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RE: Real nails and fake nails
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El Kiko
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Joined: Jun. 7 2010
From: The South Ireland
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RE: Real nails and fake nails (in reply to elgreco)
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Split nail sounds bad and painful , I have just been surfing around on this topic , mainly in the medical sections as oppose to the girly sections ( they are big into nails !) AS I understand it if nails splits in the middle its (possibly ) because it grew weak at the base ...there is a LOt of stuff about this on the web ....i found this ..... <Copy> There are many factors that may lead to brittle and split nails. These could be anything like advancing age, lack of calcium, too much use of chemicals like nail polish remover, working for long hours in water or using detergent too often, etc. But the primary cause remains lack of nutrition. You need to include calcium and other important minerals and nutrients in your diet to make your nails stronger and healthier. Moisturizing your hands frequently helps a lot as it keeps your nails from drying and chipping off. Washing your hands often can cause dryness so make sure you keep a small bottle of moisturizer with yourself to apply it frequently. Also, apply it every time you feel your hands are a bit dry, you come back from a swim, after a bath, after you wash clothes, wash the dishes, etc. A natural remedy for curing and strengthening brittle and rough nails is applying vegetable oil. Simply take some vegetable oil on a cotton swab and wipe it on your nails. It will make sure your nails remain moisturized and healthy. The main remedy and cure for brittle and split nails is to add more nutrients to your diet. Include foods that have biotin, a type of Vitamin B. Examples of such types of food are peanuts, lentils, egg yolks, sardines, mushrooms, bananas, liver, and cauliflower. Ask a doctor for biotin supplements to promote growth of nails. <end copy> Strange how a few sites mention vegetable oil (olive I suppose ) I never heard of that before...........I also see gelatin is good for nails ...... Come on guys we have to look after our nails ............. BECAUSE WE'RE WORTH IT............!
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Date Dec. 22 2010 22:25:36
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mark indigo
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RE: Real nails and fake nails (in reply to elgreco)
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you can try rubbing olive oil into the nail and nail bed, or avocado oil is also supposed to be good, or a blend like this (attached). but one theory is that it's not so much the nail absorbing nutrients from the oils but the massage rubbing the oil in stimulating blood flow to the nail bed helping the nail grow fast and strong. Could be a bit of both. put a drop or so off whatever oil or blend onto the nail and rub in well over the nail and all around the edges especially the base (where the nail grow from). also you can try vitamin supplements, you can get special ones for nails (or nails and hair), if you have splits and cracks that might be a good idea. my nails are pretty tough, so if i'm just playing solo and/or at home i don't add any protection, but for one dance class a week i put two coats of nail varnish on (i use sally hansen hard as nails). I only put it half to two-thirds of the way down the nail from the tip, never covering the cuticle/pale crescent moon at base of nail. i usually use nail varnish remover to take it off again so the nails have a breather. if i'm doing more, like playing for a 2/3 day dance workshop or week course i put several coats of the nail glue you use to glue false nails on (i think the one i use is called nailene). you can use acrylic powder to coat the glue but i don't like it as it seems to make the nail to thick like a rock, and too brittle. dries quick though. it's also hard to get off again, nail varnish remover struggles to dissolve it. the reason for using varnish or glue is that the nails do get worn away by lots of rasgeos, and eventually get thin and start to crack. point is, if you need to you can just use it some of the time, you don't have to use it all the time. you can get infections under varnish/glue, but only really if the nail isn't clean before you put the stuff on. make sure it is clean and dry before application!
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