Aliasing painted_nails -> nail_polish.

Reason: Same difference.

Eh. They're not identical, although it looks to me like while 95% of the images tagged nail_polish should have been tagged painted_nails instead.

What do you think you paint your nails with?

You're saying, for an analogy, that facial should alias to cum. One is the substance itself, one is it applied to a specific surface. In the case of nail polish, as painted nails is used to denote a final result of a coloration / thin coating, like paint, the tag for the substance itself isn't even necessarily logical to imply.

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To give a more complete explanation: there are two images under nail polish that specifically contain the substance itself in bottled form, as well as the application of it. While those two things are quite likely (but not guaranteed) to be mutually present in an image, the same cannot be said for either of those and nails which are already painted. Therefore aliasing them all together under one tag does not make sense.

While you do raise a valid interpretation, I continue to disagree.

Nail polish IS the same substance, whether it is on your nails or still in the bottle. However, it isn't technically polish at all, and is an incorrectly used nom de plume.

As any professional manicurist can tell you, the so-called polish is actually "nail varnish" or "nail lacquer." The polish comes in as a non-chemical activity also known as "buffing" (although it's still called "polishing" depending on your region). Most quality salons will not call it "nail polish", especially once you're outside of the United States.

But I understand that common suppliers do label it as being "nail polish" and arguing that outside of the professional world would be very difficult.

As to your first analogy, I would point out the classic apples to oranges bit. Nail polish is still called nail polish after it's on your nails, as evidenced by typical lady's room discussion:

- "You got nail polish on? What color?"
- "I LOVE your nail polish. Who did it?"
- "Where do you get your nails done? Your nail polish looks great!"

While a facial implies cum on the face, you obviously don't say "You gave that chick one hell of a cum!" You say, "You gave that chick one hell of a facial!" Just like you don't say "I love your painted nails," or "You got painted nails on?" (You'd ask if they were acrylic or natural, but whole 'nother thing entirely). You might ask "Who painted your nails?" but "Who did your nail polish?" is also a common question. They become somewhat interchangeable.

Your second argument does hold a little more water. But again, nail polish is considered nail polish whether it's in the bottle or your nails. I'd argue a tag like "nail_panting" or something else describing the current action over "painted_nails" as the second tag is describing an activity in the past tense, rather than something occurring in the picture at that very moment.

It was more of a searching-logic thing on the first part (I know, iffy ground there). I meant, for example, that one would not tag a picture of a house 'paint' even though it has quite a lot of paint in the picture, as the paint has already been applied onto something (and so becomes an attribute of the other thing, as opposed to its own entity). Basically it seems off to me that (post-aliasing) searching for nail polish would turn up only two images that have a bottle of such, yet something like eighty images that have painted nails.

As for the second part: the point was not so much that the current tags are correct and logical, but that combining the current tags into one would just make things worse.

Well, I think we've pretty much made our individual stand on the sand. :)

Anyone else have an opinion or additional insights?

This is a rough one. I could see nail_polish because people do say "I like your nail polish' when they mean 'I like your nails' sometimes.

Still.. I think 'painted_nails' better describes what is IN an image.. nail polish does too, but painted nails is a better descriptor. "She has blond hair, brown fur, red lips, and painted nails" as opposed to "She has blond hair, brown fur, red lips and nail polish'... because the last makes me think that she's carrying a bottle of nail polish around with her.

Also, colored nails in an image could be done with a marker or sharpee, or white-out (correction fluid/liquid paper) (I did that in school a few times) and doesn't necessarily require nail polish. Furthermore, nail polish is also called nail varnish, nail enamel or a 'nail lacquer'.

SO! I like painted_nails. :)