NYE nails and hidden fail

Happy 2026 everyone!

I hope you all will have lots of fun moments, meet great people, have interesting conversations, reach some goals and have colorful nails throughout all of it!

Nails are Mooncat – hardcore base coat (for the blue nails)

Emily de Molly – peel off base coat (for the silver nails)

Holo taco – Rainbow Snow

Holo taco – Royal-Tea Blue

Holo Taco – Scattered holo taco

Mooncat – speed demon topcoat

(I added ILNP Glass Candy a day later to see if it made a difference, but it wasn’t really worth it)

I used a peel off base for the first time and I’m not convinced so far 😀

Did my nails on the 30th, on the 31st I did some light house cleaning then chilled on the couch and one nail popped off – no problem, just quickly re-did it and went on with my day.

Took a shower, did my hair, waited for potatoes to cook and the second nail popped off…fine, had a few minutes so re-did that nail as well and WHILE I was redoing it the THIRD nail popped off!!

Managed to have dinner with all nails intact, but lost another one over night. Which is why I hid my thumb for the pictures I took this morning 😀

I probably have to work on my technique. I followed some advice I found in this sub and left space all around the peel off base, so the actual color would „seal“ the edges and make it last longer, but that was obviously not enough. I also always clean my nails with acetone before putting base coat on. Any other advice?

My husband found the whole ordeal hilarious and collected all the popped off nail shaped polish bits, to carefully balance them on his own nails, to see if it would suit him (he decided against getting his nails polished :D)