Nail Varnish on girls

[BePearlCritic]

Hi,
DD came home today and said her best friend was sent to the office and made to remove her nail varnish.

Her other friend had to last week after a woman from the office came into assembly and stood in front of the whole year with nail varnish remover and waved it about and said ‘Nail varnish off, girls.’
Then she walked around and checked girls’ nails.

They both love nail varnish and both cried after it was removed.

I make sure DD’s is removed before school but do you agree with schools getting girls to remove it and would you mind if they made your daughter remove hers?

I think it's a bit dramatic but a lot of schools are like that. My daughter's friend forgot to take off her nail polish after culture day though and the teacher just said please make sure it's off by tomorrow. Or they'll get given detentions but I don't think they can be bothered to actually make them remove it. My daughter says some teachers would though.

Although, it is a rule that pretty much every secondary has so I don't think it's ridiculous to follow it?? I know you've said the girls loved nail polish but I personally think crying over removed nail polish is a bit silly! I think they will live without it even if the school are taking extreme measures.

Crying because they had to take nail varnish off?

it’s pretty standard practise for schools to not allow nail varnish.

They cried that their nail varnish was taken off? Is that not a bit dramatic?

Personally I see no rational reason to not allow painted nails but if that's what the rule is then that's what the rule is.

It's a bit of a silly school rule but uniform policies are often rigid in secondary schools.

Crying over taking your nail varnish off is ridiculous though. They won't live that down for a while.

If the uniform rules state no nail varnish then it is up to parents to ensure it is removed prior to going to school. Crying over it seems highly dramatic

It's in most schools uniform policy, rather embarrassing for your daughter to cry over it to be honest.

It wasn’t my daughter. It was her friend.

I assume it's because if they allowed nail varnish, some kids would push it with silly extensions or nail art.

Presumably the rules are well known, so they know for next time.

When I was at school we would think we were massive rebels by using clear nail varnish. Suggest that just to see their faces!

Absolutely ridiculous waste of time.

I fully support the rule (although admit I broke it several times as a teenager. Was otherwise a good student so often got away with it). When I was about 10 I used to run home on Fridays and paint my nails for the weekend, but would have to remove it Sunday night.
As an adult I always have bright shellac nails, but that is my adult privilege.

They're checking eyelashes are real at the gate at my daughters' school.

Crying for nail varnish being taken off is a bit out of proportion though.

It's not allowed in the school, so isn't it good that they provide a means for the girls to not get into further trouble?

And as they love nail varnish so much, they'll have Friday evening to look forward to, when they can paint them again until removing it Sunday evening.

If school policy is no nailvarnish then of course they shouldn't be wearing it.

They cried? Fuck sake lol. I personally don't see an issue with girls wearing nail varnish to school but if the rules are no nail varnish then it's no nail varnish so I would expect to be asked to take it off. This is 43 year old me talking though but 14 year old me would have taken nail varnish in my pocket and just keep reapplying it every time I was made to take it off lol but I was a bit of a nob at school

I find the typical UK school uniform & rules to be inane in general, but it is extremly common for schools to prohibit colored nail varnish and arguing about it is a waste of everyone's time. This school has made it clear they'll enforce the rule, so I would have zero patience for students being shocked and upset when they do just that. Crying over having to remove nail varnish that they knew they weren't supposed to have on is ridiculously dramatic.

My girls paint their toes instead of fingers during the year and we usually go get manicures at the beginning of term breaks as a treat.

My DD is allowed make up/nail varnish (in the house) all weekend but at school, I want & expect her to follow whatever the school rules are, I think it does them good (no matter if I agree or not!).

They both love nail varnish and both cried after it was removed.

In secondary school?

Blimey.

It’s the rule. If they don’t like being sent to remove nail varnish then they shouldn’t wear it.

@BePearlCritic

How old are they?? (Sorry if I missed that)

they know the rules! But they're going to push against them aren't they! Unless they're still in primary, the crying is ridiculously dramatic.

If they want to push the boundaries then they have to be prepared to accept the consequences & id have NO issue with the school removing it.

DC (now 19) and wore it all through senior school. She was never once asked to remove it, despite iften choosing red nail polish

yet some of her friends with pastel colours were 'told off' 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Maybe because in every other way she was a rule following, absolutely no trouble child??

my friends daughters school is MAD, they're allowed to wear make up, (inches of it!!) eyelashes (long, thick, clearly not natural, their hair... nothing goes, no fuss over top buttons or length of skirts (I have wider belts) very chilled re shoes, bags etc ...

... but chewing gum -instant double detention!!

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It is a bloody stupid rule though!
Having coloured nails doesn’t impact their learning in any way and the vast majority of jobs will let you have your nails however you like so it’s not like it’s setting them up
for anything.

I’ve never known of any schools here in Scotland that ban nail polish (or are in general as ridiculously strict about uniform as English schools) at yet we still manage fine

They cried? Oh FGS! 🙄We used to have to remove nail varnish and makeup when I was in school 30 years ago.

Both 13.
I agree with crying at nail varnish coming off is a bit dramatic but I also think that going around looking at girls’ nails with remover saying ‘nail varnish off, girls’ is too strict and I do always feel a bit bad at hearing someone cry, whatever the reason.

I think these days with shellac, acrylics etc it is better the school state a length of nail and a few colours.

The lady that does my nails had a student come in with an actual chart of permitted colours.

My nails break and flake (and always have) so gel nails look much cleaner and smarter.

OP

Were boys required to remove their nail polish or just girls?

@Bearybasket the trend for stupidly long nails has seen my children's old secondary state nails are to be of appropriate length and natural in colour. No coloured nail polish or fake nails are permitted.

Kids will always push boundaries and take things to the extreme. We were only allowed one stud per ear so we all reversed our studs so the butterflies were on the front of our lobes. Technically obeying school rules but not really in the spirit.

These are the sorts of nails people get. I do my own nails but follow a lot of nail techs on social media.

You said both cried in your OP