Not my nails, obvs.
Some (beginner-focused) tips for painting your nails:
Lighter colors and solid colors are easier to work with. Pick a good color or few, you don’t need to start too fancy.
Don’t shake nail polish, that can mess it up. Roll it slowly if you ever need to mix.
Don’t just do the coloration and call it a day, put clear nail polish on first, and put it over the color. That will protect your nails.
Consider getting nail polish remover when you get your nail polish, mistakes are easy.
Put your nails down on a flat surface, clean your nails (maybe with that nail polish remover?), and apply the clear base coat (doesn’t need to be perfect). Stroke from the base of the nail to the top, until the nail is covered. It might get on your skin, that’s normal, anything on your skin can be dealt with at the end. Let it dry, like you would any other kind of base coat.
Now that it’s dry, do like what you did with your clear polish for colors. Base to tip, going from the center outwards. If you can still see through after it’s covered, wait for it to dry a little, then do another layer.
Then apply your top coat to make smooth, shiny, and somewhat protected painted nails. Wait for it all to dry (very important), which could as long as normal working hours + commute. Don’t mess it up. If you do, you might have to restart on some nails.
Now that it’s dry the polish on your skin should act sorta like glue, where you can just peel it off, but if it’s stubborn you could use a cotton swab with nail polish remover to carefully remove it (don’t let it touch your nails!).
Now you should have nice smooth nails.
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Most often people who use astrology this way are just looking for a way to assert a feeling of pattern and recognizability to what cannot be controlled. You may not be able to assert control over the universe, but you can assert that there is meaning to it, and so while scheduling conflicts (in this example) are out of your control, you can control whether you see this as an arbitrary coincidence or as the result of chartable and “predictable” as a way to wrestle a sense of non-existent control. This is pretty true of all belief systems.
Now as to your question: people will always apply their belief systems to you. It is how they structure their world. Just like you will always apply your belief systems to the world around you and the people you know. Even if your belief systems aren’t spiritual or religious. If you are friends with a Christian, they will apply their understanding of God and sin to you. If you are friends with a believer in karma, they will apply that to you. Astrology believers will apply astrology to you. Marxists will apply their material/dialectic analysis to you. Feminists will apply their understanding of gender-based oppression to you. Trans people will apply their belief in the social structure of gender and cisnormativity’s hegemonic strangelehold on you.
That’s a part of being in relationship with other people: they will at all times apply their belief system to you as they apply it to the world at large as they attempt to understand the universe around them. And you will do the same right back. You either accept that other people order their reality differently than you, or you stop being friends with people whose belief system is too incompatible for you to spend time with them. You may have a relationship where you could ask them to not speak to you about their belief systems, and depending on how important those belief systems are they may be okay with that. But they’ll not stop applying to it you either way, because that’s how they make sense of the world, just like you wouldn’t stop applying your belief systems to others even if you were okay about keeping it to yourself for their comfort.
Ok while i dont like this it makes a lot of sense, thank you. I hadnt thought about my application of materialism to other people and my application of my faith to other people. I guess this makes sense, and like you say is just part of interfacing with other people. Its just frustrating. Thanks for laying this out for me