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Nail Sunny has more than 1.8 million followers on Instagram.

The blue, yellow, red and green nails are made with acrylic and feature an actual pencil tip.

You can even write with the colorful nails but be careful -- you don’t want to break them!

This isn’t the first we’ve seen of colored pencil nails.

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Other nail technicians have been getting in the back-to-school spirit by creating similar designs.

We think these nails are one of the most creative we've seen yet!

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