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Old 04-11-2014, 05:38 PM
 
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I once calculated how much money I'd saved by not getting manicures, and at my age, it's thousands of dollars, even adjusting for inflation. My friend talked me into getting a pedicure last year - my first - and after I left, I wondered what the heck I'd just spent $25 + tip for. Do your own nails!
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Old 04-11-2014, 07:31 PM
 
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How do these people wipe?
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Old 04-11-2014, 07:56 PM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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How do these people wipe?

That was one of my first thoughts!
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Old 04-11-2014, 08:01 PM
 
Location: At the Lake (in Texas)
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I still prefer the old fashioned French manicures. Am I the only one who dislikes the 3D manicure?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YK3fTWJQc0...-Nails-art.jpg

Oh my God! This is the first I have seen of this trend and no, you couldn't be the only one because I'm right there with you. Just awful!
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:06 PM
 
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I have to admit, my first reaction was to laugh at the Hello Kitty nails. There was something they reminded me of - but what??

Then it hit me: finger puppets! Wow, you could put on quite a show with ten little Hello Kitties on your fingertips!

But that's about the only productive thing you could do.

As for the blingy versions, well, maybe for an evening of performance art - the performer being the manicurist and the performance being the application of the flashy bits to the nails. Preferably done for charity, and quickly to be removed once the event was over.

Hey, you could do a finger-puppet performance for charity as well, maybe for the local Humane Society, since after all, it's Hello Kitty...

Getting late and I'm getting spacy. I've never seen such fingertip adornment in real life, and that's fine with me, since it's a fashion which screams "look at
m-e-e-e-!!!" (or maybe, "Look at m-e-e-e-o-o-o=w!", in the case of the Hello Kitty nails), but which seems completely incompatible with the demands of daily life, and no doubt is expensive to create and almost impossible to maintain.
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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I am surprised that some of you have never seen these, here in southern California (LA county, orange county, riverside county, san bernardino county) we have women wear this kind of manicure all the time.

Let's see some pictures.

http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bpho...uI8fBemg/l.jpg

http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bpho...ROnSOnDw/l.jpg

http://ilovemanicures.info/slides/Wh...20Manicure.jpg

http://s3-media4.ak.yelpcdn.com/bpho...HsCahzkQ/l.jpg
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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I have to admit, my first reaction was to laugh at the Hello Kitty nails. There was something they reminded me of - but what??

Then it hit me: finger puppets! Wow, you could put on quite a show with ten little Hello Kitties!

But that's about the only productive thing you could do. As for the blingy versions, well, maybe for an evening of performance art - the performer being the manicurist. Preferably done for charity, and quickly to be removed once the event was over. Hey, you could do a finger-puppet performance for charity as well, maybe for the local Humane Society, since after all, it's Hello Kitty...

Getting late and I'm getting spacy. I've never seen such fingertip adornment in real life, and that's fine with me, since it's a fashion which screams "look at
m-e-e-e-!!!" (or maybe, "Look at m-e-e-e-o-o-o=w!", in the case of the Hello Kitty nails), but which seems completely incompatible with the demands of daily life, and no doubt is expensive to create and almost impossible to maintain.
hahahha
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:27 PM
 
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I still prefer the old fashioned French manicures. Am I the only one who dislikes the 3D manicure?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YK3fTWJQc0...-Nails-art.jpg


yikes!

I don't even like regular polished fingernails, so that is just.. I....I don't even know what to say about that. lol.
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:49 PM
 
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Maybe if it was Easter? And that was candy? And I was in church? And I got hungry? That would be cool!
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Old 04-11-2014, 10:02 PM
 
Location: Somewhere
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Wow.....I haven't seen those yet....thank goodness!

I remember getting rhinestones put on to look like a flower when getting a pedicure back in the day but they were so small and wouldn't get caught on anything. Those you posted look unhygienic
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