Been using only bare fingers for solo fingerstyle steel string guitar.
I play into a Zoom H4 set at a low recording level, and increase the gain for the final YouTube, and get pretty decent sound with bare fingers...........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRuB7...ure=plpp_video
I make furniture, which really destroys my fingernails. I'm ready to try acrylics from a salon - hope to do so next week or so. We'll see how acrylics hold up to that abuse.
--Bill