FASHION Magazine

We’ve all made beauty mistakes—from the chunky blonde streaks of our youth, to self-tanner blunders, we firmly believe that missteps are how we learn what works for us and what doesn’t. In our new series, Beauty Confessionals, our editors are admitting to some of their biggest beauty regrets. We do this because we care and we want you to learn from our mistakes (and because we want to hear your beauty confessionals, for we are all children of the internet and enjoy embarrassing ourselves online). Since this series was my cruel idea (am I cyber-bullying my coworkers?) I’ll kick things off.

One of my biggest beauty regrets is my total lack of regard when it comes to maintaining fake nails. In my lifelong quest to become Rihanna, three years ago I adopted her signature nail look—long, bright, and obviously fake. My shape of choice was pointy stiletto nails, partly because I was never brave enough for the square tips she’s been sporting as of late. Regardless, my motto was “the longer, the better” which is all fine and well, until you take into consideration the fact that I went two full years of getting bi-weekly fills and never giving my nails a chance to breathe. It’s no secret that fake tips aren’t great for the health of your real nails, but if you get them removed for a week every two months or so, it’s possible to maintain tips that are in pretty good shape.