I love nail polish.  I love the way my fingernails and toenails look when they are painted.  I am like a little child saying “pretty”.  It also makes me feel very girly.  In the summer my toenails are always painted.  I really don’t like looking at my toenails when they are not painted.  I would really like to always have my fingernails painted as well.  But, my last attempt at painting my fingernails did not go so well.  There are several factors that could have hindered my success.  The biggest would probably be that the nail polish I was using was as old as I am.  As many people know the polish won’t spread on the nail right if it is old.  But, I really liked the color so I decided to try it out anyway.

When I paint my fingernails I always leave my thumbs for last.  I don’t really know why, but that is what I do.  I had managed to paint all my fingers and it was time to paint my thumbs.  I painted one thumb and was getting ready to paint the other thumb.  I was right about to put that tiny paint brush down on my thumb, when my index finger twitched.  This made my index finger barely touch my middle finger.  My fingers touched enough to make the nail polish on my index finger smudge.  Now all but one thumb and one index finger were painted.  So I repaint my index finger and paint my thumb.  I thought to myself “success” because all my nails where painted.  I even had a back scratcher handy just in case I had an itch.  During my painting session I was watching Drop Dead Diva.  It took me almost the entire Drop Dead Diva episode to paint my nails.  I used the fast drying nail polish because I knew I would mess up my nails if the polish didn’t dry fast enough.  Right as Drop Dead Diva was about to end I noticed a smudge on my other index finger.  I removed the nail polish from my index finger when the tiniest of tiny drops from the nail polish remover landed right on my thumb.  Now I needed to repaint my thumb and index finger again.  After Drop Dead Diva ended I starting watching Army Wives while I painted my remaining two fingernails. 

Apparently I need really really fast drying nail polish.  Because somehow while sitting perfectly still watching Army Wives another smudge happened.  I repainted the nail again.  I don’t know how many smudges happened and how many repainting my fingernails occurred.  It took me the entire episodes of Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva to get my nails painted.  Each episode is an hour long.  Somehow the nail polish kept getting ruined on one or two of my fingernails.  There I was watching several hours of television and my nails where still not “pretty”.  After all the smudges giving me a nervous breakdown and a few panic attacks I finally said forget it.  I removed the polish from every single one of my fingernails.  This was the first time I had such difficulty getting my fingernails painted.  However, I don’t think I will be attempting to paint my fingernails anytime soon.  I guess my nails will just have to remain “ugly” for a while.

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