I did some Funeral nails.....not on the deceased but in the same room as an open coffin, at a kind of mourning/celebration of life ... I did the mothers and grandmothers of the deceased...it was a very strange experience and im not really too sure why they wanted it doing in the same room, I think they just wanted the deceased close by at all times....this was at a special centre whereby the families have their own private mourning room..

Now all I would say is .... wrap up warm.......It was very cold and quite a strange experience...If I am honest I was also a little scared....

I have had a few requests for the service of doing the nails of the deceased, but have never taken up the offers....

I have thought of approaching the funeral directors and providing a leaflet....It could prove to be a very popular service and of course there is money in it .... (that sounds awful)..... I would give it a go, the thing is you could never be sure how you will feel unless you do one..

It worries me that I might get in there, start to do it and find I Just cant do it....

Doing makeup in morgues can be rewarding, in many ways, if you can get past what you're doing.

The only thing that stopped me from doing it, is doing special effects make-up because I am not trained in it-- what if they are missing a nose, or an eye from a terrible accident?

I think it's a wonderful service to the grieving families, it helps them feel better to know their loved ones have been taken good care of after death.

After my dad passed on, I and everyone else was amazed how great he looked, as he had a torn and bruised lip from having a breathing tube shoved down his throat, somehow the morticians sewed it back up and put makeup over it, it looked like it didn't happen.

It's a bit of a myth about peoples hair and nails still growing, I watched on tv once some kind of documentary about death, and they said that they appear to grow but it's actually the body shrinking slightly as it decomposes, so gives the illusion of the nails and hair still growing.