Hair & nails

[Green leaves]

They're not healthy enough but my nails are more likely to be put to work and I don't like them long do they get a lot more regular trims.

[leayellena]

Did someone tried coconut oiling their nails? I read that nail hardeners are made of plastic.

[NeonPink]

I never used coconut oil but I use sweet almond oil regularly on my nails and it keeps them from breaking when they get too hard. Nail hardeners aren't good for nails (unless yours are very soft and bendy) because it can make them too hard and if nails dont have some bend to them they just snap.
I use almond oil cause its easy for me to get and its cheap, but I've heard the best nail oil to use is jojoba oil

[queencarrion]

My nails are very strong and healthy and I do think it's because I focus on having a good diet. Massaging oils into my hair probably helps too. If I wasn't a musician I would probably grow them out really long and shape them pretty, but that isn't in the cards.

Has anyone on here ever tried using henna to do a long-lasting stain on their nails?

[lapushka]

Has anyone on here ever tried using henna to do a long-lasting stain on their nails?

Some do do that, I don't know anyone on here that does, though.

Currently my nails are doing pretty well, except a few on my right hand that have broken off quite short (painfully short).

[MusicalSpoons]

Has anyone on here ever tried using henna to do a long-lasting stain on their nails?

Not me personally but the majority of the kids and women where I used to work it is long-lasting, because you don't shed your nails like you shed skin cells so just like on hair, it needs to be grown out or cut off. I guess it would be a really easy alternative to nail polish! Easy-peasy to maintain.

[leafygreens18]

I'm a terrible nail biter I know it's terrible but it's a habit picked up from family. Usually I can stop biting for threeish weeks and start seeing some serious growth but then I get nervous and someone says something and I bite them all off. I always say "Oh this time I wont give up" but it's seriously hard. I want long beautiful nails to paint that will look elegant against my rings etc! I'm trying to do the "what would happen if this time you didn't give up thing. Hopeful hopeful.. I need like a nail biter rehab accountability forum.

[lapushka]

I'm a terrible nail biter I know it's terrible but it's a habit picked up from family. Usually I can stop biting for threeish weeks and start seeing some serious growth but then I get nervous and someone says something and I bite them all off. I always say "Oh this time I wont give up" but it's seriously hard. I want long beautiful nails to paint that will look elegant against my rings etc! I'm trying to do the "what would happen if this time you didn't give up thing. Hopeful hopeful.. I need like a nail biter rehab accountability forum.

I bit mine for 30 odd years, then I just... stopped. I still don't know why. But now they're like over the skin on my hands. Except a few fingers on my right hand, the nails there keep breaking off for some reason (and growing upwards).

[leafygreens18]

I bit mine for 30 odd years, then I just... stopped. I still don't know why. But now they're like over the skin on my hands. Except a few fingers on my right hand, the nails there keep breaking off for some reason (and growing upwards).

Wow great work lapushka! It's super icky but I really just need to keep my hands OUT OF MY MOUTH. I'm the worst about it. If I can just leave them alone its fine, but if I'm running my teeth under them etc etc I'll end up biting them so I just need to NOT touch them

[The-Young-Maid]

My nails are pretty much the same as my hair; thick, strong and grow fast. I keep them short for work(just a little white). I don't paint them.