Thoughts on Learning How To Polish One's Nails at a Certain Age
It probably doesn't save you money to buy your nail-polish at the local discount beauty supply, as the nice man will convince you that you need a base coat and a top coat as well.
Two layers of color is not quite enough. Neither, for some reason, is three.
The stuff that claims to dry your nail polish if you spray it on lies.
That being so, applying base coat, four layers of color and top coat takes a long time.
Covering all the nail without getting polish all over your skin takes a lot of skill. It is to be hoped that this is a learned skill.
Trying to deal with polish that got on your skin before the polish on your nails has dried is a mistake.
Until one gets good at this one probably should have gotten the matte topcoat, not the high shine one the nice man suggested, as one doesn't want to draw too much attention to one's lack of learned skill.
Getting the bits of nail polish that got stuck on the skin and cuticles after the nails have dried takes a non-trivial amount of skill, too.
There is something intrinsically unfair about the fact that one's stronger hand, more used in gestures and therefore more noticeable, is polished by the weaker and less coordinated hand, which doesn't do a good job. The jury is still out on whether the light, almost flesh-tone, color one chose (so as not to be too noticeable when one is A) learning how to do this and B) still trying to get the nails to grow to a decent length since one stopped biting and tearing them to the quick 6 months or so ago will accomplish the goal of hiding dirt under the nails, which was the whole reason for polishing them.
The jury is also still out on whether hiding the dirt under the nails so that you aren't cleaning them all the time will allow the nails to attach themselves higher up the finger faster (having been bitten down to the quick for ever and ever.
I really prefer buffed natural nails and hope all of this allows them to grow nicely so I can go back to that.
Two layers of color is not quite enough. Neither, for some reason, is three.
The stuff that claims to dry your nail polish if you spray it on lies.
That being so, applying base coat, four layers of color and top coat takes a long time.
Covering all the nail without getting polish all over your skin takes a lot of skill. It is to be hoped that this is a learned skill.
Trying to deal with polish that got on your skin before the polish on your nails has dried is a mistake.
Until one gets good at this one probably should have gotten the matte topcoat, not the high shine one the nice man suggested, as one doesn't want to draw too much attention to one's lack of learned skill.
Getting the bits of nail polish that got stuck on the skin and cuticles after the nails have dried takes a non-trivial amount of skill, too.
There is something intrinsically unfair about the fact that one's stronger hand, more used in gestures and therefore more noticeable, is polished by the weaker and less coordinated hand, which doesn't do a good job. The jury is still out on whether the light, almost flesh-tone, color one chose (so as not to be too noticeable when one is A) learning how to do this and B) still trying to get the nails to grow to a decent length since one stopped biting and tearing them to the quick 6 months or so ago will accomplish the goal of hiding dirt under the nails, which was the whole reason for polishing them.
The jury is also still out on whether hiding the dirt under the nails so that you aren't cleaning them all the time will allow the nails to attach themselves higher up the finger faster (having been bitten down to the quick for ever and ever.
I really prefer buffed natural nails and hope all of this allows them to grow nicely so I can go back to that.