Friend is boring me with the same conversations constantly

[DandyTaupeHiker]

I have a friend who I met through shared housing a few years ago before I moved in with my boyfriend. All she messages me about is nails and getting her nails and lashes done. Like I mean every single day, memes about it and giving off about people not doing them how she likes etc.

I am extremely low maintenance and don't give a shit about any of it. It's actually really starting to grind my gears because it's constant and she doesn't talk about anything else.

We aren't super close but would meet up every month for a catch up and walk but now I feel like I want to slowly ghost because this has really felt like a one sided conversation in the past year.

I've hinted in messages that I don't care for the beauty talk and would rather have an actual catch up rather than a conversation based on cosmetics, but she keeps on and on about it.

Any advice?

What's an example of how you have hinted?

Have you tried being more blunt?

Do you think she actually is capable of talking about other subjects?!

She sounds incredibly dull - why on earth have you stayed in touch with her so long?

I have a friend like this who bores on about holidays. On and on and on about various holidays she wants to take. It’s all fantasy as she never goes anywhere. It drives me mad. I would tell her straight the friendship has run its course.

@Chamomileteaplease I've had to say to her that it seems like a bit of an obsession and that I dont have interest in it. I actually had to tell her to stop sending me tiktoks of people getting pedicures because looking at people's feet makes me feel ill.
I don't get how she can't simply take the hint.

Sounds like you were quite clear then, not just hinting.

Do you know why you want to keep in touch with her?

Just ignore her messages

How weirdly specific, did she have better chat when you lived together?

If this is on WhatsApp I’d be tempted to archive the chat.