How do you paint your nails?

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I tried doing it myself for the first time in years as I still had some makeup laying about. But I'm a righty. It was hard doing the other hand. It's more harder to do my toes as well.
 
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Generally after I hammer them in I use a cotton tip and dab it the color of paint closest to the wood species.
 
I'm dogshit at painting my nails and always pick at them anyways about a day after I paint them. But when I do paint them for special occasions and shit, I do as follows:

I paint one of my left-hand nails. When I inevitably colour outside the lines, I wrap a wet wipe around my right index finger/nail, and use my wet wipe-covered nail as a makeshift pinpoint eraser it to quickly neaten up any irregularities around the cuticles and sides while the varnish is wet. Once finalised, proceed to next nail.

Once the painted hand is definitely dry, do the same but vice versa.

Kind of unorthodox but it's so easy to just quickly wipe up the excess mess with precision, instead of trying to use fiddly tools or spending ages with shaky hands, hoping you can paint with no mistakes. It takes a couple extra minutes over just normally painting and hoping for the best, but they look so much nicer and neater, and means it's not a massive deal if you fuck up.
 
I paint my nails myself, and I'm pretty good at it.

It took practice to learn how to paint with my non-dominant hand. If you paint your nails often enough, you get used to it.
 
I'm a lefty with pretty good control over my right hand. The best advice I can give is make the coats thin, start in the middle of your nails and use only gentle pressure and wait about 5 minutes between coats. Also, have either an acetone/nail polish remover pad or a q-tip with just a bit of the remover on the cotton to get any spots that may have got on your fingers.
 
You can use a pedestal polishing/buffing machine to give your nails black/grey metallic sheen, I believe from the buffing compound, gives it a little sparkle. If you have the means to replicate this I recommend caution as you probably could break your fingers if you aren't careful and probably isn't recommended
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With practice, but some people find it helpful to hold the brush passively with your left hand while you move your right hand to coat the nail. This method actually seems more difficult than just using your left hand, but whatever works, I guess.
 
i have a small paint brush to clean up any messy edges with acetone. other than that, lots of practice. i would suggest a peel-off base coat for when you are learning so your nails will not be as dry from removing polish too often.
 
I don’t. I have the hand-eye coordination of a child. If I get them painted I’ll go to a salon but that’s expensive so it’s rare.
 
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I don’t. I have the hand-eye coordination of a child. If I get them painted I’ll go to a salon but that’s expensive so it’s rare.
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I was a bridesmaid at a wedding two and a half years ago, and the bride requested that the bridesmaids get french manicures, so I got a mani and pedi for the first time in a LONG while.

I am pretty horrified by how expensive nail salons have become in the 2020s. I always prefer to do my own manis, but getting a pedi every so often can be nice. In 2019, all I needed was 30 bucks for a pedi (which included the generous tip). In the 2020s, "basic" pedis are now like 75 bucks (not including tip), and most of the time they don't even do an okay job let alone a good one. Let's just say that I've had terrible luck with looking for a decent nail salon nearby.

Effing insane and not worth it at all anymore.
 
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