Easy DIY: Nail Art From NYFW

February 7, 2013

We’re pretty much nail art obsessed over here at Beauty Riot, so it’s no surprise our eyes went straight to the model’s manicure when we saw the looks from designer Whitney Pozgay’s 2013 collection. (Fun fact: Pozgay is actually Kate Spade’s niece!)

Lead manicurist for Kiss Products, Inc., Gina Edwards, was in charge of giving manicures to the models backstage. The nail art looks super involved and like it took hours to do, but … they’re actually decals!

Edwards used Kiss Nail Dress in “Teddy” decals, which are available at Walgreens for $6.99 a pack. Yup, the high-fashion, runway manicure is actually a stick-on decal you can buy at the drugstore.

Once you have the decals, buff your nails to prep them. Then all you have to do is stick on each nail decal, folding it over the edge of your nail, and then file off the extra. That’s it. Plus, there’s no drying time involved — a major bonus, because everyone knows waiting for your nails to dry can feel like an eternity.

Rumors surrounding my demise have been mostly false. After a brief sojourn out into a strange world-- a world of big green things, and small fuzzy things, and no wireless fidelity to be found! --I have triumphantly returned, lusting for any sort of contact with the interwebz. Lolcats pictures are making me giggle, I'm posting trolling messages on bulletin boards, and I am even-- yes, it shames me to say this --watching AMVs on youtube.

Hopefully I'll get my electronic addiction back under control, and be at baseline nerdiness once again.

So I'm Kevin. I like to play videogames, and make snarky commentary about said videogames. My general approach to games tends to be a more pragmatic one, eschewing scholarly examinations in favor of simple questions like "is it fun?". When not playing videogames, I tend to browse craigslist in some effort to fill the aching hole in my heart. Thus far, nothing on the "free stuff" section has managed to do it, but I still hold onto hope!