telophase | (no subject)

While gel nails are quite good at preventing the normal chips and splits I inflict on my nails on a daily basis as I, for some reason, insist on using them as tools, unlike what the beauty industry keeps telling me I should do, they are not, in fact, very good at preventing damage derived from accidentally slamming my hand into the locking mechanism of a bathroom door.

On the bright side, it took three days for the nail to actually split, and it didn't go down into the quick so it was relatively painless, so provided I don't rip off more nails between now and then it should look fine for the wedding.

I was hoping to avoid another trip to the nail place before the wedding but it turns out that when I'm not ripping and chipping my nails like usual they actually grow pretty fast. They're not into talon territory by any means (after all, I don't yet need to type in that weird way that uses the pads of your fingers to avoid hitting them), but they're longer than I prefer and I keep accidentally scratching myself. :P

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I type with my nails, to the point where it's a bit hard to type when I break a really long nail off. It's touchscreens where I have to key them with my knuckles.

Heh. I've never had my nails survive this long before - usually before they all get to this length, I manage to tear one somehow, and then I just clip them all back. (Better than Toby, who's a long-time nailbiter and so his are usually as short as they can go!)

I know a lot of people are really into having all their nails one length but I've never gone that way. If I did, I wouldn't have long nails very often. *g* Besides, I keep my index finger nails shorter than all the rest since those fingers hurt if I type with them with very long nails.

I used to be a terrible nail biter, so growing my nails out was my bribe to myself to stop. It helped that the stuff I put on my nails in my initial growing effort tasted terrible and was probably mildly poisonous.