I AM _ _ _ _ LOCKED

[clevermanka]

I'll just leave this here:


In other news, I read this on a health blog: The moons of the nails (also called lunalae) can be indicative of oxygen levels over time of the blood. They take up approximately 1/4 of the nail, except on the pinkie finger, which does not have one. Absence or reduction of the moons indicates vascular or lymph blockage. Smaller luna may also indicate decreased hormonal status and reduced lung activity. Oversized luna show blood pressure and other cardiovascular tendencies. The presence of luna on the pinkie finger suggests overworked heart or high blood pressure and shoot-like spurt growing from the border of the luna suggest a thyroid imbalance. I'm going to take a good look at my nailbeds next time I remove my nail polish. I don't think I have "shoot-like spurts," but I also think I don't have much luna at all, on any of my fingers. Do other people's lunas really take up a quarter of their nailbed? Or is this an exaggeration?

I have 56 Tom Hiddleston GIFs. For a long time I had anyone Avengers-related in the same folder, but it was getting a little cumbersome. Hiddleston has his own folder now. With fifty-six items in it. My life.



My Watson, msmitti, will be heading over to my office around 11:00 to walk around Wescoe with me. But if anyone on who reads my LJ is on campus (I don't think anyone is, but just in case...) who wants to swing by, I'm here in my costume!

Comments

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

I only have moons on my thumb nails. Of course, I have thyroid problems and have been struggling with recovering from bronchitis since the start of September. I'm not sure what my nails look like at other times. I never noticed.

Still, love that coat.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for weighing in on the nail thing. I'm interested to hear what/if other people report.

And thank you! I'm pretty fucking proud of it, I have to say. Although honestly, Watson's coat is so much better.

[msmitti.livejournal.com]

that face felt more Watson-y when I did it.

I have only ever had moons on my thumbnails. I remember a beauty magazine in high school did a supposedly 1940's manicure leaving the moons bare and polishing the rest of the nail bright red. That is when I noticed I don't have them.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I love that face!

Yep, that style of manicure was very popular. I think it looks creepy and fantastic.

[msmitti.livejournal.com]

and I forgot to mention the awesomeness of those hardcore gangnam stylers.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Aren't they just? I love them!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I barely have slivers at the bottom of any of my fingers:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/etcet/562316/7368/7368_600.jpg

... almost none at all on my ring fingers, trending downward going distal from "maybe an eighth" on my thumb... maybe the source meant "a quarter of an inch" and fucked up?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You have nice hands.

A quarter of an inch would be more than a quarter of my nailbed, so....

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

My nail moons barely show, unless I've actually remembered to push back my cuticles. But oddly enough, I DO have a moon on one of my pinkies, the right one. But I don't have high BP (or at least, I haven't for over 5 years, due to taking a beta-blocker for a completely different reason), although I do have a lot of flags for heart problems (borderline BP without the beta-blocker, high cholesterol, family history).

If you've ever had an injury to a finger that caused you to lose a nail, you will have an oddly shaped moon from it. I smashed my left thumb in a door when I was in my teens, and it still has a notch in it, and is lopsided.

I am NOT AT ALL surprised at the number of your Hiddleston gifs!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think that information about the fingernails is a bunch of BS.

I am NOT AT ALL surprised at the number of your Hiddleston gifs!

Me, neither.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

My nail moons are about a quarter of my nails, and I occasionally get those shoots.

LOVE THAT REPORTER-BOMB!

Another not surprised by your collection.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

My nail moons are about a quarter of my nails, and I occasionally get those shoots.

INTERESTING. Maybe there is something to that weird thyroid bloodwork you got. Next time you notice one of the shoots, you should think about how your energy levels have been over the past couple weeks.

[anomali.livejournal.com]

I have moons on my thumbs as well as my ring and index fingers. None are a quarter of the length of the nailbed. I think the presence and size of moons is pretty much just genetic, but changes to them can indicate thyroid issues (smaller:hypo/larger:hyper).

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Well! Lucky me, I can check my parent's fingernails this weekend!

[djangodurango.livejournal.com]

Mine do not take up a 4th of my nail and I have one on one of my pinkies.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thank you for chiming in! Hearing how few people have the supposedly normal nailbed luna makes me feel less concerned about mine.

[radiantmephit.livejournal.com]

My nail moons definitely don't take up a quarter of my nail bed, and I have no shoot-like spurts. I do not have a nail moon on either pinkie, and the moons on my thumbs are really pronounced. So yeah. I have never been aware of any lymph or vascular blockages.

In other news - your costumes are so cute! I'm wearing my Katniss Everdeen costume. I look like I want to commit violence.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I look like I want to commit violence.

How is this a costume for you?

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

I have moons on all my nails and have for as long as I remember (and I haven't been living with high blood pressure all this time.) The pinkies are the smallest and the thumbs are the largest. I would say my thumbs' are about a third, while all the rest are less than 1/4.


Wasn't there something about that manicure style that left the moons bare being racist? It's a really vague memory, so I may be remembering wrong.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they were racist, but they were very popular in the 40s.

[shrijani.livejournal.com]

My moons probably take up a quarter of my thumbnails. On my index fingers and middle fingers, it's more like a fifth or sixth. On my ring fingers, huh... maybe an eighth? Like you, I have looong nail beds. They go to the ends of my fingers. I am sure that must make some difference in the proportion.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

So far, I don't think anyone has "healthy" luna as described in that blog entry.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

The moons on my thumbnails are probably 1/3 of the nailbed; on my middle fingers, they're maybe 1/5. On all other fingers, they're perishingly small. My blood pressure is quite low and I don't think I have any of those other problems listed. If memory serves, in Chinese medicine, inspecting the health of nails is part of a fuller examination of one's system, but that's about all I know of it.

In related news, I'm getting ready to paint my nails with OPI "Houston We Have a Purple." Because.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

MMMMMMMM I LOVE OPI Polish! I even liked them on FB.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I only see the moons clearly on my thumbnails and on one index finger, and I'm pretty sure I don't have any vascular or lymph issues.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

This is fascinating! I'm glad that so many people answered this! Thanks for joining the chorus.

Edited for WTF changing my icon after I chose one, LJ?

[belluthien.livejournal.com]

I've got small half moons on my thumbs, very little ones on the forefingers, and can't see any on the other fingers... Interesting.

AH!! Give Watson my regards! :D
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[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I certainly shall!

XOXO

[amjhawk.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome costume duo!

In nail moon news, I have none on my ring fingers, a bare sliver on middle, maybe 1/6 of length on index, about 1/5 on thumb. My right thumb moon seems to be a bit deformed, less defined (the one that's been isolated in a cast for 6 weeks). My blood pressure is always very low, with doctors noting that I must run or something when I get it taken.

Now I'm curious about this thing I've never noticed before - hope the info helps!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

My blood pressure is always very low, with doctors noting that I must run or something when I get it taken.

*snort*

OH DOCTORS.

My blood pressure usually runs 90/60 or so. And the only time I ever run is at CrossFit. If then.

[philrancid.livejournal.com]

I now interrupt all the moon- and Tom Hiddleston-talk to say thanks for the Best of Bootie site. Very interesting...

Also quite the reminder that I seem to have fallen by the wayside of music again, much as I was back in my teens.

Hope you're having a blast tonight--I'm seeing if I can finish my novel. The protagonist is sort of dead--maybe it'll help!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Best of Bootie is faboo.

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

Nail survey: only my thumbs, and they are 1/4 of my nail bed but only because I have very short nail beds.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I don't think anybody falls under normal and healthy so far. So yeah, stupid fingernail lunae theory is, IMO, malarkey.

[bluetourmaline.livejournal.com]

Only caught up with this now, but my lunae are only on my thumbnails, and a bare sliver there. I am not the fittest of people, but I have felt no disorders requiring treatment.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for weighing in! Yeah, I've decided that whole thing is just a load of hooey. Seems nobody has lunae that fit the qualifications for health.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

I only have moons on my thumb nails. Of course, I have thyroid problems and have been struggling with recovering from bronchitis since the start of September. I'm not sure what my nails look like at other times. I never noticed.

Still, love that coat.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for weighing in on the nail thing. I'm interested to hear what/if other people report.

And thank you! I'm pretty fucking proud of it, I have to say. Although honestly, Watson's coat is so much better.

[msmitti.livejournal.com]

that face felt more Watson-y when I did it.

I have only ever had moons on my thumbnails. I remember a beauty magazine in high school did a supposedly 1940's manicure leaving the moons bare and polishing the rest of the nail bright red. That is when I noticed I don't have them.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I love that face!

Yep, that style of manicure was very popular. I think it looks creepy and fantastic.

[msmitti.livejournal.com]

and I forgot to mention the awesomeness of those hardcore gangnam stylers.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Aren't they just? I love them!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I barely have slivers at the bottom of any of my fingers:

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/etcet/562316/7368/7368_600.jpg

... almost none at all on my ring fingers, trending downward going distal from "maybe an eighth" on my thumb... maybe the source meant "a quarter of an inch" and fucked up?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You have nice hands.

A quarter of an inch would be more than a quarter of my nailbed, so....

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

My nail moons barely show, unless I've actually remembered to push back my cuticles. But oddly enough, I DO have a moon on one of my pinkies, the right one. But I don't have high BP (or at least, I haven't for over 5 years, due to taking a beta-blocker for a completely different reason), although I do have a lot of flags for heart problems (borderline BP without the beta-blocker, high cholesterol, family history).

If you've ever had an injury to a finger that caused you to lose a nail, you will have an oddly shaped moon from it. I smashed my left thumb in a door when I was in my teens, and it still has a notch in it, and is lopsided.

I am NOT AT ALL surprised at the number of your Hiddleston gifs!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think that information about the fingernails is a bunch of BS.

I am NOT AT ALL surprised at the number of your Hiddleston gifs!

Me, neither.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

My nail moons are about a quarter of my nails, and I occasionally get those shoots.

LOVE THAT REPORTER-BOMB!

Another not surprised by your collection.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

My nail moons are about a quarter of my nails, and I occasionally get those shoots.

INTERESTING. Maybe there is something to that weird thyroid bloodwork you got. Next time you notice one of the shoots, you should think about how your energy levels have been over the past couple weeks.

[anomali.livejournal.com]

I have moons on my thumbs as well as my ring and index fingers. None are a quarter of the length of the nailbed. I think the presence and size of moons is pretty much just genetic, but changes to them can indicate thyroid issues (smaller:hypo/larger:hyper).

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Well! Lucky me, I can check my parent's fingernails this weekend!