nail day, my way
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Every nail set starts the same way: Procreate open on my iPad, no reference, just whatever mood I'm in that week. XL square when I want to feel a little unreasonable, XS stiletto when I still need to type at 100wpm by the end of the day. Then it's DND DC gel colors, my nail tech doing a pixel-perfect recreation of whatever I sketched, and a design that has to survive a full day of thocky keys before it survives anything else.
the process
I don't sketch nails the way most people sketch nails. I build them the way I build a keyboard — shape first, then color story, then the detail pass that makes it actually mine. Procreate on the iPad, layers for base color, layers for line work, one layer just for the part I'll probably redo three times.
pick the shape — XL square for a mood, XS stiletto when I need to actually type
sketch it in Procreate, no reference, whatever the week is telling me
hand it to my nail tech — DND DC gel, pixel-perfect to the file
watch it come together ↓
it's nail day — most recent set, 2.5K views
the connection
People ask how I type with claws this long. Same way I build the keyboard underneath them — on purpose, with a plan, tuned until the sound is half the build. The nails aren't separate from that. They're the same decision, made twice: one in acrylic, one in aluminum and switches.
rattlesnake lime mosaic — 29 saves, the most anyone's bookmarked a set of mine
new sets, first
New sets go up here before anywhere else. No pitch, just the next one when it's ready.
made by Joi @clawsxcode · for the love of keys · clawsxcode.com
