Ever find yourself sitting in a salon chair watching the same old colour come off your nails, only to have it painted right back on? We hear ya! 

Fed up of repetitive manicures, we took to Instagram in search of some real nail art so that next time you go for a manicure, you can, well, nail it!

Here are some of our favourites to guide you on your way.

Sophie Guiounet:

???? for @kesterblack styling by @natturnbull & photography by @cubedstudio

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Hang Nguyen

Jessica Washick

Checkin on u ?

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Paintbox

All the Feels: one of our covetable pink-and-red Valentine’s Day manis.

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Accessorize your nails as thoughtfully as the rest of your look.?

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MoYou London

Madeline Poole

the wet look ™

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Miss Pop

Nina Park

Betina Goldstein

Alicia Torello

? Warm days have me thinking about my sneaky leopard nails ?

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