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Witty Ditty Started conversation Mar 8, 2004
Entry: The French Manicure - A2399718
Author: Witty Ditty: I love horses - best of all the animals... I love horses - they're my friends! - U173978
There wasn't one about this particular topic in the Guide, so here's a gap filler.
Any comments, as always, gratefully received.
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A2399718 - The French Manicure
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 8, 2004
Great entry WD - clear and concise
My one criticism is that it assumes a level of knowledge about manicures that I don't (and other readers may not) possess. An explanation of what an orange stick is and what it means to push the cuticles back for instance (either in the entry or as footnotes), wouldn't go amiss.
Do you think it's enough to just say 'shape your nails'? Not knowing anything about such things, I wouldn't know what shape to make them if I wanted to try this out. Elongated or round?
It doesn't need to explain everything in the way that you'd explain it to a young child, but I wouldn't be able to give myself a French manicure from this entry withoiut a little more information.
And one typo - ising (using)
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A2399718 - The French Manicure
Witty Ditty Posted Mar 8, 2004
Woo - someone liked it!
Ah - I wrote this somewhat quickly, hence the lack of cuticle explaination - I won't give a detailed anatomy of the hand, but I'll cook something up.
It's a bit difficult to explain an 'orange stick' without a piccy, but I'll google image search for it and find something
As to how to shape your nails - the problem is that it is very individual - some people look good with rounded, others looks better with square. So I deliberately left it to 'shape your nails' to leave it up to the reader as to what looked best re: their own nails.
I'll sort that typo out (gets typo hunting gun...)
Thanks for your comments - any further comments will be gratefully received.
Stay ,
WD
A2399718 - The French Manicure
Witty Ditty Posted Mar 8, 2004
Righty - changes made:
>Corrected that typo
>Added links to pictures of the fingertip and how to push cuticles back
I'm not going to write anything in the entry about how best to shape your nails, as that is very individual.
Any further comments, as always, gratefully received.
Stay ,
WD
ps: it's been a year since my last edited entry - crikey.
A2399718 - The French Manicure
Z Posted Mar 8, 2004
Crikey indeed. I was just wondering if in the introductory paragraph you shuld include a description of what a French manicure looks like?
I'm also tempted to say that anyone who would attempt to do this would probably already be familar with all the terms used already!
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 8, 2004
A2399718 - The French Manicure
Witty Ditty Posted Mar 8, 2004
Hiya Z!
Well - on a quick scan of google image search - the only examples I can find are of false nails done in a french manicure fashion - not what I'm really after.
Ah! I love stock photograpy... I've now put a photo in which what looks like natural nails have been given the french manicure...
Any more comments - all gratefully received
Stay ,
WD
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Sea Change Posted Mar 9, 2004
Your method section contains a lint free towel that is not in your equipment list. Warm water is not included either. How warm? In a special bowl or in the sink? Madge soaked her clients in Palmolive, was this just a gag?
I thought from the phrasing, that there was a specific shape that you needed to do when you 'shape your nails'. Perhaps write it a different way to suggest that this is the point in the procedure where you could modify or smooth the shape of the nail in a way that pleases you?
A2399718 - The French Manicure
Witty Ditty Posted Mar 22, 2004
Hi there!
Sorry about the delay in replying - but I've made some changes:
> Made additions to the equipment list
> Added a bit to the 'shaping nails' section (thanks Sea Change for the wording suggestion )
Sea Change:
I didn't know that Marge did that - I do know that in salons, the preferred soaking medium is almond oil, but to use that at home, I think you need a special dish to warm it in
Having never been to a nail-bar, I can only testify my ignorance to what is actually being used - however, the general suggestion for home manicures from what I can gather on the interweb is hand-warm water, followed by hand cream.
Thank you for your comments. Any further comments will be, as always, gratefully received.
Stay ,
WD
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sprout Posted Mar 23, 2004
I'd never realised that painting your nails could be such a complex operation...
This is clearer now - good effort!
sprout
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Witty Ditty Posted Mar 23, 2004
Cheers for reading! Glad you liked it.
Any further comments, as always, will be gratefully received.
Stay ,
WD
A2399718 - The French Manicure
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 23, 2004
When I tried to access the link in footnote 1 I got a '403 Forbidden' error message I've never been comfortable with the idea of links in footnotes because some browsers (Mozilla and Opera for instance) make it unnecessary to go down to the footnote itself - they will open the footnote in a sort of alt.text box if you mouse over the footnote number in the entry, but it won't show that there's a link, nor will you be able to click on it. In the case of footnote 1 the text tells you that there's a link, but footnote six doesn't give that same hint.
"If you have nail polish currently on your nails"
Is that a spilt infinitive... or something like it? It feels like it should be 'If you currently have nail polish on your nails'. And it need to be made clear that it's 'nail' polish, or can we assume that - 'If you currently have polish on your nails'. In fact, looking at that again, maybe 'currently' is the wrong word altogether. How about 'If you already have polish on your nails'?
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 23, 2004
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Witty Ditty Posted Mar 23, 2004
Ah - well, I'll have to try to find another picture
I know what you mean about the 'alt-text' thing - I use Firefox (after I got hit by a barrage of nasty random pop-up syndrome ). I'll see what I can do.
I'll make the changes over the next couple of days - I have a supervisor meeting tomorrow (hence none of this today...), and I've had a request to take the good ole' GR out of SSO limbo - so, if you bear with me, changes will be made if and when
In the meantime - any further comments will be, as always, gratefully received.
Stay ,
WD
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Mar 23, 2004
Dang, I'd forgotten all about the Reaper, and with spate of 'Bus Shelter' entries currently residing in PR his services may well be required soon
A2399718 - The French Manicure
Sea Change Posted Mar 26, 2004
I though Cyzaki earned Scout-hood through being a Grim Reaper-like shepherd of PR. Is Cyzaki no longer in the building?
A2399718 - The French Manicure
Sea Change Posted Mar 26, 2004
I like the way the article is now, and I am especially fond of the eponychium link.
The link in footnote 1 doesn't seem to work for me, either. Perhaps add a little more on what it should look like?
OT Grim Reaper
Sea Change Posted Mar 26, 2004
Before you came along, it wasn't the specific duty (and still isn't) of any particular Scout to keep PR clean. (Excellent work on this, and much kudoes BTW). A personality called the Grim Reaper was created to allow the Researchers to help with this unwanted task, at-large and ad-hoc.
Some posters on this thread are thinking about logging on as It to do some clean up, which hasn't been necessary since you joined. I haven't seen PR in about a week and a half, so maybe it's especially cluttered right now. I will go and have a look, and maybe propose a Reap for some entries.
OT Grim Reaper
Witty Ditty Posted Mar 30, 2004
Right - changes ahoy!
>got a working link for the one in the first footnote.
Any further comments, as always, gratefully received.
Stay ,
WD
ps: I've put the Reaper through SSO - so it should be open again for use.
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Peer Review: A2399718 - The French Manicure
- 1: Witty Ditty (Mar 8, 2004)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 8, 2004)
- 3: Witty Ditty (Mar 8, 2004)
- 4: Witty Ditty (Mar 8, 2004)
- 5: Z (Mar 8, 2004)
- 6: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 8, 2004)
- 7: Witty Ditty (Mar 8, 2004)
- 8: Sea Change (Mar 9, 2004)
- 9: Witty Ditty (Mar 22, 2004)
- 10: sprout (Mar 23, 2004)
- 11: Witty Ditty (Mar 23, 2004)
- 12: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 23, 2004)
- 13: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 23, 2004)
- 14: Witty Ditty (Mar 23, 2004)
- 15: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Mar 23, 2004)
- 16: Sea Change (Mar 26, 2004)
- 17: Sea Change (Mar 26, 2004)
- 18: Cyzaki (Mar 26, 2004)
- 19: Sea Change (Mar 26, 2004)
- 20: Witty Ditty (Mar 30, 2004)
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