I’m growing out my natural nails. I’m so glad that natural nails are more popular now, so that there are more helpful tips floating around. My can’t live without is CUTICLE OIL & OIL SOAKS ❤❤ thanks for the tips xo ❤
I recall and want to share again advice you gave in one of your previous videos which has helped me when I am disciplined and DO it: 1) Don't use your nails as tools. My poor nails struggle now, and I'm not sure why. Is it post-menopause? Is it that I have lupus? I don't know. I have a good diet. But they split & peel at the drop of a nail file. However, if I DON'T use them as tools and keep that cuticle oil coming, they DO improve. 2nd thing you mentioned before: overall, wear rubber gloves when doing ANYthing where you are cleaning. I forget to do this and I need to just have some sorta stand where they just LIVE right out there being obvious, or something. Again, I can have improvement galore, then spend a morning catching up on cleaning something, and my nails are weakened by the soapy compounds. Thanks for your efforts to helps us all have pretty nails. I always feel better when my nails look great!! Oh, P.S. - under your favorite products - OPI and Londontown are my fav products, too.
I'm so glad a few of my other tips have helped! I am the SAME way!! Any time I skip the gloves or use my nails in a way that I shouldn't, I end up ruining them! I think a huge component to having and maintaining nice nails is all about prevention - preventing them from breaking, preventing them from peeling, etc. It feels like a full time job sometimes, but once the habits are developed, it's second nature!!
I'm going to look for the OPI Repair Mode as well as Essie's Apricot cuticle oil, they have it in a tube now so that's easy for applying cuticle oil whenever I'm out of the house
Game changer for me was to keep a small dropper of oil and a Handcream by each sink. After washing just one drop of oil in my palm and sort of dip each nail in the oil and rub it in. A little goes a long way. Then just a tiny dab on Handcream to all over the hand and cuticle area to seal it in. With the small amounts it all absorbs quickly.
@@AmandaBellaa I wish my nails would grow as beautiful as yours. I have to keep gel polish on them so they don’t break. Can you recommend to me what you do so I can have beautiful nails like yours
I think it helped with them not breaking as easily! They've been this long many times before, but I never dared to go bare for more than a few minutes haha. Although I JUST broke one last week...so they're all shorties again. Back to square one :(
Great nails, one of my tips is to always wear gloves when your washing dishes, leaving your hands and nails in water weakens them to nail breaks!!!!!!!!!!!
Please be careful of nail strengtheners!! Contrary to popular belief, they can actually make your nails more brittle with overuse. If you find your nails are snapping and cracking, please discontinue the use of any nail strengthens and get yourself some nail oil❤ (this comes from my mom who is a licensed and trained cosmetologist aka hair/nail stylist) Okay, edit to add-this video has some serious misinformation. Cuticle oil has not been shown in any capacity to increase circulation. Cuticle oil is not the same as cuticle cream and cuticle serum- the best thing to use is an oil that acts similar to skin's natural sebum. Jojoba oil has been studied and shown to be chemically most similar to sebum and will actually penetrate the nail plate. Any additives aside from oils like jojoba are truly unnecessary. Finally- everybody's nails are different and have different needs. If you feel your nails are brittle and not flexible-use cuticle oil and ditch the strengthener. If you find your nails are too bendy, add the strengthener. If you're a crazy oily person, you might not need to apply oil more than when you go to bed, and vice versa. And please subscribe to trained nail techs- what they are taught in school is backed by science and studies and a bit of medicine too. Do research!!
