Translation help!

[JoeBlow]

Can anyone tell me how you say uñas esculpidas in English? Does such a thing exist?

Thanks a lot.

 

[steveinbsas]

Can anyone tell me how you say uñas esculpidas in English? Does such a thing exist?

Thanks a lot.

Possibly manicure?

What's the context?

 

[JoeBlow]

Thanks Steve, but this is the def I was given in Spanish:

un material que se va aplicando en varias capas, no es un pedazo de plásictico.


¡Gracias!

 

[Desde2008]

Can anyone tell me how you say uñas esculpidas in English? Does such a thing exist?

Thanks a lot.

Maybe Fake nails?

 

[steveinbsas]

Thanks Steve, but this is the def I was given in Spanish:

un material que se va aplicando en varias capas, no es un pedazo de plásictico.


¡Gracias!

I would literally translate that as follows:

A material that is applied in several layers; is not a piece of plastic.

 

[jenh]

Either gel nails or acrylic nails, depending on exactly the kind of nail you want - the phrase is literally sculpted nails, so that could be gel or acrylic.

 

[Roxana]

Sculpted Nails

 

[melaboots]

uñas esculpidas

they're acrylic nails

 

[JoeBlow]

they're acrylic nails

OK, but acryllic can be press-on.
Uñas esculpidas are apparently applied in layers.
Any specific name anybody knows for this, if in fact, they are commmon in the US or other English-speaking counry?

 

[Roxana]

I lived in New York City and there were a nail shop in every single corner of the city.