14 stages of letting your nails dry

By Rachel paige

January 22, 2016

By Rachel paige

January 22, 2016

1. Carefully closing the bottle

This is step one, and it’s very important. You don’t want your nail polish to dry out, right? You also don’t want to accidentally knock the bottle over, and end up with nail polish all of yourself, the floor, the wall, everything, etc.

2. Admiring them for the first time

Look at those 10 shiny nails! Job well done.

3. Casually blowing on them

This is almost a reflex, if not a natural instinct. Air makes things dry faster, so obviously you’re going to gently blow on your fingers, in hopes that this age old practice works. (Even though you know it doesn’t work as well as it should.)

4. Tapping on one nail gently with your finger

The first time you do this, you’ll think, “oh awesome, they’re dry!” But you’ll doubt yourself, so you tap again harder, and leave behind a fresh fingerprint mark. Sigh.

5. Panicking

YOU JUST SMUDGED A NAIL. You worked so hard at this, and you KNOW BETTER.

6. Weighing your options

There are a few roads you can take to remedy the situation, and you can proceed however you see fit. Do you… ignore the fact you’ve just smudged a nail, or promptly try and fix it?

7. Putting on another coat

SOS. As a last ditch effort, you try to put on a third (or fourth, or fifth) coat over the smudge. It looks… fine.

8. Giving up

This is why people pay good money to get their nails done by the professionals.

9. Testing your nails, again

Have they dried yet? No. It’s already too late, and you’ve smudged/scratched them, again, and you literally just went through this. Have you learned nothing?

10. Attempting to return to normal life