HQ!! HeadCanons: Long Nails Girlie
Mixed HQ!! Cast x (f)Reader ft. Adults / Time-skip Sawamura D., Oikawa T., Iwaizumi H., Kuroo T., Bokuto K., Miya A., Miya O. Feel free to request more characters to be added!
What if you were a fan of long nails? How would your man react to manicures, or you painting your long nails for fun?
Rated G & F for fluff: Those are the general, very cute and wholesome headcanons, good for any audience! No Beta, could containt typos (: Reader has also been kept gender-neutral, though my writing could still lean towards a more feminine Reader. Anyone can enjoy manicures after all, but these are still based on my feminine experience. *Kuroo's got 1 paragraph that contains suggestive themes; nothing explicit, all in humour.*
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Sawamura Daichi
He… tends to prefer something a little more lowkey, anything that doesn’t impede your daily life and doesn’t make him feel like you might accidentally poke one of his eye.
He does appreciate that you take care of your nails regularly, and likes your handcream even more.
His heart melts every time you randomly come up to him, asking for his dry and calloused hands, so that you can apply whatever leftover cream that’s on your hands (you never let him know that you put on more than necessary every time when he’s in your vicinity just for that reason alone).
If you ask him, he will pay for a nail appointment from time to time, to spoil you, but he does much prefer when you take the time to do your own nails instead.
He will happily follow you around the beauty isles like a black retriever while you shop for a new colour to add to your small collection of polishes, readily giving you his honest opinion of what he thinks would look good on you.
He might even surprise you by picking a colour himself and asking you if you like it (he’ll have picked it either because he thinks it would go well with your eyes or because the colour itself somehow reminded him of you, and he’ll be blushing to the tip of his ears while he gives you his reasoning, even more so when you buy that one polish he picked out).
Oikawa Tōru
He very much enjoys that his partner likes to take care of their nails, and he really likes the stylish aspects of long nails.
100% will pay for your nail salon appointments, BUT he has a say in the style you are getting. Sorry, babe, yes, that does mean that you will occasionally end up with cutesy alien-themed nails when the fancy strikes him. Thankfully, aside from those times, he’s surprisingly flexible and trusts your good tastes, usually having a simple request for you to fulfill (like adding star motifs, glitter one time, matte another time, having the colours match his jersey, etc.) and he’ll be as happy as can be.
He’s not a fan of sitting in the parlor with you throughout the appointment, since the smell is really aggressive to his poor nose, but the ladies all like him so dearly (who doesn’t?) that he’ll endure with that scary natural way of his and stay practically glued to your side all while chatting up basically everyone in the parlor.
Will sometimes get simple nailcare done alongside you, especially before he has to leave for big matches; it lets him spend some quality time with you while still doing something to ease his nerves before his games that is not training his body down to his bones.
If you do your own nails, while he still cannot really stand the smell of the products, he’ll find himself staring at you from a safe distance because he finds the calm intensity in your eyes captivating.
And when you’ll eventually put down your file or your nailbrush to find him staring shamelessly at you, you’ll find him smirking because, sometime during your relationship with him, you picked up his habit of sticking out his tongue from the corner of his mouth when he falls in deep focus, except he find the added lil crinkle of your nose so much cuter when you do it.
Iwaizumi Hajime
He’s honestly not into very long nails. They’re impractical and he finds himself worrying that you’ll hurt yourself (or others) by accident past a certain length he deems “safe” or “acceptable”.
The strong tapping on your phone screen might grate on his nerves after a bad day too, so fair warning.
Might treat you to an occasional nail appointment, but only if you asks, really. He tends to spend his money on you through other means, like treating you to your favourite foods, professional masseuses, facials and spa days (whether it be with him or not, because he does like the occasional spa date).
He’ll be more lenient if you do your own nails and don’t always rely on a pro, mostly because that means you can easily file your nails at home before they become a “liability” to your everyday life.
He will, if he finds you working on your nails, take care of some tasks such as the dishes and cooking dinner so that you can 100% focus on that part of your self-care routine.
He so does love when, after painting your nails and successfully recreating a simple design, you go find him, make grabby hands until he offers his open palms for you to place your soft hands into them so that he can admire the results of your hard work.
He’ll hold your hands oh so softly and quirk a little smile at you, his eyes crinkling at the corners in barely concealed amusement because you’re so cute when you’re so proud like this, and your hands are so so soft from the cream you used and they look so small and dainty in his… he’s melting inside. You know it, he knows you know, but you also know he’s not gonna show you anything more that that little proud smirk while he takes his time brushing his thumb over your knuckles.
Kuroo Tetsurō
Honestly really likes them claws on you.
He doesn’t mind longer styles either, so long as you can still function decently on your own, and they feel great on his scalp.
Because this man adores when you play with his hair; you having nails just means better head scratches and deep hair washes.
He’ll gladly pay for your nail tech appointments randomly, because he knows that, when he does, you’ll absolutely come back with a sleek design you know he’ll love too (it will most definitely feature some cat details because you’re both suckers for those, despite him preffering dogs as pets), and he will compliment you for using his money so well, you can be sure of that.
If you do your own nails, he’ll look forward to coming home to you padding excitedly to greet him in the genkan, offering him a much needed welcome home kiss while you grab his hands so that he can look down at them once you pull away. He’ll make you wait though, holding your gaze with that lazy smirk of his and enjoying that sparkle of excitement that shimmers into your eyes for just a moment longer than you’d wish, simply because he knows that you want him to look down at your fresh set of nails. Might even ask you what’s got you so excited that you came to greet him at the door, just to tease you, but you know he loves it.
One time, when he went to compliment your nails, he had laced his fingers with yours and brought your hand to his lips, whispering the words against your skin, which had you blushing in sheer giddiness, and he hasn’t stopped since then.
Will happily volunteer to help you with any picture you might wanna take to share with your friends and/or on your socials… so long as it involves that one trend where his hand engulfs yours and only your tiny fingers peek out from between his, like cute decorated claws.
He has suggested other poses before, but you shut him down because there was no way you’d allow your family to see those sort of suggestive images about you and Tetsurō. He has, nonetheless, convinced you to take some, and he might have used some as your pfp or even for his home screen on his phone.
Bokuto Kōtarō
He’s into it.
Mostly because he's a sucker for back scratches and he will find every excuse possible for you to do it, but if you keep your nails long, he just feels like it's even better!
He'll randomly walk up to you and turn his broad back to you in a silent request for back scratches. Doesn't matter if he's actually itchy or not (you know his shoulders are flexible enought that he can reach most of his back on his own), he just craves the physical touch, the domesticity of it.
Oh, and expect a similar treatment when he feels like being coddled during movie night; he'll lay down his head on your chest or your laps and will require that you drag your nails gently accross his back. He will look over his shoulder with a pout if you don't comply fast enough.
He sincerely thinks that your nails are better than his to get rid of that itch he may or may not actually have. Yes, he will ask for back scritches even if he doesn’t actually have an itch.
He's not a fan of those super long coffin-shaped extravagant ones or those really sharp stiletto ones he sees some influencers and fashion girls wear (those in particular scare him, since he can’t shake off the though that someone could get an eye popped with one wrong move), but he does like longer almond-shaped nails, since he finds that they are both still functional and make your hands elegant.
Oh, and because almond nails offer that sweet spot between soft enough to not look dangerous, but sharp enough to provide world class scritches (his words).
He’ll treat you to manicures every now and then if you like those, and he will never fail to compliment you on what you get, no matter what it is.
Still, if you really ask him what style he likes best, he’ll go for more simple designs. Any colour you want is good and a touch of glitter will make him a little giddy because then he’ll get an excuse to gently hold your hands to stare at how they shimmer in different lighting.
If you can do your own nails, and make them look good on your own too, he’ll shower you with compliments even more so than if you had gone to a professional, even if you point out the mistakes you made while experimenting.
Miya Atsumu
Sure, why not?
If it makes you happy, he’s even happier to spoil you and indulge you with salon visits.
He does wonder how you do anything with long nails (yet he secretly revels in those time where he can hear you angrily tapping away at your phone, answering some poor soul’s text with such fury he knows you’re coming up with some savage lines he’ll ask you about later), and he will be secretly scared of you poking him in the eye if your nails are particularly long, but he won’t make a big deal of it so long as you’re careful.
If you ask him how he’d like you to do your nails, he’ll absolutely request something that matches his jersey with added gold details, something that’ll be elegant rather than cutesy. There's nothing wrong with cutesy though, of course! (A.k.a.: he's a little scared of insulting your nails, seeing how he's scared of what you could do to him with them, but he'll play it cool as long as he can, AND you asked him for his preference so...)
He will never fail to compliment your nails with a kiss to your knuckles when you do end up with a design you say reminded you of him. He’ll be smug about it, but his smile sways between a smirk and that boyish grin he can’t help but flash at you when you make his heart all giddy just by telling him you were thinking about him.
If you do your own nails, he’ll likely ask you to help him with his own nail care the week of a big game.
He really loves how you’ll hold his calloused hands so delicately while you carefully but swiftly file his nails and apply the much needed oil to his cuticles. But the best part is the hand massage when you’re done and are now applying the luxury hand cream he got for you (yet you insist on sharing with him). You'll be working extra hard on softening those calluses of his, even when you both know they won't ever go away because he'll just work himself just as hard as usual once his feet hit the court. But he finds it too endearing and visibly melts the longer the massage lasts.
Miya Osamu
If you like your nails long, you better know how to properly and regularly wash your hands, especially under your nails, or you are not allowed into any kitchen or to handle food whatsoever.
You will likely still end up wearing some gloves for sanitary reasons anyway, especially if you help him out at his onigiri shop, but it will bother him if he doesn’t see you wash under your nails, and you will be banned from the kitchen and the pantry until you have learned your lesson. And he will put your favourite snacks out of your reach and hide them to make sure you won't forget it.
Other than that, he’ll much prefer if you do your own nails, keeping them at a manageable length that is both comfortable for you and still practical.
Sure, what the pros do can be really impressive, but it’s impractical and he much prefers something more natural or at the very least simple, cute or elegant.
Can't stand the smell of nail products, so it's better if you wait for him to not be home when you wish to work on your nails.
He gets massively grossed out when you break a nail, but he’ll swiftly take care of you if you’ve gotten hurt and proceed to (gently) lecture you about being more careful and maybe, just maybe, go for just a little shorter next time.
What he won’t admit, though, is that he quickly grows addicted to the gentle graze of your nails along his scalp and his skin when you cuddle together at home and you’re cradling him in your arms, drawing mindless shapes anywhere your hands can reach.
He might become a little more lenient on the length of your nails once he discovers that specific benefit of you having long nails.
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