New Manicure Trend: Duck Feet Nails (click for larger view)
Wow. Just wow. Check out the Duck Feet Nails above! I’d actually never heard of Duck Feet Nails before today but danged if I’m not madly in love with them. They’re stylish, unique, and deliciously 70′s. These Duck Feet Nails are something you’d definitely see (and surely WILL see) on Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and the Kardashians.
Like the celebs mentioned, they’re sexy, fun, and seem to delight in being extraordinary.
From Stylelist.com:
Celebrities like Ke$ha, Rihanna and Katy Perry have been known to add a little self-expression to their digits with elaborately decorated nails, but the trend isn’t merely sweeping Hollywood, it has worked its way across the country into small town salons as well.
New York City-based manicurist Julie Kandalec, whose work recently graced the hands of Brooklyn Decker on Esquire’s February 2011 cover, has always loved getting creative at work, but picked up on the budding trend on a trip overseas.
“This new wave (of nail art) I just noticed about two years ago when I went to Hong Kong,” she says. “Then I was in Japan in November for the Tokyo Nail Expo and, over there, holy cow! They use crystals, glitter, 3D and Hello Kitty… it’s wild. It’s really, really cool.”
Proof that literally everything is in 3D these days, Kandalec explains what the term means in relation to nail art.
“Basically it’s when you place anything that stands out from the nail — maybe a charm, a crystal or sculpted flowers made with colored acrylic,” she describes. “It can be anything you can find in a bead store, things that aren’t even really designed for nails. For example, the Japanese love Hello Kitty so we could use Hello Kitty buttons or anything like that which sticks out from the nail.”
You have to read the rest of this article and check out the other pictures of HOT manicures. You’ll completely flip for the Japanese 3D manicured nails. So gorgeous, they’re works of art.
