This is what they started out as:
They weren't even THAT cute. 100% not worth it.
It's been exactly a month since I got these horrible things gorilla-glued onto my nails. They were nice for about a week, and then everything started going downhill. Though I have brittle nails and these helped with some stuff, they made it impossible to text, type, zip my own pants, anything. Part of that is due to the length, to be fair. However, about two weeks ago my right pointer finger nail just ripped in half. Awesome. Half of it was still super-glued to my finger. I had to file the rest of the mess off, which takes FOREVER. And it damaged my nail. So then I'm walking around with 9 long, perfectly shaped nails, and one derpy super weak nail that I ended up having to cut all the way down.
It gets better.
I decide that I should probably try to get at least the gel polish off of them. This is a painfully long task that requires nail polish remover, cotton balls (or paper towels), aluminum foil, and apparently 5 hours of your time. Before you can even start that process, you have to file down as much as you can with a nail file, then soak the paper towel in remover, wrap that around your nails with aluminum foil. Your fingers will look like pickles, and it won't hardly get as much off as you feel like it should (although it works magic with sparkly polish). After you let that sit for like half an hour to an hour, you have to file down again. IT SUCKS.
The real issue is with the glue that adheres the fake nail to your real nail. I tried soaking my nails in nail polish remover, which is supposed to weaken the glue, but to no apparent avail. I tried heating up the nail polish remover and THEN soaking, which I think worked a little better, but my nails weren't just peeling off like I'd hoped. I'd soak, then file some, then soak again, then file. I did this for days. Not hours. Days. I'd soak for an hour and a half to two hours, and still nothing.
Now, my left hand middle finger bent forward when I hit it on something, and it lifted my nail with it. Bruised my nail bed so severely that I couldn't use the finger. It turned purple, and the nail itself started turning orange. I was convinced that it was starting to get infected. Thankfully not, but that doesn't mean it wasn't excruciating. Soaking in heated nail polish remover was too painful. Filing was too painful. There was nothing I could do to get it off. I clipped off the fake nail as close to my actual nail as possible, but still nothing helped.
UNPLEASANT!
Finally I read about this trick - it seemed implausible, but I tried it out. If you can lift up part of the fake nail on the cuticle side of your finger, you can slide a piece of floss under it and slide it toward the tip of the nail in a sawing motion. This is easier with a second person, but you can do as I did and wrap one side of the floss around another finger.
Unfortunately, this still hurt, so I had to wait for two days before trying anything. I had to let the nail heal completely before sawing up the glue. Once I got the nail off, there had been serious damage done to it. The picture doesn't show it well...
One down, eight to go.
I can say with sincerity that I will never again get fake nails. At least not from this place. I caution you all when deciding on whether or not you want to get them.
I strongly recommend going au natural.
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