What is the point of nail salons?
Seems like women have been indoctrinated to think that nails are important. Sorry, they are not. No man ever considers nails when regarding a woman. Only women look at nails when looking at other women.
The supposed attraction of long nails is like the pale-skinned attraction in all agricultural communities: pale skin means you are a rich lady-of-leisure, living inside the big house, not a farmer or laborer working under the sun in the fields.
This prejudice used to be true in western societies before the Industrial Revolution. But now it is reversed, with pale complexion meaning you are poor and work in a factory, but sun-tanned complexion meaning you are rich enough to holiday in Spain or Thailand to get sun in the winter, or now even get UV radiated on a sun-bed.
(As long-haul flights have come down in price, sunbeds are even cheaper, and warnings about skin cancer hit home, the inverse prejudice may be reverting back to the original pale-skin preference).
However, the farm-based prejudice is very much alive in East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, etc.). Women from these countries carry parasols whenever there is a hint of sun, even if they have paid a lot of money to go to the sun on holiday, in say, Thailand or Bali.
[So there is the bizarre contradiction of western women paying for UV sunbeds, even as eastern women carry parasols on a hazy day.]
Nails are like that: you cannot have long nails if you are a farm worker, or craftsperson, or work in a laundry or a kitchen. Long nails mean you are lady of leisure, hence enviously regarded by other ladies.
Long decorated nails are not an indication of attractiveness to men, they are always and everywhere a signal of class, from one lady to another.