Bridal Nails

Claire suggested this topic for today. I thought about it, and I realised that I didn’t really know what to say about nails. For me, I think what colour my fingernails are on my wedding day is probably the thing that is farthest from my mind (apart from work actually, unless I’m at work, I couldn’t care less. But back to the nails…)
So I figured that I should look into it, seeing as if it’s something that’s important to a bride, then it may well also be something that’s important to the nerdy bride :) see how I think about you guys :D
Anyways, I figured that the best way to start would be to throw it through a Google image search (as that’s always my first point of action) and all I can say is WOW. This is obviously an important subject for some of you brides out there! I type in “Wedding nails” in the search engine and get 821,000 hits just for images. I nearly fell off my seat. Some of these will make you go “ooooh” others will have you attempting to cover the screen and screaming, “dear God no! Take them away!”. Honestly, I can’t even joke about how bad some of them are!

This did intrigue me for a few seconds, then I thought about how annoying it would be to get it stuck in the lace of your dress, or in your hair. This is meant to be a wedding band hanging off it, but it’s a sad representation.

Wow. That’s all I can say here without getting myself into trouble with the Burberry loving public. Click on the photo and have a look at what else this girl does, some of it is awesome, some of it isn’t so much…

Umm… ahhh… errr… *utterly speechless*

I like :) Just a simple classic french manicure, but then, you could always just simply paint your nails a solid colour too.

Evidently this monstrosity belongs in the same catagory with the burberry crowd. I could try to be unbiased with you here, but I’d rather be honest, they’re awful. If you click on the photo you can see more, to be honest, it’s like a car crash. It’s horrible, but you just can’t bring yourself to look away. (Ok, to add to the maddness, these people have an entire website to horrify you here)

I don’t really understand these. They’re like nail rings but they’re covers too. And they cost a fortune, you’d be cursing everyone if you lost one of these babys.

Last but definately not least is xiva jewels. This company from Dubai, manufactures solid gold false nails with the option for inset diamonds. They are probably the most expensive false nails available, with a starting price of just 7,000 AED or £1,350 GBP. An average set will set you back 45,000AED (£8,680) and the top sets that the stars are buying normally work out at around 140,000 AED (£27,000).
Not that I’m not all for extravgance, but I mean really? These look cheap and easily replicated. Besides, what do you do when one pings off when you pick up that glass of champagne?? You’d have to mke sure to hide that finger during the photos of the ring. I get really annoyed over this, but it’s kinda disgusting that there must be a woman out there prepared to have what is essentially a stick on nail set costing more than the deposit for most UK homes.
*pulls hair out*
In my effort to bring you the interesting things I’ve found out about Bridal nail fashion, I have found many interesting and highly creative Japanese nail art websites. I’ve listed some below for you all to have a look at.
Enjoy!
Es Bukur0
Bean’s Blog
First Choice Nails – Japanese
Funky Trend
Kawaii Nails