Nail Polish Addicts Anonymous

RainbowDreamer

I havent bitten my nails for 4 days now (i think, maybe 3).
Ive started massaging e45 into my nails / fingers.
because of being a biter.. they are growing unlevel and with jaggedy bits.

They are still very very short, but I wondered whats the best way to encourage them to grow?

And I haven't grown my nails in years and years.. so I have no clue what i should use to file them, how I should shape them as they grow and so on?

Gillyx

Okay so I've purchased the OPI Nail Envy and The LD Crystal Nail File. Can the NE be worn under nail varnish? I'm painting my nails (even though they're stupidly short) to try and stop me biting them. Which cuticle oil should I buy? Do Boots stock it? tia x

Scrapaholic

amyb wrote: »

Sound odd i know but it turns the nail to dust rather than filing it down.

This means you can see saw both directions and you end up with a perfectly smooth nail.

Thanks for explaining , will probably invest in one soon.

rachel90

Gillyx wrote: »

Okay so I've purchased the OPI Nail Envy and The LD Crystal Nail File. Can the NE be worn under nail varnish? I'm painting my nails (even though they're stupidly short) to try and stop me biting them. Which cuticle oil should I buy? Do Boots stock it? tia x

I've been using the OPI Nail Envy on its own but yes, it can be used as a base coat and/or top coat as well. It's fab. It really is worth the money! My nails have improved immensely in less than 2 weeks. I have used my LD Crystal Nail File once to tidy and shapen my nails and it is brilliant, it's supposed to seal the edges and smooth them? My nails have never looked better. They used to bend constantly but they're really strong now. I always put a coat of NE on every day and rub cuticle oil into my nails at least once a day now. Such a quick and easy task but it really has helped, my results are great.
The NE dries really quickly too!
I use a bog standard Boots cuticle oil and occasionally the Avon Grow Potion. There are loads out there but from what the ladies have said on here, it's the stimulation of rubbing oil into the nails that helps rather than what oil you use so you don't need to spend a fortune. I didn't .

HTH x

Gillyx

rachel90 wrote: »

I've been using the OPI Nail Envy on its own but yes, it can be used as a base coat and/or top coat as well. It's fab. It really is worth the money! My nails have improved immensely in less than 2 weeks. I have used my LD Crystal Nail File once to tidy and shapen my nails and it is brilliant, it's supposed to seal the edges and smooth them? My nails have never looked better. They used to bend constantly but they're really strong now. I always put a coat of NE on every day and rub cuticle oil into my nails at least once a day now. Such a quick and easy task but it really has helped, my results are great.
The NE dries really quickly too!
I use a bog standard Boots cuticle oil and occasionally the Avon Grow Potion. There are loads out there but from what the ladies have said on here, it's the stimulation of rubbing oil into the nails that helps rather than what oil you use so you don't need to spend a fortune. I didn't .

HTH x

Thanks for this will get some cuticle oil tomorrow. Really excited at the prospect of finally having nails. I know it'l probably take a long time but I'm here for the long haul

amyb_2

Lady_S wrote: »

Speciallita delivery is here - yay!

and.............. Pictures?????

Lifeforms

The LD file, after reading about it a lot on here, i snuck in my boots and bought one myself. Oh wow, it was dear
I'd been using a glass file before, and found that so much better over a normal cheap cardboard/wood/metal file. But there is a significant difference with the crystal file, as has been said it really does make it go like dust. The cost of it, versus the life time guarantee versus cheaper ones makes it a no brainer anyway.

What I don't understand is how it seals it? Can anyone explain that?
The case is a bit meh, wont be long till that breaks in my bag, but i have a nice plastic slide case from my glass one that will fit it, so will switch them over.

Queen_B_3

I went into Boots and they had all their Essie nail care products reduced. Managed to pick up 'good to go' for £5.35 which was a bargain.

Gillyx - I use Avoplex for my cuticles and find it really moisturising. Only been using it for a week but m impressed so far. Managed to get that for £8.95 from Amazon.

Toomuchdebt

Shopping list:
OPI Nail Envy
LD file
CND solar oil
cuticle remover stuff
cuticle stick thing

HanSpan

I'm still lurking and enjoying all the pictures, as well as being very naughty and spending on my nails where I really shouldn't.
A combination of the Ideal Home Show and pictures on here make me fancy trying stamping so I've been on a bit of a varied shopping spree and have some questions.

First I bought a small Konad kit which was fun but few of the stamps were very exciting (to me) and the ones I do like are shapes that really need to be exactly centred or they look bad. How on earth do you get patterns centred?

Then I bought a pack of Konig (fake) plates as what I really fancied are the all over patterns. Some lovely patterns and they seem to work pretty well but none of them fit my thumbnail is this normal or do the real Konad's come big enough to do a whole thumb? I did polka dots and had to have second go at the end of my thumbs which rather messed it up.

Last night I received another package - Kand (fake) set from HK with some additional plates and stamps and scrapers. Very good value but the polish seems hard to manage and some of the big shapes seem a bit blobby. I will try again as I was stamping on bits of paper rather than my nails which isn't really a fair trial. Again most of the whole nail stamps are too small for my thumb except for one *huge* spider web on plate A37. this has the reverse problem - its too big for the stamp grabber! Can you get really big rubber grabbers?

I've also tried with some of my normal polishes and find that all of them that work, along with the special polishes to some extent, go stringy so that when I press a stamp on, if it doesn't all get stuck down, when I lift it again I get strings of polish that then stick to the nail and ruin the pattern (not sure if that makes sense)

Sorry for going on and on but I so love the look other people acheve and just haven't quite got to grips with it. Must go - should be getting ready for work