To wonder why people get long talon nails?

[Froglett10]

I'm fascinated by the super long, talon-like false nails. Especially the square shaped and the really pointy ones. I thought it would be a short lived statement trend but it's lasted for years now.

Curious about what people like about them? Why do you think they've been so enduring?

The type of nail bars this happens at are the cheap ones on the high street which specialise in acrylics / gel, rather than the bougie sort of nail bars where you might get a sensible French polish manicure

So I do think there is a correlation between the style of nail and the chances of it being a front for human trafficked staff

As a separate point, I do think there is a racist overtone to judging long nails though given it’s something that was historically made fashionable through women of colour

As a separate point, I do think there is a racist overtone to judging long nails though given it’s something that was historically made fashionable through women of colour

very good point and one I shall reflect on

They're really good for turning sausages
Over on the grille without the need for kitchen implements

Each to their own but I wouldn't want to be served food and drink by someone with them.

The mindset here makes me laugh. Long nails = low intelligence. Yet all the stubby nailed geniuses are just so confused about everything.

Some lovely nails on here. For me personally, and I'm sure for most of the people who have posted photos, it makes me happy and I like them. I don't care what others think, and I wouldn't judge people who don't bother with their nails at all, or have shorter nails, each to their own. A bit nasty to generalise about people based on how they like their nails, when you know nothing about them.

Why are those posting pictures, not posting the underside, I wonder?

I've had shortish take nails and yes, they get dirtier and get in the way. They aren't practical at that length, nevermind the ones two inches long.

The whole ‘choices aren’t made in a vacuum’ excuse is just bullshit rolled out (mainly) on MN to excuse name calling of women.

I would love to see examples where women have disabled themselves with these nails. Where women have felt they MUST have these nails even if it means missing out on their dream job/hobby. I don’t mean the odd Daily mail story.

You can also get your nails done and be very particular about where you get your nails done to ensure it’s not somewhere that’s using slave labour.

Just because they prevent you doing something doesn’t mean it prevents anyone else.

and most women doing it are doing it because they like it. Not because they want attention. And so what if they do? What harm is that doing you?

You want attention for your personality. For alot of people that just means you are probably annoying as fuck to try and get attention. Is that reasonable judgement to make about someone you don’t actually know well enough to know their intentions?

no choices are made in a vacuum. Just like your choice to get attention for your personality isn’t. Choosing not to have nails doesn’t mean you haven’t been influenced into it.

women can make choices, acknowledge that choice isn’t made in a vacuum and still decide ‘I am doing this because I enjoy it’

I shave my arm pits. I know the history, I know the feminist problems with it. But I also had a dad who also shaved his. It’s not a choice I made with no influence. But it’s still a choice I make for me. Plenty of times I won’t shave and have my arm pits on display. Again, a choice I am making for me.

If women want to have very very long nails, that’s up to them. Deciding that they hold responsibility to make different choices cause feminism, is anti woman. That’s like saying a woman can’t be a sahp, because it’s not a good look for feminism.

You may also want to look back (since you mentioned culture) at where this trend started from and how it’s spread. Then look at the wording (trash, disgusting etc) some people on this thread have used, then guess why so many women get so offended by these trends. Because often it’s more racism than sexism.

The type of nail bars this happens at are the cheap ones on the high street which specialise in acrylics / gel, rather than the bougie sort of nail bars where you might get a sensible French polish manicure

Nope. Anywhere that does nails will usually do any length the customer requests.

a lot of the terrible salons where slave labour is used, also offer ‘sensible French polish’

Although why do you label ‘French polish as sensible’ since you have have French policy on any length nails. Or why is it sensible at all?

The irony of posters saying they are reflective of low intelligence while simultaneously wondering how people wipe their bums.

If you are using your nails or fingers to wipe
your bum, you maybe need to be considering your own intelligence...

I've had them years now and only had one rip off twice.. hurt like buggery to be honest with you! But no, never had one just fall off

They get them because THEY like them.

They aren’t for me though.

Another snobby chav bashing post. Maybe they like them.maybe they are influenced by social media. Have they scratched you? Have they served you food with poo under their nails? Why do you care. Its not my cuppa but I think we all know that nail bars are staffed by slaves in the UK and its cheap and fashionable for people of a certain heritage? I look at fuzzy haired frazzled women and wonder why they don't care, I look at women who don't groom or care about their appearance and have a fleeting thought about how they will see themselves when their children are older and they are not needed. But it's fleeting. I wouldn't be mean enough to start a scoffing thread about people who probably are different to me, financially or culturally. Have a think.

As an edgy Latina pinup chola about 20 years ago I had very long nails and there are several ways to arrange the paper and your hand to wipe with ease. The only thing I couldn't do easily is take my card out of the pay machine at the petrol station, had to sort of awkwardly clutch it between my knuckles.

Babies nappies... bet they get poo up there talons!

Still amazed people pay for those things especially half the photos on here. Most look a kinder garden child had drawn them on, I seriously don't see the appeal. But your hands your choice, I suppose 😏.

I don’t think they reflect low intelligence but I do think I might have been wiping my arse wrong for 60 years because my fingers are on my hand and my nails are on my fingers so how do I avoid using them, even if I mummify them with toilet roll?

I knew someone who had them and worked as a housekeeper in a hotel. She was adamant that she could do everything and was so used to them that she struggled to do things without then on.

I think they're vile and unhygienic.

For vile read common

@dustandroses

If you're getting shite on your fingers and nails when wiping your bum, you're doing it wrong...

Nope.

I tend to use wipes when cleaning up a baby, not my finger nails.

Yeouch. 😳 why do they sit so raised on the nail bed? Is the ‘nail’ itself pretty thick?

I wouldn’t have them (I have a many animals and don’t fancy trying to keep them clean) but I am sort of horrified/fascinated by them.

Have you ever finished changing a babies nappy and had fingers smeared with poo? Because I’ve had 4 kids and worked in multiple nurseries have never had that happen. So they’re pretty unlikely to end up with ‘poo up their talons.’

My friend with very long nails has a small chain on her cash card to pull it out, she also demonstrated to me how to get a trolley coin out. Apparently there are videos on YouTube on how to wipe your bum with very long nails too.

I’ve now got myself into a Google rabbit hole of ‘how to clean the underside of acrylic nails’. Yikes.