Cheap Olympians show off fancy

Nailing it! Olympians show off fancy fingers and toesCombining OPI's Only Gold for Me and Bring on the Bling, Natalie Coughlin layered the two tones over her fingernails so they'd really pop under stadium lights.

By Jillian Eugenios and Sarika Dani

The ladies of the London Olympics have shown both their love for glamour and their country by rocking some serious nail art.

Swimmer Natalie Coughlin http://www.tffukjewellerys.co.uk/  took matters into her own hands literally. don like to wear makeup when I swim. So instead, she expressed herself through her DIY mani. the designated team manicurist. I did these myself. Lia Neal, who won bronze in the 4x100-meter freestyle race, showed off her medal and her patriotic nails for photographer Neil Leifer on the TODAY set.

Neil Leifer

One accent nail on each of Lia Neal's hands features white stars against blue.

Her teammate, silver medalist Elizabeth Beisel, also posed for Leifer, sporting a sparkly set of blue glitter to accent her silver medal. She kept just one nail on each hand painted a bright red.

Neil Leifer

Elizabeth Beisel flaunts her medal and sparkly manicure after earning silver at the 400-meter individual medley.

The swim team aren't the only ones sporting decorated digits. Tennis star Venus Williams went for the colors of Tiffany UK Outlet  the American flag, accenting one nail with stars. water polo player Heather Petri has a tradition: with every major championship, including the Olympic games, she has her nails done by the same manicurist. Petri team has never won a gold (they've previously brought home two silvers and a bronze), so she decided change was necessary. have not won the gold yet. And so when they did it this time I said don do a flag, do something different. So she decided to do hearts in red, white, and blue."

Silver medalist Heather Petri added a gold heart to her pedicure.

At several P salons, sprinkled around London and set up by the Olympic sponsor to service visitors looking to celebrate their home countries, demand is high: They're doing 150 nail treatments a day. flag is currently leading in popularity for nail art, followed by Great Britain, Canada and Australia. Virgin Island flags, she said.

For athletes, function is as important as design. Amanda Furrer, one of the shooters of the Olympic team, tweeted a photo of her nails, which feature the words USA and tiny American flags on Tiffany Necklaces UK  the tips. She wrote, told my friend Kristen at Touch of Class Nails, sure to shorten those two nails so I can pick up my bullets. Check out the athletes who put their Olympic art on display.