New Question: How do you clean POST customization?

[Skeen]

Originally Posted by LLBPonyGirl

safe to say though i will not be investing in gloves though because i think it's rediculous to be putting them on and taking them off like every 30-60 minutes and i will not be clipping my nails, or cutting the tips of the gloves to account for them. i wear fingerless gloves in the winter for a reason, and fingerless cleaning gloves just doesn't seem right.

you'd think there'd be a problem though with constantly having your hands wet though; i know when i'm wet and try to like rehair it just tears up my hands horribly (heck doing anything metal related after they've been in water for any reason).

Obviously if you wear gloves, you don't have to wash your hands all the time. Gloves keep anything on your fingers from EVER touching the pony. So go stick your hands in whatever you'd like; with a glove over them they won't touch the pony.

Yes, fingerless cleaning gloves are ridiculous, but no more so than sending dirty ponies to your swap partners. If you want to keep your nails long, fine, but do your partners a favor by minimizing the contact they have with whatever you're sending them.

I guess it all comes down to what is more important: keeping your style, such as it is, or sending clean customs to your partners. I can see what your choice is.

And, why on earth would your hands be wet after you wash them? Do you not DRY your hands so there's no water on them? That's part of the whole washing process. If you're talking about perhaps your hands being sweaty when you try to rehair, the same thing would apply.

[Lunarose8]

Originally Posted by Skeen

Obviously if you wear gloves, you don't have to wash your hands all the time. Gloves keep anything on your fingers from EVER touching the pony. So go stick your hands in whatever you'd like; with a glove over them they won't touch the pony.

Yes, fingerless cleaning gloves are ridiculous, but no more so than sending dirty ponies to your swap partners. If you want to keep your nails long, fine, but do your partners a favor by minimizing the contact they have with whatever you're sending them.

I guess it all comes down to what is more important: keeping your style, such as it is, or sending clean customs to your partners. I can see what your choice is.

And, why on earth would your hands be wet after you wash them? Do you not DRY your hands so there's no water on them? That's part of the whole washing process. If you're talking about perhaps your hands being sweaty when you try to rehair, the same thing would apply.

Quoted for truth!

I mean, honestly, why are you bothering to ask this if you are not willing to do something as simple as trimming your nails to make sure that your customs are clean when you send them to someone? If you are not willing to back down from your...uhm.."style" to make sure people get clean customs, then don't be surprised if you get complaints about people recieving dirty customs from you.

If the purchasing of gloves is too difficult for you then constantly wash your hands, it really is not that hard. And to prevent getting the custom wet after doing so there is this lovely little thing called a towel that you use to dry your hands with once you are done washing them; said towel is also good to keep around incase your hands get sweaty while re-hairing so you can use it to keep them dry then too.

In short if you want the best way to keep a custom clean buy gloves and know they would not have to be fingerless if you trimmed your nails!! Which is worse the "hassle" of taking off plastic gloves every 60 minutes or knowing that you sent someone a filthy custom and having to deal with the fact that(not only did you disgust them) you dissapointed them? And if nails are more important to you then customizing, then I guess you already have your answer; don't customize!