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Nails survey
How do you keep your nails or what do you do to them? Solar? Shellac? Mainicured w/polish, naked?
I can never decide what I want to do. I must be the most indecisive person in the world.
Re: Nails survey
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Acrylic is awful for your nails, paint chips on me way too quickly, and frankly I'm too cheap to do the solar manicures that everyone talks about.
I get pedicures monthly. That's about it. I'll get a manicure for a very special occasion. Like, my wedding. Or being in someone's wedding. That's it.
THIS.
And I have to keep them short and natural for school.
I usually keep them naked. Everything else is too much work. I will paint them sometimes, and then they chip the next day when I am at work, so then I am just mad because I have to go the whole day with a chipped nail!
I did the shellac for vacation, it was $35, looked good for two weeks. It goes on like polish, and doesn't hurt your nails at all.
Michelle & Michael
Married - August '10
TTC - Since September 2011
Exactly.
One of my pet peeves is chipped nails and toenails. I think it looks trashy. No offense, if you keep yours like that. I just can't stand mine being chipped anywhere. This is why I can't paint my nails. Even the first tiny chip I get I want to completely start over and re-do them. And that's just too much work and crap to worry about.
During the winter I do my own toes, and it usually lasts about 2-3 weeks without chipping! But during the summer I get pedicures about once a month, because I can go about 4 weeks with no chips and they still look decent.
Summer thinks I'm trashy!!!!!!
Mean girl alert. In my defense, I don't keep them that way, it just happens and I forget to do something about it. Mean. Girl.
I can't stand a tiny chip either. I'll obsess over it all day. I get a pedicure about once every other month, unless I'm going somewhere. In between I do my own, and not to toot my own horn (toot toot) but I do a pretty good job on my toes! I'm going to get a pedi after work since we are going to Galveston, but I can't let them scrub my feet, tickles so much that I can't even sit still!
I remember the first time I went to float the river, I had never been, DH and I had only been dating a couple months, well I thought I needed to look cute! So I got a pedi, hot pink and cute little white flower. Yea... I'm on the river a little while, maybe an hour or two (and it was an 6 or 8 hour float that year) and I hit rocks, and BAM, there goes my cute pedi... Had to go the whole weekend with a chipped big toe and half flower
Naked. I like manicures, but I prefer french manicures. They are a bit spendy and chip super fast. So, I just go without, usually. I agree, I don't like fake nails on me at all. They ruin my real nails.
I would like to do the shellac, but $35 seems like a lot for me. I do get a pedicure monthly, though. Mostly in the summer months. In the winter I do it myself.
Yea...its a little pricey, that is why I just did it for vacation. I wish the fake nails didn't jack your nails up so bad. I like the way they look (I got hot pink tips one year, loved it!)
Yep. Better watch out.
WOW! That's crazy. Try Burts Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream. Its a miracle worker for sure!
I do, too. If they didn't ruin my nails I would wear them all the time.
With All the Trimmings
Just do it!
I would really like to have the Shellac done to my nails. Here is a dumb question though...does every nail place do that? If not, do you just call around and ask if they give "Shellac" manicures?
I have been trying to look at nail salon menus while I get pedicures and I never see the word Shellac on them. Am I not looking for the right thing?
That's too pale for me. I do love OPI though. They make the best polish, IMO.
It is like your inside of my head, Stephie!
I bite my nails, badly, if I don't have solar nails. However... most of the time I just have ugly, ragged nails because lately I have not had the time and haven't wanted to spend the $$.
On another note, I would like to get Shellac on my toes. Do they do that?
I want this answer too.
I keep my nails natural and I also have to keep them short for school.
I hardly ever get pedicures, I usually just paint them myself.