How to put on fingernail polish and fake nails for crossdressers

How to put on fingernail polish and fake nails for crossdressers

Hello everyone, in this page I’d like to give some tips on how to make your nails pretty! Now we basically have two types of nails, your own, and fake nails. Most of us crossdressers can’t wear painted up nails all the time, or even half the time. Not unless you want your work buddy Joe at the construction site to “accidentally” shoot you with a nail gun!

Now then, I myself don’t like wearing fake nails. They are a pain to put on, an equal pain to take off, and it’s hard to get use to suddenly having an inch longer nail sticking out. The only plus is you can keep it painted however you want it for a long time, some even come pre painted or with art work.

If you really want fake ones (were talking NAILS here) here is a quick course. Go to your local cosmetics store and find ones that most match your size nails. That’s another reason fake ones are bad, most are not big enough, like a lot of other things we find out! Once you get them and some nail glue, make sure they just cover your own nails, not stick over the sides.

now, put a very thin bead of glue at the end in the center, then spread it to the sides. You don’t want the glue to ooze out onto your skin, use a very light bead. Nail glue is VERY sticky, sort of like mother-in-laws, so be careful! Grab the tip and place it on your nail, getting as close to your cuticle without going over it.

Press for a minute, then that should do it. Once dry they hang on like a Hilton to the spotlight! Trim anywhere it needs it, then paint if not already done. Now, to get them mothers off, soak your fingertips in acetone until they fall off (the nails, not your fingertips). No one has found anything strong enough for a Hilton yet.

Now, for your own nails, you can only look as good as what you have. That means taking care of them, keeping them clean, clipping hang nails and so on. How long you can grow them is a lot of times determined by what kind of job you have. If your a mechanic, farmer, landscaper or something like that, a long nail means a ripped, bloody nail, eewwwww!!

However if your an office person, hair stylist or Britney spears fluffer boy, you can wear them as long as you want. I grew mine out for a bit, but it just seems so weird to me, plus I had a lot of close calls where I almost snagged them on something. So now I keep them just over the tips of my fingertip pads.

You want to cut and file your nails so they are straight across, or with a small curve. Now for the nail polish. Get GOOD nail polish! Cheap kiddie or dollar store stuff looks,,,, cheap. Go with any name brands, cover-girl, MAC, Maybelline, anything like that, just not Sherwin-Williams!

Ok, have some paper towels ready, then shake the bottle good. You want to really mix it well. Unscrew the top, and scrap a little off the brush on the inside of the jar, you don’t want too much. Now, if you have shaky hands, well, your going to have a hard time dear. You need to be pretty steady. Start at the far end of your nail where your cuticle is and brush toward the tip.

Now here is a very good tip. Nail polish dries FAST. If you take too long and keep doing small areas the first coats will dry, making the other coats look like a sticky mess. You want to put as much as you can on at once, spread it out with long, quick strokes (sounds like a sex aid manual) then leave it alone to dry.

If you get any on your skin dip a paper towel in nail polish remover and dab it off. Make sure it’s really dry before you touch it, about 5 minutes. As for colors, you can find anything you want out there. The most common are shades of red, followed by pink. If you really want to get wild they have neon green, purple, orange, you name it.

They also have designs you can paste on your nails, like tattoos. Now, when it’s time to take it off, just soak a paper towel in nail polish remover and rub your nails until it’s all off. Make sure you get it all! I paint my toenails too, I can leave that on all the time, unless I go to the beach. So that’s Betty’s crossdresser makeup tip for this page girls! Let me know if you find something that removes a Hilton.

Written by Sagar Basak, personal technology columnist and founder of Most Useful Tricks. You can follow him on the social web or sign up for the email newsletter for your daily dose of how-to guides and video tutorials.

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