sarameg, refresh my memory on if this is on natural nails or? Because if you are getting three weeks, I need to come there let you show me how.

Toes, I can get a month pretty easy and sometimes two until the nails get so long I could climb snowbanks or I take the polish off of one.

Fingernails? Not so much.

Though I really need to paint mine. Perhaps tonight. I just can't decide on a color.

Yeah, aside from the wearing and chips on the edges, I'm not happy with the amount of grow-out after one week.

Someone my parents know got an insurance broker to call me and he researched coverage options. Looks like if I can get the paperwork done and approve we can be saving $900+/month on insurance.

Yeah, I was all jealous of you guys having nail color last a week. I just did (Nubar Venetian Glass Bronzo, with Diamont top coat), and that was the first time. Three or four days is more typical for my hand-intensive lifestyle.

Of course, I also bruised my fingertips the other night learning Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine." So I am not really expecting long-lasting polish. I have no color on today because I busted it up yesterday in the pool. And I perform Saturday, so I didn't want to be on Day Three onstage. So I will paint tomorrow, which means I have to decide what I'm going to wear Saturday so the color makes sense.

You guys will make a girl out of me yet.

But I gotta get offline and go rehearse. I had a half-productive, half-ridiculous day today. I am weary.

Looks like if I can get the paperwork done and approve we can be saving $900+/month on insurance.

Woah! (And/or Whoa.)

Mine are fakes. I've been doing this for over a decade, I think I've probably internalized some behaviors that prevents destroying them. Also? My natural nails grow slooooooow. They get a little dinged up around the tips and my mouse-hand pinky nail gets shorter, but I can usually go 3 weeks before I gotta do new ones.

Unless, of course, I get stripper melting through a glove.

Toenails (which aren't fake) usually last a couple of weeks. They'd probably last longer but for swimming.

These, in pink medium or short: [link]

My zombie manicure is showing some wear and chips at the tips. But one of the bonuses to having a manicure that looks like blood spatter is that I can dab more polish on, and it will look just fine.

I need to see if I can buy the red I have on, because they did it at the place last weekend, and I'm pretty sure it's my new One True Red. OPI Malaga Wine.