ladies.

I am So Stupid. I just shelled out fifty bucks to have my nails professionally done, and I could kick myself. I have made this mistake before, but something possessed me to do it again. Don't ask me what.

It's been probably three years since I last had acrylics and now I remember why I stopped having them done. My cuticles are bleeding, my nails actually hurt and my fingertips are swollen. Not to mentioned that I unknowingly booked with a "rookie" nail tech, one month out of nail school, and it became obvious to me within seconds that she didn't know what she was doing. My first clue was when she said, "are you sure you want me to do a french manicure?" *insert scared face here*.....

I didn't want to be rude, so I sat there for the 2 and 1/2 hours it took her to do them (2 and 1/2 hours of my life I'll never get back), and watched as she ruined my nails. She painted the acrylic on too thick, she missed the sides of several nails, and possibly worst of all the smile lines are all smudgy looking, not crisp at all. I'm pissed off. At myself mostly. My nails were perfectly fine, why the hell did I do this? lol......I guess I just always have to learn the hard way.

I'm tempted to soak them off in acetone but I am afraid of the pain because of my torn-up cuticles. She used a drill to file the acrylic down and lo and behold she repeatedly drilled my actual cuticles. BURNING PAIN. I smiled through it however, because I didn't want to be rude by telling her she was hurting me. ACTUAL BLOOD. And she kept on filing the bloody cuticles! And my cuticles were perfectly healthy before! I think she actually completely removed them. Then she burned me with the drill. I flinched a little and she goes, "oh sorry, is that hot?"

😢

No, not at all, I just feel like you've held a match up to my finger, no biggie.

I'm dumb, I will never do this again ever ever ever!

And I tipped her five bucks. 😢

I could never quite get passed people who had their nails done. The thing is, you can't do anything once you get them. The only thing they're good for is scratching (scratching peoples eyes out, lol). Think of it this way, at least you know you will NEVER do it again. I didn't realise it hurt so much.

Oh, the price of vanity.

LOL, I know, I know.
This is the price I must pay.

I'm going to soak them off. It's going to hurt though.

And getting them put on doesn't always hurt that much, I just got an inexperienced nail technician. Which SUCKS.

Wow pheonix, you have so much more patience than I do. I would have yelled at her seriously for screwing up.

lol, believe me, I wanted to get up and run out of there the entire time. But I sometimes lack the balls necessary to be so bold. I soaked them in acetone (paint thinner) last night, and it took me literally three hours because she used so much g-damned acrylic. I am so happy to have them off. Suprisingly, my natural nails aren't too awfully damaged underneath. However, I have no cuticles now, which is very painful. You don't understand, I'm very upset about the cuticles. lol. It looks like a wild animal attacked me and chewed on my fingertips. Huge raw spots. Working today sucked, everything I touched made me wince, and I deal with so much icky money all day, that I wash my hands about eighteen thousand times a day, with antibacterial soap, which STINGS LIKE A BIIIITCH because of my wounds. I know I'm complaining a lot but this has been a rather disturbing, upsetting and expensive experience.

Kay, enough complaining now! 🙂

what are they teaching these nail techs anyway? cuticle shredding 101—

Oh, and words of wisdom to any of you ladies who might decide (and rightly so) to remove those f-king acrylics: if you have any wounds or scrapes or cuts WHATSOEVER, NO MATTER HOW MINISCULE, on your hands, fingertips, or CUTICLES, by god, put Carmex or a similar thick lip balm over them before soaking them in acetone. TRUST ME!! It will still sting a hell of a lot, but much less. One of my coworkers is a licensed nail tech who told me about the Carmex trick and it saved me from literally crying in pain last night. Oh and make sure you have lots of free time because it will take FOREVER for that stuff to come off. The bastard artificial nails, that is.

And just one final observation: natural nails are so much prettier when well-groomed! I freaking knew this, my nails would have been just fine as they were. Why why why am I stupid? 🙂

lol

poor phoenix!! *hugs*

Have you ever tried electrolisis? Now THAT hurts. I was lying there today thinking "the pain, the pain, beauty for money"...

We sat out side by a pub once and guessed were the hair was to be removed from on the people going into the electrolisis shop.