1.   Artificial nails still on hand are so short and subtle it takes a detective to find them.

2.   For extra power, she picks her guitar with artificial nails taped to her fingers.

3.   He also wants to make sure Vietnamese manicurists wear masks to protect themselves from fiberglass dust created when they file artificial nails.

4.   Hideo Nomo recently had an artificial nail applied to his finger by a manicurist.

5.   Linda Green, director of nail services, says artificial nails used to be about two-thirds of their business.

6.   Now Kiss Products operates a headquarters on Long Island and a factory in China that produces artificial nails, polishes, nail decals and other fingertip-decorating accouterments.