Stop Biting Nails with Nail Polish and Care
Edited by Hotelier, Amanda, Eng
Hello, and thank you for watching VisiHow. In today's tutorial, I will be showing you one way that you can take care of your hands on a daily basis in order for you to hopefully stop biting your fingernails. If you're like me, and you've been a lifelong nail biter, you've probably constantly been looking for ways to stop. Yet many of the traditional techniques, such as a rubber band around the wrist, telling friends and family, and even the horrible-tasting fingernail polish don't seem to work. What has worked for me is a daily application of lotion and then a periodic manicure. I use cuticle oil, nail hardener, and a color, preferably a bright color.
Steps
- 1To begin, squeeze a small bit of lotion into the hands.
- 2Make sure to apply lotion especially to the finger area, including the fingernails. We have very, very dry skin, so frequent applications of lotion are completely necessary. It's also a great opportunity to give ourselves a nice little hand massage. Once we have finished, we can move on to our nails.Massage the hands together.
- 3If using lotion specifically formulated for the hands, this shouldn't take long. While waiting, get the cuticle oil. Ours is from Flormar.Allow the lotion to dry.
- 4Remove the lid with the attached brush.
- 5This is the area along the bottom of the nail (or the top of the nail bed) where the nail and the skin connect.Brush along the cuticle line.
- 6Repeat for each finger, dipping the brush into the cuticle oil as needed.
- 7This will make sure that our cuticle area is nice and moisturized.Massage the oil in.
- 8Allow the oil to spread over the whole fingernail and onto surrounding skin during the massage.Repeat for each finger.
- 9We will do this immediately for this tutorial to save a little bit of time. Here, we are using a cotton disc pad. Typically, we do allow a bit of time to let the oil completely soak in. The nail hardener and the nail polish will not apply correctly if we have oil sitting on the fingernails.Allow the oil to soak in and then pat the area dry.
- 10Remove the lid from the nail hardener.
- 11Brush from the nail bed to the tip. We have weak fingernails, so as we grow them out, we want them to be strong.Apply it to each fingernail.
- 12This will take a few minutes. Once it is dry, we will apply a coat of nail polish. Even though our nails are short, we are usually keeping a bright color on them. This reminds us not to bite them. I'm also doing them often to avoid them becoming chipped.Allow the nail hardener to dry.
- 13Wipe off excess nail polish by rubbing the brush against the inside lip of the lid. We want enough color to deposit a thin coat, but not so much that it will drip off or over-coat the nail.Remove the lid from the nail polish color.
- 14Again, paint from the nail bed to the nail tip.Begin applying the color.
- 15Change the angle of the fingers or the whole hand as needed to make it easier to cover each surface entirely.Repeat for each fingernail.
- 16This helps us clean up any areas where we may have made a mistake. Since our nails are short, this is a common occurrence.When finished, use the cotton disc to wipe the skin around each fingernail clean.
- 17We don't want to chip or dent it.Wait a few minutes for the nail polish to dry.
- 18The key is to keep your hands and the nail area moisturized and nicely manicured, so that you can avoid picking at or biting your fingernail area. Allow the fingernails to grow out little by little. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please leave them in the space below.This concludes today's tutorial on how you can take care of your hands on a very frequent basis to hopefully stop biting your nails.
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Categories : Physical Health | Mental Health
Recent edits by: Amanda, Hotelier
