Glittery bejeweled nails are actually tiny pens you can write with
Why is it that the moment you need a pen, it's nigh-on impossible to find one.
Behold, an ingenious solution to your pen-hunting woes: pen nails. Or, in layman's terms, false nails with tiny pens attached to them.
Instagram nail artist @TonysNail is the genius behind the nail-art-meets-stationery-supplies. And, what a practical person you are, Tony.
Pen nails are basically falsies adorned with lots of tiny gems with the added bonus of a pen nib and a spring mechanism.
From afar, it might not be all that easy to spot that these nails double up as makeshift pens. But, on closer inspection, they contain all the inner workings of your average biro pen, right down to the spring mechanism.
The question is: do they actually work? According to a video posted by Tony's Nails on Instagram, it appears that they do indeed work.
It looks like the person modelling the creations only attempted squiggly lines. Still very impressive, nonetheless.
Try not to scratch your face when wearing these nails. You could end up with squiggles all over your face.
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.
