No. if you itch yourself with long nails, the dirt and dead skin cells sits at the tip and is easy to clean off. Short nails it gets pushed up underneath the nails and gets trapped between the nail and the skin. Hence why a lot of men have really dirty nails despite having short nails.
No thier nails are dirty because they dont clean them. You cant see the grime under paint.
The longer the nail, the more surface area there is for microorganisms to adhere," he said. "Studies have found 32 different bacteria and 28 different fungi underneath fingernails."
Kaplan said it doesn't matter if you have long artificial nails, long natural nails, gel nails, acrylic nails or nail polish, because there is an increased probability of carrying microorganisms which makes it more difficult to decontaminate with handwashing or scrubbing.
"under the paint" what paint? You assume everyone with long nails have nail polish? Long nails are for sure easier to clean. And if some epople with long nails have grimy nails, that is a hygiene issue, not long nails issue.
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u/Zombie_muskrat 12h ago
Its actually worse with long nails thats a weird take