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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Another miserable and just generally wasted day. I need a break from this so bad. It hasn’t gotten better with time, or coming out, any of it. I dont know what my problem is getting hrt to try that. Really doubt anything is going to make this
bettergood enough atp though.Before you do anything rash, give HRT and moving out of your parents house a try for at least 6 months. Then reasses
I messaged someone about helping me get hrt. idk when he’ll respond. I have no idea how I’ll be able to move out. My job does not pay enough, won’t give me enough hours, and I don’t really have skills that would help me get a job that could. I will try to wait.
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What is your next step to start hrt?
Probably need to double check with this guy if he can take shipping. He told me he could a while ago but I been dragging. Other then that prolly just getting crypto and double checking who to buy from. I have money and an account on an exchange. idk whats wrong with me
Talk to him within the next 24 hours.
What country do you live in? You can DM me if you don’t want to post it publicly.
I’m in the US
Are you willing to try injections? They’re very cost effective and you only have to do them once every week or two.
Yes, because cost. I want to look into gel at some point and see what I need for that because doing an injection seems like a lot of work but researching is also a lot of work. Heard good things about how well injections work too. Plan to try injecting.
I promise injections aren’t hard. You’ll do just fine. Do you already have a crypto wallet?
A lot of things aren’t hard for most people, but very hard for me to do consistently. It seems like there’s some setup and ordeal. No I don’t. Forgot I needed one.
thank you
Its just horrible pain in so many different ways. I cant do this.