Most of Portal was painted with fluorescent acrylics, but charge it up under black light and then turn the light off, and everything disappears but the dots, which Aliume painted in phosphorus acrylics.
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The biggest surprise was how long the acrylics have lasted.
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Like acrylics, gel extensions require an overlay to lengthen your nail.
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Both the suits and the performer's skin were painted with acrylics.
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First came alkyd resins, then acrylics, applied with rollers and rags.
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They are painted in oil-based acrylics stained into unprimed canvas.
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BRIDGEPORT "Vision and Line," pencil drawings, acrylics and sculptures by Tony Calendrillo.
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She then paints everything by hand, including the eyeball irises, using acrylics.
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If they mix liquid and powder and mush it on, it's acrylics.
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Pretty much no one leaves the house without precisely-painted acrylics these days.
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I've been getting acrylics and nail designs since the '90s and early 2000s.
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She dilutes her acrylics down with water, giving them the consistency of watercolors.
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Acrylics are also widely available and tend to be less expensive than gel.
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She can afford to wear acrylics that would otherwise be an impractical impediment.
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Amelia Perrin tweeted a pic of her exposed nails after removing her trademark acrylics.
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"I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics," Brosnan told Origin magazine last year.
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They still buy oils and acrylics in styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to photorealism.
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So she bought some acrylics and began to paint, using her photographs as inspiration.
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"You've still got the core crocheter who buys acrylics in Walmart," Ms. Malcolm said.
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Back in the day, when we wanted lengthy claws, acrylics felt like our only option.
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Despite my stance on acrylics, I couldn't stop staring at Alice's Marie Antoinette-inspired set.
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They forswear the brilliantly hued acrylics that have been introduced at Aboriginal art centers elsewhere.
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Fluttering acrylics cover the surface of eye piercing mixed-media compositions by artist Tomokazu Matsuyama.
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Dip nails can be applied quickly, and they don't take as much skill as acrylics.
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I mostly use acrylics on canvas and paint whatever I see that comes as inspiration.
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JS: You also use a combination of materials, like tape, shellac, oil paint, Guerra acrylics.
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"A lot of people...ask me about my acrylics, presumably wanting a set themselves," she wrote.
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She avoids acrylics and gels ("too drying") and likes Sally Hansen Hard as Nails nail treatment.
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Some will start their project using traditional techniques like drawing in ink or painting with acrylics.
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Zinteta paints on her body and the bodies of other women using watercolors, tempera, and acrylics.
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So what the hell are gel extensions and what's the difference between gels, gel extensions, and acrylics?
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Incorporating both watercolors and acrylics, the paintings depict land- and seascapes as dense amalgams of hallucinatory color.
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Her Athens gallery, Kalfayan, will show striking realist acrylics from her "Vitrines" series in vintage-style frames.
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I get acrylics a lot — and gel manis, too — so it has to be a really tough formula.
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The color was bright and vibrant, and my nails were shiny and had the hardened feel of acrylics.
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For years Simon has been using paint rollers, acrylics, and Mylar stencils to create silhouetted, often overlapping images.
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It contains a collection of mixed-media paintings that combine sumi ink, acrylics, watercolor, wood, and colored pencil.
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Now, she's clicking away at her cell phone, the tips of her acrylics tapping away at the screen.
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It was here her fascination for taking painting to new dimensions by using light, not acrylics, truly blossomed.
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Rather than admire the new mother's happiness, some fans have focused in on her ever-changing set of acrylics.
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The team behind the video drilled holes in acrylics and used a mixture of yellow, orange, and white polish.
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The first time I got a manicure, I couldn't stand it and ripped the acrylics off the next day.
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Expect to encounter stretched canvases painted with acrylics in muted color palettes, works on paper, sculptural pieces and more.
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In a world of gel extensions and acrylics, fiberglass is a less common method for adding temporary length to nails.
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On the right side are my tools and different materials, such as acrylics, spray paint, fabric, glues, and gloss mediums.
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I failed after just two days, and so, I ran straight back to the nail salon and requested acrylics again.
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From the outside, it looked like a nail salon with blacked-out windows and displays of acrylics and plastic hands.
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"Gels and [liquid and powder acrylics] build net-like structures that are much more durable and stronger," Schoon told me.
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She earned a master's degree in English literature from San Francisco State College (now University) and began painting in acrylics.
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She did the geometric-patterned pointy acrylics that the British singer FKA Twigs flaunted on the August cover of Elle .
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My mom suggested I get a job in a nail shop and learn my way through doing nails, acrylics, and gels.
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To create the Bondian talons, Davis plucked RFID chips from her refillable commuter cards and embedded them into acrylics, AsiaOne reports.
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This week, the sister is Khloé and the hack is one that fights brittle nails without sacrificing gel manicures and acrylics.
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The visual artist works mainly on paper, and often combines variations of charcoal, oils and acrylics, graphite, as well as pastels.
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BR: I'm really into making sure my actual nail bed, if I do acrylics or other types of nails, are healthy.
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She even enrolled in a fine arts high school, making clay sculptures, drawing with charcoal, and painting with acrylics and oil.
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Armed with heavy body acrylics, inks, and colors pencils, Damien chisels out vibrant patterns and portraits taken from the animal kingdom.
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And according to the report, Davis' future acrylics could be primed for making credit card payments with the flick of a finger.
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These nails, done with standard OPI polish, are definitely more DIY-able than, say, inches-long acrylics with holes drilled into them.
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There, Micah Yates, as she's otherwise known, uses acrylics to paint the backgrounds of Pokémon cards and takes video of the process.
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Interestingly, I didn't go back to oils until after painting with acrylics for years, but now they are primarily what I use.
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Mull wore acrylics in high school, because that's what all the salons near her offered and what all the other girls wore.
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Jackson first began using acrylics during her years in Los Angeles, after her car was broken into and her oil paints stolen.
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Yes, it's a mouthful, but the nail-lengthening treatment is pretty straightforward — and a great alternative to a full set of acrylics.
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There, she fell in love with a co-worker, Mr. Knight, 40, an artist who paints large abstract works with glossy acrylics.
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His later efforts often used new materials, such as metallized acrylics and gels, as well as showier applications like trowelling and spraying.
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Ahead, we asked the pros to break down everything you need to know about the buzzy technique before you ditch your acrylics forever.
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Jonathan Payne's fleshlette sculptures are bizarre surrealist characters put together from deformed body parts made out of polymer clay, acrylics, and human hair.
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I can feel others in the kitchen staring in disappointment — no one with acrylics tries to pick up coins with their fingers, goddammit!
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With acrylics, your nail is usually what&aposs buffed, so I could already see how this process would be a bit more gentle.
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Since soft gel extensions are thinner and more flexible than acrylics, the removal is supposed to be a lot easier on the nail.
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Labedzki uses a wide range of materials and differently-shaped substances to blend, including fluffy dollops of paint and tiny pools of contrasting acrylics.
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They became ubiquitous with the '22018s Disco period, with singers Donna Summer and Diana Ross rocking long, red, square-shaped acrylics with twinkling rhinestones.
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For times when things don't go as planned, here are Bellamy's top tips and products for nails that really need some TLC, post-acrylics.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Marley Freeman has covered the walls of Karma Gallery with over 20 small paintings, all acrylics and oils.
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Using puff paint, which rises once it's dried, Patrick creates an image outline which he then paints over with his fingers using brailed acrylics.
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I'm saving my tips to get my nails done, which I can hopefully afford next week (acrylics are expensive, but so worth it IMO).
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This isn't the plastic of our youth, when we'd shop at the discount dollar bin at Claire's, but resins and acrylics molded into chunky shapes.
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Yvonne Venage-Mohl, owner of Nails on the Boulevard salon in Hurst, Texas, says she's completely stopped using acrylics in her salons after discovering SNS.
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After all, the simple bandana design is way easier than the aquarium manicures, snow globe nails, and unicorn acrylics we've been seeing as of late.
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Four cool acrylics by New York painter Charles Mayton, at Lewis, feature schematic eyes and hands in jazzy mash-ups of shelves, bars and circles.
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Modern-day acrylics were invented in the U.S. in 22017, and African-American model Donyae Coles wore them on the cover of Twen magazine in 290.
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I get pedicures ($50) every two weeks and then my nails once or twice a month, depending if I'm getting acrylics ($30-40) or shellac ($30).
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But he liked smelling the good old oil paint and turpentine—no acrylics for this boy—and sometimes he'd still make a mark that satisfied him.
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Using a mix of body paint, acrylics, and cosmetics applied to her own visage, Yoon creates beautiful portraits that look Photoshopped but are entirely hand-painted.
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Gels, acrylics, and dips all harden through chemical reactions that bond short chains of molecules into long ones, called polymers, solidifying the nail in the process.
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"The acrylics I had were a little bit bulkier, and the process of putting them on seemed a little bit messier than gels," she told me.
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The only way to tell the building apart from its industrial neighbors is by the acid-hued acrylics by the artist Yunhee Min that cover the windows.
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"My friend has this theory that there's two kinds of human beings," she says, taking a sip of a matcha latte as apple-green as her acrylics.
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Reminiscent of the jelly sandals we wore back in the '90s (such a look), we're seeing the translucent acrylics in a variety of shapes, colors, and finishes.
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His Apollo-themed paintings featured canvases textured with lunar boot prints, and were made using acrylics embedded with small pieces of his moon dust-stained mission patches.
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As if blooming from the flower garden around her, Cardi rocked a set of acrylics in vivid orange and yellow, colors that the star hand-picked herself.
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My sister is a wearer of acrylics and warned me that a button flush (which luckily I do not have at home) will no longer be possible.
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However, I was happy to find out that this process is free from some ingredients typically found in acrylics that the FDA has warned people to avoid.
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The body designs made of polymer clay, acrylics and hair by LA artist Jonathan Payne illustrate the disjointed traits of a person, appearing both freakish and enthralling.
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It involves sculpting, carving, sanding, and painting, as well as a lot of experimentation and manipulation of materials like wood, resin, clay, metal, acrylics, oils, and so on.
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Acrylics should be removed and replaced every six to 12 months, although a person's daily routine and home care plus how often they have infills does determine time, too.
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Thanks to a rush of Instagram-worthy new trends (jelly nails, fruit nails, mismatched nails...), the demand for certain nail enhancements, including acrylics and gels, has shot up recently.
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Fun fact: Acrylic nails were accidentally invented in 1955, when a dentist by the name of Frederick Slack tried to fix his own broken nail with some dental acrylics.
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She doesn't get the plain acrylics I was used to seeing though; she gets a Japanese, jewel-encrusted manicure that takes over three hours and costs a cool $180.
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Julius Gaston, 58, a porter at three of Argo Real Estate's rental buildings on 83rd Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens, is a painter who works in acrylics and pencil.
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The 63-year-old painter started getting excruciating headaches not long after starting to paint in oil – a change from the acrylics and watercolors he'd used in the past.
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If you were tuned in enough to ask someone if their nails were enhanced, then you could likely already spot the telltale thickness of acrylics from a mile away.
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I don't know have my acrylics anymore, I don't have my weave, my extensions, I don't go tanning in the tanning beds anymore, so this picture just captured me perfectly.
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For the second date, my bagel suggested a painting night (a social event that involves paintbrushes, canvases, acrylics and, usually, wine) since I'd told him how much I enjoy them.
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The vines in the background overlap with the sinuous tats on her wrist, chest, and shimmering thigh; her long, lime-colored acrylics flirt with the extravagant foliage of the setting.
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Though the application process might cause less wear and tear to your natural nail than traditional acrylics, properly removing the fiberglass cloth is key to keeping your tips in good condition.
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For those of us with acrylic nails/fake nails in general who need regular fills from a licensed nail technician every few weeks, should we be having our acrylics removed ASAP?
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At some point later that year, Jean-Michel Basquiat used marker and acrylics to dash off a sketch of two fiendish cops beating an armless, legless figure, rendered in black silhouette.
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Behind all the acrylics and gel and press-on and polish is Morgan Dixon, 28, who started as a nail technician on the first season and now runs the show's nail department.
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Working primarily with gouache, acrylics, colored pencils, and inks, she envisions her subjects—oftentimes animals and children—as expressive forms within muted forest environments, as well as warm, lived-in interiors of homes.
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The artist has worked with oils since she was a teenager, drawn to the natural feeling of the paint as opposed to acrylics, and the paint's ability to be reworked over and over.
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Written and illustrated by Matt James Matt James's colorful acrylics and playful collage lend a youthful exuberance to a normally dreary subject, giving poignant insight into a child's understanding of the adult world.
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The product is housed in aesthetically pleasing packaging (perfect for a flat lay, or an excuse to flaunt acrylics); it's vegan, gluten-free, and non-GMO (probably thanks to the teeny ingredient list).
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Four pieces of hers — a pair of companion Tylonn J. Sawyer oils, as well as acrylics on canvas by Mayhew and Robert Colescott — are in the groundbreaking show, which runs through March 15.
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These are mostly acrylics — so much more portable than mud floors — because as globalization has opened new markets, the "artists innovated to participate in that wider field," Diane Mullin, a senior curator, said.
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Perhaps this made Jenner feel guilty, because she started spending a lot more time on the app in the days that followed, gushing about everything from her new acrylics to Stormi's sweet baby feet.
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Rendered in flamboyantly artificial, lowbrow materials such as Day-Glo acrylics and a stuccoish compound called Roll-a-Tex, his paintings resemble LSD-fueled abstractions, or possibly cartoonishly bright, invitingly tactile corporate flow charts.
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The artist carried a custom Valentino purse between her crystal-encrusted acrylics so tiny, a Tic Tac probably wouldn't fit in it, let alone the necessary tools to survive a three-hour-long event.
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Then there's Jason Baerg, an M.F.A. student from Canada, who paints in acrylics on paper or wood, and uses the laser cutter to etch the paintings and cut out shapes that he arranges into assemblages.
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So knowing that picking between gel, acrylic, and dip is a matter of opinion, your lifestyle, and your nails — as opposed to safety — I talked to some people who prefer dip or gel over acrylics.
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I've always admired these nails from afar, gazing fondly at Cardi B's bedazzled acrylics all while wondering why anyone would subject themselves to three hours of nail prep just to be inconvenienced by claws with charms.
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Here's something easy to describe: a woman cuts into Styrofoam — a material so abrasive and hot to the touch, so incongruously light — and covers the giant chunks by squeezing acrylics on them with a cake icing syringe.
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Yasuda custom-makes her own acrylics for each client, first mixing acrylic powder and water until the right elasticity is achieved, and then, using a small brush, pressing the powder into a shape over the client's nail.
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Created with industrial or house paint, or acrylics if he could get his hands on them, Young's works tell the stories of individuals and communities, of dreams and disillusionment, and of the abysses between life, death, and eternity.
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Since the fabric used is thinner than acrylics or gel extensions, which tend to have a raised effect, the finished product looks more like you spent nine months using a nail strengthener versus a few hours in the salon.
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That said, there is one painting in the show that matches the ecstatic — that is to say, unconflicted — content of "Mountains and Sea," and that is "Milkwood Arcade" from 2102, one year after Frankenthaler abandoned oil paint for acrylics.
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Her decision to wear a French manicure — on aggressively long acrylics, no less — throughout the filming of her 1991 romantic drama The Prince of Tides was actually a point of contention, with one Los Angeles Times article beseeching her to ditch the look.
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Incorporating both the political environment and his affinity for pop references, Ramirez's solo show, titled Complejo de Cristo y Vampiros, shows off a diverse range of mediums, with materials from house paint, stickers, bottle caps, discarded packaging, and liberal amounts of acrylics.
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I stood in front of some pale acrylics from the '70s, recalling a scene from "Amadeus," when Antonio Salieri grips Mozart's clean first drafts of music in agony: I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty.
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The track follows in a similar vein to to the two we've heard so far, "Three Rings" and "Mourning Sound," in that they're broader and spacier than previous material—kind of like watercolors to Shields' acrylics—though very much still Grizzly Bear through and through.
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"The deep French takes up a bigger space on the nail compared to a traditional French," explains Pinto, adding that it nods to the disco era and the many women who wore this look decades before it popped up on Instagram — including those who favored pink-and-white acrylics.
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Because I work with mixed media, including cotton, dried corn husks, dried orchids, and other plants, papers, fabrics, straw, and found and made objects, it is necessary to keep these objects readily available in order to be able to use them as instinctively as the acrylics and oils.
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BOOTH B10 Most of the fair's exhibitors are showing multiple artists, but Barron stands out for the self-contained strength of its presentations, most of which could have stood alone: loopy, brilliant acrylics of naked centaurs and coffee cups with breasts by the Tehran-based former professional wrestler Reza Shafahi.
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Her best acrylics and watercolors of loosely gridded, wristy daubs are among the most satisfying feats (and my personal favorites) of the Washington Color School, a group that included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and others associated with the prescriptive aesthetics of the critic Clement Greenberg: painting shorn of imagery, the illusion of depth, and rhetorical gesture.
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Just a few minutes down the road from San José, in the village of Ocumicho, I visited the home studio of Tomasa Gonzalez Sánchez, populated with hundreds of winsome clay figurines painted in psychedelic acrylics: whistles shaped like peacocks, devils cavorting on a bridge that Ms. Gonzalez had seen once years before on a trip to Mexico City, and a miniature Last Supper of mermaids eating watermelon.
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Jamal Penjweny's satirical photographic series Saddam is Here (1-10) features everyday Iraqis (butchers, dentists, etc) covering their faces with life-size pictures of the dictator's face; Ali Eyal's painting depicts the dead body of an Iraqi farmer spilling out of a car, painted in a pattern based on Google Earth aerial views; while Kuwaiti artist Thuraya Al Baqsami's delicate, cerulean acrylics evoke the trauma that Kuwaitis suffered when Hussein's army invaded their country.
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