The Nail Care Curse: Horses are EVIL

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Why, Oh why?

Groom a horse, grime covered fingernails.

Pat a horse and my fingernails are filthy.

Just look at a horse, yep, dirty fingernails.

Get soaked in a bubblebath, lovely and sparkly clean. Think about horses.......filthy fingernails!

Do horses teleport their coat dirt directly to under our fingernails at will?!
 
On the plus side my nails were never better than when I was applying Kevin Bacons foot grease daily to my horse. Don't use it on the horse any more but it's in my manicure kit :D
 
Of course when you do manage to grow beautiful long nails under the muck, the day before you go somewhere posh that requires them painting, the evil ponies will break one of them. Just one. So you are left with choice of chopping them all short or spending night trying to hide the broken one :rolleyes3:
 
ElleSkywalker said:
Of course when you do manage to grow beautiful long nails under the muck, the day before you go somewhere posh that requires them painting, the evil ponies will break one of them. Just one. So you are left with choice of chopping them all short or spending night trying to hide the broken one :rolleyes3:
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If only this weren't so very true.

Every time I think they'll be OK with some nice sparkly varnish this happens to me. :( :(
 
Ha! I always have to check my nails before reaching for something in a restaurant - who wants to see someone with black nails taking a bread roll! Doesn't seem to matter how long it is since you last touched a horse, quite mysterious really.
 
And if you have a horse with a cheese slicer mane like mine, they just mysteriously disappear every time you ride... Or certainly get sliced half through so you have to pull the rest off :(
 
I'm a groom so I keep mine short as I hate broken nails, but one of the girls I work with has long, gorgeous manicured nails. I don't know how she does it! We both agree though that the best thing for cleaning nails is scrubbing a horse's mane at bath time! We are SJ grooms for a pro rider so we bath a lot, and by the end of bath time we have lovely clean horses and sparkling clean nails!
 
cobgoblin said:
Ha! I always have to check my nails before reaching for something in a restaurant - who wants to see someone with black nails taking a bread roll! Doesn't seem to matter how long it is since you last touched a horse, quite mysterious really.
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Try serving food after just dishing out hay, not touching horses at all, I'm now paranoid about having clean nails and check them throughout the day
 
Ah I always judge how happy I am by how clean my finger nails are.

Dirty finger nails = been spending time with ponies = all is well.

By contrast, clean finger nails = inadequate pony time (usually for some horrid reason such as too much work, not feeling well or having to attend a bloody wedding) = bah, not fun times.
 
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