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My Nails Are ‘My Thing’…

…hands down.  A polished ‘perfect ten’ is exactly what I need to feel all is right in my little world.  

Although I love a professionally done manicure, I prefer to paint my own nails.  And having been my own primary manicurist since I was 12, I’m able to give myself a salon quality mani (and pedi) in the comfort and privacy of my own home. I consider it my weekly therapy session which costs me nothing but a little time, a steady hand and about five bottles of polish.  

My love affair with lacquer is serious.  I feel naked and unkempt when my nails are bare.  Because I’m deathly afraid of my nails becoming weak, or worse, getting a nail fungus, I shun acrylics in favor of my natural nails.  Thanks to my father, my nails grow long and strong relatively quickly.  I look at them as my little canvases, begging me to cover them with paint and embellish them with texture.