
Press-on nails that survive a whole wedding day
A wedding day is long, and your hands are in every photograph. Here is when to glue the set on, what makes it hold, and the backup plan for a nail that lifts.
Tests, guides and honest experiences with press-on nails.

A wedding day is long, and your hands are in every photograph. Here is when to glue the set on, what makes it hold, and the backup plan for a nail that lifts.

Two of us, two kitchen tables and a fair number of press-on sets. Here is who we are, how we test them, and why the nail underneath always comes first.

Length matters more than glue does. How to pick short press-on nails that survive handwriting, typing and a backpack, and how to file a set down yourself.

Feel where the gap is before you do anything. The side, the base and the tip lift for three different reasons, and only one of them is worth re-gluing.