Nails By Bee

Jigglypuff 💕

I love my clients, and absolutely love Pokémon 😍

Psyduck 💛

When my client said, “Choose any Gen 1 Pokémon” 😍
I had complete creative freedom with this set—and I live for mixing styles and going a little off-beat. This one was an absolute blast to create and took a solid 3 hours to bring to life! 🌊

Toothless! 🖤

Zoom in! So hard to photograph nails like this 🤣🩵
Loved painting these!

Lavender & Lemon 🍋
I absolutely loved creating this set 🩵

I’ll be honest, it’s been really hard for me to fully enjoy doing nails lately after finding out about additional pr*****ed discs in my neck, and the daily pain I’m facing. It’s something I’m still trying to come to terms with, and some days are tougher than others.

I just want to say how incredibly grateful I am for every single one of my clients. Your support means more than I can put into words, especially those of you who have been so kind and understanding, knowing that I may not be able to continue this business long term.

There’s no set timeline or final decision right now, but I believe in being open from the start. It truly breaks my heart, because those of you who come to me know how much love, time, and resilience I’ve poured into this little business over the past three years.

Thank you for standing by me, it means everything 🩵

It’s giving Racer 🏁🔥

Just because we can, loved doing these 🥰

Celebrating the release of the new
Rosie Lea mug of Tea☕️😍
We managed to grab one from the wonderful 💝
And of course I also painted a Jellycat Birthday cake for my lovely friends birthday 🎂🎉

Absolutely loved creating these 🩵 sooo cute!

Otters 🦦

Loved re-creating these with all of blues and ARTYgels 😍 like fluid paintings on a canvas, so satisfying to do 🩵

Sometimes it’s not always about the art… (I know, crazy right 😅) but it really isn’t. It’s about how perfectly you can get that gel to sit on a client’s nail, how clean your application is, and then how well you can capture it on camera 🫠

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not the best photographer. But in this industry, especially in the world of social media, it matters. A lot. You have to be consistent with posting, know your angles, understand lighting, keep up with trends, reply to messages, manage bookings, handle cancellations… You’re expected to be a content creator, photographer, business manager, marketing manager, and then somewhere at the end of the list… a nail artist 🥺

And that’s the part people don’t always see.

Running a small business isn’t just “doing nails.” It’s covering rising product costs, rent, bills, tax, insurance, all while trying to keep your prices fair in a world where the cost of living keeps climbing. It’s reinvesting into better tools, better education, better everything… so you can give your clients the best.

There’s also the criticism that comes with putting yourself out there. When you run your own business, you’re the face of it. The praise is yours; but so is the judgment. Not everyone sees the hours behind the scenes, the late nights editing photos, the stress over slow weeks, the pressure to always be “on.”

So no, it’s not “just doing nails.”

It’s passion. It’s pressure. It’s persistence. It’s wearing ten different hats every single day. And despite how hard it can be sometimes, I’m grateful. Grateful for every client, every booking, every bit of support, because without that, small businesses wouldn’t survive 🤍

Are these not the cutest Valentine nails 🥹💕

I LOVE Snoopy! He’s just the best 😍

Popmart Hirono 📦🤎

My sister and I absolutely love blind boxes, and Popmart is soooooo addicting 😍
She loves the character Hirono, so I created these beauties. She showed them off at the opening of the Leeds popmart store 🤎

My sister sells popmart items and blind boxes on her whatnot channel, she also create 3D printed figure stands and shelf labels 🥰 give her a follow
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Hands up if you love blind boxes too 🙌🏻