Printable View
:p so i was just wondering who out there has ACRYLIC NAILS..and do you have french tips or colour??
i have french and sometimes colour and i only have them short,i have had mine now for about 3 yrs
so do you have real or fake nails,short or long,and do you have any thing fancy done to them ??
silly question ,i know but just interested ;)
Hey i have been having my acrylics done for 2 years my nail lady is awesome and i have glitter tips always have them long which isnt good for netball as im always hurting myself oh well my nails are a big thing to me i dont smoke or drink so i have my nails hehe i have had rainbow, tiger stripes, pink, christmas colours, playboy, the list goes on.
I was studying to become a nail tech so I use to wear them alot and have all sorts of nail art - now I cannot stand the smell so don't get them done so my nails are now horrible bitten and not pretty. :D
I have had acrylic and have grown my own but am considering getting them again as I keep getting stressed and biting my own nails!
just gotta find a good but cheap nail tech!
MEL.i just go to profanails ( spelling lol) there quick and cheap enough:
SARAH.. kool im going to get the glitter i had that done for my wedding so i might try that again next infill
I'm the same, it's my one thing I do for myself :)
Right now mine are painted french with a silver glitter line because I was in a wedding two weeks ago. Mine are different depending on whether I am doing anything special or lately whether Juliette can handle the extra time for painting & drying LOL! My favourite thing I used to do was get the pierced, looks very funky.
Dusty, I've had the glitter acrylic & it looks awesome :D I had it just on the tips, so it was like glitter french if that makes sense. It does take longer for them to do the infills if you have just the tips though because they have to do the glitter tips then the regular bottoms (??). You can get the glitter in stacks of colours or a multicolour one. Hmmmmm now I want my glitter tips back LOL!
:dance: oh sarah h that sounds so kool im getting the glitter tips heheh:lol:
OMG and the peircing:dance: i want that done does the normal nail shops do that ??
Most should its fairly easy for them to do the charm. Just ask when you make the booking ;)
I have had them before but I melted them on a candle :redface: didnt smell or look so good I can tell ya :lol:
My natural nails normally grow really well when I am UTD but lately sence turning 30 they are growning all by themselves IRL friends kept asking if I am UTD...
But ATM with all the worry over moving and where we will live I have noticed my bad habit of slowly filing them off with my teeth is coming back so now I only have one nice nail left :doh: I will have to start to grown them again coz they look so pretty...
BTW my sister always gets a great nails with cool colours and piercings... they look ubra cool...
I have real nails... only because I apparently have oily nail beds so acrylics fall off me within a week after getting them. After spending time and money getting them done to have them last not even a week led me to have to deal with it and grow my own. I love the look of acrylics though and wish I could get my poor brittle & weak nails to look the same.
I haven't had acrylics since my wedding in 2005. I've thought a lot about getting them again but would only do it if I could afford to maintain it as I know how much it wrecks the nails. I have natural nails which I don't keep too long as I do a lot of typing, but I don't bite my nails. I had a mani/pedi the other day (my first ever pedi) and I love the way my natural nails look after the mani. I did get the girl to do a french polish, but I bumped it before it was fully dry so I took off the polish the next day and buffed my nails at home. I might just get regular mani's to keep my natural nails looking good.
Yep most normal nail shops should be able to do the piercing for you. Otherwise you can buy the little kit to take with you or do it at home (but it's a bit hard one handed!). You can usually get them at hairdresser, beuaty shops, chemists, you know like Priceline or Hairhouse Warehouse. Actually I have a stack here somewhere, if I can find them I can send you some (I think I have a spare drill thingo too).
I had them done for years, and now after reading all your comments i want them back again. I used to get french tips most of the time, sometimes colour if I had something special on
:clap: aw sarah h that would be wonderful ..if not ill go looking im really excited now .
ill be the only one around here ,that i know of that will have them OMG..were not like the city people were a bit slow to learn the trends :rofl:
ps... my daughters are going to love it,MUMMY CAN I HAVE MINE DONE ...UMMMMM NO...
Found them, will PM you Smithy :)
:cheer::bluecheer: thank you very much hun ,i will let you know how i go ...i cant wait :dance: im gonna have funky nails woot
I had mine done for about 5 years but haven't had them done again since DD was born :(
Both times I went back to work after mat leave I was going to get them done again but my nail salon had closed down and I couldn't find anywhere else that I thought I'd be happy with.
How many of you go to those mass production type places - you know the kind I mean? They've sprung up everywhere the last few years.
My nail lady used to do the funkiest nails for me - different coloured acrylic tips, glitter acrylic....they were so cool. I miss them :(
I have gel nails, can't use acylic sensitive skin. Had them for 2 years now, love them. Depends on mood what I have done, at the moment french tip. I go to the bulk places, called profesional nails. Though there is another one at the mall where I go and would not go there everyone that I know who has ended up with an infection.
Ive had them....but theres something about short, clean ,nicely manicured natural nails that i like......
.....thats what i think too.:
I love the way my natural nails look after the mani. I did get the girl to do a french polish, but I bumped it before it was fully dry so I took off the polish the next day and buffed my nails at home. I might just get regular mani's to keep my natural nails looking good.
I was horrified at the state of my nails after about 3 months of acryclics....so no, there not really for me.
I always had the most horrible nails until I got pregnant with DD!! While I was training to be a nail tech part of the training was practicing on each other, so for a few months I was constantly having acrylics put on once a week and it was *horrible*... so damaging to the natural nail, and I have really oily beds so they'd always peel/crack off within a day or two (and, it didn't help that the other trainees doing them weren't really good at what they were doing!).
So, once I started growing my beautiful lush pregnant nails, I never looked back - I take good care of them and I don't think I'll ever get acrylics again, even when I do finish my training and hopefully become a nail tech/beauty therapist! I can do french tips and all kinds of cool things with nail polish on natural nails, so I don't miss out on all those gorgeous designs and tips that I see ladies with fakies having! My latest 'experiment' involved leopard-print nails... it worked a treat :D I often do reverse frenches - pale pink/buff (I prefer pink over buff/tan, pink suits my skin colour better) base with black tips, or bright tips (hot pink, neon green, bright blue, glitter etc).
Best tip I can share with all of you, whether you love your fakies or your real nails, is Solar Oil (google it). Best. Thing. Ever. Invented for nails.
OMG i miss mine!!
I have had them for YEARSSSSS... 4 week's ago i got them off and have had to work so hard on strengthing my own nails.. it is slow but im getting there!!!!
But i miss mine so much!!!
I used to just get french... but every few re-fills i would get colour, or the glitter acrylic (mind you, for the $$'s they were extra i dont know if id do it again)....
Boy do i miss my nails.. lmao have i said that already! :doh:
Enjoy your nail's gals..... :D
OMG the last time i had my nails done was like in 1993 ... no kidding :rolleyes:
Me too GothMum, ... my nails were simply gorgeous when pregnant (long & strong which they usually aint and sadly mine arent now ... boo hoo) !!
Since DD has been on the scene i rarely get to paint my finger nails (just file these days) ... but i must have my toes nails painted (find them easier to paint & especially dry) ....
I'm a huge fan of metallic nailpolish ... oh, especially bright or dark purple's & dark blues :dance:
:dance: om goodness this is going to be so much fun sarah ,ive just been googling nail piercing :D and what sort of stuff girls put in them .
i know just what i want ,its on ebay so ill try and get it to show you .
how exciting .
Revlon has a great range of new metallic/dark shades... apparently this season the big trend is for 'gothic' hues (lololol, every winter the soft-goth thing comes out, I love it because I can stock up on clothes without spending a fortune buying from specialist retailers overseas!), so dark blues, blacks, browns, jewel tones (blood red, dark purple, forest green etc) and metallics are everywhere :D:
I'm afraid to look Smithy!! It might cost me a fortune ;)
i miss acrylic nails :(
its one of those things that i always want to go and do, but just never get around to it!
everytime i have some spare money, i think.. 'i'll get my nails done!' but just never get there!
can i have them done while im pregnant? i know the smell of those shops is so strong...
I had mine done all time while pregnant, i alway took a water bottle with me and I would step outside if needed. They were great about it.
I found an online store for all things nails that looks good...I might be sorry that I found it now. (might spend too much money)
:p i found these but im not sure i want them ,im still looking for something gold like a cross or something iykwim..ill go watch the biggest looser then ill go looking hehehe
8 Pastel CANDY ROUNDS Nail Art Dangles Jewelry - eBay, Nail Art, Nail Care Polish, Health Beauty. (end time 06-May-09 09:13:00 AEST)
I loved mine when I had them... It meant I always had neat and tidy nails, and I found they always looked good when I looked at my hands rather than having them all uneven because I break them. Having said that I've also broken quite a few acrylic ones too... I'm a disaster zone what can I say.
DH also liked them, he thought they were sexy ;)
But financially I just couldn't keep it after Christmas, I almost cried the day they came off :)
Smithy you are bad bad news posting that!! They are awesome & there are about 15 I want to get now!!! I like the idea of the security rings too so nothing will snag on them. Oh I am so piercing my nails again :D
Sonya I've been known to break mine as well, clumsy thing that I am!! Aaron loves mine too for back scratches ;)
I have acrylic but with the gel overlay to make them glossy looking. The place I go also does acrylics for toenails! At first I thought that was a little weird but my nail tech told me they are really popular and he once had a lady cry afterwards claming her toenails were that horrible she could never wear open toe shoes until now.
:dance: OMG JUST LOOK AT THESE ONES SARAH :rofl: im luving them and i want them lol...
what have you done to me pmsl..your terrible sarah ...:lol:
http://www.trendyprincess.com/fashio...les_simple.htm