Acrylic nails, or fake nails as they’re also known as, are used as nail extensions placed on top of the fingernails allowing designs or decorations to be painted or applied directly onto them. One of the benefit of this is that you can try different patterns and ideas without committing them to your real fingernails. You can then fix or replace the fake nails without any trouble, maintaining the design you’ve chosen and avoiding any problems with your real nails.

Acrylic nails are also perfect if you have damaged or short nails. You can apply them onto your problem nails and no-one will know that you’re stunning designs or nail art haven’t be done on your real cuticles. With the added benefit of being very strong and less likely to break, acrylic’s are a brilliant substitute for the real thing.

So if you’ve decided on getting acrylic nails then you’ll want some ideas and inspiration for acrylic nail designs. We’ve picked out our favourite 30 cute acrylic and fake nail designs to give you examples of how your nails could look. You can attempt to do some of the designs yourself (they will vary in their difficulty) or print them out so that when you go into your local nail salon you can for them to do the design for you.

Acrylic or fake nails give you the option to create beautiful and exciting designs. So use the images below, be creative, and most of all have fun with them!

See more red nail designs

Use the page numbers below to see more acrylic nail designs