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I have been nail biting since forever, and I do mean forever.
There have been times when I stopped, but within at least a year I would go right back to nail biting. Until last year.
It has been over a year since I habitually bit my nails, and now I am proud to call myself a former nail biter.
How Sway?
Well, let me start with what doesn’t work:
- Nail polish that tastes bad doesn’t work.
- Daily manicures doesn’t work.
- Substituting the habit for chewing gum doesn’t work.
- Biting my cuticles instead doesn’t work…mainly because I was already doing that.
What works?
First I had to commit.
Last summer I was looking back at some old videos and noticed my nails. They looked pretty bad when biting, and looked much better than I thought when long.
In my mind, my hands looked bad with or without nails because of short nail beds. However, watching the video’s completely changed my thinking.
After realizing I do like my hands with nails, I committed to growing out my nails again.
I immediately would chastise myself every time I bit my nails, and I went for a manicure. Yes, I had nothing for them to file, but the nail technician cleaned up my cuticles, while sharing her thoughts on nail biting.
I also began to paint my nails every week.
Yes, they looked absolutely ridiculous for about two months. Imagine, short stubby nails with polish.
However, I started to get good practice with painting my own nails for which there is a serious learning curve.
This also led to me building a nail polish collection. In order to build a collection I began to find black women with nail polish blogs and to follow black women who feature nail polish on Instagram.
70 nail polishes later, and I am obsessed.
I still get the occasional manicure, but I mostly just take care of my nails at home.
Displaying my nail polish does go a long way in keeping me interested in caring for my nails.
Now that I do not bite my nails, I can appreciate how strong they are.
I also learned that I can easily grow long nails, and I love to polish them. Shaping my nails is a whole other story!
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