Terrifying 'It' nail art is popping up all over Instagram

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Rachel Thompson
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To those who are faint of heart: avert your eyes now. These nails are straight out of a horror movie. Literally.

People are paying homage to It, a.k.a. the creepy-ass movie of the moment, by creating Pennywise-themed nail art. Question is: Will these nails float too?

Some have crafted their nails into claw-like shapes. Which is definitely not terrifying at all.

Wow, this Pennywise nail art even comes with fuzzy red clown hair.

Others have gone for dark backdrops on the nails to make them even more horror-inducing.

Eddie's right. Grownups really are the real monsters.

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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