Diamond Diva

How-To: Paint on one coat of pale pink polish, then take a wooden manicure stick and dip it into clear polish. Use it to pick up a rhinestone (the polish will act like a glue to help the gem stick) and place one at a time around the outer edge of each nail. create another circle inside the first, repeating until your whole nail is filled. Seal all nails with a layer of clear top coat. 

Try: Kiss Rhinestone Accents, $2, drugstores.

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Cool Ombré

How-To: Start with shaped and buffed nails. Clean nails thoroughly with acetone polish remover. Do not use a base coat, as the blending for the ombré look will not work as well over a base coat. Work with one nail at a time so polish is wet enough to blend. Starting at the cuticle area, apply a blue polish in a thick layer, using a dabbing technique, about 1/3 of the way up the nail. Using a lighter, metallic-blue shade, immediately polish, starting where darker blue ends, and "drag" the end of the darker blue polish up the nail to the end with the lighter blue to create an ombré "fade" (so the colors look like they fade into each other). Continue this application with all nails. Seal nails with a quick dry-top coat. 

Try: Dashing Diva Nail Polish in Water Taxi, $8, dashingdiva.com; Dashing Diva Nail Polish in NYPD Blue, $8, dashingdiva.com; Wet 'n' Wild MegaLast Quick Dry Ultra Gloss Topcoat, $2, drugstore.com

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Glitter girl

How-To: Working with one nail at a time, apply a layer of brush-on nail glue, then dunk your finger into a container of craft glitter. Shake off the excess and re-dip as necessary to get the glitter to cover the entire nail. Once all your nails are finished, apply another layer of glue to hold everything in place, then top with clear polish. 

Try: 5 Second Brush On Nail Glue, $4, drugstores.

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Moon mani

How-To:Leave the moon (the white, half-moon shaped part of your nail closer to the skin) of your nail bare (you can use half of a hole perforator to cover), and coat rest of nail with two coats of plum polish. Do high-arched tip in one coat of black polish (note: to achieve full effect, nails should be a pointed, triangular shape). Finish with a shiny top coat. 

Try: CND Color in Plumville, $12, cnd.com; CND Colour in Blackjack; $12, cnd.com; CND Super Shiney High Gloss Top Coat, $8, bebeautiful.com

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Wild python

How-To: Grab a pair of fishnet stockings and cut them into 10 small pieces to lay over each nail. Paint your nails with one coat of metallic-silver polish and let it dry. Then paint one nail with a creamy blue polish and immediately press a piece of fishnet onto it. Let it set for two minutes until the blue polish dries, then carefully peel off the stocking to reveal the silver pattern underneath. Repeat these steps on the rest of your nails. Don't use a top coat or you'll smear the two polishes together! 

Try: Nicole by OPI Nail Lacquer in Positive Energy, $8, Target stores; China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Shower Together, $6, sallybeauty.com

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