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Warpy

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1. A magnet
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 03:41 AM
Feb 2013

After 25 years of having my hands in hot water and surgical soap constantly at work, my nails were trashed. They all have vertical cracks that spit off anything that grows much past the edge of the cuticle.

So I keep them short. If I'm sewing and drop pins, I scoop them up with a fridge magnet. It's cheap and dirty, I can always find it, and it works like a champ.

If I catch someone looking down her long blue nose at my unmanicured nails, I just tell her it's a manicure for hands that have to work for a living.

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