Community Guidelines

What Manicured is for

Manicured is for fingernail manicures and nail art — the photos, the colors, the recipes, and the notes behind them. That’s the whole subject.

Public pedicure and feet imagery isn’t allowed for now. This isn’t a judgment about pedicures — it’s that Manicured is a one-person product without the moderation tooling to host that category safely yet. Keep public photos to hands and nails.

Treat people well

No harassment, bullying, threats, or pile-ons. Don’t target someone over their nails, their skin, their hands, their body, their taste, or their skill level. Beginners are welcome here, and so is a manicure that didn’t quite work.

Don’t post someone else’s private information, and don’t use Manicured to follow, catalogue, or pester a specific person.

No sexualization or fetish content

Manicured is not a place for sexual or fetish content, including content that sexualizes hands, nails, or feet. Don’t post it, and don’t use captions, notes, a bio, or a handle to solicit it or point people to it elsewhere.

Nothing sexual involving minors, ever, in any form. That means immediate removal and a report to the authorities.

No hateful or abusive content

Nothing that attacks or demeans people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, age, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation. No slurs, no hate symbols, no glorifying violence. Nail art with cultural roots is welcome — mocking the culture it came from is not.

Post photos you have the right to post

Publish your own photos, or photos you have clear permission to publish. Don’t repost someone else’s manicure as if it were yours, whether from another app, a salon’s page, or somewhere else on Manicured.

If someone else’s nails are in your photo, make sure they’re fine with it being public. If a nail artist did the work, credit them — it costs you nothing and it’s the decent thing.

Taking inspiration is welcome and built in: “Make your version” copies a public card’s recipe as a starting point for your own. Recreating a look is the point. Passing off someone’s photo as your own is not.

Be honest about what people are looking at

Recipes are the reason a lot of people are here, so accuracy matters. Don’t list products you didn’t use, invent results, or edit a photo so heavily that it misrepresents what the polish actually does.

Label AI-generated nail imagery. If a picture of a manicure was generated or substantially altered by AI, say so plainly in the caption. An AI image presented as a real manicure — especially with a recipe attached — sends people out to buy polish for a result that doesn’t exist. That’s the kind of thing that gets removed.

No spam or unwanted solicitation

Don’t post repetitive or bulk content, engagement bait, giveaways, contests, referral chains, or link dumps. Don’t use captions, bios, or follows to pitch people something they didn’t ask for.

Promotion and disclosure

Nail artists, polish makers, and small brands are genuinely welcome — share your work, name your products, mention your shop. What’s not welcome is treating Manicured as an ad channel: cards that exist only to sell, with no real manicure behind them.

If you were paid, gifted, sponsored, or earn a commission, say so on the card. A plain line — “gifted by,” “sponsored,” “affiliate link” — is enough. Beyond being a rule here, disclosure is legally required in the US.

Injuries, medical content, and advice

Please don’t publish graphic images of injuries, infections, or medical procedures — a public nail feed isn’t the place for someone to come across that unexpectedly. Talking about nail damage, peeling, allergies, or recovery in your notes is fine and often useful; the rule is about graphic imagery.

Don’t give medical advice. Share what happened to you if it helps, but don’t diagnose anyone, and don’t recommend treatments for someone else’s condition. Nail and skin problems belong with a doctor or a licensed nail professional.

Nothing illegal

Don’t use Manicured to break the law, to sell regulated or prohibited goods, or to infringe anyone’s intellectual property.

What happens if something breaks these guidelines

I can remove any Mani Card from Manicured’s public surfaces — Discover, your profile, its link, and the homepage — if it breaks these guidelines.

Removal doesn’t destroy your content. The card stays in your own account with everything on it. What changes is that it’s no longer publicly reachable, and you’ll see a note on the card telling you so.

For serious or repeated problems, or where the law requires it, I may suspend or remove an account. The Terms of Service cover that in full.

Manicured is one person, so there’s no formal appeals process and no promised response time. If you think I got a removal wrong, email me and I’ll genuinely reconsider it.

Telling me about a problem

There’s no report button in the app yet. If you see something that breaks these guidelines — or something that worries you and isn’t listed here — email support@hellomanicured.com with a link to the card or profile and a sentence about what’s wrong. I read everything that comes in.

If you’re signed in, the feedback form in Settings works too, though email is the better route for anything urgent.

These will change

Manicured is new, and these guidelines are deliberately short. They don’t try to anticipate every situation — they set the boundaries, and I’ll use judgment inside them. As the community grows, this page will grow with it.