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When you’re feeling down on yourself, there are few better places to start than with some some hydration. additionally, a good manicure can also help you realize the qualities you do well, and overall, put you in a great mood. For those of you who are feeling especially inspired, Ly Gaga is also dipping her feet in to nails DIY beauty with help from #makemyselfbeautiful, her self-styled, eponymous line of “Cosmo-meets-Naked” beauty products and services. By using her #makemyselfbeautiful social media platform, Gaga is encouraging you to find your best traits, and is showing you how you can work towards that. If you haven’t done so already, go forth and give your nails a thorough clean and stock up on some nails products! PHOTO CREDIT: @lygaga via Instagram

Gaga has no time for a neutral design. She loves to rock a range of colours and bold colors. We can see Gaga rocking a she of red or a vibrant she of blue throughout her nail collection. Her polish is forever trendy, but she usually endorses colored acrylics or traditional gel manicures. Color is the name of the game when it comes to Gaga’s nails. Her glitter is well-hidden underneath. This means that her nails almost always have a super clear finish. Bold nails get a boost from the glitter, whether it’s reflecting off her collarbone or wearing perfectly with her glittery high ponytail. This look is guaranteed to get attention from the world. Photo credits: @ Ly Gaga via Instagram and @travelodetko via Instagram

We love everything we’ve looked at so far, but when it comes to specific colors and applications, we see one important red flag that you should definitely double check. On Gaga’s nails, nails with acne as a highlighter are highly highlighted. Gaga isn’t the only star to have tweeted how cutting or removing nail polish with a nail varnish remover can help eliminate the inflammatory part of acne or any other skin conditions. Taking it all back, Gaga is constantly telling people to keep nails super clean and never stick to dirty nails, never, never. She’s definitely not going to do any unsightly job of the polish, or any other colored nail polish in her collection. We like to think of Gaga as bringing beauty to the masses, and that’s exactly what she is doing. If we wanted to stay in the black and white on Gaga’s nails, we’d stick to the nude or light pink color range, and that will be enough to flatter us, without popping too much color. However, you can always go for something pop for a bit of a brighter pop. Gaga is always on trend, so we’ll keep it simple and apply to our nails in nude colors that aren’t too pink or too dark. Gaga prefers to do her famous nails in a few ways that you can never do it by yourself – apply nail lacquer, use a dolla dangly nail polish brush, wear a chopstick to apply it to your nails. All in all, the tricks shown below can be a bit tricky, but if you’re willing to go all out for the polish to pop, then the result will be worth it, especially when you look in the mirror and feel pretty. Let’s chat about the cuticle matter – you may have been wondering what’s going on with your nails now that you have cuticles on your cuticles – well, that’s a truth that people aren’t very comfortable to talk about, but I h to, even though I don’t have very nice fingers myself. First off, let’s dress the main reason of cuticle matter, which is actually what makes your nails form – your cuticle and patella can’t completely form into a nail at the same time, so that’s a great thing to keep in mind. Cuticle polish can help with this, but if you’re using nothing too over the top, your nails will still be the same size and stay neat, while cuticle polish makes the nail teeth slightly puffed out. So in order to create a form, you have to fix your cuticle, cuticle, and nail art portion to make the whole thing look seamless. So you’ll have to cover everything with a heavy layer of nail polish if you want to show off the cuticle matter, or use a simple go-to solution, such as cuticle polish. Next we have the slim palm-size chopstick – I used one of those in my photo shoot, but I’ve used an even better one in mine on more and more of the fair, chubby men I met. It’s the best tip for nails because you know exactly how to do it.You apply a coat of polish and then you hold the chopstick over your nail while you paint. Then you let the polish dry, dip the chopstick in a bit of your polish, and repeat. It’s as simple as that, and you can really set it off with a good black nail polish brush, but it might work for you in another color. Lastly, let’s talk about Gaga’s nails. She often has a go for bright colors, such as turquoise, purple, and rose, which pop right off her nails. And in the past it’s been the norm to wear those shes really heavily – you can’t really change that very often, and that’s why when we’re talking about how to make your nails look more polished, we also need to start thinking in more subtle, more grown-up shes. Light, almost ivory color shes will make a brilliant statement to show off the bright nails on the fake flowers in Gaga’s photo shoot, and also the green flowers in the woods in the next photo shoot. Don’t forget to take a tip or two from those two examples – back when I was in the business, I was asked how much polish I would apply for a client who wanted to do a green she. And I really didn’t know because I never tried this on myself until that day. And, by the way, I am as b as I look with green nail polish. I just could not believe the effect when I attempted it and in a matter of seconds looked like a crazy hippie. If you look closely, you will see the clean outline of the green flowers, which means you can easily change the color that Gaga wears. It looks simple, but it isn’t, and they’ve all done it or tried it out for the first time – you’ll be amazed that you can even achieve something on your nails that will make you feel pretty.

Considering that you’re looking for a way to make your nails look more polished, we thought it’d be a good idea to test out some gorgeous shes. So we decided to go for girly colors like red, orange, and green, with grey-toned tones like violet and lime green. For us, we were very excited because this is the first time I tried a purple-toned polish on my nails. Since I wore that purple polish almost everyday as a girl, I could not wait to show off the power and beauty of it. While I haven’t yet decided which color will be my next step, I am definitely dying to experiment. That is my full interview with the girl who style us now!

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