jay wrote @ January 17, 2008 at 8:01 am

Well…in the left picture you kinda look like “what’s goin on with my nails”
in the right you look like “ohh those are pretty” so I don’t think it matters as long as you have the correct facial expression!

  Tom3 wrote @ January 17, 2008 at 12:05 pm

I think if a man was to look at this, we need to understand nails are not a “MAN” thing. So I wouldn’t care how you look at them as long as it isn’t in the context of doing them. We need to focus not on how we look at them but how much we care about them. I think that is the heart of the situation here, isn’t it? Some men I’m afraid take way too much care of their nails and hands for my taste. We need to recapture the heart of a working mans hands, with scars, tatoos, dirt, rough, etc…

You say how should we look at them, I say let the women admire them for all their masculine glory!

  Stephen wrote @ January 17, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Neither of the above.

A man must only glance at his nails in a subtle manner, so as so ensure that said glance goes unnoticed. Any deliberate raising of the hands draws attention to the action being performed, thus making it unacceptable.

A more permissible approach is to glance at the fingernails while the hands are performing another task, such as pulling the trigger to a gun, chopping wood, or changing the oil on a car. Alternatively, one may glance at the nails while checking the time on the wristwatch.