stop biting my nails

I’ve been pretty diligent for the last few days and I haven’t been biting my fingernails. A couple times I’ve subconsciously picked them off, or started to, but I’ve been trying to notice when I do it so it won’t be subconscious anymore.

Anyway today I actually have noticed some growth. They’re getting little white tips on them. Usually my fingernails are SO short, they have no white tips on the top. For some reason the nails on my left hand look nicer and are a little longer. I probably pick/chew the nails on my right hand more because it’s my dominant hand…

Okay, my friend is having a party, and we’ll probably be getting our nails done, etc. Thing is, I have no nails! I have about a month before the party, so no more biting till then! This will be hard.

i’ve been biting my nails for the last 16 years (since kindergarten) and tried everything to stop myself from doing so. i’ve made a little progress: my nails are about 1 millimeter long now, not as short as possible (sometimes i used to bite them until it started bleeding). i’m proud of myself.

and wasn’t filing skin too. Anyone that bites their nails as short as I did knows that this is a major accomplishment!

I haven’t bitten my nails at all today. Ordered some nibble-free nail stuff online today. Also, I removed the red nail polish because it was chipping, but I don’t like the color I painted over them. It looked like a kind of a deep mauve in the bottle, but on my fingernails it’s like the same color as my skin and looks weird. What’s more, I bashed up a few of the nails while they were still wet. But I used sally hansen nail growth stuff so hopefully I’ll actually some results by christmas…

Still doing awesome on this one. My right hand is finally catching up to my left hand! I can’t wait for them to be long and strong enough for a manicure!

Sorry they don’t look so nice… but it’s the length I’m so shocked with! :-]

<3 PJ

So, my goal is to grow my nails out by Christmas; in other words, to stop biting them that whole time.

Christmas is a great goal for that, I think. I like Christmas, I like dressing up for Christmas parties, I like painting my fingernails festive colors. I’m hoping that that motivation will be enough for me to remember not to chew or pick at them. I’ve already painted my nails a deep red colors; hopefully I’ll also stop biting at them or picking at them if they’re painted, because I’ll notice the paint and remember Christmas and stop.

Well, that’s what I’m hoping anyway. I don’t destroy my nails on purpose. It’s just subconscious, I don’t even realize I’m doing it half the time. The picking is the worst, I’ll start tearing down one fingernail with another, if there are any sharp edges, or any half-torn pieces, or even if I’m just bored or something.

Fingernails grow about 2 or 3 millimeters a month, so by the time Christmas rolls around, the tips of my fingernails will be reaching the tips of my fingers. Though, I think my fingernails probably grow a little faster than average, just like my hair does.

I just have to keep visualizing those elegant red painted fingernails and hopefully it will be enough to make me stop destroying them.

I added this goal last week and I haven’t bit them since!! They are to that point where I can feel them now and they are what any normal person would think of as short. Since I used to bite them down to nothing “normal short” is a major accomplishment!I have stopped using the stop the bite every time I reapply my nail strengthener (which is nightly) since I haven’t really messed with them to much but if I find myself putting them around my mouth I put it on for the day. I’m rambling now so I am going to end by saying I am very proud of my progress but I still have a ways to go before I check this one off my list.

It’s been atleast 3 years since I started this damn goal, and I’m not any closer to completing it now than I was back then! I’m gonna paint my nails in a while, hopefully that will put me off chewing them.

I bit my nails and i want to know how to stop so thats why i joined 43 things.