache day.
March 10, 2012 at 11:08 am
Agreed. Tiny children in mustaches are funny. My problem with that party set-up was the idea that you can get a milk mustache by drinking through a straw.
March 15, 2012 at 9:53 am
Read the comments – they are exactly the same as the comments above! (super cute! totally adorable!)
March 9, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I would truly love to see some LOLcats nails. THAT I would concede to being cute. Or pictures of my kids, but if you have pictures of my kids on your nails I’m calling the cops.
March 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Does Nyan Cat count?
http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Nyan-Cat-Nails
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March 9, 2012 at 5:32 pm
I paint my nails with all the skill and talent of a chimpanzee with the shakes, so props to whoever pulled that off!
March 9, 2012 at 9:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/user/cutepolish
Cutepolish did that one I believe. I’m a huge fan of hers and several other nail artists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dqgXVU6wA&list=UUT8z80a4ESgO2Y4qajk-iXw&index=40&feature=plcp That should be the link to the video of the Nyan Cat tutorial.
March 9, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Waiting for chalkboard nails you can write on!
March 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm
So then, when you describe a very irritating sound, it would be like chalkboard on nails?
March 9, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Chalkboard on nails on chalkboard – one of the most horrible sounds in the universe.
March 9, 2012 at 7:50 pm
A chalkboard nail inception
March 9, 2012 at 4:41 pm
At first glance, I thought the crafter’s name was “Sanitarium’s Snatches.” Then on second glance, I was disappointed.
March 9, 2012 at 4:43 pm
I read swastikas for a second. Had to give my head a shake.
March 9, 2012 at 4:57 pm
I read that as “Santorum Swallows” at first. LOL
March 9, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Blecch! Look up “santorum” on urban dictionary.
March 9, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Santorum may swallow, but I’m just guessing he doesn’t swallow a “santorum,” but who am I to judge?
March 9, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I actually like the blue background on the ukuleles a great deal.
March 9, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Mustaches are just. so. cute.
March 9, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I always wished this guy’s regular mustache matched his forehead mustache.
March 9, 2012 at 5:58 pm
It’s like it was on his lip, but felt it was too good for that and wanted to move to a position of authority.
Or maybe I’m drunk.
March 9, 2012 at 7:39 pm
As you wish!
March 9, 2012 at 8:06 pm
this right here has made my whole shitty day worth it.
March 10, 2012 at 11:10 am
Bonus points for doing the eyebrows too!
March 9, 2012 at 9:35 pm
That they are!
March 9, 2012 at 4:43 pm
I love Zooey. I wont deny it.
March 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Nor will I. She lays it on thick, but I find her entertaining and will take her over “celebrities” like the Kardashiskanks any day.
March 9, 2012 at 4:48 pm
“Kardashiskanks” is perfect! I shall use it frequently. Not as frequently as they use their kooches, but often.
March 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm
The KarKrashians.
March 9, 2012 at 5:30 pm
God, if I had her on my nails I’d never look away! She’s just so pretty!
March 9, 2012 at 4:43 pm
When I find a top hat stamp, I’m so doing a steampunk octopus manicure dedicated to all the FJL’s out there. Also, I’m tempted to by some water decal paper and make some of these manicures happen.
March 9, 2012 at 5:26 pm
You can also use temporary tattoo printer paper. Just seal it up good!
March 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm
The moustache and monocle nail art really IS cute! But it’s overkill to have it on all five nails. To be on one nail is cute and silly… do the rest in black or something. But all five just looks strange. And with the ring, or whatever the heck the big moustache is, it ventures into stupid.
Alas.
March 9, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Agreed. It’s a cute concept, but overdone.
If I was swishier, I’d contemplate doing something like that myself…but having chosen the Gentlemanly style of grooming, my manicures are limited to cleaning, trimming, buffing, and cuticule-pushing. Polish would be a bit over-the-top…
March 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm
March 9, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Way CUTE!
March 9, 2012 at 4:50 pm
zOMG, cute party!!!
March 9, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Now that’s some hand embellishment I can get behind.
March 9, 2012 at 5:51 pm
adorbs!
March 9, 2012 at 8:08 pm
now we are cookin with gas. or whatever it is they say.
March 10, 2012 at 4:39 am
Lovely. Just lovely.
March 11, 2012 at 6:27 am
A Petjacure!
March 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm
March 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm
MAKE IT SO.
March 9, 2012 at 10:05 pm
NUMBER ONE
March 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Also waiting for mini, tiny, teeny terrarium nails.
March 9, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Well… artificial nails already are sort of like terrariums already. Over time as the glue under them loosens, a gap begins to form, and water collects inside. Then stuff starts growing. Which is why pharmacy technicians and food handlers are not allowed to have artificial nails in this state.
March 10, 2012 at 2:12 pm
There is also such a thing as bubble nails. They look hideous.
March 12, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Googled because I was curious. Seriously regretting it now. WWWWHHHHHYYYYYYY is this a thing?
March 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Damn double post.
March 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm
OOoooohhhh, ska-weeeeeeeee!!! OOAK! Unique! Whimsicle!!
Man, livin’ up to my username for some reason and I can’t even blame it on hormones.
March 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm
I liked nail art before it was cool.
March 9, 2012 at 4:45 pm
The twee doesn’t irk me nearly as much as the grocer’s apostrophe in ‘Mustache’s & Monocles’ irks me.
So the ‘& Monocles’ belong to the mustaches? And WHY fuck up the plural-not-possessive in one word but not the second? WHY?? If you’re going to make me throat-punchy, at least try to be consistent.
March 10, 2012 at 11:15 am
If you have some sort of grammar rule, and you’re wrong about it, that’s one thing. Just tossing about apostrophes because you realize that there is a rule but you don’t care what it is? Dude, someone worked hard to put together our language. Don’t be rude and stomp all over it.
March 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm
What about some for Vegans? I can’t believe you meat-a-holics have jumped on yet another chance to exclude the Vegans. WE WILL BE HEARD!
March 9, 2012 at 4:48 pm
I can’t believe there isn’t a bacon version.
March 9, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Meat! Great, now all I can think about are nail art stickers that look like what is underneath your nail. Like those muscle tights.
http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/09/muscles_tights.jpg
Except it would be a lot grosser? And freak me out, at least. I have a nail-ripping-off phobia, but am still morbidly curious what it would look like.
March 9, 2012 at 8:10 pm
i have that phobia too. even people opening sodas bothers me.
March 9, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Just had my big toenail removed; would be happy to send you a picture. It’s not as gross as you would think, just pink, and with no nail.
March 10, 2012 at 9:10 am
I had a couple of toenails come off by themselves after I got blisters under them.
The blisters hurt, but the toenails just floated off peacefully in the bath. The area underneath was, as Afghanlady says, quite pink — but not painful. The toenails grew back.
I also have one weird toenail that comes off spontaneously from time to time, also in the bath. It just lets go and lifts away, and there’s already a new nail underneath.
March 10, 2012 at 11:40 am
I’ve had that surgery 12 times: 7 on one big toe, 5 on the other. I can’t remember which toe had how many, though. It’s been about 35 years.
Hopefully new techniques are more successful. Good luck with yours.
March 9, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Fingerkale polish?
March 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Nails of rusty vintage nails!
March 9, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Are you kidding? I TOTALLY WANT A CYCLOPS MANICURE OF MY VERY OWN. Really, people, look at it… where is the dude’s other eye? HE DOESN’T HAVE ONE. Mustachioed cyclops X 10 = Totally fucking terrifying/whimsicle. SMALL CHILDREN WILL QUAKE IN TERROR BEFORE ME.
March 9, 2012 at 5:38 pm
This is what I thought when I saw it. OMG AN ABLEIST MANICURE!
On a side note I really like the barnwood manicure, it puts me in mind of HR Giger.
March 9, 2012 at 5:01 pm
You’re a bunch of misogynistic, man-mollifying jerks for making fun of someone for not shaving the hair off of their nails.
March 9, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Thought of razor clam shells when I saw the barnwood nails pic, but I guess in Whimsicle these must be false nails for barnwood deprived mermaids? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ensiskils.jpg
March 10, 2012 at 11:42 am
I used to shop at a store where one of the clerks had nails that looked just like that. Used to…
March 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm
My life, and by extension everyone else’s, is now complete.
Also, just think how much more publicity she’ll get by adding the “steampunk” tag onto her posts!
Also, honey, at least invest in a fake-nail “fill” before you take photos of your nailstaches. No one wants to look at your ugly cuticle outgrowth.
March 9, 2012 at 5:49 pm
I am a little sad that I know this, but it’s not outgrowth, it’s referred to as a gap manicure. Some people intentionally leave ~1mm gap between the cuticle and the polish because it looks more professional and can keep the polish from chipping as easily.
/spends too much time on beauty forums
March 9, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Also how much more she could charge because of each gear being so unique.
March 10, 2012 at 10:14 am
You are obviously being controlled by a society that’s telling you people’s god-given natural cuticles are ugly. Shake off your chains. Let your cuticles grow free.
March 11, 2012 at 2:41 pm
She’s actually a really close friend of mine, and thats not a fake nail gap you see. Some people know how to apply polish without getting it all over themselves. It’s crazy, I know… Couple that with that fact that these were the only ones that were actually hand painted and not ‘shopped or using decals, I think they are pretty awesome.
March 9, 2012 at 5:20 pm
I wasn’t aware gluten-free was an etsy “thing.” I have seen a lot of “vegan” this and that, though. Like vegan candles. I get pictures in my head of people eating candles.
March 9, 2012 at 8:12 pm
i see a lot of vegan shoes and i think the same thing
March 9, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Wait, so you’re telling me I’m NOT supposed to eat my candles? Well what am I supposed to be doing with them?
March 9, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Do you REALLY want suggestions on where to put, er, what to do with candles?
March 10, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Feed them to your dog. Dogs love candle wax, it’s like crayons except not as colorful in the backyard.
March 9, 2012 at 5:20 pm
For a more practical alternative try “BIRTH CONTROL PILL NAIL ART™” “Each nail is embellished with a full daily dose of pregnancy-preventing estrogen and progesterone. Simply bite one nail each day for ten days. Re-apply nail art after all nails have been bitten.” (DISCLAIMER: Not covered by Catholic health insurance policies.)
March 9, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I like the ukulele ones. But I play the uke and the fiddle and I would rip those things off in about 1 minute. But yeah, they are, um, like totally super cute!
March 9, 2012 at 5:42 pm
This is giving me so many ideas for a Regretsy-themed mani for the NYC meetup. Usually I just pack on enough glitter to blind a unicorn, but this calls for something classier.
March 9, 2012 at 5:44 pm
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March 9, 2012 at 5:53 pm
I like the ukelele but it needs to be just one, facing the other direction and only on the middle finger, cause then you could flip someone off and they’ll be all
“WHY YOU LITTLE… wait…wtf? are you… did you just flip me the ukelele?”
tension diffuser, or at least confuses them enough so you can make a clean getaway.
March 9, 2012 at 5:56 pm
My fingernails naturally resemble mass produced Owl pendants. I really ought to buff sometime.
March 9, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I feel horrible because I am on some serious sleepy meds and I thought you said owl pellets.
DISSECTING FUN.
March 10, 2012 at 9:36 am
To be truthful, they DO look like Owl pellets.
March 9, 2012 at 6:01 pm
This is not the first time I have seen mustache-adorned fingernails and frankly, the whole idea makes me really stabby!
March 9, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Shabby as an emotion! BRILLIANT!
March 10, 2012 at 11:50 am
STABBY
March 9, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Stabby dang it!!!!!
March 9, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Women and their mustache-envy….
March 9, 2012 at 8:06 pm
March 9, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Aaand those looked like shorts to me.
Extremely wrinkly shorts.
March 10, 2012 at 11:27 am
Mustsnaches?
March 10, 2012 at 11:28 am
*MustsnaTches.
Fuck you, keyboard making fun of my weak little fingers.
March 9, 2012 at 8:52 pm
March 9, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Man…the only people sporting Lisa Frank are 12 yo old little girls, so I sure as hell don’t want to see any 12 yos trying to rock these acrylic hooker claws yikes!
March 9, 2012 at 11:19 pm
What goes on the other finger and two thumbs nails?
March 10, 2012 at 11:28 am
Porn.
March 10, 2012 at 2:11 pm
It’s for 7-fingered mutants?
March 10, 2012 at 4:56 pm
WHERE CAN I GET THESE
March 10, 2012 at 5:32 am
How about bull’s horn nail art?
You liek???????
My
onychomycosisfingers come with that look naturally.March 10, 2012 at 11:52 am
Zombie fashion is the next Big Thang.
March 10, 2012 at 6:56 am
March 10, 2012 at 10:23 am
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March 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm
There needs to be a bacon manicure. Bacon hipsterism is up there with moustache hipsterism at the moment. There are sites selling novelty crap that have entire sections dedicated to bacon-flavoured toouthpaste, bacon gum, bacon soap, bacon cologne, bacon cushions and other such crap.
March 10, 2012 at 12:09 pm
ManiCURED bacon!
March 10, 2012 at 2:13 pm
The most creative I ever got with my nails was painting little shamrocks on them for a St. Patrick’s Day parade. I chip off nail polish in about a day so I usually don’t bother even with just painting them.
March 10, 2012 at 2:54 pm
I totally want the ukulele nails, because I love my uke. But I’d probably just chip it off while playing.
March 10, 2012 at 3:47 pm
i love the nails, the ring is overkill, and where is his other eye?
nail art can be way fun. it’s a shame mine peel, shred, and shatter at the slightest touch.
March 10, 2012 at 4:17 pm
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March 11, 2012 at 12:47 am
pretty arvin awesome, the Zooey Deschanel 1 is best, of course…
March 11, 2012 at 6:05 am
with the zooey ones, my “special alone times” would be so much better.
and also super cute.
March 11, 2012 at 2:32 pm
LOL I didn’t actually wear this out it was for a nail art contest and I only wore that ring for the pictures, the only ring I usually wear is my wedding ring and band.
Loving the other versions of it LOL if somebody does a bacon one I need permission to share on my blog. Love the steampunk one.
And I don’t have fake nails
I leave a gap because if I get to close to my cuticles I paint over them on accident.
March 11, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I actually would love the Zooey Deschanails
March 11, 2012 at 3:08 pm
OMG, I love this mani so hard! It’s hilarious! Kudos!