Nails Did

Since Summer 2011 I’ve become obsessed with nail polish. Mainly OPI, which has become costly but I just love it. I’ve spent hours on my nails and I don’t feel bad about it.

But Why?

Color= Expression
And self-expression is everything to me.

Bright, bold and eye catching things that I try to evoke through my self and in my artwork. I have a natural knack for color,I like putting color combinations together. Nails are an easy way to express ones self and play with color. To see
the color on my nails make me happy which is something we all need something near us that makes us happy.

But that rant is kind of stupid , maybe there is something more behind this recent obsession.

I’ve always been complimented on my nails, my mother always points them out to people saying, “Look how pretty her hands are, look at those beautiful almond shaped nails.” I guess I feel like I should give them something to look when my mother points them out and I do think I have pretty hands and nails so why not work with it?

Speaking of my mother, I’ve spent numerous hours with her in nail salons growing up and even now. In the summer we go together to get pedicures, it’s something that we do religiously. And then we argue she gets mad because I only want a pedicure not a manicure because my nails have to be a specific way and they just don’t to it right.
The right way is perfectly square, preferably medium length. Of my own natural nails, I have never or will ever get fak

e nails. I’ve seen the destruction that they do to one’s real nail

s and I really don’t think that they are pretty. They look like plastic globs .

My nails having to be perfectly square comes from the fact that I used to bite my nails when I was younger, I don’t remember how it started but I realized the problem was that if they had perfectly square, then I didn’t bite them.


Which is funny because I am only that way about my nails anything else can be crooked, doesn’t matter to me.

I think my nail obsession which is a stretch but maybe not, I’m not sure yet. Boils down to this I like the instant gratification of it to see my ideas come out of my head faster, like Photoshop and photography. It does however feed into my need for things to be now, Now, NOW but I think it’s helping. I always mess up my nails because they don’t dry fast enough but I’m learning to wait, stay still and it will happen.

I love how hobbies, or maybe that’s the wrong word, Interests no still wrong word.I love how what we like to do had the power to become introspective mirrors into one’s self.

Last Thoughts:

-Matching nails and feet are corny.

-Stiletto nails are scary you could hurt yourself.