manicure

Apr 12, 2008 18:02

Do you care what fingernails (yours and other people's) look like as long as they are not hideously chewed, fungusy, or several feet long?

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wear_your_rue April 12 2008, 23:06:49 UTC
No, not really. I don't get mine done because I don't trust the manicurists not to give me some horrible infection. I just keep them short with pale polish (so chips aren't immediately noticeable).

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misslicorice April 13 2008, 14:36:18 UTC
Ew! Yeah! I've heard of people getting gross infections from manicure places. x_X I wouldn't risk it.

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pollytrance April 12 2008, 23:14:54 UTC
Normally I don't care but if I am hanging out with a boy who has sort of dainty hands to begin with and his nails are long it kind of creeps me out, honestly. Especially if we are dating because I don't want him to touch me with his dental receptionist hands. If a guy has manly hands with long nails I don't care because I assume he just plays guitar and uses them to finger-pick.

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misslicorice April 13 2008, 14:37:26 UTC
Haha! Dental receptionist hands. That's an interesting visual. Clacking super-loud on the computer keyboard with their nails.
Do guitar players have long nails? I always thought they'd have gross chewed up fingernails but I've never examined one closely enough to know.

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pollytrance April 14 2008, 20:37:50 UTC
All the guys I know who play electric have well-kept short nails, probably because long nails would get in the way of fretwork. The few I know who are married to their acoustics however have long nails on the hand they use to pluck the strings and short nails on the hand they use for fretting.

I actually knew a guy once, an older dood, who had scary Lo-Pan thumbnails which he would paint in his off-time with strengthening coat. When the thumbnail got long enough, he would chop it off, keep it, and use it as... what? An organic pick. I don't know, he had a collection, it was kind of gross.

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requieminblack April 13 2008, 00:33:33 UTC
I never notice other people nails unless they are mega claw long and painted neon or really dirty and gross.

I never paint my nails. Sewing all day causes the polish to chip almost right away and my nails never grow very long anyway. I keep them clean and filed nice though if that counts for anything, heh.

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misslicorice April 13 2008, 14:40:05 UTC
That's how my nails are, too! They never get long and I chip my polish as soon as it dries. I posted this question because I was wondering if I should feel weird about it, like I would if I never wore makeup or cut my hair or something. hehe

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misslicorice April 13 2008, 14:41:37 UTC
I would paint my fingernails, but when I try, I end up with a gloopy streaky mess!

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misslicorice April 13 2008, 14:41:57 UTC
Gloopy streaky mess. Haha. This sounds like the first line of an infomercial script.

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wallflowerish April 13 2008, 19:07:59 UTC
i hate those stupid long fake fingernails. every time i see them i want to rip them off. (same thing goes for stupid french tipped toenails, or whatever they're called.) but other than that and all the other stuff you listed, i don't really care.

i keep my nails really short. i've tried keeping my nails long, but i hated thinking about the dirt that hides underneath. plus, it gets in the way of typing. intarnetz, yay! :P

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misslicorice April 14 2008, 13:56:33 UTC
My fingernails will NOT grow long. It's against their religion or something. They're always nasty and broken! Probably from typing and obsessive hand washing.

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