Now, here is a story that you don’t hear everyday. Except if you are an obsessed nail technician and all you do is “talk-eat-sleep” and yes “also read” about nails. It comes with the profession I guess. Check out this story about Newton Faulkner and his nails - We just became his biggest fan after reading this story at The Age web site. Although this story had been printed a few weeks ago. See below for the interesting nailsy-bitsy.
Some guitarists are rewarded for their six-string notoriety by being asked to endorse signature strings or customised picks. Yet English singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner would be happy with his own range of fake acrylic nails.”I have a very different use for them, so I need them as thick as I can convince someone to do them,” says the personable musician, whose debut album Hand Built By Robots is built on a virtuosic finger-picking playing style on the acoustic guitar.”It’s pretty weird finding somewhere to get them done. I have to go to nail salons, so I usually sit between two middle-aged women who are just looking at me with complete bewilderment. Sometimes I wear fingerless military surplus gloves, which adds to the confusion.”The 23-year-old, born and raised in Surrey, has been on the road for a year, visiting increasingly large concert venues - and nail salons - on several continents.
At Manhattan Nails, we do not recommend our clients using their finger nails as tools, especially after they just got them beautifully enhanced. But hey, we wouldn’t do that to Newton would we. Acrylic nails prove to be very useful in this instance obviously. 
and Newton is not unique as a guitarist wearing acrylic nails. We happen to know quite a few.
We’ve written about this product before but we just couldn’t help but to share with our clients again how wonderful this Mango Mend cream is. It really works for a lot of people and it is inexpensive. You do not have to just use it on your hands and cuticles. People used them on their heels, their elbows basically any part where there is persistent skin irritation.