ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover) (10/17/83)
Have any of you ever had your fingernails 'augmented' in a beauty
salon? You know - where they paint on that gooey glue and extend
it way beyond your natural nails. When the stuff dries, it's
harder than real fingernails ever get, and can be worn
indefinitely. You can even buy a kit and do the whole procedure
yourself -as with freshly applied nail polish, it no doubt is
guaranteed to make the washing machine overflow or bring on an
attack of the "runs" just as soon as you get the goop applied
correctly.
I have heard that this "glue" is damaging to your real nails and
can even cause an infection. Have any of you had such an
experience? I think most of us probably have too much faith in
the relative "cleanliness" of most makeup (especially eye-makeup)
and need to be more vigilant about the chemicals promoted by the
Madi$on Avenue pushers.
ssc-vax!gingerjamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan) (10/21/83)
Have any of you ever had your fingernails 'augmented' in a beauty
salon?
I was a nail-biter and couldn't seem to stop. My sister had those fake nails
done and it stopped her nail-biting so I did it too. She went to a women who
put on something she called "porcelain" nails as opposed to the usual "acrylic"
nails. The claim was that the porcelain let your nails "breathe" (why they
should want to do this I don't know) and so you weren't likely to get an
infection as sometimes happens (so I am told) with acrylic nails.
My sister has been getting them done for about 1 1/2 years. I just got an
initial application and then went back for one "fill-in".
After the first application, I had these incredibly hard fake fingernails
extending beyond my own bitten ones. Of course they grew and then the ridge
(filed down to almost nothing) becomes visible at the bottom of the fingernail.
I was happy because my own nails were growing underneath. The fake nail does
eventually lose its adhesion to the real nail, at the edges and a blow or
knock can break pieces of it off especially where it has loosened from the
real nail. This takes four or five weeks, though.
As I said, I went back one more time (my sister goes once a month, regularly)
and she filled in the portion at the base of the nail, that had grown in.
She first cut off any loose edges of the original stuff.
I didn't go back after that because I figured I was out of the habit of nail-
biting after not doing it for two months. I just let the stuff keep growing
off. The bottom edge was about half-way up my real nail when it really began
loosening and either came off accidentally or I pulled it off because I
didn't like the look of it when loose. The portion of my real nail that had
been underneath the fake one was very thin (it had been filed to a rough
consistency to adhere to the gluey stuff). Once that portion grew off, I found
that my nails seem to be stronger (they were always very weak and prone to
splitting) than they were before the whole process.
It was expensive. The two treatments totalled about $75. I have stopped biting
my nails, though.
--Judy McMullan
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