I can relate to the no scratching, so annoying, I usually have beautiful strong long nails and people always asked if they were fake (no they are not). They are so short now and ugly but I must say I am loving this dark nail polish. My problem is I need my right index finger to have a long nail for the work I do putting up Tickets in the supermarket where I work and I need my nail long to be able to pull back the plastic stripping to put up price tickets. I should have got nail on my right index finger insured LOL. Or any of my nails for that matter. I am now finding my job is taking twice as long to complete as I have no nails to pull back the plastic stripping. I kept the right index finger nail long but it has just about ripped off my finger completely (I have a bandaid covering the rip as I know it will be painful once it comes of completely and the underneath of my nail is exposed. Gave up on it today and cut it back as much as I could. OUCH