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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/theonenamedlingling on 2025-10-20 05:28:41+00:00.
TIFU and it cost me my pinky toe nail, some cotton balls, and sleeping at a reasonable time. I only paint my nails when I can or for a special occasion, but for the most part, I don’t because I can never paint it as well as the salon or just decently. It looks great for maybe 2 hours and then I look down and it’s smudge or has creases in it.
I decided to paint my toe nails because I have a wedding to go to on Saturday. I chose to paint my nails with that Sally Hansen clear nail gel, but what I didn’t realize is that I painted it actually painted it the “hard as nails” polish and idk what is in that thing. But my nails were solid. There was no bend at all.
But as I was going to sleep, I was walking in the hallway and kicked a box that was in the corner by accident and my pinky toe started hurting a lot. Then…the blood. My dogs were already in the bed looking at me strange as I was trying to minimize the blood and apply pressure. After 15 minutes of applying pressure the bleeding stopped, but I looked and my nail was broken across the nail almost to the cuticle. A quick Google search led me to freak out. It’s broken so far down that my entire nail bed is exposed. I’m not sure what to do exactly, but I washed it and cleaned it with alcohol (this hurt lol).
Now I’m here with a wrapped pinky toe (I put some antibiotic gel), and thinking, I really shouldn’t have painted my nails tonight. Cheers for work tomorrow. I’m lucky I work remotely atm because I don’t think wearing closed toed shoes would be a good thing. As for the wedding, hopefully I can recover so I can at least be comfortable. My pinky toe is swollen, my dogs sleeping in the corner, and my lesson for the night - no more painting my toe nails.
TL:DR I painted my toe nails, injured myself and now 90% of pinky nail is gone.