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@Alice I like my nails to look nice and also detest the feeling of long nails. Curious to hear how they hold up.

@Alice Right there with ya. Can't abide the feel of long nails and the awkwardness of trying to use my fingers multiplies the frustration.

Might try cut-down press-ons like yours though. See if I can bear the thick and stiff feel on my nails.

@Alice
Yay! Welcome to the club!

Believe it or not, I actually make my own. I use "blanks" then cut, trim, file and paint. I use little double sided sticky to keep them in place.

First photo shows my sticky tabs and the second is showing off my latest set using OPI Princesses Rule.

And having long nails... gah! I don't know how people do it. @Wallflower has her (homegrown, natural) nails long and when I showed her these I was complaining to her not understanding how she does anything with them this long.

#LaqueristasOfMastodon

@Alice Gotta say, I like fancy colors, patterns & textures more on short nails than long ones 🤩 I mean, if the fashion statement of long nails is "look at me, I don't need to use my hands for manual labor", then the statement of short, fancy nails could be interpreted as "my hands work as actual hands but I also like decking out in cool colors & stuff" & that would handily explain my aforementioned preference 😁

One thing I will say is that I do like painting my nails every now and again but I’m very bad at it so this was an easy way to get a clean "polish" job on my own.

But overall I do not enjoy the feeling of a second set of "nails" on my nails and I won’t be sad when these things start flying off like shrapnel.