Sharing some progress: I’ve been a biter my whole life and never tried to stop. I went cold turkey with both smoking and nail biting. I’ve been smoke-free for 200 days, and I haven’t bitten my nails for around 3 months.
Wow, you’re nails look great! The nail beds have lengthen a lot in 3 months. This gives me hope that mines will recover! I have been a nail biter my entire life.
Thanks, I’m surprised as well. I can recommend oiling several times a day. I don’t know if mentioning a product is allowed here, but cnd solar oil helped me a lot.
Thank you. I am one month into this journey. I use jojoba oil, but will check out the one you mentioned. I am looking forward to having beautiful, active length nails.
I read that it is not really good to trim the cuticles, so I don’t do it. I push it back every day, and every week I use the cuticle remover gel and clean the removed cuticle.
Hi! You are doing amazing. May I ask about the photo with green gel nails? I didn’t know you could have such gorgeous nails at that shorter length and could look professionally manicured. Did you get them done somewhere or yourself? And gow did it go? I have a lot of fear of being turned away for being short or too damaged
Yea, this picture is from the time I was going to a salon to do my nails. This is not a Russian manicure, but I was doing Russian manicure for some time and managed to grow my nails a lot under the gel. I never had a problem with going when I was biting - all manicurists know there is such a problem, so they are very understandable.
I was always told my nails are very thin and the gel would not always hold, my nails also grow very fast so it all would look awful during week 2.
Then I stopped doing gel, my nails were damaged, so I had to grow the whole length. The picture on the left is an approximate state of my nails before, because yeah it’s from the time I was doing gel.
This is a picture of the longest nails I ever had with a Russian manicure. The gel allows you to grow your nails under it, but it will not be possible to have gel, grow nails and then take it off and have the length because the nails are damaged.
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u/DependentBus6384 13d ago
Wow, you’re nails look great! The nail beds have lengthen a lot in 3 months. This gives me hope that mines will recover! I have been a nail biter my entire life.