Perfect Nail Painting Art

She`s been painting tiny pictures on her nails for almost a year now. These are some of the best. Photos by: Ladycrappo

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Skulls are a specialty of hers. This was intended to be a sort of memento mori.

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Birch forest in the fall.

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She actually used some white gold leaf on the leaves, which made her feel decadent as hell.

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These were her Thanksgiving nails: foodborne illness. From pinky to thumb, the top five foodborne pathogens in the U.S.: Staphylococcus aureus (#5), Campylobacter (#4), Clostridium perfringens (#3), Salmonella (#2), and norovirus (#1). No one wanted her to touch their food.

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Albino python.

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Playing with the look of corrosion and weathering.

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Her subtle Halloween nails.

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This one's pretty simple, but she thinks it came out beautifully.

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Based on Paul Koudounaris’ photographs of jeweled skeletons from early modern Europe.

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Rib cage, heart, and thoracic vertebra, not to scale.

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Paint by numbers.

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This one features every gold polish she owns, layered together.

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Love is the drug, or as close as she gets to Valentine's Day nails.

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Pop art flowers.

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She asked her partner what she should paint on her nails, and he said "a monkey." Ended up with this macaque and a jungle scene.

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So she glued some 3D spikes on my nails.

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2D bling

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Inspired by cave paintings from Chauvet and Lascaux.