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crazyfrog
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 Posted: 05/18/05 - 21:43 Post subject: my love/hate relationship
with professional manicures.
i love the way my manicured hands look. especially with a freshly cleaned engagement ring. 
but within hours i have chipped a nail. and DIY repairs look aweful.
so it sucks, i spend all that money and time on a manicure that i know wont last two days. 
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Ms. Jenn
Fresh, Hot & Wild
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Posted: 05/18/05 - 21:50 Post subject: Re: my love/hate relationship
| crazyfrog wrote: | with professional manicures.
i love the way my manicured hands look. especially with a freshly cleaned engagement ring.
but within hours i have chipped a nail. and DIY repairs look aweful.
so it sucks, i spend all that money and time on a manicure that i know wont last two days. |
Find a cosmetic school who will do it for $5.
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ShannonG
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Posted: 05/18/05 - 23:06 Post subject:
Change salons. A pro manicure should last longer than that.
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 05/18/05 - 23:07 Post subject: Re: my love/hate relationship
| Ms. Jenn wrote: |
Find a cosmetic school who will do it for $5. |
the place i go to charges 13 for a manicure/pedicure (+$3 for a french mani/pedi)
and im not sure that i trust any of the beauty schools around here. 
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Sahara
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Posted: 05/18/05 - 23:12 Post subject:
I just spent $18 on four bottles of OPI nailpolish (three were discontinued colors so I got them cheapo)... I'm set for manicures/pedicures for the summer.
I still need to use the gift certificate that I received for VD for a salon man/ped. I'm saving it for a special occasion...and I'm trying to be patient for a special occasion to happen. <sigh>
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rolling rock
The Pinball
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 06:28 Post subject:
why to professional manicures scare me?
issues, again.
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Noley
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 07:55 Post subject:
I don't have nails. I wish I did.
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robp
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 08:05 Post subject:
My nails are beautiful. I trim them weekly with a pair of scissors about 6" long.
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 08:11 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | why to professional manicures scare me?
issues, again. |
Yup, I'm with ya on this one. Get that curling iron thingy away from my f in ear too.  <shudder>
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Dancer
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 09:45 Post subject:
Manicurists hate me. I refuse nail polish. I like to just go and have the nails and skin around the nails cleaned up. But no polish. And the toes. I love polish but can't go at the moment. Lost a toe nail the other day and have one that is black and about to go. They look at me like I'm a freak when I show up without toe nails.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 10:10 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | My nails are beautiful. I trim them weekly with a pair of scissors about 6" long. |
You are such a man!
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keltic63
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 10:13 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | My nails are beautiful. I trim them weekly with a pair of scissors about 6" long. |
I prefer to use the big toenail clippers instead of scissors or even fingernail clippers. I prefer to keep mine as short as possible, so I average about 2x a week.
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kristin31
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 11:20 Post subject:
I have never had long fingernails (except for fake ones for my wedding which I promptly ripped off once I got back to our room because if I couldn't figure out how to open a door with them, who knows what else I wouldn't be able to do).
Once in a while I put light colored polish on them. I am so exciting, I know.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 11:24 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | I have never had long fingernails (except for fake ones for my wedding which I promptly ripped off once I got back to our room because if I couldn't figure out how to open a door with them, who knows what else I wouldn't be able to do).
Once in a while I put light colored polish on them. I am so exciting, I know. |
I can't grow fingernails for anything, and on the rare day they grow they tear right off.
I had fake ones once and they looked great but I couldn't tie my shoes, or rationalize the expense of the upkeep.
I don't even put light polish on them because I paint nails about as well as my 4 year old niece does.  So, don't look at my hands too closely please.
the upside to all this is I understand most hospitals prohibit nurses from wearing nail polish/fake nails/etc. So I'd have to give it all up if I was into it anyway.
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RangerG
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Posted: 05/19/05 - 11:59 Post subject:
As the martial art I train in has a lot of grappling, I cut mine two times a week...and I am completly missing four of my toenails...
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