My nails

[Lissa Stevens]

My wife and I were at the cell phone store today and I got a compliment on my nails. Now let me say I was not presenting female at the time. My nails are about an 1/8 to 1/4 past my finger tips with clear polish. The girl helping us told me she liked my nails. She didn't act like it was any big thing for this hulking almost 50 year old guy to have longer nails. COOL.

[AllieSF]

I always have my finger nails and toe nails painted with a clear polish, no color but they do shine in the light of day and look good to me with the nice tan that my legs and feet have.

A month or so ago, I had two people tell me that I have nice feet. One was a 14 +/- year old girl with her mom in the check out line. The mom was embarrassed and I was estatic and thanked the young girl. The other was a SA at H&M. I was trying on their flip flops with the woven reed (or maybe for the price I paid weed) upper surface where the foot rests. They were only $4.90. The SA showed me where they were and then helped me find a pair that fit. She said the same thing about how nice my feet were. I thanked her and would have given her a tip if I was in a restaurant. I have also had a lady at my local Starbucks comment on my manicured toes. I just told her I like how I do not have problems with the ingrown toe nails anymore due to the pedicures I am now getting. Enough said for her and no more comments about them either.

[TNRobin]

I visited family once with a few days of beard growth and a few days of nail growth and got all kinds of comments like, "you need to cut your nails, they look like a girl's". So now for the most part I keep them a bit shorter, but clear polish would be over the top for me. Wish it wasn't though

[KristinSkye]

That is cool! :)

[sissystephanie]

My wife and I were at the cell phone store today and I got a compliment on my nails. Now let me say I was not presenting female ate the time. My nails are about an 1/8 to 1/4 past my finger tips with clear polish. The girl helping us told me she liked my nails. She didn't act like it was any big thing for this hulking almost 50 year old guy to have longer nails. COOL.

Lissa,

My nails are always about the same length as yours. Oh, and they are rounded just like a lady's nails! I get a manicure/pedicure every two weeks. But I never use clear polish, always pale pink on my fingers and a bright red on my toes! I do get a lot of compliments on my fingernails, from both men and women! It seems to me that more men are wearing the finger nails longer now!:2c:

[Starr]

Right now most of my finger nails are about 1/2 and inch and they are clear polished, i have kept them clear polished for several weeks now and no one has said anything including family. I have always had long finger nails, well longer then most boys or men so long nails on me isn't anything new, but they are pretty well over what i normally would have right now.. and i love them

[sherri52]

I wear clear polish all the time in male mode. A girl taught me to doit to help make my hands look clean. It works and most men aren't bothered by it. The women think it's cool.

[Jamie001]

My nails are always professionally manicured and pedicured. My fingernails are clear and my toenails are always Bright Red. I get many compliments on my red toenails and less compliments on my clear fingernails. My red toenails are on display in women's sandals 90 percent of the time in male mode. It is just my way of showing the world that even though I am male, I have a very strong fem side and am really playing for the girls team. Girls understand this immediately when they see my nails.

Jamie :2c:

[gender_blender]

Not bad.

Mine are long, acrylic and square. Painted bright pink and I did light orange flowers this week.
Here's a pic I took 2 days ago:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/gender_blender/photo-1.jpg

[Angel.Marie76]

I've tried acrylics so many times and I've just never felt comfortable with them. I let my fingernails grow out to roughly 1/4" on average, rounded, and keep either a nude/beige/translucent pink Sally's 'hard as nails/wraps' on top of a clear nourishing undercoat or just a long-wear clearcoat. I ususally keep my toes done in whatever color I'm in the mood for at the time, mostly reds and purples. With the summer here, sandals and flipflops are the norm, whether that day I can let the girl out fully or not, I do get (good) comments on the toes all the time - even though I may be stealting the girl that day.

With the fingernails, at work, a few of the employees, who, lets just say some are are aware of everything, and others just think I'm 'different' ;) have given me raves on them.. Then another time I went out to a billiards hall (in SW NH) casually in jeans and a nice top 'n open toed sandals and so on about a month ago, and the hall waitress, when she came back with our drinks, caught my nails when I handed her my card and she just smirked and said 'Fcuk you for having nails nicer than me, you suck.' Later that night she asked me how long I had been transitioning and so on, and was being really sweet. Yay for accepting people!

[Stephanie Heplby]

My wife and I were at the cell phone store today and I got a compliment on my nails. Now let me say I was not presenting female at the time. My nails are about an 1/8 to 1/4 past my finger tips with clear polish. The girl helping us told me she liked my nails. She didn't act like it was any big thing for this hulking almost 50 year old guy to have longer nails. COOL.

Similarly, my wife and I were out for ice cream at a local shop and I had a compliment on my nails. The main difference is that mine were a fantastic purple color called "Flair" and I was in a middle ground, wearing guy's pants, a purple cami and a white women's button-down from the Gap. (This is probably my favorite top combo; I wear it way too much.)

The girl behind the counter wanted to know where she could get that color polish. So I told her and we bonded.

Just normal decent human interaction. Life can be good if you accept who you are!

[Rhonda Jean]

Nails have been one of my "things" since I was in about the 9th grade. I've always grown them out until I broke one, and them cut them back to the same length. Often they've been extremely long, even by female standards. When I first started wearing them long, my mom brought home a nail file, some emery boards and a bottle of clear polish and said, "If you're going to wear your nails like that you need to learn how to shape them and keep some clear polish on them or they'll split." I've done it ever since. My wife hated them, for the most part. They were usually longer than hers. Early in our marriage she encouraged me to wear red polish in public, but she soon lost her taste for that.

It was only about 3 years ago that I got my first (sort of) negative comment on them around our friends. We were playing carda at a friends house and their dought loudly commented, "Wow! You have long nails!" I was embarrassed, my wife was mortified.

[suchacutie]

I wear a nail-strengthening matte finish polish all the time...either OPI Nail Envy Matte Finish, or Oley Nails for Males.

Both manufacturers suggest two coats, but I think it looks best with one coat which I redo every 3 days. I do buff my nails about once a month to keep them smooth, and that seems to help as well.

tina

[allin]

OOH.

I LOVE THIS SITE. Ii'VE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT NAILS. i DECIDED TO GROW THEM TO RIGHT AT THE TIP OF MY FINGERS. Now, I guess it is Okay to let them go a little longer. I don't polish them, not yet, but i do buff them. I thnk it is lovely to see them glisten as I rotate them. It is nice to get these tips.

[Jaylacd]

I would love to try getting acrylics nails but im still alittle uncomfortable going in. ive had acouple pedicures and my girlfriend had the girl put red polish on.