Surprisingly girly problem for such an ungirly neuro-praxis.

neuro-praxis

I have bitten the bullet and given up biting my nails. And I gave away my guitar to a friend! So...

I am growing my fingernails and want them to be all pretty and shapely and nice. However, they chip like begorrah and are soft as hell.

What can I do about it? I want to start looking like a chick!

Karl Hungus

Why didn't I get your guitar!?
That's not fair.

Er, did you try nail hardener or some such solution?

neuro-praxis

Sorry Ken, I gave it to a woman with extraordinary talent and no guitar. Not fair that a sh!tty guitarist such as myself should have a nice guitar.

So, nail hardener? This exists? What is it?

ferdi

N-P, if you are doing this for yourself, fair enough but speaking as a boy, i find long 'pretty' nails very off putting and kinda nasty while the ability to play an instrument to be a very intriguing attribute...but i know ever action of a woman is not to attract boys so i'll shut up now.

tribble

Your nails will harden when you stop biting.
You diet also plays a big part.
Yep, you can get nail hardener too.
I've two sisters I swear!

neuro-praxis

Thanks for the input ferdi.

It's more like I have finally admitted how bad I am on the guitar...my guitar playing wouldn't have impressed you, my friend. Oh no. You would have run screaming from the room. I shall just concentrate on my singing. La la LA.

Back on topic, I don't want long painted nails. I simply want feminine looking hands, unlike the skinny stumpy looking things I've got right now.

Besides, I'm not trying to attract anybody...sure I'm an old married maid! :rolleyes:

neuro-praxis

Diet?

What should I eat to strengthen them tribble?

FranknFurter

Old trick, learned from a drag queen...........
Baby-wipes, cheap run of the mill wipes, rub nails down with them every couple days, lightens and hardens.

I am such a font of knowledge, wanna know what ya can do with haemmoroid cream??(besides the obvious) hehe

B

tribble

I don't righty know, I'd ask my sisters bt it's 2 in the morning and they're asleep (shesss, people these days).

neuro-praxis

Well, get them the hell out of bed. It's simple, say "Hey sis, what should one eat to make one's fingernails hard? I wouldn't ask, only a girl on the internet needs to know, stat." If she's not keeling over backwards to be helpful, then she's obviously some kind of psycho hose beast megab1tch.

By the way...what other uses does haemorrhoid cream have? I'm dying to know!

feylya

neuro-praxis wrote:

And I gave away my guitar to a friend!

What sort of guitar?

Oh, and don't bite your nails, it's bad or something.

neuro-praxis

Oh I don't know...it was a beautiful, dark red semi-acoustic (I don't know or care about the make). I'm not a guitar buff...all I know is that it sounds pretty wonderful and it was wasted on me!

And NOW

I go to bed.

FranknFurter

weeeelllll lol.........
A little bit, rubbed in strategic places (depending on shape of face) around the hairline and face, can give the effect of a minor facelift!
Remember its purpose, it shrinks body tissue, including skin lol

I once knew a drag queen who swore by it

Seraphina

i tried to look after my nails once.

then i realised i have more important things to do in my life. wasting time on nails seems so irrelevant.
yeah so they dont look great. if someone has a problem with that then they can **** right off cause im not interested in knowing them.

i mean what kind of people worry about nails?!

(btw neuro this has nothing to do with you, i realise you are far from 'worried' about your nails)

amp

I'm not worried about my nails, but god damn, I fret about my cuticles.

mentalimplosion

i started drinking smoothies everyday and after about two days my nails got unbelievably hard.

Mewzel

if you go to natures way or somewhere like that they usually have multi-vitamin supplements specifically for your nails to help strengthen them.
good luck with it anyway!

neuro-praxis

This is a surprisingly funny thread.

Thanks for the advice, I'll go drink myself a cocktail of vitamins, smoothie and haemhorroid cream. Mmmm...poisonous.

frodi

You might do better drinking the haemoroid cream and rubbing the vitamins and smoothies into your nails. At least that way they'll take better (better than haemoroid cream) when you bite them. :rolleyes:

amp

frodi wrote:

You might do better drinking the haemoroid cream and rubbing the vitamins and smoothies into your nails. At least that way they'll take better (better than haemoroid cream) when you bite them. :rolleyes:

Shut the hell up child. Grown ups talking here, go play with your counterstrike pals, before I bitch slap you all the way back to kindergarden.














rofle

Tiriel

The Sally Hensen Nail Hardener is the best around.. it's like a clear nail varnish so it's not too noticeable.. but it works really well.. available in Boots etc. It'll act as a barrier to moisture too.. so nails won't be as absorbant when you're doin the dishes lol

beardedchicken

take calcium supplements - it'll make your nails as hard as, well...... hard things

sci0x

Must pass these tips onto my friend! He steals my compass so he can pick his nails with them ffs,

OLDYELLAR

mine used be all soft like that too , again i was on the guitar thing but wanted my nails , i gave em a couple of really rough manicures like filed the hell out of em , an i got this nail strengthen stuff in boots which was pretty cheap and now their deadly , well not deadly but their long and strong , hey wait til you try doing a french manicure then you`ll have a another problem , I did anyway but im sh*te at doing nail varnish anyway

edibility

Good luck neuro......wish I could be ar5ed to do that.

*looks at her biten, soft nails, with high cuticles and all the skin bitten of from around them*

I feel like a man

Gossip_girl

I've never really looked after my nails but they just kinda grew long and didn't break much but these are all the tips I can give you. When you're filing/cutting/biting(naughty naughty) your nails, do it straight across instead of the classic rounded shape. I don't know how this works but it just does. Even for soft nails it sorta distriutes the shock waves or something. You can always file them into a different shape once they've grown. Boots do a home nail care set thing which is about six euros and it has a nail strenghtener, a clear nail polish that fills in all those horrible lines and a nail hardener and even though it's remarkably cheap and it really works. You could also try that clear nail polish that tastes nasty cause even though you've decided to stop biting your nails the longer you keep it up thestronger they'll get. And if you or any one has a problem with cuticles simpley use the burt's bees lemon butter cutticle cream. 4.75 for a tub that would last you a year, it smells great and it pushes back and smoothes your cuticles for you all in one go. And it's not greasey either. If I think of any thing else I'll postit but you should also drop into your local beauty salon/place that does manicures and ask them cause I'm sure they could tell you something useful. Good Luck.

Nevyn

get soem carrot stick or chisp to nibble on not your nails and get into boots and buy a nail shaper they ar liek less then 5 euros and you can smooth shape buff and polish what nails you have which will make you apperitce them more.
but a polish you really like look of and look forward to wearing it.