For fun, what are your personal nail polish 'rules'?

[queenmama]

I tend to go wild and crazy on my toes and then do something a little more plain for my fingers. I change my fingers every week or so, but my toes stay for a few weeks.

Same. I only have bold nails when it's fall/winter and you can't see my toes. In the warm months, it's often hard to keep up with both so I'll always choose my toes.

I hate looking at unpainted toe nails on other women. I never show my toes in public unless they're painted.

I have a serious hangup about this. Unpainted toenails skeeve me out. Hard.

Lara

[smilequeen]

Toes...fun color. Fingers...light, natural, hint of color...or nothing.

[Binkandabee]

I always have a french manicure on my fingers and then something more fun on my toes. I usually have them do a little painted flower on my big toe....and sometimes they even add small gems which I love!

[123LuckyMom]

WhenI have polished fingernails, which is rare, I do a French manicure or clear/ver faintly tinted polish. I tend to go bold on my toes. I have only matched toes and fingers once, on my wedding day when I did the same very sheer, natural looking color on both.

[wendibird22]

My toes are always polished and I choose whatever color strikes my fancy at the moment. Almost always it's something "fun", bold, sparkly, etc (they are currently turquoise). My fingernails are super super soft and so I keep them very short and though I love polish on my nails it makes them even more soft (or maybe it's the remover). That and polish chips w/in a day. When I do polish them I try to do trendy but pale colors (mint, lilac, etc).

[lizzywednesday]

I prefer to have complementary colors on fingers & toes, but sometimes I just have to have a bold color on the toes (always the toes) with whatever I want on the fingers.

I've done the matchy-matchy thing in the past but find it boring.

I do not often do my own polish because I'm very sensitive to the fumes in standard polishes, but now that we've expanded our collection of Piggy Paint (ostensibly for DD), I find I'm more open to polish.

[elbenn]

my toes are painted year round. my fingers are painted rarely. i got a manicure in January. before that, I got one I think two years before.

It's simply not worth it as they chip almost immediately since my hands are in water so much. I keep my fingernails super short and prefer a bare, clean look.

I usually have toe nails painted (at least in the summer), but also find that fingernails chip almost immediately and look worse than if they don't have any polish on them. I do have a nice nude nail polish that looks really nice and doesn't show when it chips, but even that is too much effort because it chips so quickly.

[Binkandabee]

I usually have toe nails painted (at least in the summer), but also find that fingernails chip almost immediately and look worse than if they don't have any polish on them. I do have a nice nude nail polish that looks really nice and doesn't show when it chips, but even that is too much effort because it chips so quickly.

Have you tried a shelac/gel manicure? My polish used to chip within a day or two and then I discovered the shelac/gel manicure. The polish wears like iron. It does not chip and looks great for 2-3 weeks. The need to change it out is only because my nails have grown out...not because the polish is chipped. It's fantastic!

[jgenie]

Pre-kids: both polished every week.

Post-kids: if you can see my toenails they are polished. Fingernails are polished if I can find the time to do them but mainly they stay unpolished.


My Nails must match in color. I could never have one color on my toes and a different color on my hands.

[gatorsmom]

I rarely do my fingers but always do my toes. My toes are never without polish. I'm not a fan of blue or black but most other colors are ok.

I do like when my fingers are do e but they chip too fast (I don't pay for manicures). I feel like a cheap hooker when my polish is chipped.

This is me exactly. My rules- no polish on fingers. Ever. I don't like the feel and hate when it chips. Toes are always painted, all year round. Toe nails clipped very short. I prefer pinks and orange polishes- specifically Dutch Tulips in winter, My Chahuahua Bites for summer. Almost always use OPI polishes (I'm not crazy about the Aveda polish Sparitual but love their pedicures so I deal).