Women, why do you wear long nails.

[Azami]

This is something that always perplexes me, why wear long nails? Whenever I see a cute woman and notice that she's wearing them left 4 dead witch nails on her hands, I'm just like, that is too much length for your hands. What's worse is that I kinda have a thing for women's hands.

[Azami]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Z i o:

They're trying to imitate Wolverine now. New trend.

Don't you mean sabertooth?

[Z i o ⚡]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Z i o:

They're trying to imitate Wolverine now. New trend.

Don't you mean sabertooth?

Oh maybe it's that. He's bigger and meaner too.

[Zilkenian Davenport]

I actually forget to clip them, and once they get so long I can't even use the keyboard for my job, I finally remember to clip them.

I always prefer them short, but I won't lie: having them long makes for a good defense weapon.

[crunchyfrog]

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There are many Fake things they wear to look attractive. Nails is the less prominent one, many girls wear padded "armour" and it looks so obviously fake. I was this close on telling one girl
"You are not fooling anyone" .

Why do you assume their intent was to fool?

[Zilkenian Davenport]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Fostin4:

There are many Fake things they wear to look attractive. Nails is the less prominent one, many girls wear padded "armour" and it looks so obviously fake. I was this close on telling one girl
"You are not fooling anyone" .

Padded armour? What the heck?

If strong, long nails can be seen as a sign of good health and a good counter weapon if attacked.

Also, it's no secret why some of us like to wear them painted (not me specifically): if done right, they look good.

[crunchyfrog]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Fostin4:

I'd use that patience in something productive, which appreciates over time.

Beauty is productive. It makes people feel good about themselves.

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There are many Fake things they wear to look attractive. Nails is the less prominent one, many girls wear padded "armour" and it looks so obviously fake. I was this close on telling one girl
"You are not fooling anyone" .

You're fooling yourself into thinking they're trying to fool you.
Also I'm glad you didn't. No need to cause pointless trouble.

Precisely.

Why do you people make silly assumptiosn like that?

Especailly as that person probably makes themselves up to go out, and I bet they do it for that same reason.

[Morkonan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Marc:

This is something that always perplexes me, why wear long nails? Whenever I see a cute woman and notice that she's wearing them left 4 dead witch nails on her hands, I'm just like, that is too much length for your hands. What's worse is that I kinda have a thing for women's hands.

I'm not a woman, but have known several very intimately...

For one, it's a matter of just another point of adornment - It is culturally acceptable for women to have long nails, so because they "can" they "do." Many feel that they are expected to use cosmetics, at least to some minimal extent, and include nail care/adornment in that activity. Some enjoy engaging in decorating and mucking about with them. It's an expected avenue of self-expression, much like "make-up" and lipstick.

(And, if men had such culturally accepted ways of adorning themselves, we'd have aisles in the drugstore dedicate to that activity, too. Quite a few men have engaged in earrings, piercings, tattoos and the like as body adornment. Some even paint their nails.)

False/artificial nails are also sometimes of otherwise normal'ish length, but I've known women to use them because they look "neater" and are easier to manage than trying to groom a natural nail to that length. "French Nails" are more-or-less natural looking, too, with just the white tips accentuated. (Most are a little longer than a naturally long nail.)

Our fingernails tend to be brittle and aren't of the same more rugged disposition as in other species that rely on them for survival. At long lengths, they easily split/crack. (Just a week or so ago, the girl at the grocery-store checkout "broke" a nail and was trying to go on break so she could get some Superglue to try to keep it her natural nail from splitting further.)


For those "extra-outrageously-long" fingernails and/or artificial nails, that's something that is most often only seen in certain sub-cultures where I'm from. It is "conspicuous" adornment.

"Conspicuous" is the important part, here. Much like buying a high-priced sportscar is "conspicuous consumption," conspicuous adornment is very purposefully displayed for what it is and what someone interprets it projects to others. That interpretation does not have to be a natural one nor does it have to be seen in the same light in other cultures. It's very specifically a "cultural thing." (Someone in some remotely distant and different culture could see such a thing as absurd, for instance, and it wouldn't be likely they'd have the same interpretation.)

For those who pursue it, I imagine it's a conspicuous statement of "I don't do manual labor," as well as "I can afford to pay this much attention to my fingernails" as well as making some other statements about their personality. In some cases, I imagine they believe it looks "sensual." (For reasons unknown to me, at least.)

I link over-long fingernails of the sort in the OP are... a hard-negative. They're stupidly conspicuous and, as a result, a blatantly shallow attempt at expression or cultural signaling.