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I'm with you, Di. I never had pretty nails either and I had acrylic for awhile, but it's expensive. Besides, the nails making typing difficult.
I've resigned myself to short nails. :)
Rachel
I don't even know Victoria's Secret let alone Sally Hensons.
LOL, Suzanne!
I know I posted this blog late, but I'm thinking with the silence here, most people are having the same problem! :-)
Any nail experts out there--anywhere????
You need magnesium. My nails were super thing, split all the time, curved like talons. LOL The problem is that if you're low in magnesium (and most people are because it's gotten deleted from our soil) your body can't utilize that calcium. You actually need about 400 mg a day or so.
Hmmmm...I have to agree with Colleen. Try a multi-vitamin or supplement. I had horrible problems with my nails - thin, peeling, tearing etc. I started taking a higher strength multi-vitamin (not Centrum or One-a-Day which contain the basic amounts). What a difference in my nails!!! I actually have nails that are longer than my fingertips, the peeling is gone, but I do still tear them although not as easily.
check this out, Di!
http://www.mybodylanguage.co.uk/soft_nails.htm
An easier and tastier option is this: Jell-O. Yep, Jell-O. I have seen people put Knox gelatin in their drinks, but whatever. The gelatin makes my thin whimpy nails a little stronger. I like to drink hot peach Jell-O like tea. It is one of my comfort foods when I get sick.
My mom has good strong nails, but they curve over the tips of her fingers, in seriously odd angles. Mine do too, but are way softer. She said her nails were their best when she was pregnant. (I am NOT suggesting that you become so...) My aunt, who is a nurse, told mom it had to do with low estrogen levels in everyday life.
I agree about the magnesium going with the calcium. I can't drink milk, so I take supplements too.
My nails are not nice. I chewed them for years and as a result the nail bed is not very large. Add to that the splitting, peeling etc. For a long time I used acrylics, going faithfully to the nail place every two weeks. My nails looked beautiful, but it is expensive.
So now I go to Walgreens and buy Broadway brand nails and glue them on. It looks like I have a French manicure and I have received dozens of compliments. No they don't stay on as securely as acrylics, but they are a lot cheaper and they don't required the entire nail being filed down before you put them on.
I do need to have the real nails covered because at the first sign of a tear or whatever I'm there picking. And doing sign language interpreting at church my hands are always in view.
Now when I take off the nails to switch them out I feel naked without them. And typing isn't a problem Guess it's all in what you get used to.
Another supplement to add is Biotin - its supposed to help with hair and nails. Do I ever remember to take it? No, but I've heard it works. (She says as she looks down at her ugly, ugly nails typing away on the keyboard)
You know, Leslie, someone else told me about Biotin, and I actually bought some. I haven't taken it, either! LOL!
Great ideas, everyone! Thanks for the input. I'll check out the magnesium and other ideas. I'd like to blame it on estrogen levels--since I blame everything else on that--but I've had bad nails all my life. They're just worse now. :-)
Go to Valerie Saxion's web site, http://www.totalhealthlabs.net/showNotesDetails/59.html
And see what your finger nails are telling you.
I did acrylics for over a year and became such good friends with my nail lady. I've know someone who led her nail tech to Christ (and she put that person in my Bible study group! What a joy that was!) But, I have this dyshrotic disease in my hands and I quit getting the nails done. I can type so much better now. And I don't have to ask people to do things I did in the past with the nails now.
Anyway, the other day I was looking at some golf clothes catalog and saw these golf gloves that have the ring set cut out and room for your acrylics to poke out and be seen! Is that cool, or what? I was tempted to go back to acrylics just to get those gloves.
But these days, I would rather cover them up. Do you think we could bring back the fashion of wearing gloves like my mother and grandmother did? I have theirs...
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