So people are embedding dead bugs and animals into their nails. Yep.
I've seen a lot of strange fashion and beauty trends in my life but this one might just take the cake.
So people are embedding dead bugs and animals into their nails. Yep.
I've seen a lot of strange fashion and beauty trends in my life but this one might just take the cake.
Nail salons have practically gone into a "how strange can you get" contest and have done all kinds of mind-blowing manicures for the 'gram.
From corkscrew shaped nails to nails with plastic baby hands attached to them, we've seen it all.
A nail salon in Melbourne, Australia has become famous for doing "deadly manicures" that include dead critters.
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. Those are definitely dead ladybugs just chilling on that woman's fingernail.
Nicole Casti is the owner of the salon and the brains behind the extreme nail trend.
She's been in the business for more than 11 years and it shows. Her nail artwork is crazy impressive!
When Nicole's kids brought her a dead butterfly one day, the idea was born and the rest was history.
In an interview with The Daily Mail, she said, "I've always been fascinated with taxidermy. I find beauty in death."
She's also included even deadlier insects in her nail art like scorpions and big hairy spiders.
The process involves sanitizing the insects, glueing them onto the nail and then covering them in acrylic so they don't decompose.
In addition to using snakeskin, which is pretty on-trend right now, Nicole has also used bird skulls, a lizard carcass, a seashorse and even a pig's tooth in her nail designs.
Nicole told Daily Mail Australia that she only uses donated carcasses from licensed taxidermists for her work.
Since starting the deadly nails trend, Nicole has experimented with all kinds of unusual materials.
Got a sweet tooth? How about a set of nails embedded with Nerds?
There are even manicures with rhinestones, feathers and tiny seashells.
Personally, I would be terrified to even be in the same room as these insects, much less have their dead carcass trapped in my nails.
On the other hand, the idea is pretty unique and would make for a kind of creepy yet cool manicure for Halloween.