Nail Art Try-On

How to see nail art on your own hand with AI

To try on nail designs with AI, upload a photo of your hand with the nails showing to Nail Art Try-On and pick one of eight styles. You get the same photo back with a fresh, glossy salon manicure on your own fingers; the hand, pose and background are kept as they are. A run costs 1 photo on any plan, and a new account's first 3 photos are free, enough to compare a few styles before you book.

1. 1Photograph the back of your hand in daylight, fingers relaxed and a little apart, so every nail is in view. Your face doesn't need to be in the photo.
2. 2Pick a Style. Chrome is selected first; Almond nude is the only style that changes your nail shape.
3. 3Start the run, which costs 1 photo. A horizontal photo comes back horizontal: the frame keeps your photo's shape.

What changes in the photo, and what stays?

This is an edit of the photo you upload, not a new picture. The framing, background, light and your hand stay; every visible nail, the thumb included, gets the manicure, with neat cuticles and a thin line of bare skin around the polish. The photo's own light falls on the nails, so the gloss picks up the same highlight as your skin. Nothing is written on the nails.

In 11 test runs on synthetic hand photos, including a hand around a coffee cup and a cafe shot with a face in it, the hand kept its five fingers, pose and skin tone; in the four runs where we measured skin color before and after, it matched within a few points. The styles vary more: Milky pink came out soft and close to sheer, the Halloween set has one orange nail in some runs and two in others, and in one French tip run the mug in the background moved slightly.

What can you use it for?

• Choosing between two or three designs before a salon appointment, then showing the winner to your nail tech.
• Seeing whether silver chrome or a black-cherry cat eye works with your skin tone.
• Checking how almond nails would look on your fingers before you grow your nails out or get extensions.

What does an example run look like?

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  AI-generated sample input

  

  Result

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  AI-generated sample input

  

  Result

Which hand photo works best?

• Let your hand fill most of the frame. Nails in a wide shot still get painted, but they are too small to judge chrome or cat eye.
• Shoot near a window or another single light. Chrome reflections, the cat-eye shimmer and glitter sparkle are built from the light already in your photo.
• Expect your own length. On short nails a French tip becomes a fine micro-French line along the edge, and every style but Almond nude keeps the shape you have.
• Holding a cup is fine: in our tests the grip stayed, and a nail hidden by the angle stays hidden.

What goes wrong most often?

• Expecting long extensions. Even Almond nude stops at a medium length, about 3 to 5 millimeters past the fingertip, and nails that are already longer keep their length.
• Leaving on rings you don't want in the result. Jewelry already in the photo stays, and none is added.
• Using it for a design on the skin. For a tattoo on your hand, wrist or forearm, Tattoo Try-On works from the same kind of photo.