Ladies, please. If thy shalst expose thy perfectly pedicured walking surfaces PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT paint your toe-nails. It:
a) Makes you look cheap
b) Looks far less sightly than natural toe-nails
c) Affects the colour texture of your look (I have seen no skin-tones that match the colour of painted toe-nails)
About the only type of toe-nail polish I can stand is pink or pearl coloured. Other than that, (especially all these green/blue/black colours) just look plain awful.
But I don’t know. What do you guys and gals think? Are you ladies happy putting on these I’m-still-living-in-the-60’s-hippodrome-look? And do the guys have any opinions eitherway?
Well, then you can look at my fugly ridged toenails instead?
Seriously, what causes that?
Because my toes are so ugly. Besides the nails, they’re really long and skinny with a bulb at the end-“Lightbulb toes” my mother calls them. They’re bizarre.
Take some shapely feet. Add a nice tan. Put some well-pedicured toes on the end of said feet. Add toenail polish to said toenails (shades of pink, coral, deep reds NO BLACKS, BLUES, GREENS OR OTHER COLORS THAT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE TOENAIL FUNGUS!). Slip a nice pair of black thong sandals over the feet and toes.
Very, very attractive to me. Even better if the body attached to the feet is in a soft summer dress with a shapely calf and ankle showing. The total package.
I knew a guy who had a mild foot fetish – by mild, I mean that he always checked out girls in sandals, and if they had their toenails nicely painted, he would smile. I asked him about this once, and his response was, “If a woman is taking care that her FEET are well-maintained, there’s an excellent chance that she is paying to attention to everything else between her head and toes - which means she probably has a nice, clean doo-dah, too.”
I’ve never painted my toenails. I’ve had some female friends try to convince me that I should, but I figure if I’ve got the time to shellac my toenails, something is seriously amiss with my priorities.
I don’t paint my fingernails either except if I’m going to a black time function. However, both of my daughters get really geeked about painting their nails. Go figure.
I love the look of painted toenails, but I never have the patience to sit there and do mine. It’s hard enough keeping up with my fingernails lately! But no greens or blues for me!
I think painted toenails look nice with sandals. But I agree…anything other than pinks, reds, or corals is just bizarre. I currently have both toes and fingers painted…my fingers are a deep red, and my toes are a peachy pink.
My husband thinks painted toenails are sexy, so he paints them for me. I always wear the same color as my fingernails, & those are always pinks/reds. I agree that green or blue or black is off-putting.
I have never painted my toenails, but that’s due more to laziness than any inherent disapproval. I also pick at my toenails (yup, everyone wanted to know that), so they’re ugly enough that I don’t want to draw attention to them.
<hijack> When my little dog (miniature dachsund) was just a wee tiny baby (6 weeks old), I left her for the afternoon in the care of my roommate and a friend. They painted her little puppy toenails. Red. They thought it was cute. It wasn’t. It was mean and horrid. </hijack>
I think a nice pedicure can be adorable, though I’m mostly a non-polish gal myself (fingers and toes).
However, what makes feel all oogy is people in sandals who clearly haven’t trimmed their toenails in months. Ah, summer on the subway…
The thing is, I don’t know how they can be comfortable with long toenails, 'cause unless you’re wearing sandals sans hose all the time, you’d think there’d be some chafing going on. And I’d be willing to entertain the possibility that some of them simply can’t trim too often, due to lack of flexibility for whatever reason, but lots of times their foot talons are in fact painted pretty colors.
I’m very turned off by any kind of nail polish - fingers, toes, whatever. It suggests to me that the girl in question has nothing better to do with her time than paint her nails.
Asthetically, I find painted nails very fake and silly looking.
When I was in my teens and twenties, I associated painting one’s toe nails with adjectives such as “cheap.”
When I was in my 30’s-40’s, I accepted it better. Situational ethics.
Now that I’m in my 50’s, I find that their toenails are so unimportant that I can accept most things. If their minds and lips aren’t impaired, I can go with the rest of them.
I’m the only female in my family that doesn’t paint their toe- or fingernails. (I don’t paint my fingernails, because I have the horrid habit of biting them, but that’s not why I don’t paint my toenails…)
Funny thing is, I like to see painted toenails on other women. Shoot, my own son paints his purple, and although I find it a little odd looking (trust me, it does look strange on this big ol’ guy) it doesn’t bug me. However, I think deep down that’s why he does it, because he thinks it annoys me.
I don’t like my own toenails painted because I hate drawing attention to my feet. I am rarely barefooted and even though I do wear sandals or open-toed shoes, they’re not my preference. It’s not anything I consider ugly or un-fetching on my person, I basically am just too damn lazy and can think of other things to spend money on, besides nail polish.
Like lipstick. I’m not leaving the house without that. (IOW…look at my face, not my stupid feet!)
It really depends on the color: a shade that’s discreet and doesn’t stand out looks best to me.
I tried dark polish once on my toes: it didn’t look right. Almost like I had some bizzare kind of fungus. Since then, I’ve stuck to just plain ol’ clear polish for the times I do paint them: just enough of a boost to make 'em look nice for the few times I wear sandles.
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