Also, I'm considering getting fake nails (wraps or tips or whatever the cool kids do these days) for professional reasons. I think my bitten down stubs really can't be helping they way I'm percieved. Thoughts pro/con?
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
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Jesse - Feb 28, 2008 11:07:40 am PST #2194 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Vortex - Feb 28, 2008 11:09:52 am PST #2195 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Thoughts pro/con?
beware! you'll quickly get addicted to nice nails. On the plus side, if you get fake nails, they are unpleasant to bite on. You will break yourself of the habit and can go back to regular nails in a while.
Aims - Feb 28, 2008 11:11:24 am PST #2196 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Jesse, I loved having acrylics. I am not as bad a nail biter as I am a cutilcle picker, and having the acrylics broke me of the habit. I miss them terribly and wish I could justify the expense. It's my goal to have us in a financial position where I can get my darn nails done and eyebrows waxed with regularity.
It's a sad little goal.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2008 11:12:24 am PST #2197 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have had phases where I didn't bite, and my nails were still crappy, so it might be worthwhile to do for a long time. I did have tips in college for a while, and I remember how double-crappy the nails underneath were when I took them off, so I know this is kind of a long-term investment.
Vortex - Feb 28, 2008 11:14:12 am PST #2198 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I remember how double-crappy the nails underneath were when I took them off, so I know this is kind of a long-term investment.
oh, yeah. I took them off for volleyball. It was a good month or two before they looked normal. They basically have to grow out entirely.
DawnK - Feb 28, 2008 11:17:27 am PST #2199 of 10001
giraffe mode
My daughter didn't get a mani/pedi until 8th grade graduation. Now that she's 16, it's a special treat, like for getting straight A's. She got kid-friendly nail polish when she was 5-ish for her toes and after about 10 she got to do her own nails and wear Bonnie Bell Lip Smakers. She still doesn't wear makeup but that's because she values sleeping over makeup.
tommyrot - Feb 28, 2008 11:20:18 am PST #2200 of 10001
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Gudanov - Feb 28, 2008 11:32:32 am PST #2201 of 10001
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Kat - Feb 28, 2008 11:51:09 am PST #2202 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Is the ick more in having a party/spending money on it?
Sort of. I loved playing with nail polish and make up etc. But it was an at-home thing. My mom certainly didn't take me to a salon that was designed with kid-me in mind. I guess it's the idea of a service industry popping up around it.
Though, maybe the nail salon is better than Chuck E. Cheese.
Atropa - Feb 28, 2008 11:54:59 am PST #2203 of 10001
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Is the ick more in having a party/spending money on it?
In my mind, it's the spending money at a specialty venue for it. A few years ago, a friend of mine told me that her 9 year old neice wanted Auntie Thea and Her Friend Jilli to be the guest stars at her birthday party, so we could do everyone's makeup. That was all sorts of fun, and having wee baby gothlings ask to be made up "all glamorous and spooky!" was the best part.
But special salon chains that are aimed at kidlings? That freaks me out.