Finger nails ... and stuff

[ashling]

[elleng]

1. I'll take the 'stuff.' Don't care for them french cuts!

[Skittles]

2. WHY do women do that

it's a friggin' MYSTERY :o

[elleng]

3. Dunno, and I've got 2 daughters, one marrying this week,

who may do it. (And I may end up having to pay for it!)

[Amaril]

4. Don't know either, and she's apparently been.........

.....doing it for a while. Did you notice how thick some of those nails are. Crimeny!

[jmowreader]

5. It's something men did, at first

Specifically, French royalty. (Hence the name.) They did it because commoners--the people who did manual labor--always had beat-up, scroungy hands with nails that looked like they belonged on someone who worked for a living, and having pretty nails meant you didn't work with your hands.

Women do it because it looks like "well maintained natural nails" if it's done correctly--a nice glossy nail bed and perfectly clean tips. I think it's a really boring look; the tips are okay, but if you're going to go to all the time and trouble of getting a manicure, paint 'em a color and put a contrasting tip on there.

[elleng]

14. I understand the royalty vs working folks nails;

DON'T get the white stuff. Don't mind colored polish (and may get some for daughter's wedding Friday,) but NONE of that white stuff!

[tavalon]

8. It's even more mysterious to me, because as a nurse and specifically NICU nurse,

I know what grows under those fake nails. Most hospitals have outright banned them, some are too slowly heading that way.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Don't care for the fingernails, but the critter is adorable.

Sugar glider?

[applegrove]

7. I don't gravitate towards women who spend that much on their nails. I know it is the hippie in me.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. cute critter. disgusting nails.

[nolabear]

10. SQEEEEE!!! And I like French manicures.

Reality TV stars have given them a bad reputation. But, I stick to natural these days.

[nolabear]

11. Dupe. The squee, it was too strong and multiplied before I could stop it.

[murielm99]

12. I guess I am lucky.

My natural nails are long and strong.

I work, too. Yesterday, I cleaned my brother's entire apartment. He is in a nursing home for awhile. Today, I washed windows at home.

BTW, what is the cute little critter?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. The critter is a sugar glider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider

Sort of a little flying possum.

[distantearlywarning]

15. I am lucky too.

Never needed fake nails - my own grow so well I have a hard time keeping up with them. And I've learned how to give myself a manicure. Right now I have a very professional looking polish job on my long, healthy nails, and it didn't cost me a dime and I've got no fungus or weird glue exposure. :) I'm sure everyone who notices my hands assumes that I spent $30 at the salon this week.