Horrid Nails after soaking off Acrylics

[JellyJane]

Hi, I read the post about bitten nails and thought I would write this one now.

I have never bitten my nails but I do pick the skin around them, (I don't know I'm doing it most of the time!)

Anyway I have always had really soft thin nails that don't have a natural Smile Line, they grow lopsided and the ends are very white but patchy. I have had acrylics twice. First time she filed my nail too hard and all my nail bed was red and sore. Second time was last year but I soaked them off once they started growing out. I am now doing a Home Study Essential Nails (EN) course myself. I have always hidden my nails as they are embarrassing. I recently did my own nails but soaked them off this weekend as I am booked on an Indian Head massage course and you are now allowed false nails. My nails now look disgusting (I didn't pick them or anything, I just soaked and wiped with towel) They are paper thin, I can bend them backwards, and they are all blotchy and white. I love to see beautiful nails and just want mine to get stronger. i was going to take a photo but they are too awful.
Please can anyone tell me what to do with them to try and get them looking better and make them stronger.
Also I cannot go round doing other peoples nails when mine look horrific.!
Thank you in advance.

 

[geeg]

Wearing enhancments can both dehydrate your nails and make them more porous but usually if you have not filed or damaged them in any way, it only takes a few days before the oil/moisture balance of your nails returns them to their original condition. If your nails were thin before they will still be thin.

It is the same for hair that has been chemically bleached or coloured. After the treatment, the hair is more porous and more dry.

If you kept your enhancemnts naturally short and neat with a natural nail overlay then I do not see any reason why you could not do your course with enhancements. Who would know you were wearing them?

Hi, I read the post about bitten nails and thought I would write this one now.

I have never bitten my nails but I do pick the skin around them, (I don't know I'm doing it most of the time!)

Anyway I have always had really soft thin nails that don't have a natural Smile Line, they grow lopsided and the ends are very white but patchy. I have had acrylics twice. First time she filed my nail too hard and all my nail bed was red and sore. Second time was last year but I soaked them off once they started growing out. I am now doing a Home Study Essential Nails (EN) course myself. I have always hidden my nails as they are embarrassing. I recently did my own nails but soaked them off this weekend as I am booked on an Indian Head massage course and you are now allowed false nails. My nails now look disgusting (I didn't pick them or anything, I just soaked and wiped with towel) They are paper thin, I can bend them backwards, and they are all blotchy and white. I love to see beautiful nails and just want mine to get stronger. i was going to take a photo but they are too awful.
Please can anyone tell me what to do with them to try and get them looking better and make them stronger.
Also I cannot go round doing other peoples nails when mine look horrific.!
Thank you in advance.

 

[JellyJane]

Thank you very much for your help

Well I thought they might not know but they are a Nail Academy aswell!.

I don't really want to wear them, I would love to have beautiful nails. Even when I haven't had enhancements my nails have never been good, They are all odd shapes with red patches in them and really white on the tips but If I even knock them they just split. I have started putting cuticle oil on every day and hand cream.

 

[geeg]

Thank you very much for your help

Well I thought they might not know but they are a Nail Academy aswell!.

I don't really want to wear them, I would love to have beautiful nails. Even when I haven't had enhancements my nails have never been good, They are all odd shapes with red patches in them and really white on the tips but If I even knock them they just split. I have started putting cuticle oil on every day and hand cream.

The problem is the length not that you are wearing enhancements. They've probably never seen short ones!! :lol:

If you have never had beautiful nails then you are never going to .. it is in your genes. Enhancements are the only way you will change the look and shape of your nails. That's why we love them so.

 

[amsha]

i cant help sorry i had exactly the same reaction as you my nails are not naturally thin but do break a lot so i had calgel nails and what a mess when removed i had top of nail flaking white patches and nails are breaking and flaking im gutted as they look awful ;-(

 

[geeg]

A little gentle buffing of Solar Oil into the nail surface should smooth out the surface and moisturise your nail plates. TLC and time and they will be back to normal as long as the nail tech did no damage with files and you did no damage with picking.

 

[JellyJane]

I promise, I did not pick them. I have some solar oil which I bought from the Nail Tech and I have been putting that on.

I will try and look after them and if no luck I will have to have them done again and keep them short. Hopefully no-one will notice !!
It's just they have strict rules where I am going on the course, No jewellery, No Nail Enhancements, Black Tunic, Black Trousers, the list goes on... which I suppose is a good thing, shows they are professional.

 

[Susie H]

This is not an insult to anyone
Have you ever heard the expression garbage in garbage out?
Well that's the truth for our bodies to
Its why so many pregnant women comment on how wonderful their hair and nails are, because its the first time for many of them that they take care of what they eat and drink.
Gigi is so right, you can not change your dna but you can keep your body in good condition and if you are getting a good quality diet over the months you will see an improvement in nails and hair oh and the quality of your skin.
Your nails sound like they are dry and brittle and that's normally a good early indicator that something is missing from your diet.
As I said I am not trying to insult you or say that you live on junk food or anything like that, but far to many of us live on microwave meals and to be honest don't really have a clue when it comes to balanced nutrition.
Yes you're never going to have the strongest nails and they will always look better with enhancements but you can help them a lot in the long term by what you eat and drink.
My daughter had short natural overlays when she worked on the wards at York hospital and no one ever said a word.

 

[geeg]

I promise, I did not pick them. I have some solar oil which I bought from the Nail Tech and I have been putting that on.

I will try and look after them and if no luck I will have to have them done again and keep them short. Hopefully no-one will notice !!
It's just they have strict rules where I am going on the course, No jewellery, No Nail Enhancements, Black Tunic, Black Trousers, the list goes on... which I suppose is a good thing, shows they are professional.

The reason for the 'no nail enhancements' is because so many wear them long and square and obviously that is neither practical nor does it go along with the ethos of holistic therapies, BUT if done beautifully and naturally (which is how they should be done) a good natural nail overlay would not look different to a buffed natural nail. AND the free edgeof an enhancement is soft and less sharp than a natural nail so in fact better for massage.

 

[JellyJane]

Susie H
Don't worry I am not the sort of person who takes offence.
I used to eat rubbish all the time, but for the last year or so I have eaten healthily. I have always been a size 10 and have quite good skin. It's just my nails, my toenails are the same, a very reddish area then really white at free edge, and really wide and flat.

All - It looks like I will have to have my nails done again. Is there any particular system you would suggest, acrylic, gel etc. I was told Gel is better but being a newby to all this I don't know.

 

[nail witch]

A Bio Sculpture Gel overlay would be good as it is thin flexible and comes in over 100 different colours including clear..

 

[VHunter]

Great advice from everyone.
I would only add, you might want to ditch the cream and use only the oil.
"Most" (not all) creams contain useless fillers that only sit on the surface and do absolutely nothing for your skin/nails. Pure oils will make a greater difference.

Check the ingredient list on your cream, if the following appears near the beginning of the list (meaning it's the largest in quantity compared to other ingredients), dump it or replace it: petrolatum/petroleum/mineral oil and there's others, but it's early yet and they're not coming to my mind. That's the one that sticks out in my mind (the 3 are actually the same thing in different forms).

With a good cuticle oil, you can't go wrong and don't really need a cream.

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