Fingernails, How do you like yours to look?

[Isis]

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Originally Posted by Bubbles12_98 I wear mine biten and nasty cuticles...I'm so horrible at maintaining my nails

It's so hard to quit that habbit! I'd have to put polish on mine to keep from biting them and let the skin heal. Oh and lots and lots of cream! My hands are always so dry

I've gotten a WHOLE LOT better though since becoming an esthetician. My hands have to look perfect every day now.

 

[JunkaLunk]

I don't tend to my nails as much as i wish.
does anyone know any good nail strengthening polish. Because by the time I grow mine out and they look all nice and such one just seems to break and ruins it. hahaha.

 

[Isis]

Mine are like that too. It's so frustrating. Try the Nail Tek ridge-filling strengtheners.

 

[litlaur]

I stopped biting my nails about a year ago, so they're really weak and break easily. Right now they're all about fingertip length.

 

[may_cup]

Usually you won't find me without Nail Envy on my nails. I just LOVE that stuff, I once lost my bottle, and shortly thereafter all my nails started cracking, peeling and breaking. oh the horror.

For my toenails though, i usually ALWAYS have them painted. I have like 60-70 colors that I can choose from. I'm quite the nail polish junkie.

 

[another_mac_addict]

My fingernails are always short and almost never painted. When I do use polish it's red, pale beige, white, black, or, my favorite, Essie Aruba Blue. If I'm feeling really high-maintenance I might put a coat of blue glitter polish over Aruba Blue. I do not paint my toenails.

 

[ChrisKsAngel]

I always have my toenails painted... always. However, like many others have said, I do not take care of my fingernails. I have tried before, but ever single time they grow out they break. It drives me crazy! So I am stuck cutting them back short and attempting to grow them out again. I love my nails long, because I am cursed with short fat little fingers. So painting them bright, bold colors when they are short is not a possibility.

I also have very dry skin around my nails and I don't know if this has an affect on it. I have recently started using Vaseline Intensive Care Healthy Hand & Nail Lotion and so far it has been great. Even with the cold weather coming in my dry skin and nails are starting to look better. YEA!

 

[Vespcat]

I always keep my nails short, I don't really like long nails, I find they just get in the way! Plus I draw and paint alot which I find incredibly hard to do with long nails. Occasionally I paint them, usually a dark or bright red or most recently MAC's Nightfall, a shimmery grey/black. My toe nails are always painted though, not sure why I just think it makes them look neater and prettier

Again they are normally painted a darkish red or black.

 

[banana]

I keep my nails short and natural. I don't wear polish but I try to buff them regularly. My cuticles are really dry right now and are kind of nasty.

 

[Pink_minx]

NATURAL! Im trying to grow my natural nails without it getting chipped! but I had fake nails before. Its pretty but it cost money and cant do much with it and after taking it off your real nails are really thin and ugly looking.

 

[dotwarner_us]

I don't wear n/p on fingernails because I would leave a scratch of color on work papers when I would wear it. I only wear n/p on toenails.

 

[pale blue]

I just have natural nails now, I don't let them go too far over my nailbed. I can't stand typing with nails either, the amount of typos I make is ridiculous

I used to bite mine for years, I think because of that my nails grow quickly and are very strong now? I'm not really sure. The reason I stopped was because, well it just looked gross to me.

 

[Jillian]

I cut my nails down as short as I can because I have the worst picking habit ever. So inorder for me to keep it under control, I cut my nails down. I usually have polish on, pink or bronze. But I don't reapply it very often, so it's usually blotchy and chipped off!

 

[kimmy]

i pick at my nails when i get nervous, so they pretty much always look like hell.

so i like them with a nice coat of black, hot pink or scarlet polish on them :]

 

[Gabrielle]

They've been black for a few years. I only file them and trim them when they get too long.

 

[Cedar]

I've never had fake nails because I'm just not that high-maintenance. I also have to do all my dishes by hand because I don't have a dishwasher. I normally like my nails short (because I do a lot of typing) with very dark burgundy polish.

I do pick and chew at my cuticles, though. Been doing it for 20 years, not going to stop. Bad habits, sigh.

 

[caffn8me]

I like my nails natural and unbroken but I travel a lot and carrying bags on and off planes and dragging them off luggage carousels tends to be very bad news. Every time I get them all to a nice length one of them breaks - grrrr!

I had a set of acrylics in French manicure style done in Atlanta last year but it wasn't long before I managed to rip one off (which hurt!) so when I got back to the UK I had them soaked off. The other factor was cost - here in London we don't have nail bars on every corner and my nearest nail salon charges about $80 to do a fill on acrylics which is much more than I paid for the initial manicure and pedicure together in Atlanta.

 

[stevoulina]

I used to pick at my nails a lot,then stopped for quite some years and lately I've started this bad habit again!!

But now I'm determined to stop this bad habit for good!I'm gonna let my fingernails grow long (but not too long ) and I'm gonna get some nice nail polishes in pastel colors for french manicure!

I'm also gonna get a base coat,a top coat,a cuticle remover and a weak nail hardener!

I've never had fake nails and I never will,because I hate anything fake!!

 

[hinna]

I dislike fake nails with a passion. I prefer enhancing what one naturally has, and just as wearing layers of caked on foundation with make-up, i almost think of fake nails using the same concept. I think a well maintained look is essential, and overall appearance, including condition of nails, is important to that. Doing so many extra-curricular activities out of school as well takes up a lot of time, so it's nice to dedicate just a few hours a week to truly pamper myself and do my nails, deep cleanse and moisturise my skin and hair also. Apologies for a lengthy post - yikes - as far as my own nails go, i keep them square shaped with ever so slightly rounded corners. I smooth them out from ridges once every month to month and a half, but buff them up weekly and I try to remember to apply cuticle conditioning oil before i finally go to sleep. I keep them polished at all times, i find it protects the nail from the elements just like moisturiser and sunscreen does for the skin. I adore pinks, and deep reds or browns in different finishes, though i also love to use a particular golden-bronze shade with a silvery sheen - so very hard to describe, but incredibly subtle which gives a lovely take on a natural look.

 

[miss_emc]

I hate acrylics they always ruin my nails so i just keep them natural and file them down to a decent length. I usually don't like wearing nailpolish cos at work we have to wear MAC shades and they chip like crazy and i cant be bothered putting on a new coat every day so i try to avoid wearing them. Its a shame because i LOVE OPI colours!