Like many of us neurodivergents, I am truly terrible at noticing my body’s cues. I never know I have to to pee until I’m about to pee myself, never know I’m too hot until I am sweating, never know if I’m too cold until my partner gives me a blanket, and the list goes on. I know this about myself, but I’ll still spend all day cranky and not know why and then suddenly I take the blanket off of my lap and I’m like “ohhhhh…… I’ve been burning up for hours…..”
I figured this would just be a think I’d deal with forever and had accepted it as well as I could. BUT, a couple of months ago, I tried my first thermal nail polish and oh. my. GODS. It’s genuinely a life changer.
When I wear it, anytime I see my nails are super light green (the warm color), I know I’m too hot. I don’t feeeeel like I’m too hot, but my nails are light green so I know I am! I take off my blanket, and viola. If I see my nails are super blue (the cold color), I know I’m too cold. I don’t feeeeel like I’m too cold, but my nails are dark blue so I know I am! I put on a blanket or sweats and viola! Hours of uncomfortable unexplained crankiness avoided.
I was worried this wouldn’t last because I tend to tune out my nail polish color after a couple of days (unless I paint them several times a week, which also do sometimes lol). But! This one changes so much that I don’t get used to the color and tune it out! I also work at a desk all day so I have the opportunity to look at my nails a lot, which I imagine helps with that a lot.
I’ve been wearing this and another thermal polish I have quite a lot in the past months and I have noticed SUCH a huge difference! My brain still doesn’t get used to the colors and I am usually only too hot or too cold for an hour at most before I notice and can remedy it!!
Also as a bonus for the one in my pics, it’s also solar so it encourages me to go outside 😌
The polish in my pics is Whispers of Camargue by Chameleon Nails! I believe this was 3 coats of it + 1 coat of Gloss Taco from Holo Taco
by Odd-Factor1888
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i’m adhd too and i get the dopamine surges too im currently wearing this one!
https://preview.redd.it/j8qtzn7k33xf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89937c5731860df6c06e0562e41a033dabc444fa
it’s bloody and bruised by Cattail !
this looks great OP!👌🏼
Thermals aren’t “shiny” enough for me. Plus I’m going through (I’m fairly certain) peri-menopause so I constantly feel like my skin is on fire.
***HYPERFOCUS RANT WARNING*** I am however really really into magnetics right now and all the different tools and such to make different designs. My favorite tool so far (because lazy) is using a magnetic lab stirrer and setting my finger on it so instead of the “glass bead” effect it does when your nail is facing the magnet, what I think the folks over in r/RedditLaqueristas call “mosaic”. My favorite finish for everything is generally in the multichrome territory because it makes my crow brain happy, and my nails are shift colors depending on the light sources available to me.