(01-11-2011, 07:47)jayzee77 Wrote: never tried fake nails, just got my own, short and neat, some times painted but mostly not.
Are they quite firm Jayzee?
Mine are so soft it is ridiculous. The slightest knock and they will get damaged and peel off. I used to think it was due to constant biting, but I've grown them and stuck to it and tried so hard to just let them grow naturally, but they just won't as they bend and are so soft.
I have an acquaintance who was married to a friend of mine and she said she was really stressed out. I looked at her beautiful shaped nails and said she couldn't be or she would have no nails left and she told me to feel them. They were like teflon! I would have been envious but her husband was dying of cancer, so you can't really, but gosh I'd give anything to have nails like that.
The acrylic fills I have on my nails make them feel like that and I can use my nails so much better then I could before. I couldn't have opened a can with them before, the nail would have buckled under the strain, or stratch something with a nail, as it would likely have led to breaking it. I love being able to run my nails down a back and know that it feels good, instead of scratchy, like it would have been.
Those glue on false nails are awful!!!! I've got about 4 packets of them untouched, as I used to wear them before I had acylics put on and don't think I will ever wear them again.