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What do you do with your nails?
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I use false nails (fitted professionally or a kit) |
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I apply glue to them |
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I use a nail hardener product or nail varnish |
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I don't use any product |
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I don't use a hardener, but I use a moisturiser/nail care product |
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I use a nail building/repair kit eg silk wraps & adhesive |
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Merle
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Billyboy)
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This topic is NUTS! Superglue, silk, your left hand's nail to glue on, if your right hand nail breaks off ...what else, OH ... lets go buy some silly kit (sorry Patrick) ;> One more time! If you can find a nail salon go get acrylic nails, it's easy, and cheaper. Try 1 or 2 different places, and explain why your there! "For my right hand, mam! I'm a famous guitar player"! When you find her/(or him...to be politically correct) ... go 2 or 3 months later and have her/(or he, again) ') and do that again! Why all the fuss and mess?? $10.00 every 2 or 3 months, and you get to have the acrylics done by a pro, plus (NO CHILDREN ALLOWED) ... you get to look around inside a beauty shop...at all the beautiful people! ;>) Merle
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Date Mar. 9 2004 23:13:29
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Patrick
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From: Portland, Oregon
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Guest)
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Conrad, Yes, the glue and silk method is the same as the Savarez kit. The system involves self-adhesive silk with what is called Nail Glue. Don't be misled. Nail Glue is super glue. It might be a higher grade, but it is still super glue. I used it for a year or so and hated it. Like you said, if you hit a nail, it just pops off. Even if you don't hit a nail, it still comes off. The problem with the stuff is once you start using it, you have to keep using it as it makes the nail so thin the only thing you can do is apply more and more and more. I was lucky if I could go a day or two without having to fix a nail. That being said, some guitarists love it. Not me, I like to fish and play guitar. Pat
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Date Mar. 10 2004 16:59:25
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Merle
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Patrick)
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That explains it!! Martha!! Snake oil, that's all it is...product shelf life, file your nails practically off before you apply it, messy, peeling, heat lamps, widgets, gadgets, this and that!! LOL Hey, ToddK instructed me to use acrylics, and if it's good enough for him, then damn it, it's good enough for me!! As far as my 5 wives, I seriously doubt any of them would leave me...you see, I give them all they want, and save the rest for later on!! Merle
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Date Mar. 10 2004 19:03:21
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Billyboy
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Conrad)
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conrad, I have had my silk nails on for a week now without coming off, the stuff from drug stores is no good, not fine enough, but the stuff I use is similar to the Savarez kits, just cheaper to buy it all individually, you usually need about three layers, the thing with acrylics is it is for life, no going back once you start on that road, your nail would never be any good after, with the silk you only aply to the end of the nail.keeping the rest in fresh air. Dave
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Date Mar. 10 2004 21:15:13
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Merle
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Billyboy)
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Billyboy, that's exactely it! Gel nails... I think that when people talk about acrylics, they think it's those fake glue on nails. The nails I get are acrylic gel, and my nail tech dips a brush in some kind of liquid, then into some powder, and she kinda paints them on. They are dry in about 4 minutes, and rock hard. I have never had them split, or lift up, hot or cold weather, like I think AndyB said happened to him. Nowadays, when I go get them done every 3 months or so, I always have her do my thumb finger nail in different colors! She has done my thumb in gold glitter, silver glitter, a mixture of all kinds of colors, and this time I had my thumb done in black ahd red! It looks cool under stage lights (as if I'm some stage performer), and it causes conversation with the ladys, who always say, "Wow, that's cool"! Now the thumb thing may not be for everyone, but, I'm just different, and I like to explain to people I meet why my thumb is colored like that. ( I get to brag about flamenco). The other finger nails look exactely like regular nails. But, again, it's GEL, not fake acrylic nails. I would probably think it's kinda like the Lume stuff that Patrick has been hawking! ;>) Merle
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Date Mar. 10 2004 21:22:53
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Merle
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Billyboy)
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"the thing with acrylics is it is for life, no going back once you start on that road," Billyboy, that is not true. The gel is placed onto your nail bed, and as your nail grows, it's the same thinkness as it was to begin with. If you were to put gel on, and did not like them, then you can soak them in a soluation for a few minutes, and it comes off without taking any nail with it! Or, you can just let your nails grow out until the gel is gone, and your nails is just the way it was before you even tried it. But for life, I don't think so... Merle
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Date Mar. 10 2004 21:35:24
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Merle
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RE: What do you do with your nails? (in reply to Billyboy)
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Is the Salon stuff just as good though?[/quote Billyboy it's better! You get to have a beautiful lady hold your hand for 1/2 hour while she massages your fingers while putting on the gel, then she buffs the gel smooth, and then files the nails close to the way you want them, all the while the two of you are rubbing knees under the table ... Or, You can have Patrick come to your house and slop all the Lume stuff all around the house while trying to get it on your nails. Then to top it off, Patrick can put your fingers under some kind of lamp that emmits radiation, which eventually will end up buring the bones in your fingers!! AND TO TOP THAT OFF, YOU GOTTA LOOK AT HIM! Now then, which would you choose? ;>) Merle (the answer is easy, grasshopper, if you just look for it)! ;>)
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