Nail Salon Games
Thirty-five manicures. None of them is a snail, and none of them is a hammered nail.
35 games · hand-picked, then filled from the catalogue
nail art games is searched 2,300 times a month, nail art and salon games another 1,500, and
the wider neighbourhood is enormous: makeup and makeover 5,800, hair salon 4,000, spa and hair
salon 1,800, dress up and fashion 14,000.
How this list is put together
Here are thirty-five, chosen one at a time.
Nail, nail, and snail
The catalogue holds forty-nine games with nail in the title and fourteen have nothing to do with manicure.
English is to blame twice over: nail is a fingernail and also the thing you hammer, and snail is one letter away. So searching the catalogue returns:
Super Snail Jungle Adventure. Snail Squash. Snaily Braver. Nailong Rush Run. Nail Stack. Nail Run Bridge Game.
Half molluscs, half carpentry. It is the best substring trap we have found in this catalogue, and the only way to see it is to read all forty-nine titles.
Three more were left out for carrying somebody's brand: Hello Kitty, the LOL dolls, and a nail studio named after a k-pop act. They stay in the catalogue, just not on a page we call chosen.
What the thirty-five are
Filing, painting, decorating, gems, picking a shade. Some are full salons with a customer sitting down and a clock running; others are just the nail and you, no timer and no way to lose.
Nine are seasonal — Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's — which is the most repeated shape here. Two are pedicure.
Weight and phones
The median is 8.3 MB, a little over the catalogue's 7.8 MB. A still hand and layers of colour are cheap; the glitter textures are what cost.
Eleven of thirty-five are marked for touch. Painting a nail means touching a small target, which suits a screen — but most of these were still drawn for a mouse.
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How many are there?
Thirty-five, chosen by hand. The catalogue has forty-nine with the word nail in the title and fourteen of those are something else — snails and carpentry, mostly.
What do you actually do?
File, paint, decorate, add gems and pick a shade. Some are full salons with a customer and a clock; others are just the nail and you, with no way to lose.
Is there pedicure?
Two. Thin, but real.
Are there seasonal designs?
Nine: Christmas, Easter, Halloween and Valentine's. It is the most repeated sub-genre here.
Do they work on a phone?
Eleven of the thirty-five. Painting a nail means touching a small target, which suits a screen, but most were still built for a mouse.