To think long painted nails look unattractive

[Decormad38]

I am prepared to be shot down in flames but when I look at long painted nails on anyone I just think they look ugly and claw like. I just don’t get why anyone would spend money to make their hands look like that. I think short or medium length painted nails look nice but not long ones.

PhillipeFellope

Touchy subject for you is it?

It’s a dated and tacky from me 💅🏼

i get them but not to long but long enough for coffin shape

Why is it 'snobbery and disgust', some people don't like the look of them, I'm one of them.

I used to work with a woman years ago, who would wear open toed sandals from the very beginning of spring until it was almost winter in order to accommodate her incredibly long toe nails, which were always painted in deep red polish.

I imagine she had some sort of foot/nail fetish thing going on, but my god they were ugly.

They aren't my cup of tea at all. Horrible, dirty looking things.

I have long stiletto nails. I manage to wipe my bum just fine. Underneath is also clean because I wash my hands.

Right now they need an infil and they look crap so coming off tonight.

I don’t care if people don’t like them. Fine don’t get them then.

But the snobbery, bitchiness and ridiculous comments are unnecessary.

And I have said several times that acrylics don’t need to be long things.

Or dirty.

It’s the cost and time that irritates me. How have people got the time to sit for 2.5 hours to have them done?

I think this is how they become a "status" thing in some ways.

I am in agreement with the OP about them.

They only take an hour for a full set and less for infills you know!

It takes me an hour every 2/3 weeks and £15 for an Infill. New set every 3 months or so, £30 and 90 mins.

I really couldn’t get irritated by what other people spend their time and cash on.

I don't like them for the same reasons pp have said is that along with very high heels, they look so impractical, but only because I can't manage them.
I think it's a form of projection or empathy like when you see someone in depths of winter wearing no tights, high open toe shoe's and no coat, you instantly feel cold on their behalf.

Sparkly as I had an event to go to

Maybe it's because I'm a lesbian but long nails make me cringe and shudder.

Don't think they look attractive or nice at all.

My first ex had semi long nails and owww

They are OK for nights out. But if you're working they aren't a good look, if you are dealing with food.
My natural nails are rubbish due to hard work cleaning all day and doing gardening.
They still suffer when I'm wearing gloves!
I'd like to have quick stick on nails that only last 24 hours, but the glue messes up my nails even more...Boo hoo!

I have never worked in a place with restrictions, so I’ve had my nails done every 2-3 weeks (out of choice) since I was 16.

In that time I’ve never struggled doing any personal care, even when the string came out of a tampon.
I keep them clean the same way I would my natural nails, cook, clean and live a normal life.
I’ve also cared for several babies.

Some people might not like them, but I don’t like natural nails, I can’t stand the feel of my own, and my mothers longish natural ones do much more damage when she unintentionally catches me.

I love the feeling of something about me being 'pretty' and actually spending time and money of something so inconsequential would cheer me up, especial with the not doing anything else for several hours.

But I have tiny stubby nails on my left hand. You just can't fret a note properly with long nails and it's hard to convince a nail tech that you aren't insane if you say 'one hand only' or 'no longer than the end of my finger, no, 1mm is too long on that hand'. If they are even a fraction too long or the wrong shape on my right hand, playing an instrument is like attempting to run a marathon in high heels with your tights round your ankles. Sooner or later, you will come crashing down - usually sooner.

When it comes down to it, I have a choice - nice nails on both and no music or vaguely normal and natural on the right and shitty stubs on the left and music.

I choose music.

Not really AhoyDelBoy just find it amusing how disgusted some women are by other women's choice of nail length and colour varnish

Why is it 'snobbery and disgust', some people don't like the look of them, I'm one of them.

All the talk of being cheap, tacky, having dirty arses, can't possibly clean, lazy. All been said about women who wear false nails. The judgementalness of it being common or chavvy, very much Hyacinth Bucket looking down a wrinkled nose with pursed lips overtones. "I don't like the look of them" is fine, it's a personal choice, I personally don't like the shape my sister has hers done, but she's not a cheap, tacky, slovenly whatever because of it.

I despise long painted nails. Each to their own bit short and plain, or short with a nice gel polish, all the way for me. And I’m pretty glam myself (I wear hair extensions, always have my lashes done, have Botox and fillers) but I just think they look so tacky not to mention how impractical they are.

So good to all the wonderfully supportive women on this thread. Love the comments including, cheap, common, nasty. My fave must be the claim about dirty bottoms. We must believe this comment as it was made my a doctor.

I don't like the super long talons because they seem limiting- how do I cook properly or put in contact lenses? Nothing wrong with a nice manicure though, I like a few mm length to slim my fingers. My old boss in retail used to have talons. They were works of art but used to look ridiculous when she used a touch screen till or tissue wrapped. I struggled to keep any polish on normal length nails nice for longer than a few hrs in retail though, and hers were always immaculate, so I was always jealous of that!

I probably make lots of aesthetic decisions that others dislike. I wear high heels quite often, for one. Judge away.

I don't like them.
My hairdresser and her team have them and when they are washing my hair they dig in to my scalp. Gives me the heebie jeebies!

Cross post with PhilippeFellope. Well said.

Feel free to comment on the photo of my nails I posted? Opinions (and yes, obviously not everyone will like the colour. It’s not my normal)

I don't believe that women are obligated to support every single thing that other women do, just because we are all female. If a poster considers a specific look to be ugly or tacky, they are at liberty to say so, just as the person sporting that look is at liberty to disagree and do it anyway.

I have long nails (my own not false/acrylic)

I am yet to find a task I cannot do as easily as someone with short nails!

@PhillipeFellope you seem to have taken everything I replied back to you out of context.

Fascinating isn't it!? The snobbery and disgust

I haven’t expressed any disgust, or snobbery. I just don’t like them. Others on here have said harsher words than me, as I don’t judge people by their nails, I judge them on the values and principles. So my experience of my own family and friends is that they a) don’t have the money for such a luxury and b) don’t have the time for their friends and families, but choose to have their nails done - that I judge. It has fuck all to do with class as you imply.

Maybe just stop being judgemental

I wasn’t. I was explaining that women beautifying themselves, me included in that, is part of a much bigger problem. Hair, makeup, positions and lotions, eye brow shape, tinting, waxing, bleaching, exfoliating, fat freezing....I could go on and on. The beauty industry is huge and nails are one aspect of it. I was pointing out the bigger picture, that’s all.

Women like you clearly like having their nails done, and that’s perfectly fine for you. Perhaps you do it so they look nice / you feel good. No problem with that at all, I’m not completely non-beautifying (you want to see my skin care range!)

You seem quite put out by the criticism on this thread.