To provide artificial nails and methods of forming artificial nails, more particularly, methods for forming artificial nails by injection molding and artificial nails formed according to the method.

This artificial nail is formed of a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section are adjacent to one another. One of the sections defines a front distal tip of the artificial nail, and is formed by injecting a quantity of heated material under pressure from a nozzle into a sprue through a cavity gate into a mold cavity. The other section is formed by injecting another quantity of heated material under pressure from a nozzle through another cavity into the mold cavity.