Men with painted nails

Didn’t you already do this thread?

Yeah there was another thread on this - but it needs to be repeated.

I find it ugly and distracting - mostly because men do not have long nails. It's these painted stubs on their hands that make them look like they have an infection or an injury.

MAKE IT STOP

I want to be open and accepting but it is just a boner killer for me, some things shouldn't be unisex.

I have a male acquaintance who actually GREW OUT his nails so when he painted them it was more dramatic. That looks even worse.

If the nails are painted for a day or two, okay, whatever. But don't make it a habit.

I recently saw Hasan Piker with painted nails...

You have to know how to wear them, darlings.

The cute vet tech who works for our vet has an elaborate set of nails with bedazzling. I used to get semi hard when I saw him but those days are now over.

When male celebs do it on the red carpet and it's part of their overall look for that event, it can be cool.

But it seems like a lot of upkeep for a regular thing regardless of who you are

Men with who paint their real, short nails? Eh ok fine. Whatever.

A full on set of fake nails? I guess that's one way to save breath in telling the world you're in the early stages of transitioning to be a woman

Its a turn off for me. Like a dick with piercing or a nose with septum ring or hairy balls.

I don't think painted nails look good on anybody, male or female. It's the same with piercings and tattoos; the human body is naturally beautiful and should be left in its pure state.

Yuck

A young man who sometimes waits on me at a large grocery store has his finger nails painted pink. It doesn't bother me although I was somewhat surprised, but he's a bit slim and fem and I'm not sure if it does him any good.

Similar attitude to painted nails these days as to males with pierced ears in the middle 1970s.

The more mainstream pierced ears became we just got used to it.

Probably be the same with painted nails.

A pierced ear isn't fussy like painted nails. I don't think those fashion choices are similar at all.

I used to paint the nail on my left pinky black in high school in the 80s. I was all edgy and shit. Or something

Although I don't like the look, it's better than more tattoos or gauges or piercings.

I know a guy in his late 60's who has blue toe nail polish. It looks ridiculous and I always assume he's wearing it to hide fungal infections.

It's cute on young emo guys but I'm not a young emo guy and I never found them attractive (too twinky, too uptight). I'm in the market for guys my age (40s) and I'd steer clear of anyone in my age group with nails painted jungle red or any other color.

not my thing

I just saw someone on Twitter do this.....a cute doctor and writer, suddenly wants to paint his nails.

I have a feeling he'll be going full Charlotte Clymer in the next few months.

Men aren't the best at upkeep and painted nails need upkeep.

Some straight guys have been getting pedis in their favorite team’s colors for a few years now - I guess it’s a male bonding ritual.

Pre-covid the last time I had my nails done there was an elderly couple (mid 70s) getting mani pedis and he had them paint his toenails, an iridescent gold iirc

R8 Yes. Perfect example.

Freddie’s looks in the 70s were flawless. Nails and all.

I notice a lot of blue polish. What's that about?

Yeah, it's always blue polish and blue hair. Maybe that generation has a Smurf fetish.

My husbear has been getting his nails painted. He hates his feet and feels more positively about them with painted nails. I don’t have the heart to tell him I think it looks ridiculous.

This is a clear troll thread that we’re all feeding.

Anyway, I like the painted nails on guys.

This argument is bogus to me because guys have been painting their nails, especially in certain cultures, for centuries. So it’s not really “feminine”, but some people just like to make everything so toxic.

Clear polish, maybe.

[quote] but some people just like to make everything so toxic.

Hissssssssssssssss

R30, it is feminine. Feminine is literally defined as "having qualities or an appearance traditionally associated with women." and painting nails has always been something women do. Of course, you probably don't believe women actually exist as a distinct sex.

It is oh so transgressive. They are oh so brave.

I was visiting my sister in a small town in northern Utah, we were waiting for a table for breakfast. The guy sitting across from us was waiting with who I assume was his wife or girlfriend, he seemed straight, but perfectly pedicured with bright orange nail polish. I don't care for the look, but to each his own.

R33

You need to do your research. Men have been using nail polish since at least 3,200 B.C. Try telling tribal warriors who paint their nails they’re “feminine”.

You should just leave other men alone. I hate you people who are against individuality.

It's the new man-bun or gold chain and it's insipid, asinine, and embarrassing. The most distracting and gross aspect is when guys are doing it to their toenails.

I think many of them play it off as "Oh, my daughter just LOOVVEESSSS to paint my nails so I let her!". No, that's bullshit. You're trying to be fucking edgy.

I don't know why we don't start calling out more male fraus because as American men continue to shed their testosterone and wallow in their pussification, they become more and more like Karens and helicopter mommy-fraus. And honestly, if I as a gay guy can be that turned off by it, I sometimes feel sorry for women who are looking for real, average guys these days. It must be really hard.

R36, who paints their nails more in the entire world? Who has always painted their nails more? It's women. It is feminine. Just because you think calling something feminine is an insult doesn't make it so. Check your fucking sexism. You can start with the fact that you automatically assumed I was a man because of course you would.

I think R33, I agree with you on the nail polish thing on guys but if you're a woman, or even if not, remember that for every little social trend or idiosyncrasy you feel is hijacked from women, there was something equally for men taken away from them, too.

I don't blame women for being perturbed by some of the recent trends and especially feel bad for women and girls where trans woman are infesting their spaces. But let's face it, women had no reservations about dismantling every male-only space and institution they could over the last four decades, all in the name of equality and feminism. Never pausing to think that maybe men deserved and needed their own spaces and traditions as well. So now, some of your chickens have come home to roost, and it makes you mad and irritated. And I would agree. But now it's YOU who are going to be called names and disregarded when you try to push back. That's what happened to men and you ladies are just now getting a little taste of it. Some might call that karma.

R36 is telling someone to "check your sexism" while bitching about men wearing fingernail polish! LOL!!! Oh, the irony! The karma! But, the irony!!!

Ok so what about men wearing long hair?

The point is its seen as androgynous more than feminine. It reflects the individual style of that person.

I mean you use to have the punk look and goth etc.

R20, right there with ya. We should meet up, get our nails painted then go have a beer and discuss how absurd it makes us feel. Who knows, maybe we'll get cruised by a couple of sexy emo twinks! ;-)

R40 has reading comprehension issues. I have zero problem with men painting their nails. I have a problem with people who think referring to something as feminine is an insult. And, painting your nails is a feminine act.

R39, which "all male" places did women take away from men? The vast majority of those fights were for places that excluded women not for the social reason of men having a gathering place to themselves but for the political, business, and economic reasons of excluding women from the places where political, business, and economic decisions were made at the highest levels. Women weren't trying to invade the MRA drum sessions or men's bathrooms, unlike when men did have things like Michfest shut down and have now invaded women's bathrooms. Even when they "invaded", for example, men's strip clubs (where no woman wants to be), that was because the idiot men would be holding their damn business meetings there.

The straight women's wedding parties invading gay men's bars is a different animal alltogether and has nothing to do with it being a men's space and has everything to do with their homophobic view that gay men are either their pets or something exotic and entertaining to be explored like going to the zoo. So, again, not a case of women trying to remove a 'male space' just so men can't have it. A lot of the arguments about women stealing 'male spaces' would be the same arguments that would be made about black people stealing 'white spaces' and the crossover of those two things in the white male population that claimed both happened to them, en masse, to their detriment is, in the very least, problematic for those white males making the claims.

ANY gender can wear nail polish now and it's a thing with Gen Z. I'm tired of educating you dumb ass people that men and women can wear nail polish. Wear it, don't wear it, I don't care. I'm done!

Men used to wear dresses, skirts, “eccentric” jewelry, long wigs, painted nails, etc. all the time and they were actually seen as high society and on top.

Today, a man can’t go out in a dress or something as simple as painted nails without being looked at weirdly.

It’s not fair that women can wear practically whatever they want (including men’s clothes), but men are expected to stay in a box.

It’s fucked up that tomboys are able to live freely while fem boys have it so hard. I’m tired of this shit.

R45, you realize that the reason for that difference is that female and feminine things are seen as less than and lower in status, right? "Of course a woman would want to wear male clothing because she wants the status of men but why on earth would a man want to lower himself to wear female clothing? That is the thinking behind those particular discriminations. A lot of the homophobia gay men face is based in sexism against women and all things seen as feminine. Those homophobes just can't understand why any "real man" would want to lessen himself by "acting like a woman" in any way.

Penn Jillette paints one of his fingernails red as a tribute to his mother, which is cool with me.

Tanner Malmedal from the Youtube channel Dope or Nope paints his nails too, but he doesn't ping at all.

I'm not a fan.

I don't mind when men wear other traditionally feminine things (e.g., face makeup, women's clothing). I don't even mind if men wear long acrylic nails like the guy in the link as long as they're not painted. For some reason, I simply don't like colored nail polish on men. I barely like it on women.

It's a fad just like the long dangle earring and pearl necklaces. I don't think guys do it to make any type of statement on gender. It's just copying what male celebrities are doing and they think it will make them attractive to girls. Most I've seen with this look do not have any swag or natural glam to them that would make these things work, many are just poorly groomed straight guys.

R39 has some severe daddy issues, yet insists on trolling a website by and for gay men.

[quote] My only gripe is that once the polish starts chipping, shouldn't you take it off?

Whenever Stephen doesn't like my nail polish, I take it off!

David Burtka

Is this thread from 10 years ago?

I thought all the old threads were locked.

[quote]R20 I'm in the market for guys my age (40s) and I'd steer clear of anyone in my age group with nails painted jungle red or any other color.

You’ll be fine. Hardly any men do this is ordinary life… especially those in your age bracket.

[quote]R27 I notice a lot of blue polish. What's that about?

It started as a goth thing, with black polish.

Blue is the natural next step in its evolution.

[quote] I've been noticing this trend of men with painted nails across the board. Celebrities (from Billy Porter to Machine Gun Kelly) and guys I see in everyday life in my city.

You've just confirmed you are a basement dweller and have not been outside in the last five years. Troll.

Zakie

MGK pings.

Paint It Black

For some reason it's a real dick wilter for me.

Same with nose rings, generally.

FABY

Torquoise

Toes

Why yes, real men can have pretty toenails.

Silver

Fighter

Stripes

Exceptional nail beauty

Red

Police

Average Joe

Three

I hate it but I think painted nails for men are here to stay for gay and straight men! They can join other effeminate things men do that are now ingrained in our culture just like:

Earrings

Guy-liner

The Man Bun

The Man Purse

Hair Extensions

Hair Barrettes

Crocs (UGH!)

Spanx (ie girdles)

Go Go Boots

Short Shorts

Hell, this could be thread all its own. [Girlie things that were thought to be only for females which are now also worn by men]

It'll take a while, but it's gonna go mainstream.

^^^You forgot highlights. So many str8-ish men I know his the salon monthly.

A man sent me a butthole selfie and he was pulling his asscheeks apart with fingers with chipped, painted nails. Black polish. I asked him if he got shit on his fingers when taking the pic, and he never replied.

^^^reasonable question IMHO.

R75, R76, R77: you need to tighten up those scripted responses. Also, it would help if you read more about the US. Highlighted hair was over years ago. Your culture in Russia is much different than US culture.

And R75, brush on your English.

It often looks cute to me on really masculine and hairy men.

on everyone else it looks silly.

R78. Cunt Blocked.

I blocked r78 long ago.

if I wanted to see something like that smear its shit all over the walls iId just go to the monkey house at the zoo.

[quote] if I wanted to see something like that smear its shit all over the walls iId just go to the monkey house at the zoo.

Oh look, Defarto's handmaid has spoken.

[quote] iId

Oh, dear.

^^^Same.

Instant boner killer, just like shaved body hair. Ugh.

^^^If he has a a tight coin slot, I’ll forgive the polish.

I thought we just did a thread on this.

My opinion is the same, nail polish looks best on people with elegant looking hands. A lot of men have fat wide fingers and some women do to. Nail polish looks like trash on people with hands like this. Some guys naturally have the rugged hands of a laborer. The contrast with the nail polish is just too much.

Some people need to unclench their pearls here; live and let live. It's not like these Nail Painting Peoples are coming to get you.

For me, mullets, then manbuns used to induce seizures until I finally had to let go. Life is much better now.

R82 how can a total bottom have a handmaid? I would rather [italic]be[/italic] a handmaid.