Is it normal to have a strong physical attraction to pretty hands and nails?

Is it normal to have a strong physical attraction to pretty (female) hands and nails?

But it goes a little deeper than that. I am a 26 y-o straight male. Since I was a young guy and on up until now, I've always found pretty and clean feminine hands and nails to be really...sexy? Like, a cute face is still a turn on to me. So is a well-curved body, breasts, etc. But HANDS can some times top all those off, or in a few cases, maybe even break the case for a girl who is otherwise pretty attractive. But I can't consider it a fetish quite, because beautiful hands aren't "necessary" for gratification- it just makes it soooo much better.

When I talk to a girl or woman, one of the main things I look at is her hands. I love it when a woman speaks with many hand gestures and motions.

I'm pretty picky about it though, which adds to the feeling it might be a bit abnormal. I don't like long natural nails because they're kind of gross, but I don't mind them extending a little past the fingertips when they are fake nails. A clear gloss over nails is hot too. But what I really like is shorter nails, painted and cut. Not super-short, like nail-bitingly short, though. Just cut to their regular tips and painted. I'm (usually) not a fan of red, however, but I am a sucker for pinks, blues and blacks. And a major turn off to me is if a lady let's the paint start chipping or cracking; the entire nail should be covered. It's an all or nothing issue with me. Nail polish is NOT needed for a hand to be totally sexy to me, but the way I am, I'm almost OCD in that if it's there, it should be well-applied and near perfect.

We work in a factory where we do manual labor a lot (the actual job description and name withheld for privacy reasons). There is a lady here who is probably 45 y-o. Cute face and attitude, average body for her age. I mean, she IS about 45. But every week she comes in with a new color of nail polish for her soft, perfectly shaped fingers and hands and nails. It drives me crazy! I love talking with her as she works and handles the materials we produce and work with. I watch her hands so much that I think she's actually started to notice that I don't actually look her in the eyes that much (the whole thing that actually has me asking this). Sometimes I feel she even catches me just kind of fixed with a stare at her hands when she's just minding her own business in our break room doing something like reading a book or eating a lite snack. So hot when she digs her fingers into a pack of candies or something, especially if she does something like extend the rest of her fingers that aren't digging. Oh jeeze.

Another example, the lady who works in our town/area's cable operator office has extremely pretty hands, fingers and nails. I only go in there to pay our bill once a month, but every time, I looooove watching her check information on the computer as she types, and get money and correct change from their cash register. And drop the change into my hand. She had greyish-blue nail polish last time too. omg. Not to mention she's smokin' in every other way; so much cleavage haha. But her hands...

I'm just asking if this is normal or not; to put such an emphasis on hands. An emphasis as much as any other point of physical attraction, or probably more. Again, I can totally find a woman sexy without her having pretty hands, nor are pretty hands and nails a requirement for me to achieve a sexual high. So I don't consider it a fetish (which would BE normal). But visually, I do think I put hands above butt, breasts, hair, legs, stomach, or almost any other body part, except for face, which I would put it right next to.

Lastly, it's not a conscious thing. I mean, it's true I am picky, but I don't consciously pick. It's much like any other attraction or point of attraction; I can't help it.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Whoa man. You would hate my hands, they are beat to shit. My nail polish is chipped, my nails are natural and past my finger tips, I have grease and grime on them from yesterday too. Yes I washed them! Like ten times. Where's the guy with the gojo!! I need it now!
    Anyway I guess its pretty normal. We all develop these kinds of preferences to an extent I think. And pretty hands are nice. I have found myself looking at girls hands before.

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  • Justmehere

    Right with you. I've had a thing/fetish for long, polished nails and pretty hands and fingers for years, starting, and continuing with my hot older sister. Her pretty, soft hands, sinewy fingers, and long (sometimes, very) nails have been our shared thing for years. I've primarily dated women with nice hands, fingers, and nails, as it turns me on and ensures intensity in bed, and have even had a few take after or model themselves after my hot sister after seeing how we are with her hands and long nails.

    For special occasions or my bday, she'll ask me what color I want them, and use hand cream to keep her hands and fingers soft, so when she touches me or me, them, it's extra hot.

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  • jc25

    Why do so many younger women have hands that are so bony and aged seeming and manlier than mine with handyman's thumbs? That is a deal breaker. I once saw a /teen/ with grandmother hands. Womens' entire leg from shoe to thigh is SO HOT though. But without shoes I don't like feet.

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  • Xx_Em0_LeSbIaN_xX

    ^3^

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  • shade_ilmaendu

    Everyone has preferences.

    That being said, you'd hate my hands. I have workers hands, strong, graceful but not pretty. I'm constantly painting and sculpting and getting my hands dirty and scuffed up. Nail polish doesn't last long and I swear I clean my fingernails several times a day and they're dirty again hours later. x.x

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  • Me too. I am the exact same way. I didn't read your entire story (sorry, it was really long) but it seemed that you were saying the mere sight of pretty hands physically aroused you. Me too. Except I have a similar fixation with feet. I guess you could say, for me, both fascinations are actually fetishes. Because if a woman has undesirable hands or feet then its a deal-breaker for me.

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