What is itanail?
Have you ever heard of Japanese “Itanail” meaning “Painful nail art”?
It sounds very strange and painful… but “Itanail” is just the anime inspired nailart with anime characters or cute cartoon nails. We even find itanail with your own portraits or brand logos.
Why is it called “painful” nail art?
“Ita” in Japanese means painful and in Japan, when someone does something that is too much, we use the word “ita”: it’s painfully embarrassing. It is similar to the expression “ouch”, that English speakers say when someone gets a bad taste tattoo.
Itanail comes from Japanese pop culture and to the non otaku people, these anime nail art just looked painful to the eyes. However with the time and despite the strange name, Itanail became a very popular nail design, even to non otaku people.
Japanese celebrities such as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu or Shoko Nakagawa wearing itanail made it even more trendy. Itanail requires a high degree of skills because nail artists need to actually draw those characters on nails so it is a very difficult work.
Check out those popular painful nail art!!
One Piece nailart – source: prcm.jp
Celebrities’ loved itanail
It doesn't get any better than hand painted DARIA nails by the girls at ES Nails TOKYO! http://t.co/qqFbO1uk
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) September 24, 2012
Even Katie Perry wears Daria Itanail painted in a Japanese nail salon!
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