Do you know exactly what your nail polish is? If not, it’s probably “Jet Set Nail Color” (are you surprised?) or “Fenty Beauty S1”, but unless you’re a nail technician, we don’t blame you for being clueless about which colors are real, which are manicures, and which are fancy way-over-head pumps. Unfortunately, there’s little you can do about it.

On the bright side, though, you can use DIY tricks to ensure that the finish on your cuticles is cool and healthy, which we know some of you would like! In this week’s update, we’re expanding our DIY nail tutorials — and this time, we’re relying on self-tanners.

Specifically, we’re referring to the tiny biciclette-like pops of nail color injected into your digits to give them a cool, natural color. It’s a DIY that has been on my mind for some time and is very much in the spirit of #lastcall, so I decided to see if it could actually work. I came to the conclusion that it can, because it kind of did, and you can totally do it yourself (here’s what’s involved).

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What Are SNS Nails?

You’ll need:

Step 1: Paint your cuticles with your favorite nail color.

Step 2: Apply liquid acrylic to the tip of your nail and mold it into the shape of a biciclette. Then layer nail polish on top of the top coat and apply finish nail polish.

Boring, right? (And we’re pretty sure the top coat would just draw the color all over and make it look cray-cray.) So what separates SNS nails from these more extensive manicures? To start, there’s no base coat and the top coat is full color, instead of just one color. (Add some pink nail polish as your pinkest color of all to give you the same sort of polish.)

Secondly, and perhaps most notably, it requires no special cutting board or polishing tools (or working with nail technicians). You can just slide the biciclette-like roll up the top of your nail, flip it over, and apply the bright coloring over top of the other polish. We’ll call it a DIY nail embellishment.

The Tip

We all know that when one nail is a hot pink and the other is a cool gray, the two shades will blend together, but here’s the catch — one nail doesn’t have to be a cool shade and one will always have a warm shade. So why not use your color palette to mix the two colors in this way? Just make sure that the cool color always sits on top of the warmer color, or else you’ll get one evenly but not perfectly layered.

Remember, this is all DIY and does require some effort, so it’s not for the faint of heart. But if you’re willing to lay out the money for expensive polish and just aren’t sure what nail polish is and when you first saw it, these SNS nails are for you.

Of course, the best part about SNS nails is that you won’t need any nail polish remover when you’re done, only the the juice that you liberally swipe onto your own cuticles.

Here are some fun nail tutorials that give you a few quick ideas on how to achieve these colors at home.