Press-on nails are my modern take 😊

I made one Recraft Style that draws press-on nails as if a mineral painter from 1810 had drawn them.

Many people do their nails now: at home, in minutes, a new set whenever they feel like it. Small brands sell them all over TikTok and Pinterest, and they need designs nobody else has. This Style gives them 200-year-old ones.

I trained it on six of James Sowerby's hand-painted rock prints (1802 to 1817), plus a gold ring and a stone table from the Met.

Try it in 3 steps 👍

1. Open the Style and paste: "Five almond press-on nails on cream paper, red jasper with gold veins, one nail with a small gold cabochon." Change "red jasper with gold veins" to try another stone, like "pale pink stone with dark red speckles".

2. Remove the Style, add your drawing as a reference, and paste: "Make these real press-on nails, same colors, white background"

3. Add the set as a reference and paste: "Hands covering the face, wearing these exact nails, red jasper with gold veins, white background"

The Style turns Sowerby's 1810 rock prints into drawings, exactly. I drew nails, then made them real. It works on anything: a vase, a phone case.

I fell for Japan as a teenager, visited many times, then lived there for seven years, long enough to know the konbini (convenience store) is a cultural institution: open 24/7, constantly rotating seasonal products, and locked in a friendly rivalry over the best coffee and sweets. My other obsession is Taisho and early Showa graphic design, and while searching for inspiration, I found the work of Sugiura Hisui, whose lithograph posters announced Mitsukoshi’s new spring collections a century ago. So I thought: how would Hisui create ads for today's convenience stores? I turned his posters into a Recraft V4 Style and launched the Spring 2027 range of Hinata Mart, a fictional convenience store. The series pairs today’s bestsellers (fruit sandwiches, fried chicken, iced drinks, oden) with modern fixtures like the ATM and the self-serve coffee machine. Hope you'll like it!

This intro already pulled me in — 7 years in Japan is the real credential for a konbini story! They're truly a cultural institution.

I can already feel the seasonal packaging + coffee rivalry angle. Did you use Recraft for the illustration style? Curious to see how you captured...