A long set extends well past the fingertip. It is the length for occasions rather than for everyday, and it is where the hand-finished detailing on an ANARA set has the most room to show.

Long is for a wedding, an event, a photoshoot — anywhere the nails are part of the look rather than incidental to it. If you have never worn a long set, apply it the day before rather than the morning of.

Long sets must be applied with nail glue, not adhesive tabs. There is more leverage at the tip, and a tab will not hold it through a full day of use.

Every set comes in sizes XS, S and M, where size is the width across the nail bed and not the length. Applied in about five minutes, worn 3 to 5 days with adhesive tabs or up to 14 days with nail glue. Sets are priced from 129 SAR.

A long set changes how you use your hands for as long as you wear it, and pretending otherwise does nobody any favours. Long press-on nails are for occasions, for photographs, for weeks where nothing you do requires a firm grip — and worn on those terms they are spectacular. Worn through a normal working week, they are a fortnight of small frustrations.

Typing, buttons, zips and car keys all need a new technique, and you will find it within an hour. Picking up a coin from a flat surface is the one thing that stays awkward. Use the side of the finger rather than the tip and the pad rather than the nail, and almost everything else becomes normal.

Long nails need the full thirty seconds of pressure per nail and a genuinely clean, oil-free surface — there is more leverage working against the bond than at any other length, so prep is not optional. At the other end, never pull a long set off; the longer the nail, the more force a pull transfers to your own nail plate. Soak, lift from the side, and it comes away on its own.