Do you wear nail enhancements?
If so, what do you look for in a nail technician?

What do you mean by enhancements?
Those landscapes painted on a fingernail? Gemstones? Piercings?
Mine are always bare & naturally long, filed square.

The best thing a nail tech or anyone for that matter can do for me is a great hand massage.

Medusa I love a great hand massage too. I'm sooo not into back/neck massage (I find them painful and not relaxing at all) but a hand one is good. As for nails, I never do the gel/acrylic thing - to me it looks stripperish. I like natural, short, squarish nails (I'll let them go a bit longer if they're bare). In a nail tech, I like HER to have good nails. I've seen so many who have gross grown-out acrylics with some sort of horrible patterns or jewels on them, and I always think "I don't want you to do my nails if that's your idea of nice!".

I do like bio-sculpture gel though, I just think of it as a long-lasting gel-textured nail polish.

When i had acrylic nails i use to get the nail technician to paint flowers etc and put little crystals on them.

I missed doing my own nails though and i often didnt have time to get my nails done when they needed to be done so i ripped them off!

I now get the odd manicure, but i love doing it myself - its so relaxing.

No one seemed to get into this thread, I guess fake nails are way out now!

I had acrylics for a while with a French manicure, but my nails felt like they couldn't breathe. And refills always looked funny and cost $30 every couple of weeks! My nails are ok now, but they break if they get very long so I keep them at a nice, shortish length filed square. Polish when I can be bothered but they are usually bare! I'm going to put on a hot red polish tonight as I am going to a Zombie Rock party in Torquay tomorrow night (it's someone's 28th birthday and allegedly 'all' rockstars die at that age, hence Zombie Rock). Have no idea what to wear though!

I guess fake nails are way out now!

Mmm, actually what I'm finding is that very little is known about them in Australia. Mind you, to be fair, I've met some shocker "nail technicians" who've really butchered friends' nails and some of the materials used by some nail bars are very dubious to say the very least. It also doesn't help when you get beauty salons telling you that "fake nails are really bad as they deconstruct the nail.." which is, I might add, just not true.

Meanwhile, the industry is positively HUGE in America.... *shrugs*

Anyway, my initial post was just a question out of curiosity, that's all :encore: .

I used to have beautiful nails and i could do a french manicure myself but now that the short and dark nails are in at the moment, i can't seem to wait for them to grow when i want them too and i like short nails make my hands and fingers look fat and stumpy.

So i wanna know if there is anyone out there who does there own stick on nails, i think the brand i was looking at was the Fingers brand, and i was looking at the natural french rounded oval varieties. Using the glue not the sticky things.

I only really want them for the weekend and i have done them before but i just want everyones opinions.

I've used them PP and I quite liked them. I used the ones that you glue on and they looked fairly good but their ability to stay on was very unpredictable. Sometimes they'd stay on for like a week and other times they'd fall off for an hour. The main thing is to make sure that your nails are impeccably clean and dry when you put them on, and that you push down the nail REALLY hard to get out any air bubbles from between your natural nail and the falsie.

You may as well give them a try though, they're uber-cheap.

Yeah i reckon i may aswell give it a go because they are cheap and i can do it at whenever i want.

Man i've got some things to do tonight waxing, tanning, fake nail gluing and blow drying. Action stations!!!

Well i stuck my french manicured nails on lastnight and well they aren't completey fugly. They are a bit stumpy but thats because i chose the wrong length, but i like them because they are so much better than my real nails.

I'm actually thinking I might get a mani before the Adorables weekend.

Reading through the various threads on here, about some of the shocker 'professionals' in the wider part of the country, I am grateful and amazed that I have such good people at my salon, they are all consumate professionals.