The ruling on a woman attaching artificial nails for adornment

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. What is the ruling on a woman attaching artificial nails for adornment, making them slightly longer and painting them with nail polish, so that her nails remain trimmed and clean?

Answer:
Is it not permissible for a woman to lengthen her nails or attach extensions to lengthen them? This is forbidden. Likewise, she must not paint them with nail polish that hardens on them and prevents the water of wudu' or ritual purity from reaching what is underneath, for this causes the wudu' to be invalid because part of the body part requiring wudu' remains without water reaching it. She should avoid these things. The prescribed practice regarding nails is to keep them maintained by cutting them, and cutting them is among the characteristics of the fitrah (innate natural disposition). It is not permissible to lengthen them as some women who imitate disbelieving women or beasts and animals do; this is not permissible. There is no harm in dyeing them with henna or with dyes that beautify them and do not have a substance that hardens and prevents water from passing through. Yes.