I’m probably only intermittently girly. Yeah, skirts. Wear ‘em most of the time if the weather isn’t extremely cold. My hair is about waist length. But high heels? Not my thing. Jewelry – mostly quite understated. Makeup? Same/same. I wear it, but I go for understated. My “look” tends to be best described as well-put-together. However, it is a specifically-chosen look, so that pushes the image back over to “girly” a bit, doesn’t it?
My fingernails are fairly short, but I don’t bite them, so I do have a bit of a nail. Other than keeping them clean and neat, I don’t often wear nail polish. Rather, I’ll go through a six week period of doing so, then put away the manicure stuff for awhile.
I think, however, I may have found a look that I’d be content with as a constant thing – the French manicure. This is the real thing, not the dramatically artificially-colored fingernail tips. I think the look can be cute as hell, but it doesn’t match the way I dress. No, I mean the subtle French Manicure with white tips, and a nail bed color that is close to your real nail bed color, maybe only better – rosier, deeper, less yellow, whatever.
I love this look because it’s neat and pulled-together without being too dramatically obvious. It looks good with a broomstick skirt or a suit, and you don’t have to have really long nails to pull it off. It also has the advantage of not showing wear at the tips very much[1] – unlike darker nail polish. So I think this is something that’ll last a great deal longer for me.
Now this pic is of my hand, and yes, I did this myself. It also took about ten tries to get the process down to the point where it wasn’t sloppy! So this is something that takes practice and isn’t something I can free-hand[2] even with a pen, or would do at the spur of the moment.
[1] Chipped nail polish and discolored roots are a personal thing. I never notice in other people, but feel like a slob when I can see it in myself.
[2] Scotch tape makes a fine polish guide, just sayin’.