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WANTED: Advice to get dirt from underneath fingernails.

I'm the type of person who is more worried about how to get dirt out of her fingernails than how to avoid getting dirt under her fingernails.

My fingernails are usually pretty nasty. There doesn't seem much sense in painting them when after one day they'll be chipped.

Typically I'll have an occasion to paint them, maybe a party or the holidays.

Then I'll forget about my fingernails and wait until the paint chips off. Typically I choose a light color so it doesn't look as nasty when the paint inevitably begins to chip away 10 minutes after it is dry.

For some reason, I've decided lately to paint my fingernails.

Likely it's boredom.

My nails are relatively long right now because I haven't been working out in the garden.
Tommy gets a funny smirk on his face when I paint my nails. Usually he teases me and asks me if I have a hot lunch date tomorrow.

Now that they look relatively nice I notice I have a hard time getting the dirt our from underneath my nails.

Garden gloves just don't work for me. You can't get the same sort of torque that you can bare-handed.

I've used the little hand brush I keep at the kitchen sink --- the one I replaced after Tommy thought the brush was used to scrub the crevices in between the sink and the counter top.
But my nails still have dirt under them.

I paused briefly to wonder how many times I must have been at some important interview with some important muckity-muck and never realized I had dirt under my fingernails.

Then I realized I couldn't be the first person to have this same problem.

I'm asking readers to write in and let help me with this one. Surely there is some gadget or goo made especially for this very problem. Please let me know and I'll share the most plausible under-finger-gunk remedy with other readers.