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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I could also probably identify the brand. Sadly.
OK, since all you nail people are about, what's a good cheap drugstore clearcoat that is a) pretty thin and b) doesn't craze reacting to artificials/ polish. I get this happening sometimes and it makes me crazy. Seems to correlate with thicker topcoats. I had a perfect topcoat, but label is gone and it's all gunked up.
You need a polish thinner, if by gunked up, you mean gone thick.
What are you looking for in it? Dry time, added shine?
Gunked up means the ubiquitous cat hair and thickening. It was a Sally Hansen, silver top, but the last one just like that I tried immediately fucked up the test nail.
I just want an extra layer to deter scratching a little more. These nails already have a coat, but after I've finished filing them down, need to do a layer b/c of the tips, which like to chip if I don't and I'm just nick-y in general (these are the fakes I use: [link] 10 minutes is a lie. Or I'm slow. )
eta: I think I want a slow dryer, actually. Something not too reactive.
I've had crazing issues with Sally Hansen top coats, too. It's kind of irksome.
Maybe this one? [link]
I could also probably identify the brand. Sadly.
I learned it from you, Plei! I learned it from watching you.
I'll give it a try and let y'all know. I've got plenty of nonfitting test nails to play with.
We are the afterschool special your manicurist warned you about!
I have had all my polishes out on my bathroom counter to remind myself I don't need to buy more. I have lots of pretty colors to play with. Last weekend I went to The Container Store and bought one of those stepped spice rack things to make them look even prettier. I love having the display of color. Yes, I have a large bathroom counter.
I learned it from you, Plei! I learned it from watching you.
Hee.
Heh. It's funny to me I've been doing fake nails since, um...1997, and yet I've done it all myself and didn't have a pedicure until a couple years ago (Kat's fault.) I even had specific abroad-rough-travel fakes!
Legal tidbit from my friend the defense attorney: Never refuse the breathalyzer. You can fight the accuracy of the breathalyzer but refusing it outright makes the distinction of drunkenness purely legal by the police's estimation. You're legally drunk whether you're physically drunk or not.
I don't see how that would matter when you got to court though. You have the right to refuse the breathalizer.