/fa/ - Fashion

I'm a male and I want to wear nail polish but it becoming a trend has ruined it for me. One of the major things that irks me about it as a trend is that all of the men partaking in it have no idea how to look after their nails or paint them properly. They clip their nails, do not file or do any kind of cuticle management, then apply a messy single layer of low quality nail polish with no basecoat or top coat. The result is what you see here >>17242900 - Black also looks particularly bad because of this.

To anyone reading this who wants to paint their nails, do the following:
-NEVER clip your nails or use them as tools. File only, have multiple files of different grit, do not use metal files. Use a nail buffer on the surface. Push your cuticles back with a pusher and apply cuticle oil or moisturizer if necessary.
-Immediately prior to painting, use your nail buffer then ensure your nails are free of any dust, grit, etc. Use alcohol wipes and ensure they are fully dry before continuing.
-Apply a clear basecoat ensuring you do not cover the cuticle or any part of your skin.
-After waiting for the clear basecoat to fully cure, you can then do a second layer of it if it was very thin, or start with your first colour layer.
-After waiting for this layer to cure, you can then apply a second and a third if necessary, waiting for it to cure each time.
-Apply a clear topcoat layer - usually you can use the same polish that you used for the base layer for this.

Also, you are going to look ridiculous if you do this while you have any sort of facial hair or notably hairy skin exposed, both arms and legs.