First tiene advice
Hello, so to give you some context. I am 25 years old but I am still in college and live with my whole family. I have been wanting to paint my nails black for a while now. I know some of my peers will hate them and other will not care at all. I won't be kicked out or anything but they will pick fun at me just like they did when I got my second ear pierced. Some will probably think I am gay or something (nothing bad about it in my eyes but in some of them it is).
So I have 2 questions:
How do I keep my nails clean?? They always get sooo dirty sooo fast and even if I am going to paint over them I don't want them to be that filthy. I feel like I don't know how to care for them since I ate them until like last year.
How long for them to be painted and dry?? For the reasons I gave at the beggining I think I should paint them one day out of my house and make something up to why they are painted (I know this is not the most healthy way to do it but is the way it will save me most problems with unreasonable and homophobic thinking).
Thank you for any advice and sorry for writting so much for such simple questions and for any spelling mistakes I may have not noticed, english is not my first language.
The title should be "first time advice" the autocorrector got me 🤦🏻♂️
Edit: Sooo I did it and I honestly love my black nails now, I am keeping them way cleaner and they just feel better.
The walk home I was kind of thinking "act natural, everything is fine" and at some point that changed to " know what I am feeling more and more confident".
So I got to my house and find my mother just coming out to walk the dog, I tell her right away with my excuse and she said she liked them honestly and that she must have black nail polish like encouraging that they look good if I wanted to keep going.
One of my brothers was like "why??" but instandly changed to ok and to tell my that my nails added to my buzz cut made me look like a rockstar. My other brother started mocking me a bit but I used the excuse and he was alright with it saying the rockstar thing too.
On regards to my father, I am not even sure if he has noticed after 3 days cause he is not very observant but with the excuse he'll probably won't care.
On the friends category, I haven't seen most cause I am having tests and I am not going out but the ones I have talked to online either loved them or did not say much. One of them did not understand why I needed the excuse but I explained and was like "ok well you know them better".
To sum things up I am loving them and feeling great with them even though as it is my first time they don't look so good but amazing experience all around. Thanks to everyone for their support and I hope my post helps more guys to just do it. It is fun and they look great. I can not wait to actually go out and really show them, I know my friends will be surprised but most if not all will be alright with them and if they are not well... worst for them.