Abstract: A device for punching holes in artificial fingernails comprising a piston-cylinder unit having a cylinder wall with an aperture in it extending across the whole of the cylinder. The aperture is banana-shaped in cross-section and wider than the internal diameter of the cylinder with the convex side of the aperture facing the piston. The pointed end of the piston has a sharp knife-edge. The hole punch is operated by holding it between the thumb and index and middle fingers and pressing, causing the pointed end of the piston to travel past the curved cylinder-wall aperture in which the artificial fingernail to be perforated has been placed.

Abstract: A detachable decorative insert which is insertable in an artificial fingernail fitted with a securing aperture. A cylindrical base of the decorative insert is designed to fit in the securing aperture where the decorative insert or a carrier for it is arranged on the base, the lower edge of which projects slightly beyond the base in a radial direction and forms two peripheral continuous S-curves along the outer surface of the base. A base foot has an outer surface which projects radially beyond the base on two opposite sides.