Ask a Nail technician/massage therapist

[Dana]

is this what happens when im away for awhile?....

Dana!,..return the purse, go watch some straight porn or football, scratch your nuts, drinks some beer , burp and fart..or soon your going to be giggling while watching Richard Simons reruns and i will be forced to bludgeon you to death with your own high heels

:24::24::24: i was so being sarcastic

 

[Tuffdisc]

well that was my next post...lmbo

:24::24:

 

[Thornless]

Here's one then- what colors are in this winter?

We haven't gotten them in yet because our Manager quit and she always did the ordering, so we're waiting on getting our products approved by corporate to get them in...but all my clients want these new OPI line like yesterday!!:willy_nilly:

 

[Thornless]

I don't know if this is in the nail technician realm or not but...

Is there anything I can do for a fingernail that is just very odd shaped? I have grown my fingernails out and they are beautiful but I have one that is just shaped weird. It curves up on one end and flat like it is supposed to be on the other.

I actually answered this for Kim :24: Shoot, I don't have the saved book I wrote back to her, oh well since I like you I'll type it all out again

I have a few clients whose nails grow 'wavy' or curl after a certain length. You can't really stop it, how your nails grow is predetermined in the matrix aka nail bed, which lies just behind that 1/2 moon you can generally see on your nails underneath the cuticle. Trauma to the nailbed and matrix can result in changing the growth pattern resulting in ingrowns, splitting when past the free edge, thickening of the nail, or curves/waves.

I told Kim to play around with nail shapes and lengths, the longer nails get, the more likely you are to get breaks, stress points at the free edge... especially since women treat their nails like tools.:willy_nilly:


These are common nail shapes and lengths; if you want to keep the length I'd recommended trying (a)rounded, (b)oval or (g)squound (square with rounded edges).. Squound looks the best and help 'disguise' wavy/curves in the nail.

Depending where the nail starts to curve may be your cut off length unfortunately. Hope that helps

 

[Thornless]

I wanna paint my toenails a purday shade of pink but im conflicted on the color *bats eyelashes and adjusts moobage*

If I'm having a massage, and get a little excited, what's the best way to approach the masseuse for a more, shall we say, thorough massage?

I'm not a whore/masseuse, so I really can't help you.:thumbdown

how much do you typically tip after the happy ending when the little azn lady says "u kan touch ^.^"

See above

:willy_nilly: Stay on topic your dorks!

 

[Thornless]

as a younger person, i had pronounced half moons at the tip of each nail, now they are smaller, pale and irregular in shape....my mother always told me they were a reflection of healthy calcium levels, but my mother told me lots of strange things

is there anything you can tell me about these things ( i call them half moons but have no idead what they are really called)

Sure can! It's proper name is lunula, most people call it the 1/2 or 1/4 moon of the nail (Guyser was half there). As I was telling Ab's, just beyond that viable part of the nail is the matrix of the nail. It's also refereed to the root of the nail. This area is generally more plump and different in color, ranging from white to a soft peachy pink, I've found clients whose lunula was closer to white, had fairly strong nails... which makes sense since that area is where the keratin forms and is stored to grow nails.

It's generally visible only on the thumbs in adulthood; although some people can view their all throughout their life. It's considered fashionable if it can be seen on every finger. :cool

Any suggestion(s) to a friend's chronic problem with her Big toe nails always ending up broken and surrounding areas bruised/reddened after a marathon ? Her Big toe nails always gets detached a few days after the run. :yuk

Any nail protection/ strengthener,vitamins u might recommend? Ta

If she stops running he toe nails will stop falling off. Seriously... Likely her shoes are too small or too big, I've a few runners & tennis players for clients and they always have trouble with bruised nails or loss there of, always the big or 2nd toe from the trauma received from impact against the end of the shoe. She either needs to get fitted for shoes at a sports supply store by a professional, or stop running. She's pretty much SOL though likely.

Oh yeah- sorry i forgot to ask

As a massage therapist, have u learned about climacteric reflex? If so- what kind of massage(s ) would u recommend that a woman/partner should do to help a man reach potentially elevated climax thru the use of natural reflexes? :cool

Maybe you guys misunderstood me when I said I'm a massage therapist... not a whore/hooker/sextherapist. If you can't have orgasms or are wanting bigger ones... go to a sex shop like hustler and get some toys, lubes, etc. I'm not a sex therapist.

 

[Thornless]

I have severe rotting of my toenails, what is the cause and what should I do to cure them?

Nah, I was joking Thought you were going to say "You need to chop them off":24:

Yeah, I'd go with cut it off or go to a Podiatrist

 

[HottyToddyChick]

SOLD on the bottom left. PERFECT for the Ball tomorrow. Now to find it....

Thanks Thorny!

We haven't gotten them in yet because our Manager quit and she always did the ordering, so we're waiting on getting our products approved by corporate to get them in...but all my clients want these new OPI line like yesterday!!:willy_nilly:

 

[Thornless]

SOLD on the bottom left. PERFECT for the Ball tomorrow. Now to find it....

Thanks Thorny!

Bottom left, the goldish one, is 'Rising Star':cool

 

[HottyToddyChick]

Thank you! Off to find a blog review of it.

Wish I could afford to do blog reviews of polishes...

 

[itsmeJonB]

none of my nails have a visible lunula
and my nails have vertical line ridges on them

am i dying?

 

[KLD1019]

none of my nails have a visible lunula
and my nails have vertical line ridges on them

am i dying?

vertical ridges are normal nail growth

 

[itsmeJonB]

oh i thought nails were supposed to be flat thats good to know

 

[HottyToddyChick]

My understanding is ridges get more prominent with age.

 

[itsmeJonB]

k what about my lunula issue?

 

[porterjack]

none of my nails have a visible lunula
and my nails have vertical line ridges on them

am i dying?

I am not a Nail technician/massage therapist, yet even i know the answer to that is a resounding YES

 

[HottyToddyChick]

Have to wait for Thorny on that one, for sure.

But I'm willing to bet you don't push your cuticles back.

 

[itsmeJonB]

Have to wait for Thorny on that one, for sure.

But I'm willing to bet you don't push your cuticles back.

oh, am i supposed to?

 

[HottyToddyChick]

Again- Thorny! lol

I think it looks better, personally.

 

[itsmeJonB]

I have pretty hands lol