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HowTo: Laser Etch Your Fingernails

Creative nail art featuring faces on black manicured nails.

Instructables user lamedust expresses his odd fascination with facial hair through laser etched fingernail portraiture. 

Artistic nail art featuring detailed portraits on black-painted nails.

Above, from left to right, all icons chosen for their mustaches and beards: Chaplin, Dali, Zappa, Nietzsche, President Garfield, Fidel Castro, ZZ-Top, and Frederick Douglass.

Lamedust demonstrates below; click through for full instructions. Warning: "One method involves pain and the potential for scarification, while the other pleasure (or mostly the absence of pain)."

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