I start a new job in 2 days and my mom decided to call her friend over to do my nails. She’s inexperienced, which I was not aware of, otherwise I would have let her experiment on me at a less risky time. She’d been telling me that I need to let her do my nails because I always paint my nails ugly colours. I told her I just want gel on top with minimal buffing.
I’d been growing my natural nails out for a while, avoiding gel manicures and taking vitamins for nail growth. I told her not to sand my nails down because my nails are naturally thin and sensitive.
She took out huge nail clippers and cut my nails down to the skin & I had to pull away because it hurt. She told me to cut my nails myself, at that point they were mostly cut so short & she was aiming for square tips (I had told her that I only wear round nails). I cut my nails down short and already had a pit in my stomach.
She then pulls out acrylic nails, gluing them on my nails with UV base coat. I tell her to cut them down shorter, she told me “but it’s not pretty”. She hesitated & cut them down when I said “I need to use my hands for work, please.” I also told her I wanted the most nude natural nails possible, she pulls out a solid metallic/glittery silver. I said “please, I cannot go to work like this, I hate attracting attention”. She tells me it’s fine, that she has a process and to trust it. She cured it, put a white sheer coat on top, and I said “please I really cannot do glitter. I just want nude pink.” She removed the glitter & chose a sheer pink. Several coats in, she’s reaching for the silver glitter again and so just let her. I felt like I was going to cry if she told my choices were ugly again, I couldn’t handle disagreeing with her anymore. I hate these nails and they feel so bad. She sanded my skin down because her polish flooded every crack in my finger tips, it’s a sensory nightmare. Her lamp didn’t cure my nails properly so they’re just collecting dust and feel awful to touch. I have an emergency appointment booked for 9am tomorrow to get these things off me. I’m still grieving my natural nails. I feel like such a brat because she’s new to the country, but she just didn’t seem like she cared to listen to me. She was on the phone with her friend the entire time too. She even made a comment about how I pull away so often but she was HURTING me. I love salons, I’ve been to many and I have a pretty good pain tolerance when getting nicked or burned. They don’t look bad, but they feel AWFUL.
(random yellow glitter flake baked in there in slide #3 🥲)
by Fun_Block_6712