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I can honestly say I've never paid attention to the frequency of nail-cutting (or hair-cutting). Every week or ten days? I dunno. I know even less about my hair...I think it's every few months. I let it get really shaggy before I plunk down that $12.95 at the CostCutters. Somehow I think I'm not your target audience for this question. 
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10.09.04 - 2:20 pm | #
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I'm always filin', filin', filin' my nails, but even so, for true shortness it's about every ten days.
I worked as an orchestral and church musician in my student days, and at that time, nail clipping was more frequent than that.
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10.09.04 - 3:59 pm | #
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Since I picked up the guitar a couple months ago, I keep the left had very short and file it every other night or so (if I’m playing). The other hand I let grow until they start to either snag or they get bent on something because they’re so long. I file that hand maybe once a week to avoid snags. I don’t use clippers. Haircut is every 3-4 months.
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10.09.04 - 4:40 pm | #
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Nails are on about a five-day cycle for me. I like to keep them very short, though, so it doesn't take much for me to become bothered by them. I'm very lazy about my hair, though, which is why I just wear it long. I can get away with getting it cut once or twice a year.
Professor Dyke |
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10.09.04 - 5:06 pm | #
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I keep my nails long & have since I was about 12. But I trim/file them at least once a week. And I clean them whenever they need it (sometimes several times a day if I'm into a bunch of gunk - I'm a bit obsessive about it).
As far as typing with nails goes, my nails aren't so long that they get in the way, but they are at least 1/4 long. They are my built-in tools. I would be lost without them. Besides, I hate feeling stuff touch the very tops of my fingers - feels creepy.
ABD2004 |
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10.09.04 - 9:01 pm | #
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I ought to cut my nails every four to five days; even at my girliest, my nails always look awful. As it is, though, I tend to whack them all off once every two weeks or so, once they really start getting in the way.
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10.10.04 - 12:35 am | #
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My hair is entirely another story. It had been quite short a couple of years ago, and I was getting it cut pretty religiously, every four weeks or so, because I also color it (more for fun than for gray, but... well, recently, that too). But I decided to let it grow. And so I stretched the cuts out to about every six or seven weeks, to get maximum growth between trims. But then, in May, my hairstylist had a dog-related accident that resulted in the shattering of her knee. And when I went into the salon to deliver a get-well card, and they told me that she might be out for as long as six months, and the salon owner pretty much tried to poach me as a client, I got a bit wigged out (no pun intended), and decided that this was a golden opportunity to complete the hair regrowth course. So I've been doing my own color, and I haven't had a haircut since May.
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10.10.04 - 12:37 am | #
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(Sorry for the multi-comment; got caught by the character-max police.)
KF |
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10.10.04 - 12:37 am | #
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Nails get trimmed once a week and before July I was getting a haircut every 10 days. At that time my hair was 1 inch long and looked very shaggy after 10 days. Now that I'm growing it out every day feels like annoying overgrowth but I'm up to 3 inches.
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I have no idea how often I cut my nails; just whenever they get long enough to be annoying. But I'm like ABD2004, I have to have some length to them - great tools, and I understand about the creepiness of having stuff touch the top of my fingers. On the other hand, they're not a great shape to get very long - they seem to get wider rather than longer.
Conversely, I cut my toenails all the time b/c I hate feeling any length on the toes. Go figure.
Hair, I should get it cut every 6 weeks but I do it every 8 (a holdover from living in tiny town where I had to drive forever to get a decent haircut - I've not quite realized yet that I don't have to schedule a special trip out of town just to get my hair cut!). I am in your boat at the moment - I really really need a haircut, but the stylist I found (and liked) here was 8 months pregnant at my last cut so I doubt she's available right now!
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10.10.04 - 9:12 am | #
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Embarrassed as I am too admit it, I still bite my nails, so clipping happens rather regularly to smooth them out.
I haven't gotten my hair cut in 6 months. I figure this is my last chance to have it somewhat long (shoulder-length) before I start looking like one of those women who is trying to look young, so I'm going to enjoy it.
cindy |
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10.10.04 - 12:00 pm | #
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I HATE that feeling! It happens overnight, too. One day, you can make it do stuff with "product" but the next, it's all 'hie thee to a supercuts'!
AD Husband bought us a Roomba, BTW ...
Another Damned Medievalist |
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10.11.04 - 2:22 pm | #
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I mostly file the rough spots on my nails, but they don't get very long--I play handball, which tends to self-limit the length. My hair gets trimmed every three months or so; it's been long for, let's see, about 33 years? The woman who cuts my hair knows I just want the ratty ends trimmed off. My toenails probably need trimming at least once/week, because several of my toes curl under and the nails split (vertically) and so on.
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Hmmm! I keep my nails way short so I can't bite them. I trim every 9 to 10 days, I'd guess. Just enough longer than a week that it doesn't feel like a pattern.
It's only the corners that bug me, though. I can switch to filing and grow them out some, and it's fine.
Hair? Right now, I haven't had it cut since (nervous looks to left and right) February. Yes, I'm growing it out, and yes, it grows slowly, but still... I think the only times I've kept to any sort of once-every-n-weeks regimen were before my wedding and during my job search. Otherwise it's been at most three times a year, even when it was fairly short.
Emma Jane |
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