I am absolutely horrible at getting them.  Which is ridiculous.  How can you be bad at something that requires virtually no energy or brain power?  And I’m a hand model for crying out loud.  I don’t know.  But I do know this: that I manage to ruin it before I’m out the door of the salon.

The other day I went to a salon to de-stress from the holidays.  I usually prefer to just get my toes done (for said reason above), but seeing as it’s winter and the only way I can justify spending the money on prettifying something that will be shoved under layers of socks and boots is if the fingernails that will be carelessly holding a wineglass and shoving finger foods down my throat happen to match.

So I got a pretty dark plum purple color since that’s what color my tree ornaments are and seeing as I’m in the matching spirit… well, you get it.  As it was drying I was getting excited that I would have nice pretty nails for the holidays.  That is, until I had to put my boots on.  Which gave me a minor panic attack.  Not just boots, but socks, too.  Flip flop season is long gone, no more drying on the go.

I managed to get the socks on without doing any damage to the freshly dried, possibly still tacky, polish. One boot on without any problems.  Second boot and the entire left thumb is ruined.  And as I’m full of useless facts, I know that your thumbs are the most important fingers as that is what people mostly see, so you’d better keep them looking spiffy!  (I learned this when I was trying to quit biting my nails.  Again, useless information.)

I know I should’ve asked the manicurist to fix it, but I also know I couldn’t sit under that hand dryer any longer.  And that I’d screw it up digging through my bag or similar within 30 seconds.  Needless to say, my left thumbnail has been staring me down all day and taunting me.

I know this is ridiculous and petty, but I feel it’s reflective of myself right now: slightly impatient and a bit clumsy.  Maybe I should work on that.  If nothing else, it wouldn’t hurt my hand modeling career.

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