The fingernail pictures make me gag a little bit, the eyebrow ones make me laugh. Ugh, long fingernails are gross.
Agreed. But the eyebrow pictures seemed to all be of people who were trying to funny. They may even have been photoshopped.
But, in real life proportions, I’d say longer fingernails can be more easily excused than even the best drawn-on eyebrows. The only reason to draw on eyebrows is if you actually use them.
And you can fix the fingernails very quickly..
Sucks to be me. Lost my eyebrows a couple years ago to a bad bout of dermatitis and they are apparently never coming back. Trust me, it is way worse to have a completely bald face - I got tired of people asking me what happened or assuiming I had chemo. My husband is in charge of keeping me from accidentally going Joan Crawford or forgetting to draw one side.
So, I’d have to go with fingernails.
Fingernails like that creep me out. But why does everyone assume that people with long fingernails is incapable of cleaning them? One would thing that someone who takes such obvious care and pride in them would occasionally clean them.
The eyebrows are bad and you notice them right away.
But I voted for the fingernails. They may not be as immediately obvious as the eyebrows but once you’ve seen them, they make a worse impact. They’re dysfunctional as well as unattractive. And the person wearing them sees them which means there’s no self-deception involved - it’s not like the person can’t see how bad they look to other people.
Eyebrows. I think long nails are extraordinarily sexy.
Absolutely. And TBH, I a) hardly see unnaturally long fingernails, and b) rarely notice people’s hands. The first thing you generally see on a person is their face, though. I never see long fingernails like the OP’s pictures IRL.
I keep my nails longish, but they are well within “normal” - I type all day so I’m sure that helps keep them down. But they are clean, spotless usually. I’m not really sure why people think they are harder to clean once they get longer.
Much, much worse are close-bitten fingernails, actually. I hate that look, it’s disgusting, and please don’t shake my hand since you were probably just biting them and your saliva is all over them. Eew.
Long, long fingernails are gross. Those cartoon-style eyebrows just look silly.
Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve ever been the outlier in an SDMB poll. Seriously, I’m the only one who doesn’t get the problem with either of these things? When I saw the poll title, my first thought was, “What’s bad about excessively long fingernails or drawn-on eyebrows?” They’re certainly a bit unusual, but people have all sorts of personal styles. Neither of those bother me at all. FTR, I keep my fingernails short and my eyebrows in their natural bushy state.
Although I’ve seen people do a bad job with them, I’m used to seeing drawn-on (or, in the case of someone I know, tattoed) eyebrows around here. It doesn’t really bother me.
Excessively long fingernails strike me as hazardous and not particularly attractive. They get my vote.
Fingernails. I don’t care HOW carefully they’re cleaned, they still catch dirt and germs, and even though some people can become quite adept at doing things, I would much rather NOT have a food handler or phlebotomist with long nails.
Wouldn’t this be the case for. . . all finger nails?
Seriously, I was thinking the same thing. And food handlers should be wearing gloves, anyway. Don’t phlebotomists wear gloves?
I am talking about “normal” long nails, now, that extend no more than an inch beyond the finger, and in many cases, less than that. Let’s see…
looking at a ruler, I see an inch is HUGE compared to what I am thinking. My nails generally don’t even get to a quarter of an inch beyond the finger.
Like I said, ultra short nails ick me out more. I hate having the tip of my finger exposed, and then I can’t get any of the dirt out because it’s so close to my skin.
I voted both are equally scary.
The gorcery store that was down the street from my old apartment had a cashier who had both. To make matters worse, her real eyebrows had grown back in and they weren’t in the same place! There was a good quarter inch between where her real eyebrows were and where the (I assume) tatooed eyebrows were.
I took to refering to her as the Freak with Four Eyebrows.
Yes, regular fingernails catch and hold junk. But not nearly as badly. And people with regular fingernails are more likely to be aggressive in cleaning them. If you have those ultra long nails, you treat them carefully, so you don’t break them.
Um, cite?
Again, I have trashy hoodrat nails and I promise you that I pay special attention to keeping them spic and span (1: because I know people like the judgey mc judgertons in this thread are trying to catch me being a filth monger and 2: it’s harder to detect a nail infection under acrylic, so I want to avoid that as much as possible, rather than letting it fester). Certainly, I know plenty of unhygienic people, but that trait has nothing to do with the length of their nails. That said, the vast majority of the girls I know with nails like mine or longer pay special attention to making sure their nails are clean- mainly for the possible infection issue I mentioned.
I get that you don’t like long nails and think they are inherently icky, but it’s a little silly to make wide brush accusations that those of us with longer nails don’t clean ourselves, particularly when you have no evidence to support that other than your own disliking of long nails. C’mon now. It’s like saying people with long hair are less clean than people with short because everyone knows to have long hair, you can’t wash it as often. So, people with long hair are obviously dirty.
Where I grew up, long nails are and were the range. Almost every teacher I had had nails this long: http://www.kissandmakeup.tv/long%20nails.jpg The thing of it is. Nails that long, not as long as the pictures the OP posted, are very striking in person. I also wanted to add, I’ve had fake nails. My mom used to have LONG fake nails. Fakes nails don’t hurt and aren’t sharp. That’s a stereotype.
Drawn on eyebrows never look good and always look too dark. Even when done professionally.
I’ve come across many of both types at my work and I’ll tell you that I’ll take exchanging a transaction with someone with drawn-on eyebrows over long clawsany day.
Aw, man. I’ve seen it too, and I did NOT need to be reminded of it. Blurgh.
Good thing it was sandal weather, because those tootsies would not have fit in closed-toe shoes with those nails. Freaky.
How do you not notice that your toenails have become talons? My nails bang into my running shoes (which hurts, yo) if they’re only a little too long.
Uhm, no, sorry. I have no clue why you think that proper cleaning will shatter longer nails. Using the curved-tip scraper in a pair of nail clippers (if you don’t bother with getting a separate tool for that) and a fingernail brush when you shower (or after you soak your hands a bit, if you’re into a mini pampering kinda thing) doesn’t damage fingernails at all.
As Diosa said, it’s an issue about personal hygiene, not long nails. A person who would have dirty long fingernails would likely have dirty short fingernails too.