Diz you need to sort yourself out with a pair of Nail Clippers, if you keep them a decent length then they can't get all of that shite underneath them!
You don't need a full Manicure for it to make a difference, just show that you take care of yourself. Keep them trimmed, girls really do notice stuff like that.
I ended up getting a full Manicure, I was happy with it till the end. When I was at College getting my Gym Instructor's Certificate their was a Beauty school downstairs to the gym I worked in, one of the 'models' that they needed to work on for their exam hadn't showed up so they came upstairs and got me.
I've always taken pretty good cre of my nails, she didn't need to cut them or anything... she buffered the tops of my nails then smoothened them with nail files etc...
She then did my cuticles (the think, clear skin that grows over the bottom of your nails). Now like I said I look after my hands but I'd always just left my cuticles alone... Years of working on building sites had made them MASSIVELY over grown.... took her ages longer than all of the other girls to scrape them off, looks so much better with out them though.
THEN... she did the final bit... she put some Enamal on my nails, stuck them under a UV light and repeated this about 5-6 times... If thought it was just the wet glue stuff she put on but they were riddiculously shiny afterwards.... it was impossible to get off... couldn't scratch it and make up remover barely did anything.... I had to crack it all off with my teeth.
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