Cali

Winner!

Riverboat

Since I have had only limited ventures out into the real world in the past few months (I'm quite busy working from home), I ventured to the open air market this weekend. No cherries or apricots, maybe next week, but pluots, peaches, and nectarines. My garden is giving me salad and beans. But as I entered I notice a woman looking at me differently and then she mumbled something I could hear under her mask. I asked "What?" and she said, I love your heels, I have the same pair and I wish I could wear them and walk like you do."  In this time of social distancing all I said was "thanks" and we parted.

Box Cars

Time to re-wire a room...in heels.

Dice

@mlroseplant I hoping I wont have to use this portable laser treatment forever.  Maybe once a week just to be sure.  The laser worked thru polish as well. Most of those other treatments kill the fungus but not the spores and those can take weeks to emerge then re-infect.  That's why you have to do a "program of treatments" to kill the spores as the emerge.  For me this has been 3 times a day for the first two weeks, once a day since.  I saw significant difference after the first week.  Now I'm just waiting for my nails to grow out.

It can spread from one nail to another, from you to your partner, so its something to look after. It also has been associated with diabetes.  If all your toes get infected then you can say goodbye to open toed sandals in the summer. I know I can't, I have too many open toe heels I love to wear.

11 hours ago, Pumped said:

It might be time to learn how to do your own nails.

I can do a decent job and would show some of my work, but someone here complains. But doing it myself is very slow since my hand contains non-OEM parts and can be painful if used too much. So I have to do it in parts over days.

Checkers

48 minutes ago, RonC said:

I'm with you sir!  I could see typical nail polish removed with a simple wipe off with polish remover such as my wife does.  But once you get into tools and chemical wraps you lose me...

Of course for me, toe wise, I could not do any kind of polish as I contracted that damn nail fungus crap about 25 years ago.  

I just did a 8 week laser program on a few nails that killed my fungus, I'm just waiting for the nails to grow out. I couldn't take the smell of the tea tree method and didn't want to take a drug internally either. 

Gel nail polish is stronger than the regular nail polish and will last for weeks. Regular nail polish chips too frequently and needs to be fixed or changed more frequently. I work with my hands and they are always on display, so using regular nail polish would be very time consuming; beside there is already a gel polish layer over my acrylics as part of the acrylic process.

Hang Ten

On 5/31/2020 at 3:16 AM, Thighboots4 said:

New pleasers

Nice boots, but be careful with those stilettos and the gaps in the deck.

Surfboard

When they only use a Dremel to take the gel off they also take a layer of nail and your nails get thinner. My nail tech would take a few layers of gel off with a Dremel then wrap my fingers to remove the the rest of the gel.  My nail artist was going to change me to another method where she used the Dremel to remove the color, but not the hard clear coat underneath. 

They are saying at we may not have nail salons back until the end of August. Unfortunately my nail artist has decided to move back to her hometown, 4 hours away, so I will need to find a new artist.

Tourist Trap

Circles

Wavy Turban Snail

Poke

Reward

3 hours ago, Bubba136 said:

What is “Hesiod”?

This is not Jeopardy no reason to poise your answer as a question.  

Word:  Jeopardy

In one of my lives I was a research chemist, and as a chemist you want your hands complete free of jewelry. Especially around acids and radioactive tracers. I  have been jewelry free since.

You can take the acrylic off yourself.  It just takes time.  You will need foil, acetone base remove and cotton (I use the cotton that comes with some medicine).  Cut the foil so you can wrap it completely around your finger/toe. Soak the cotton in the remove, place it on the nail. I use twister for this. Then wrap the nail in foil.  Wait 10-15 minutes and unwrap. The acrylic should start to lift. Get a pusher and push it, trying to get it to lift. Then re-wrap with more/fresh remover on cotton. Repeat this process and it will come off.  I did one nail this way already.  Its not hard just time consuming.  I have another acrylic nail I'm hoping will last because it "glues" the half-nails together.

My nail artist is always booked out months with regular clients, so I expect there to be a wait to get in to see her when they open up.

Call up the salon and ask them if they can take you, an "at risk" client.  It might a while before your nail person has an opening anyway.  I know we are weeks away here

RIP

I can see the black leggings with the blue-purple color. i even has a purple fleece top that would work with that combination.