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r/NailsNSFW

r/Nails: A place to show off your beautiful nails Founded 2008 · 4.2M members

4.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 73.2K upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.2Mmembers
73.2Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
445posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

51% 40%
Gallery 51% Image 40% Text 4% Video 3% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Nail Art 117 Manicure 100 Discussion/Question 53 ✨FRESH set ✨ 45 Nail Art [Constructive Criticism Welcome] 19 Natural Nails 15 Constructive Criticism Welcome ✔️ 14 Manicure [Constructive Criticism Welcome] 11 new nails, who dis? 11 a moment for the nails ♥︎ 10

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Wanted to show some strawberry nails I made.

↑ 73.2K 💬 310 image 2025

I did my best friends nails what do you think?

↑ 57.5K 💬 443 image 2025

jade-ish?? first attempt at a polished stone effect

↑ 48.3K 💬 226 gallery 2025

I knew these press ons reminded me of something

↑ 43.9K 💬 230 image 2024

The lady who does these charges me the equivalent of 18 USD and I feel like I’m robbing her

↑ 38.3K 💬 297 gallery 2025

I might cry when I have to remove these

↑ 32.2K 💬 170 gallery 2025

The assignment was “technically I’m not supposed to have nails done at work”

↑ 32.1K 💬 244 image 2025

My attempt at fruit nails trend

↑ 30K 💬 234 image 2025

My 15 year old is getting quite good at this! All hand drawn.

↑ 29.8K 💬 242 image 2026

Experimented with 3D builder gel and I’m obsessed with the results!

↑ 26.2K 💬 440 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Nails, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Nails?
r/Nails describes itself this way: r/Nails: A place to show off your beautiful nails. It was founded in 2008 and has 4.2M members.
How many members does r/Nails have?
r/Nails has about 4.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 445 of its posts; the biggest reached 73.2K upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Nails?
"Wanted to show some strawberry nails I made." reached 73.2K upvotes and 310 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Nails.
What subreddits are similar to r/Nails?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/Nails?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are gallery posts and 40% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Nails?
Across 445 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 17:00 UTC (17.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (13.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (12.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Nails?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Nails has 19K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 45 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Nails, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.