Woot Fly!! What fun! I think it's awesome that you're creative with your nails! I used to do so many crazy things with my nails pre-Monkey, when I actually had this thing called patience lol.
I guess I'm in a sharing mood, and I'm crazy...
These few below are all painted with nail polish. I used to paint a design on a nail and then wear it for a long time...usually putting clear coats on it over and over so it would eventually build up so much that the polish (whole design) just peeled off. This first one (tiger) was painted on a thumb nail...you can see the reverse side is just nail polish. The original drawing ends just below the dark brown color at the top -- as my nails grew, I would fill in the empty space with more polish. There is no nail here, just polish...
This next one is of a clown -- this one stayed on my nail for quite a while. Actually, when I first painted it, there were no flowers in his hat. I added those as my nail grew. The blue circle on the reverse side, was the original size of the painting on my nail. It's pretty thick, so it eventually just lifted off my nail. This pic is just polish, no nail.
This last one is of a landscape -- this one actually broke, so the nail is still underneath what's left of the painting.
I used to love painting with polish -- I added a painting of a clown on canvas to my profile -- it's done in all nail polish.