r/UnfuckYourHabitat • u/Ok_Lavishness_7681 • 17h ago
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I have a very bad habit of biting my nails in anxiety or stress situations I really want to badlyy remove this habit and have normal nails After biting my nails become so small .. i bite till i feel any painnnš I tried my best to stop biting but ended up biting again and again
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u/lisa_rae_makes 17h ago
Painting my nails weekly has been working, finally. I've struggled on and off since I was a kid, with some large spans of time without biting/chipping/flaking them apart.
But for months I have chosen Saturday as repaint day. Even if my polish is still good enough, after a week, I remove and repaint. I can't be trusted when it starts chipping, I scrape and pick it off and then end up biting/peeling my nails. I also kept them trimmed short, with just a bit of white/edge because if it was too much, my thin nails would catch on anything and break. Now after letting them grow, trim, grow, trim, etc, my whole nail is mostly healthy with all the layers.
I feel like this process also helps my nail bed/natural nail get a bit longer/bigger. I remember having tiny nails in middle school at their worst and was made fun of for it until my uncle's cool girlfriend introduced me to nail polish. Like..good polish, not cheap kid stuff. I still think of her when I do my hair and nails. She was always so nice and complimentary and made me feel like there was nothing wrong with short nails, because there isn't! Just have to focus and get them healthy. :) You got this!