Zingara
Well-Known Member
Saturday afternoon I literally got stopped in the street by a lady who'd seen the advert on my car. She asked for my card and proceeded to then show me the nails she needed 'sorting out'...beacause she 'nibbles'
Oh my god, I've seen some messes in my time but I can't possibly imagine how anyone can let their nails get in this state. The nails were no more than a mm or 2, and in some places weren't visible from swollen skin. I've tried searching for a picture for nails as bad and literally can't find one.
Now usually with a nailbiter the big question for me is do I enhance or just gentle manicure and do an NNO, but there is no way I would even overlay these nails, there just simply isn't enough nail to do so and to be honest, I'm utterly convinced that even if she managed to stop biting them, there will be some permanent damage and/or possibly infection there.
So, my question is what would you do? I ususally advcocate overlay to stop them biting, and often do it in a bright or dark colour, if they agree, so it acts as a warning to them before they put them in their mouth, but here all I can imagine doing is a very gentle manicure and advocating lashings of solar oil,,,,,but will she stop biting with that? I doubt it?
How have you guys gone about this?
Oh my god, I've seen some messes in my time but I can't possibly imagine how anyone can let their nails get in this state. The nails were no more than a mm or 2, and in some places weren't visible from swollen skin. I've tried searching for a picture for nails as bad and literally can't find one.
Now usually with a nailbiter the big question for me is do I enhance or just gentle manicure and do an NNO, but there is no way I would even overlay these nails, there just simply isn't enough nail to do so and to be honest, I'm utterly convinced that even if she managed to stop biting them, there will be some permanent damage and/or possibly infection there.
So, my question is what would you do? I ususally advcocate overlay to stop them biting, and often do it in a bright or dark colour, if they agree, so it acts as a warning to them before they put them in their mouth, but here all I can imagine doing is a very gentle manicure and advocating lashings of solar oil,,,,,but will she stop biting with that? I doubt it?
How have you guys gone about this?