Editorial tries to live with false nails
We wrote that long nails are back in fashion - now you can even wear overhead, which until recently was considered vulgar. But the question of aesthetics is not the only one that arises in talking about artificial nails - many are stopped by the fact that they are very uncomfortable to wear. We decided to check how Lanochka and Rihanna live and stuck long nails to herself - there were a lot of impressions.
Katya
According to popular belief, beauty requires sacrifice. Having lived only a couple of days with long (well, very long) false nails, it's hard not to agree. When we had fun glueing the nails of the entire editorial on Friday for wine and silly jokes, I had several fears at once, most of them were not confirmed. I was afraid that I would not be able to remove the lenses with these claws, fasten collars on dogs, and after the walk I would immerse the fidgety animals in the bath. To stretch skinny jeans and tights is easy, the main thing is to act carefully. I kept my nails and housework checked: I washed the floor and dishes in them and even cleaned the potatoes. The main difficulty was simply to remember that you have glued nails, and always be alert. This and the pulling sensation on the tips of the fingers, as if someone quietly presses on your nails, irritated the most.
I tore off the first nail within five minutes after sticking - too diligently adjusted the shape. Stuck back. The second was when I opened the fridge. Pasted again. The third - when I tried to pull up my pants from my pajamas. And here my patience is over: false nails went on the shelf, and I made several attempts to scrub the glue from my nails, but I did not succeed. And how to remove this glue, except for how to cut it is unknown. Hand on heart, I still didn’t like what my manicure looked like, although I thought it up myself beforehand. For some reason, it seemed that the gold flakes of foil on white lacquer would look cool and ironic, but it turned out went well in the style of "crazy empress". But it became crystal clear that for me it is more important that it was not only beautiful, but also convenient. And to hell with them, with these trends.
Dasha
With long nails I have a proportionately long story. In the eleventh grade, I decided on the first bell, as it was then fashionable, to increase acrylic: they had pink-orange and purple flowers and I was very pleased with myself until about the first game of volleyball.
With my already long nails, I went periodically at the university, they are pretty strong and easy to grow, and my best friend is just a master of doing nail art (on her much more beautiful nails than mine), so together we tried our best . On others, my long nails seem very beautiful: most of all I love Japanese nail art, as here, so that sushi is more voluminous too - the crazier, the more my delight.
In practice, everything turned out to be much sadder, but for beautiful flowers and voluminous strawberries everything clung, from the hair to the actual nails on other fingers. The very shape of these nails is not very successful - they are wider than my plates, so I was very uncomfortable pressing on my fingers. According to the work, as it is easy to guess, I always type on different devices, and on none of them I could not do it normally. It was completely unpleasant to work with the keyboard, it was necessary to press it with the nails, and by inertia it gave to the fingers. By the end of the day, I somehow made up my mind to do it pretty quickly, but it still went out more slowly than I like.
To be honest, my young man already glued my second hand, because I couldn’t pick up my new claws from my habit; what can we say about jeans and tights, which I could not wear on my own. It was very difficult for me to do almost everything, maybe because when my own grow, adaptation takes place gradually. I had to wash my hair with the back of my thumbs, and it didn't work out very well. Households such as dishes and cleaning were not bad, except for the fact that one of the nails flew off in the process, but it was frighteningly difficult to get a card from the wallet. I finally had to take them off when I tried to sew on a typewriter: I couldn’t even take a pin normally, so two days later I had to say goodbye to new nails. In order to scrape off the glue, which did not come off a single wash, it took another day.
Sasha
Throughout my adult life, I dreamed of long nails. Alas, my own nails are by nature rather weak and brittle, so I prefer the short length and do not even dare to shellac, afraid to damage them even more. It is not surprising that I wanted to participate in the experiment: false nails seemed to me a quick way to achieve luxurious length without damaging my own nails (here I was mistaken, but more on that later). Since I am indifferent to the nail art, I decided to paint my nails with a close-to-body lacquer in the hope that it would visually lengthen my fingers. I must admit that, on the whole, I liked how the false nails look, although getting used to such a bright manicure was not easy.
Growing your own nails, you gradually get used to their length; in the case of applied nails, changes occur abruptly, and the sudden inability to perform elementary actions immediately begins to irritate. Perhaps most of all I was angry that I could not use the smartphone normally and very slowly I took out the items from the bag and the money and the cards from the wallet. Oddly enough, the nails didn’t interfere with the business: it was pretty easy to clean and wash the dishes. I managed to cope with contact lenses quickly enough, even though I was afraid to damage my eyes. I was surprised that my nails flew off in unexpectedly calm moments - for example, when I was riding in a bus, straightened the bag handle and just slept.
I encountered the most unpleasant surprise when I removed the false nails. I don’t know what the reason is (either my own nails are really very weak and brittle, or I have violated some kind of safety technique unknown to me), but as a result my own nails are very cracked and look miserable, and I’d hardly dare again on a similar experiment. I think artificial nails are a good alternative to bright makeup, but I definitely wouldn’t have the patience to wear them daily.
Anya
I almost never had long nails. Since childhood, I played the accordion, so there was no talk about bright and long nails. True, in the eighth grade, I still wanted to have a luxurious manicure and increased my nails, which did not live to the first correction and fell off themselves. Being a student, especially of the first courses, when you need to draw a lot, work with paints and mascara, you somehow don’t even think about your nails, just a neat manicure was enough. And what a sin to conceal, my nails are simply not able to grow to a normal length. So I opened a photo of Lana Del Rey and took up the curvaceous cutting of plastic tips. At first, I wanted to cover my nails with a neutral flesh lacquer, so as not to look frightening, although whom I cheat - nails of such length with any lacquer look eerie. I decided to first stick them, and then paint. And, in my opinion, it was a mistake. Firstly, the lacquer in the jar was not enough, and secondly, the cotton pad, which was lying next to it, stuck to one of the fingers. I had to call the editor Dasha, the owner of strawberry nails, who painted my nails with red varnish. I looked like this.
The first test was an attempt to get a wet cloth out of the package. I was able to fasten my jeans the third time, and at home I got stuck in the bathroom, because I was able to close the lock on the door, but I couldn’t open it at any angle. I even decided to try playing the guitar, but if the right index finger somehow could be an alternative to the mediator, then I couldn’t do anything with my left hand. My boyfriend, who had to become my right hand for a while, said that his nails caused him mixed feelings. On the one hand, they look spectacular and unusual, but on the other - it is unpleasant for him when his “dead” nails touch him. When the nail breaks, it is always insulting, but when you sign at the cashier for a check on payment and your nail falls off and falls straight to the cashier, you also become ashamed. One morning trip to the store, the bank and groceries - and there are no nails on the hands with the index fingers. I wanted to come home, tear them up and not remember any more, but then I decided to continue the experiment.
Nails were tested on Saturday's general cleaning, which included cleaning the carpet, washing the oven and hand washing the cashmere sweater. But the test of narrow jeans passed through time. Most annoying that all the time you think about these stupid nails, about what you can do and what you can not. True, by the third day it starts to pass and it becomes all the same. In total, I carried false nails for five days and I think that someday I will sit down again to file tips to become like Snow White's evil stepmother, because I like the way my hands with pointed and long nails look. Only it is better to glue the nails to a party or at least a day so that they do not have time to fall off and get bored.
Masha
I was very surprised that almost all the participants in the experiment had infuriated my nails — before I edited him, I had been walking with artificial “styletto” for several days and told everyone that I could, that this was my biggest, forgive me, beauty experience in life. They usually say that you can feel yourself as a Woman with red lipstick, but she didn’t stand next to - for the first half hour after I put on the donated Ghetto Gold, I couldn’t get out of the mirror and not take a selfie.
Probably, if I went with color varnish more often than once a month, the transformation would not hurt me so much, but I stopped staring at my hands only on the fourth day. By that time I didn’t wear gloves on the subway and I felt great in the shopping center “Dubrovka”, where we went on an expedition to get a fingernail for the rest of the editorial board. In general, nails of such length and shape are made to conform: a couple of times I was late for work, because I could not get out with one tone on my face - I felt it necessary to paint my eyebrows (which I didn’t do for half a year), make eyelashes and - irreversible - emphasize cheekbones. Once I painted my fingers black, and it gave more space for makeup, but, in my opinion, the “styletto” needs to be aggressively feminine (Kim or FKA twigs - whoever chooses what), print twice as slowly and not try to wear tights and lenses - or set aside at least twice as long. Nevertheless, I seriously think to walk with such false nails all the time - I need to print at the speed of light only when I tear down the deadline (I never want to do this), and I haven't added as much femininity as yet.