14 Problems Only Girls Who Do Their Own Nails Understand

1. One broken nail is irritatingly shorter than the others. Do you sacrifice your hard-won long nails so all your nails are the same length? Or do you leave the others long and let the short nail be the outcast it deserves to be for having the nerve to break?

​2. Something's wrong with your nail polish. You finally pick the perfect shade, only to realize it's streaky, or goopy, or the brush on the applicator has a single hair that sticks out at an odd angle and ruins your perfect stroke. Or maybe you can't open it at all because ​someone ​didn't wipe up the paint drips before closing the bottle. Oh wait, that was me.

​3. You loaded up your nail with too much nail polish. The coverage is great, but it'll never dry.

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4. ​You have to wait ​so long​ between coats.​ You tell yourself enough time has passed, then hate yourself when your polish smudges.

5. Two minutes after you start painting, you inexplicably get the urge to pee. Hold it. There's no way it's worth battling the minefield of buttons and zippers.

6. You knock over the bottle. ​Of course it happens on your white couch, your white rug, or your white jeans.

7. Your hair gets caught in your nail polish. You knew you were flirting with danger when you were too lazy to tie back your hair AND NOW YOU MUST PAY THE PRICE.

8. You have to put polish on your non-dominant hand. Oh, my other hand has to be painted too? Maybe I can go around with just one hand with painted nails. It could be my new thing.

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9. You nick your polish and you must decide — take it off or just paint over it? If you remove it, you run the risk of messing up the rest of your nails. But once you start painting over mistakes, five coats later, you inadvertently find yourself with bubble nails.

10. You get nail polish all over your cuticles. It's not worth the risk of using remover to get it off. You'll just look like a kid until you can peel it off in the shower later.

11. You try — and fail — at doing nail art. You're feeling brave, so you check Pinterest for some inspo and decide to do some nail art. Your plan gets scrapped when your chic dots morph into giant blobs that will never dry.

Pictured above: the Bow Mani.​

​12. You use glitter polish to jazz up your nails. Maybe you can't do nail art, but any idiot can use glitter nail polish. But wait, getting the glitter evenly distributed is really hard? And removing it is impossible. It's fine. You'll just have glitter nails until you die. You'll have the sparkliest nails in the funeral home!

​13. You're finally almost done when you mess up one nail beyond repair. It's always just one, and you end up spending an extra hour painting it because you keep forgetting it's the only wet one, and you smudge it over and over again.

​14. ​​You paint your nails at night and wake up in the morning with fabric marks on your nails.​ They were totally dry when you went to bed! But now they're imprinted with the texture of your blanket. Could embossed nails be the next nail art trend?

Pictured at the top: Double Half Moon Mani.

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