♥ Nail Fashion ♥

    
   How to Take Care of Your Fingernails

    

     A healthy diet and regular nail maintenance are the best ways to take care of your fingernails and keep them long, strong and looking good.Instructions

1. Eat a wide range of healthy foods including plenty of fruits and vegetables to make sure you get all the vitamins and minerals necessary to keep your nails healthy.



2. Protect your nails and hands by wearing gloves when you do housework, gardening or any other form of labor.


3. Avoid using your nails to open soda cans, remove staples or do anything else that might cause them to chip or break. Use tools instead of your nails.4. Protect your nails by applying a coat of clear nail hardener on either bare or polished nails. This is a good way to strengthen weak nails and helps protect them from water damage too.5. Trim your nails by cutting straight across rather than into the corners. Then file using an emery board.

How to Grow Your Nails Long Naturally

     To get your fingernails to grow and stay long you have to keep taking care of them. But who wouldn't want long natural fingernails vs fake fingernails

Instructions


1. Once every three days file your nails and put a fresh coat of Hard as Nails clear nail polish on them.Eat and drink plenty of calcium.If you are pregnant and taking prenatal vitamins you will see a surge in your nail growth. File your nails square instead of pointy.French manicure look is the way to go. Natural is better then fake. Another great brand of nail polish to use to harden and protect is called Nails Alive Nail Hardening Treatment.


2. Make sure you polish them good so that the are protected from easy breakage.Also keep them clean and not submersed in water to much.That causes them to become soft and easy to break.

3. This is time consuming but well worth it.  Within a month or so your nails should be long enough that you are happy with them.  Reconsider going to a nail salon and having fake nails put on.  They have to grind your natural nails so badly it takes months to grow them back out.


How to Make Fingernails Stronger

     Fingernails are a body part that gets noticed first. When you shake hands with someone, you're bound to get stares or glances at your nails. Even "talking" with your hands make fingernails prominent. Proper fingernail grooming can help strengthen your natural nails. Exposure to harsh chemicals, hot water and cleaning solutions can make fingernails weak and fragile. With proper care, you can take measures to make fingernails stronger. Read on to learn how to make fingernails stronger.

Instructions

1. Use gloves when washing dishes or using harsh chemicals. This will keep the nail bed from getting too wet and causing the nail to become weak. If you are not able to use gloves, minimize the amount of time the nails are wet and dry them immediately after they have been exposed to water for long periods of time.


2. Massage vitamin E oil into the cuticles every night before going to bed. This oil will absorb directly into the skin and the cuticle bed. Over time, the oil will make fingernails stronger.


3. Apply a thin coat of clear nail hardener over fingernails at least twice a day to help make the fingernails stronger. Do this for seven days consecutively, then remove the hardener and reapply a thin coat again, starting with day number one.


4. Implement the use of the nail biting medicine Thum to discourage the behavior. You can find this medicine in a local pharmacy or online. Reviews have shown that this medicine has proved to be successful in helping people to stop nail biting and chewing.


5. Drink milk or take calcium tablets daily to help the body in making the nails stronger. Even a multivitamin with a significant dose of calcium is beneficial in the effort to make fingernails stronger.