Abstract: A nail polish applicator has an elongated shank having a bottle cap for engagement with a nail polish bottle at one end and a rectangular foam rubber sponge nail polish applicator at an opposite end. In a first embodiment, a rectangular scraping plate is secured overlying one side face of the rectangular sponge and has a sharpened scraping edge extending slightly beyond a bottom surface of the sponge. The scraping edge is utilized for scraping polish from nail cuticles, stirring polish within the bottle and scraping polish from the side walls of the polish bottle. In a second embodiment, the scraping plate is secured on a bottom surface of the sponge and has a concave bottom surface, forming spaced parallel side scraping edges.