It is widely believed among makeup artists that long nails at work are unacceptable.
Let's be honest, I totally disagree with this. Let's analyze the arguments against long nails:
Injury hazard. There is an opinion that long nails are a danger to the client. I, as the owner of long nails, can say that if this is your native length, you get used to it, it becomes part of your hand, as if it had always been. It’s already more difficult with extended nails, at first you don’t feel this length and can really injure the client.
Hygiene. Someone believes that germs accumulate more under long nails. Of course this is not the case, germs are collected at any length in the same way and hands should always be clean. Personally, I don’t touch the client’s face with my bare hands and I don’t advise you, not only because of hygiene, the client may simply not like the tactile sensations, there is no need to violate boundaries.
Fear. Your task is the comfort of the client. To achieve it, you must be able to convince. If the client trusts you as a master of his craft, no nails will repel him. Such an opinion can be drawn in relation to the eyes, which, in principle, do not accept interaction with the mucous membrane. Such eyes will be afraid of even short nails, these are reflexes, but you can also deal with them and make a cool make-up.
I confess that without my long nails I feel as if naked.
And you?)
