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To be disappointed with this gel manicure?

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Saturdayrabbit42 · 10/05/2025 00:10

As title. Nails short but not bitten etc. (need short nails for work). Went to the salon today, £25 for these. Have had gels elsewhere before elsewhere with same length nails and I was really pleased…not thick/cuticles tidied/edges and skin clean etc. I messaged them when I got home to say that I was disappointed and their reply was my nails were too short and I just had to wait for them to grow. Perhaps they were right and I am being unreasonable?

AIBU
Yes-suck it up buttercup/nails too short
No-dogs dinner, even if short result should be better than this!

PS realise this is a very first world problem!

To be disappointed with this gel manicure?
To be disappointed with this gel manicure?
To be disappointed with this gel manicure?
To be disappointed with this gel manicure?
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Dearg · 10/05/2025 07:46

No they should have taken more time on the preparation. They should have trimmed the cuticles for example.

For what it’s worth I used similar colour on my non- gel nails and it looks shit too

Littlemisscapable · 10/05/2025 07:45

Oh no. That's not good at all.

Fourteenandahalf · 10/05/2025 07:43

It's hard to see if the gel is covering all of the nail? I don't think I would get a gel manicure with such short nails, and I don't think the colour helps. But no they do look pretty awful (sorry).

Moomookangaroo · 10/05/2025 07:43

I mean, yes they're too short to be made to look particularly glamorous but surely not too short for them to have sorted the cuticles 🤦🏻‍♀️ I wouldn't have been happy with that at all

Saturdayrabbit42 · 10/05/2025 07:40

Photos up now! Bump!

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Saturdayrabbit42 · 10/05/2025 00:11

PPS I added photos but they are “currently being reviewed”!

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