Fingernails, How do you like yours to look?

[MsCocoa]

I voted both natural and fake, as long my natural nails are grown out to the right lenght I love them with either Nail Envy or a french polish, I love the look of fake nails too though!

 

[kaliraksha]

Long & natural- I carry a nutrient polish that dries in like 10 seconds and I "paint" them twice a week in between appointments or waiting in the car while my SO runs in to get something.

Sometimes I'm in the mood for color- recently, it's been dark blood red (vamp) and dark purple (vin goth) or a dark navy... when I do a dark color... I cut them short and file them and that's when I love to wear my super bling ring because the contrast is so obscene.

 

[dollbaby]

I've been getting my nails wrapped for about 4 years now. They are my nails, but they've got acrylics over them. I keep them squared, with permanent french. It just looks so classy. It keeps me broke, but ya gotta do something to make yourself feel confident and beautiful. To me, it's my nails lol!

 

[Ms.Amaranthine]

I prefer to have acrylic nails, honestly. I just don't have the time or patience to get them done every two weeks. My real nails are very fragile and break easily. I've used so many treatments. They help some. Still, despite all my efforts my nails won't grow much past the tips of my fingers without breaking.

I do them myself three or four times a week. I trim my cuticles, shape my nails and then do two layers of treatment, paint them and then the top coat. Sometimes, I use decals. I think they're fun. I usually only wear those on my thumbs though. I've gotten really good at doing my nails myself.. but I still wish they would grow longer.

 

[ratmist]

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Originally Posted by Ms.Amaranthine I prefer to have acrylic nails, honestly. I just don't have the time or patience to get them done every two weeks. My real nails are very fragile and break easily. I've used so many treatments. They help some. Still, despite all my efforts my nails won't grow much past the tips of my fingers without breaking.

Acrylics probably make it worse, no? If your nails are naturally fragile or weak, acrylics would only weaken them further.

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Originally Posted by Ms.Amaranthine I do them myself three or four times a week. I trim my cuticles, shape my nails and then do two layers of treatment, paint them and then the top coat. Sometimes, I use decals. I think they're fun. I usually only wear those on my thumbs though. I've gotten really good at doing my nails myself.. but I still wish they would grow longer.

*hugs* Keep babying them and they may start to reward you. It takes 9 months for the emerging nail (from the cuticle area) to reach the point where you clip it. So maybe after a year or so, you'll see a real difference. Keep it up!

 

[Nox]

Gels and acrylic tips can look nice on some hands.

But for me, I prefer to care for my own nails and grow them out to look nice. I don't have a problem with chewing, but my nails are naturally towards the more brittle end, so I have drink my protein shakes and do silk treatments.

 

[fingie]

I prefer white tips, as I'm a bartender and regular polish/airbrushed tips fade/chip too easily on me. The reason I prefer them vs. my real nails is because I'm a horrible nail biter and will bite them down until they're pretty much nothing..and thats definately not hot when I have to serve drinks & take/give money to customers.

 

[purrtykitty]

I like them natural, with polish, of course. But I chew on the skin around my fingers, so my hands never look very nice.

 

[athena123]

I always paint my toenails and rarely paint my fingernails but I'm totally obsessive about buffing them to a shiny, polished finish and applying cuticle oil around the nail bed every night. I keep them mid length and use my Essie Crystal nail file to keep nails to a nice squoval shape. When nails get too dry with all the buffing, I'll break down and apply nail polish for a few days. I can't stand acrylic fake nails!

 

[dollbabybex]

my nails are naturally long...and even if theyre short
i have long nail beds so they look quite long if you get me?
i ALWAYS wear navy grey or black nail varnish lately!
and i dont mind when it chips as i think it looks abit rock chick!

 

[MACActress]

My nails are natural, because I don't want to wreck them and I don't really like the way that acrylics look.

Most of the time they're short, sometimes they're longish but not often, since they end of breaking.

I'm all about the vampies though. My fave. nail color is dark green/navy. I like white as well (OPI Peace, baby is beautiful) and red is awesome.

 

[Sarah]

i have pink & white acrylic overlays on my nails and have done for the past 3 years

 

[liv]

I like mine to be (almost always) short, a smidge below my fingertip, shaped into the 'squoval', not too square and not too oval. Recently I've been wearing darker manicures (Revlon Midnight Affair at the moment...it's my knockoff Chanel Blue Satin), but I like light pinks, nudes, and even just a clear topcoat too. I've never worn acrylics, gel tips, or any of that, and I don't ever plan on it. I've actually been complimented on my nails a lot, and been asked if they were fake, so I lucked out, because they are strong, don't peel, grow quickly, and are a nice shape.
I'm mostly concerned with them being clean, and I hate when people have gunk under their nails. Ick. I love giving myself pedicures, but I tend to space them out quite a bit, my pedi polish is usually pretty beat up before I do them again. I like pinks and reds on my toenails.

 

[bellasera]

I have a French manicure that I did myself. It looks great. Plus I have super long natural nails.

 

[hello_kitty]

I've had gel nails since May '07 and I love them. I have to wear latex gloves at work, and it was killing my natural nails so I couldn't grow them out because all the moisture in the gloves would just crack and peel the nails and of course anything applied to the nails would peel off too, so after much hesitation I got gel nails and now I don't want to go back to natural.

I don't consider them "fake," though because it is my natural nail there for the length, just with gel over it. I don't have fake tips, unless a nail lefts bad or breaks (only have had to get 3 nails replaced in all these months).

I wear them as a french manicure, which looks great no matter what I am doing which is so nice! I don't talk about my toenails, though... haha, those are neglected.

 

[greengoesmoo]

My nails are naturally very strong so I just let them do thier thing, they are always all different lengths, but I do keep them polished, heavily!
They are long enough to get called grim at work!

 

[Simply Elegant]

Natural, slightly long and polished. My nails are pretty strong and they grow fast so it's easier to keep them a bit longer.

 

[hauteness]

All natural, usually with a cream polish on them, and always super shiny!