I know someone that still gets the clunky, thick, long, square acrylic French manicures. She smokes a lot and is lower income. I steer clear of French bc of her.

You can do the french manicure with a pale pink/off white on the tips and clear/lighter pink on the nails and it actually looks very natural, but always clean - even if you're working in the garden. I like that look, but don't love the bright white on fingers either - I think it's a bit tacky. A long-time girlfriend of mine always gets colors on the tips of her nails....love her and would never say a word, but it's awful.

French manicures are bad enough, but french pedicures are ghastly, like just painfully ugly.

Anonymous wrote:I have never understood the interest of anyone to get a "French" manicure and definitely not a pedicure. I have never seen this look in any fashion magazine-editorial, layout, print ad, nor the red carpet. The only place I have seen it is on a Real Housewives of NJ or Playmate. Tacky, tacky...

Who cares?
I like my French mani/pedis.

I have never understood the interest of anyone to get a "French" manicure and definitely not a pedicure. I have never seen this look in any fashion magazine-editorial, layout, print ad, nor the red carpet. The only place I have seen it is on a Real Housewives of NJ or Playmate. Tacky, tacky...

I think a natural, shortish nail with a thin line of white looks elegant. I think a long, square nail, fake or real, with thick white or thick neon white looks gaudy.

I like a French pedi with short toe nails (always short whatever color, of course) and a narrow white line. It looks clean and you shouldn't be able to tell it is a French.

Hands are different.

Anonymous wrote:Men love them?? Really? My husband thinks they're weird and doesn't get it.

If my DH had a gun to his head right now, he would not be able to say what color (or even IF there is a color) is on my nails to save his life.

But there are LOTS of guys with foot fetishes. And manicure/long nail fetishes.

Men love them?? Really? My husband thinks they're weird and doesn't get it.

Probably but I don't care. If I get a pedicure with one color, you can see very easily when it grows out. With a French, it lasts twice as long b/c of the natural color and if it chips, it really isn't noticeable. I get one a few times per summer.

dated and tacky. go with a pale pink like ballet slippers/bubble bath.

My husband loves my French manicures.

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Call it what you want. I love french manicures. On hands and toes.

Anonymous wrote:To me French manicure equals sex worker. All girls doing oirn either have that or red nails.

And men love them. OP do you want to hold your self to the desirability of DCUM? Or DCUD?