#97569
03/04/2003 2:18 AM
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(trying the "chat" icon for the first time coz I wonder what it looks like...! and, okay, thought it might be appropriate to the subject)
Okay, guys can answer this one too, I guess, if they feel strongly enough about it....
I'm just curious as to what most women call that stuff we occasionally (some of us, sometimes) paint on our nails. I just had a look in my bathroom cupboard and found all these different variants:
nail varnish
nail lacquer
nail colour
nail polish
nail enamel
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nail makeup
I call it nail polish - but I don't call the act, "polishing my nails." Think I'm more likely to say, "I'm going to do my nails." Odd, though, isn't it? because it sure ain't polish like you put on a floor....
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#97570
03/04/2003 7:24 AM
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you're so right! it's nail polish yet it doesn't really polish -- polish asin make shiny your nails! interesting... actually, we also call "that thing" nail polish here in the philippines... although some also call it "Q-tex" or something after the brand name =)
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#97571
03/04/2003 11:04 AM
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Well, my Websters has one definition as a noun..."surface gloss"
So, I guess 'nail polish' works in that sense. :) I do use the term nail polish, and because I am consistant, I also say "I am going to polish my nails" But, then, the whole thing is moot for me, because I neither polish my nails nor apply nail polish these days......opting instead to have the solar nails applied by a nail technician....in which case they really are "polished" by their nifty little polishing machine!
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#97572
03/04/2003 9:01 PM
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i am with you mod god, nail polish, and do my nails ha, that is a joke, since all last week, and most of this week, i am scrubbing walls, getting off old wallpaper paste, in preperation for having them painted, my hands look like contractors hands!)
i don't often 'do my nails'-- i am more likely to buff them,-- polish them to a high shine with wax and a buffer.. (the same way you would polish a wood floor!)and i never get tips, or wraps or extentions, or any of the other fancy stuff they have for nails.
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#97573
03/05/2003 2:36 AM
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i never get tips, or wraps or extentions, or any of
the other fancy stuff they have for nails.
I never do these things either....Mind you, I saw but the coooolest set of nails on a young student today! a French manicure, she said it was, only with black tips instead of white - but with a thin line of white between the black and the pink.
I've always thought a French manicure was a bit of a waste - doesn't it just do what your nails do naturally? (ie, pink on the pink and white on the white? - what's the point?) But this pink-white-black combo was very eye-catching indeed.
I never did the "snakeskin" look either, though I read about it in some girly mag in a moment of weakness...! It was popular a few summers ago. You painted your nails, with pink or whatever, then put irregular splotches of another colour over the pink so some pink still showed, and then while the polish was still wet, you took a piece of small-holed fishnet (like an onion bag, only with much smaller holes) and pressed it on each nail to get the scaly effect. Too labour-intensive for me....
I like the colour names for polishes, too. Some companies use numbers, rather boringly, but among the actual colours I have in my cupboard at the moment are:
Nightlife (dark purple with a bit of sparkle to it)
Fabulous Fuschia
Carnelian Chrome
Topaz Chrome
and, perhaps appropriately enough:
Goddess (! it's a dark brown....very handsome actually, but it chips like stink)
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