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With “Nail Sticker Pens”, you can draw your very own designs on the pads © Kutsuwa Co., Ltd.
As you get used to doing your nails, you will want to try your own type of nail art that expresses your own personality. To this end, there is even stationery that allows fashionable young girls with a reasonable degree of expertise to make their own nail stickers; namely, “Nail Sticker Pens”. You can make one-of-a-kind nail art all of your own, just by putting pads on top of an underlying design-base shaped like a nail and using a special pen to draw detailed designs.
Unlike the ready-to-use nail stickers that are just stuck on, this nail art is more serious, for children with an eye for detail in their work. When they have carefully dried and finished their very own original nail stickers, the girls also have great fun showing them off to one another.
The rise in the number of surprisingly intricate designs in Japan's nail salons might stem from the fact that children are used to such hand-made items and have accumulated lots of ideas and techniques to express beautiful designs on a small area like a nail.
Appearing in Creative Toy Kits
There are creative girls' toy kits such as those where you connect up various colored beads and decorations to create hand-made accessories, or those that use real ingredients to make miniature cakes; and recently interest has soared in Nail Tip products of this type.
Photo on left: Creative Toy Kit "Zuttomo Candyful Nails" - The creation of nail tips starts by copying the pattern of your choice using a stamp wet with water © MegaHouse
Photo on right: The end product - original nail tips made by adding jewel-like stones and lace-pattern stickers or character stickers on top of the copied pattern.
© MegaHouse
Young girls engrossed in making original nail stickers
The unique appeal of such toy kits is that you can copy various patterns onto the nail tips simply by using a stamp wet with water and popping it down on top of the design sticker. You can put whatever stickers you like on top of the nail tip - cute characters or sparkling jewels - and finally, by layering up special stickers so that they appear plumped up like gel nails, you end up with real, glossy nail art. The sturdy tips are easy to use and can be removed time and again. They can also be displayed in their own box and enjoyed.
Such simple nail art has become a must-have for stylish young girls and can be happily enjoyed and fashioned among friends, or by parent and child. Wearing their very own pieces of art, young girls feel just a little more grown up.
(November 2013)