grow my nails

My nails are short again, partly deliberatly.

I split three nails when they were really long, and then I got a virus of some sort that meant that gave me a bit of a rash which made it hurt each time I acciddently scratched myself, so I shortened my nails.

I have bitten two of them down further than that, but overall I’m not doing too badly.

Shock: I have nice nails. I took my nail polish off yesterday and shocked myself by finding that I have somehow managed to develop nice nails.

The stop and grow style solutions (the stuff you paint on your nails that tastes foul to make you stop biting them) recommend that you continue using the solution for 3 months after you break the habit. So, I’m going to start counting from now. By mid-April, should I have managed to keep these nails, I will hopefully have fully broken the habit, and will be able to wear no nail polish, or at least clear polish, and actually be able to see some white on my nails without immediately biting it off.

I know this because I keep scratching myself. I hope they last a bit longer this time. I definitely seem to be getting better at keeping them long.

Well they grew back and now they’ve gone again. Each time I’m managing to keep them longer without biting them back down. This time it was mainly due to being really hungry and not being able to take a break to get food. I just nibbled before I realised what I was doing. But at least now I know that I’m not going to have a problem growing them back.

Well they grew back and now they’ve gone again. Each time I’m managing to keep them longer without biting them back down. This time it was mainly due to being really hungry and not being able to take a break to get food. I just nibbled before I realised what I was doing. But at least now I know that I’m not going to have a problem growing them back.

A while ago all my lovely nails disappeared again. But they’re starting to come back. If you buy that foul tasting stuff to stop you biting your nails, it says to keep applying it for 3 months after you’ve stopped biting. I think I need to take care to keep my nails looking nice and with polish on for at least that long. Hopefully, after that time I should have really broken the habit.
When they get nice enough, hopefully in 2 weeks time, I’m going to get them manicured, and I think I might try to get them done properly once a week, just to shape and paint them isn’t expensive, and if it’ll make sure they get painted regularly, hopefully too often for me to start nibbling.

Something has just hit me: I have no desire to bite my nails. I keep playing wih them – they’re still a novelty after all. But there are definitely nails there. They’re starting to get in the way when typing and when taking out my contact lenses; I think I’m going to have to adjust the way I do both of these things. But despite the weirdness, I’m actually quite comfortable with them this time. I’m not constantly picking at them, and I’m not having to stop myself biting them, they’re just there.
I think I’m on my way to marking this as complete. I still need to wait until they are all of a suitable length to be considered ‘grown’ and until I’m pretty certain that I will be able to refrain from biting even without any polish on them, but I’m suddenly feeling quite proud of myself. This is a habit I’ve been trying to break since childhood, and I think I may be almost there.

Today I decided that my nails were long enough to attempt to make them look nice, so I went to a Nails Inc stand and had a cuticle shape, nail shape and polish. They don’t look half bad :)

I have nails again.
I’m still painting them: it seems to be that if I see white then I’ll bite it off. I’m also starting to pick at them; that’ll have to stop.
Let’s see how long they last this time.

Damn. I’ve gone and bitten them all of. I guess I’d better start over.