Is it ok to have unpainted toenails?

[Bluebuttercup]

Just that really, I'm wearing sandals today and feel a bit weird/ unattractive.

Normally have my toenails painted in the summer but didn't have time/ couldn't be bothered so far this year. Wondering if it's ok or really minging/ unattractive?

I'm not trying to attract anyone ;) Feet and nails are clean etc...

Also never wear nail polish on hands but seems different. Maybe because I don't like feet!

Is there a correlation between
a) painting toenails and frequency of towel washing
b) painting toenails and washing chicken

You forgot:
c) painting toe nails and washing underwear and tea towels together

Do you say that about men's toenails? If not, why on Earth wouldn't it be acceptable for you.

My toenails are just weird. The 2nd to 4th ones are nigh on unpaintable with standard nail polish brushes (you need a fine 1mm artist's paintbrush or something) because they're little horizontal slits of keratin that sort of poke up vertically like teeth. I hate them. Good luck with painting those.

yes, I have heard that some people don’t even wear make up.

This is absolutely incredible.

So.... NOT decorating a body part is now in the same category as being smelly or dirty?

But only if you are a woman, obviously.

Women's body parts are just naturally so much more disgusting than men's.

Either is perfect in my book. I do half and half and I actually prefer them unpainted because I can see they are clean and healthy and there’s nothing to hide.

I don’t really actually like nails. Too short, too long, yellow, ridged etc. I just think they are at their best looking beat and painted. That’s all. I wouldn’t go up to anyone and tell them I though!

There are few things I see on this board that I genuinely don't get. This is one of them.

There really does seem to be a small (I hope) cohort of posters who seem to think that women must be preened and painted at all times to count. Some that actually judge other women for something as utterly ludicrous as not having painted their toenails. That's not normal.

Though depressingly it is actually the mainstream beauty standard BenWillbondsPants, which is why the OP is even asking if it’s ok. But the “women must be groomed at all times” crew try to claim it’s some kind of original or minority view despite the 988,452 adverts, magazines, blogs etc all telling women the same thing. Nah, you’ve just got mainstream bog standard opinions about women’s main function being decorative. A PP even thought it was acceptable to tell female colleagues they must paint their toenails - as though they were the unprofessional ones!

A PP even thought it was acceptable to tell female colleagues they must paint their toenails

@HerSymphonyAndSong I thought that was actually a joke 😳. Mainly because I can't believe anyone would be such a twat as to do that.

I stopped buying magazines years ago because there's so little content and so many ads so you're absolutely right. My issue isn't if women choose to paint their toenails or not (I do most of the time, because I prefer it), it's the view that if you don't, you're somehow 'letting yourself go' or don't care about your appearance etc. Or even that if you don't care about your appearance, which some people don't, you're somehow not a proper women ifkwim. I don't know why anyone would have an opinion on my toenails, painted or not. Pisses me right off.

I dont understand what’s wrong with clean, short nails, on hands or feet. Surely this is the norm and anything else is purely decorative and not to be expected?

And I am someone who loves all that shit, but someone who also isn’t afraid to go the opposite, at the moment I have short unpainted nails on my hands and feet, no hair or eyelash extensions in, no fake tan on and a full 70s bush!

I will remain this way as long as I feel comfortable to. And tbh I feel more comfortable like this and I’m saving hundreds every month! It’s making me question it all tbh.

I'm a scruffy git but addicted to painting my toenails red. It would give me a shock to see them au naturel, like they were running around in the nude

I never look at other people's so don't know

It's this kind of shit that makes some trans rights activists think that being a woman is all about the make up and frocks and stuff.

That's a very good point @Bigearringsbigsmile.

Was it Jenner who said something like the hardest thing about being a woman is choosing what to wear or some shite like that?

Was it Jenner who said something like the hardest thing about being a woman is choosing what to wear or some shite like that?

And Willoughby who said women with unshaven legs were ‘dirty’.

Cheer up.

You could have met my Arsehole Ex.

Not only were ANY colours of varnish on fingers the mark of a council estate whore (his words), only women with slim ankles and perfect, dinky feet were acceptable to have the palest baby pink varnish on their toenails.

He followed that up with the observation that my feet were deformed because the toes don't lie flat with the soles when the foot was elevated and I didn't walk on tiptoes at all times, ordered me to keep them covered at all times and backed this up with the assertion that if he ever saw me in the house with bare feet or sandals, especially with varnish on them, he'd stamp on them to make them straight.

DP does my pedicures and paints my toes for me and gives me foot massages. I wear whatever colour I fucking well feel like - when I feel like it.

Because judging women for whether they wear polish - or not - is cuntish behaviour.

Of course it's OK.

Hard skin/cracked heels are much, much worse.

Of course you can't

Nobody wants to see your feet anyway, but if you insist on showing them, at least spend 5 minutes putting some polish on

“Hard skin/cracked heels are much, much worse.”

And completely fine for people to go about their daily business with them on show. Why would you care?

Of course you can't

Nobody wants to see your feet anyway, but if you insist on showing them, at least spend 5 minutes putting some polish on

Is it just toenails attached to a female body that need to look pretty to be seen in public?
Genuinely interested if you expect the same standard from men and tell them they should spend five mins polishing their nails if they want to wear flip flops or open toes? Or if it's just plain old sexism and you think only women should have to wear nail polish if they want to bare them?

I never paint my nails, I don’t see the point. As long as they’re clean then who cares

When people talk about being 'groomed', I think

a) Am I a horse? (Beast of burden. To be kept in stable till others want to climb on my back.)
or
b) someone who is being softened up as a prelude to abuse?

Why does polish make then look better? That does not make sense to me?