HANDS, NAILS, ETC.

Butter London has great colors but their polishes went weirdly gloopy in record speed. I had to toss a bottle after only a couple months!

This is what I've had since last week. Probably gonna paint them tomorrow though as it's starting to wear a bit:

http://i.imm.io/u7wB.jpeg

dang that's nice

i think my problem is that i have the hands of dorian grey

xxxp oh that's no good. I got them reduced so hopefully will cut my losses, either that or just use them up before they turn to shit?

I love Chanel's colours more than almost any other brand but they seem to chip more easily even with Seche Vite. However, they do seem to stand the test of time & I have a half full bottle of Blue Satin that's as good as new 6 years on.

I love it! What's the gold you have on?

You have such pretty nails! I have stubby, wide, flat, ridged nails, that are vvv ugly :/

I got really into the A England polishes for a second and bought two of the metallic ones: "Princess Tears" and ummmm ahh, oh, "Princess Sabra." Of the two, the bronzeness of Sabra suits my skin a lot better--"Princess Tears" is silver and just too cold. They're both v v pretty tho.

i admire pretty hands a lot (like i genuinely admire them and compliment them when i see them) but i sure as hell don't have them.

my hands are kind of giant octave-spanning hands but not man hands
i think hands in general are interesting

i admit that some women's slim straight tapered fingers do amaze me

mine are small and bonies

gnarly, but not mannish
they're very strong! they have that.

The world is so full of a number of hands, and they are all beautiful if their owners are loved. The slim and tapered ones are still amazing to me, though, like rrrobyn said. They're like ring models, they can wear anything.

Mine are small without being at all "fine." In fact they're downright sturdy, if slightly truncated. Much like the rest of me.

Lechera, I might call your hands sinewy? Like a drummer's! They are hands that Do Work, skilled hands, hands that demand respect.

Aw, thanks Justine. I didn't always have nice nails - I bit them to the quick until they were a gross often bloody mess until I was 28! They were really awful. I think that's why I'm so into keeping them nice now. Gyac - the gold is just some nail art thing with a tiny brush that I got at Walgreens.

I think I also have big but not mannish hands maybe.

I remember complaining to my violin teacher once that I couldn't reach certain places on the strings and he made me put my hands up to his to demonstrate that if he could, I could. Mine were almost twice as big as his. He was a pretty tiny man though.

Does anyone know of a good hand cream with SPF? I am on the hunt for one but most don't have it which is kind of dumb considering that our hands are exposed much of the time.

khiels has one but it's only spf 10 but it's decent!

Rocking peachy pink nails this week. Perfect contrast to faux biker bracelet!

http://instagr.am/p/MWqV8mjbD8/

pretty!

xp http://instagr.am/p/MWqV8mjbD8/ - guess you can't embed. Or did something wrong. Mobiles..

Thanks lady! I also wish I had more tapered fingers, they always felt bit chubby to me, but so am I so it's okay. :)

Yeah that's a pretty color.

R - thanks! I'll look into Keihls.

your fingers look quite tapered and slim to me!
i have the kind of knuckles that sometimes make rings difficult

Yeah, ffm you do have tapered fingers!

My mom has really big knuckles. Her rings wind up swimming around once they're all the way on because they need to be big enough to fit over them. She claims it was from cracking them too much but I think that's an old wive's tale.

My fingers swell up so much in the heat/humidity that there are a bunch that I just can't wear in the summer at all. Sucks.

FFM and ENBB with such pretty hands/nails!

At 38, my hands are 1) sunspotted, 2) veiny, and 3) large knuckled, as if I had arthritis (I do not, thankfully). I cannot imagine what these hands will look like at, say, 80 (hashem willing).

I was a nail biter until February (~25+ years) so I have to keep my nails perfect or slip back into the vicious cycle, like E. I did a coat today at work, which is why they look so nice. Heh.

Lechera, I might call your hands sinewy? Like a drummer's! They are hands that Do Work, skilled hands, hands that demand respect.
otm. they get the job done.

i love hands btw, men's and women's. even children's.

http://www.xojane.com/beauty/gin-manicure-o-clock-how-do-your-nails-cocktail-and-job-seeker-form

I enjoy this! Might attempt. Might print words out backwards so manicure text isn't backwards.

Cool effect but

However, it is still a trick that I wish to share with you as I’ve only seen alcohol used to rub newsprint into dull, grey nail polishes. Usually on those bone curdlingly cute nail blogs with names like Daydreams and Pedicures run by women who replaced their vagina with a rolled up Amelie poster many moons ago.

Reader, avoid such places and stick with me. I eat Manic Pixie Dream Girls and drink my feelings.

uh whoa
yikes

Oh, xojane is full of that crap - I didn't even notice. My endorsement extends to the technique only!

I defs have a love/hate relationship with xojane, I totally dig.
Like some post recently about MY ARMS ARE TOO FAT had a big yellow tag that said Healthy.

The technique is way cool, tho, was gonna do my nails today and I think I'll give it a go.

My nails have gotten super peely and my solution has been to cover it with nail polish la la la p sure that's not the solution.

idk man for me these turned out somewhere on the spectrum from 'subtle' to 'looks like I didn't wash my hands'

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg195/scaled.php?server=195&filename=img2805kr.jpg&res=landing

I thought 'hey I'll watch Grey Gardens again' while doing this and tearing up newspaper to float it in booze while watching the Beales was maybe a terrible match because it enhanced a feeling of doing something totally deranged. But maybe it was a perfect match for this activity.

also now you guys know my secret – when I do my nails I just slop it on and wait for the extra to fall off my cuticles in the shower 10+ hrs later

I do the same (polish to cover the peeling nails and removing the dried bits in the shower.)

I had a guy friend in high school who asked me to do his nails and of course I went even further outside the lines on someone else's hands. At the end he asked, "What did you do to me?"

I used a regular top coat instead of a quick dry one last night. It was nearly a disaster.

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 10:30 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

posted in healthcare thread, ha ha oops

I do both those things too - if I take a picture of my nails it's not until two days later usually :) I am so bad at it. Pity that turned out so faint! Did you grab the softest (did she say most porous? I'm on my phone) paper you could find? I'm thinking that lends itself to transferring,,but who knows..

Also you have such cool hands!

Thx! It was a grocery store weekly ad, I'd reckon that's about as porous as they come.

Bugger. :(

Guys FYI avoid the new revlon neon nail polish. I wasted an hour and a half trying to apply the purple version last night. I think because you have to put on the white then a couple of coats of the color it get bumpy and ridgey and goopy and fwiw its not very neon at all

http://www.hotbeautyhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Revlon-Neon-Nail-Art.jpeg

That is a bummer, because I am kind of digging the packaging!

I defs have a love/hate relationship with xojane, I totally dig.
Like some post recently about MY ARMS ARE TOO FAT had a big yellow tag that said Healthy.

Ugh, yeah, that site. I usually stick to stuff by Leslie Kinzel and Marianne Kirby.

Speaking of Marianne Kirby, she writes a lot about nail polish!

http://www.xojane.com/diy/summer-always-means-neon-bright-nails-relaxing-water
http://www.xojane.com/diy/ive-got-blues-where-did-all-blue-nail-polish-come
http://www.xojane.com/diy/obsessive-manicures
http://www.xojane.com/diy/striper-nail-polish

I've been trying to take better care of my fingernails. Instead of cutting them when they start to bother me and occasionally paying a professional to hack off my cuticles, I'm cutting them, shaping them, rubbing them down with coconut oil, and pushing my cuticles back roughly weekly. So far so good!

I love fancy manicures but I lack the skill, patience, and supplies to do it myself.

http://www.xojane.com/diy/flocking-cookie-monster-manicure

Impulse bought some of them Sally Hanson nail stickers. I kind of like them! It's a fancy manicure that is pretty hard to fuck up.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7550453572_6fa1cbd840.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/7550456772_3c15653d2f.jpg

That's the red lacy design. I was torn between that and the red stripe. This design is maybe too intricate and it gets lost in the shininess of the top coat (you don't have to do a top coat but I figured it couldn't hurt) so I'll try the stripe next.

whoa fancy!

i finally bought a base coat (essie, of course) and did my nails on monday and they still look like new. so i guess base coat does make a difference!

I've used both in the past and don't remember there being much a difference to me. What do you like better about the Poshe?

For a minute I was into Sally Hansen Insta Dri but it goes to stringy crap pretty fast and doesn't take well to thinning.

I like the texture better, it’s a lot less thick than Seche Vite imo and it dries faster and stays around longer. It might be though that I had heard such great things about Seche Vite and was disappointed, whereas I got Poshe after reading about it on some random blog somewhere and was really impressed.

Also, regarding different formulas. Chanel is a favourite of mine but the formula is notoriously lacking. Recently tried a new shade in the new formula and it’s definitely improved but ...this is why I always have a good bit of topcoat on.

I really like Starrily a lot these days but it’s not that easy to get.

OK I'm getting the CND Stickey base coat which everyone seems to be in general consensus about.
I was about to reach for a new bottle of Seche Vite but am reading that it gets gloppy in like 6 months and honestly I don't paint my nails enough. Do all top coats get gloppy in like 6 months???

also there is one vote each for Sally Hansen Insta-Dry, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails, Sally Hansen Diamond Strength, and Poshe and I have no idea what to pick! My goal is chip-free longevity above all else, like shine is great too but it's not my tip top priority

You can thin out the Seche Vite with SV Restore, come visit me and I will thin everything you could ever want because I have a big ass bottle that I will never finish before I die.

The Restore works to thin all polishes, not just SV. Don't try to thin with polish remover, that ain't no good.

Hard as Nails and Diamond Strength are not quick dry, I don't think. Which makes them a no-go for me.

I love getting my nails done. Did blie cat eye now. I hardly wear makeup and nails kinda work for me. I do have'em sort. I can't stand 200 meter long nails. Lol

Blue. Short. Sozzers

so wait why are some top coats fast dry and some not? What is the advantage of a non-fast-dry one if fast-dry ones seem to protect your nails just as well?

still don't understand why Sally Hansen makes 15 different top coats when they are all basically designed to make your nails shiny and long-lasting