Fun fact: my mom didn't let me grow my finger nails until I graduated high school. She thought I was too young to. Sometimes, I'd get away with being able to grow them out long enough to paint on geometric designs before she would catch me and I would painstakingly have to cut them. When I finally went to the nail shop in college, I instantly became hooked and it became my routine indulgence. It almost felt like a rite of passage into woman hood. I finally got to feel how mos