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Tips To Break The Habit Of Biting Your Nails

25 octubre, 2019 by Admin

Do you often find yourself biting your nails, and can’t stop? Although this habit is due to a variety of reasons, such as stress, boredom, and even genetics. However, it’s still something we must stop doing ASAP. If you are looking for simple ways to help you out, we have prepared for you a list of tips to break the habit of biting your nails.

Think About The Consequences

First, and aesthetically speaking, biting your nails makes them look horrible. In addition, this bad habit leads to the nails growing in a weird looking shape.

Second, medically speaking, it’s unhealthy to bite your nails. Usually, nails are a hotbed for germs and bacteria, and putting your fingers in your mouth often can lead to sickness. Last but not least, bitting your nails also damages your teeth and ruins your smile.

Try Coating Them with Special Nail-Polish

It is now possible to buy special nail-polish, designed for people who bite their nails. Experts have come up with a »bitter tasting polish» that makes you disgusted when you try to bite your nails. This awful tasting formula discourages many people and helps them quit.

Keep Cutting Them Short

When you keep trimming your nails short, you don’t have anything to bite on. Therefore, make sure to keep your nails short and clean. If you are a manicures lover, you can get add the good looks to the list. This trick will definitely help you stop biting your nails.

Keep Your Mouth Busy

Most of us resort to biting our nails in uncomfortable situations. Stress, boredom and even fear. Try keeping a chewing gum for when you feel the urge to bite on something. By keeping your mouth busy, you deviate towards using another method as your »stress ball»

Listen To Your Body

It’s super important to understand your triggers. Biting your nails is a habit, urging from the issues of your inner self. Recent research therapists found out that perfectionism‘s quite a common cause. If you’re trying to stop biting your nails, give the old fashioned ways a try. Either through meditation to release the stress, or simply through understanding the psychological problems you are going through.

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Are Biotin Pills Truly The Beauty Cure-All?

8 septiembre, 2019 by Admin

Women around the world aim to get the best hair, skin, and nails that they can. This often includes turning to different fad creams, superfoods, and some might say questionable practices. Most recently, biotin pills have been considered the cure-all beauty vitamin to promise the best of all three. However, are all the supposed benefits really scientifically proven?

Biotin Pills Bought At A Booming Rate

It is clear that the reported benefits of biotin have women crazy for the vitamin. In fact, 20 percent of people who take supplements in the US say they take this pill for beauty purposes. And biotin isn’t the only beauty supplement being taken. In 2016 the beauty supplement market was $133 billion worldwide! Many beauty experts believe this approach comes from the new trend of «beauty from within.»

a jar of supplements like biotin with a glass of water.

While the phrase originated as a way for people to focus on the personality attributes of individuals over the superficial, it has transformed as a nutritional beauty approach. Biotin pills have been at the forefront for supplements taken by women, given its affordability and 3-in-1 claims.

Do The Supplement Claims Stack Up?

It’s not a straightforward answer, largely due to the fact supplements in the US don’t need human trials to prove their «beauty benefits.» Therefore, many supplements don’t have any scientific trials, or only studies that were paid for by the company, thus killing a lot of its reliability. Additionally, some ingredients do work topically, but if ingested in a pill don’t work.

Several vitamins like Vitamin C and E have repeatedly proven their beauty benefits. Biotin however, has only been proven to help individuals that have a true biotin deficiency in their system. Otherwise, researchers say there is limited data to show if people with normal biotin levels actually gain any benefits from using a supplement. This is true for the majority of vitamins and supplements on the market; they only work if you have a true vitamin deficiency in your system.

That said, if you are thinking about taking any supplements in the future for beauty purposes, you should ask your doctors if they think you personally could benefit from taking a supplement. Otherwise, don’t waste your money!

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DIY acrylic nails: a salon finish from home

19 junio, 2019 by Admin

Haven’t we all dreamt about permanently having perfect nails? The reality of it is that we can’t really keep running off to the salon whenever a nail breaks off, because of both the hassle it means, and the money we spend on it. Because let’s be real, getting your nails done is not exactly cheap.

Always perfect

Either because you believe your nails look better, or because you’d like to finally get rid of your ugly nail-biting habit, acrylic nails are an easy go-to when paying a visit to the nail salon.

We show you how you can get that acrylic nail finish without leaving your home, and for both less money and effort.

Prep your nails

Pour some hot water into a bowl and let your hands rest in it until you can feel your cuticles softening. This will make pushing your cuticles back much easier, which will in turn make your nails look longer.

Get rid of your cuticles

Get hold of a cuticle remover and use it to take away excess skin. Then, push back the cuticles surrounding your nail arches to create visually longer nails. Now you’ve gotten them to look longer, you can go onto the next step.

Remove excess oil

Before continuing, make sure you remove any excess oil that might remain on your nails with polish remover. Thanks to this, you will notice how your fake nails stick in place for much longer.

The process

To obtain the desired «acrylic nail» look, you will need nail glue, like this one, as well as full sized fake nails, like these you can find on Amazon. Once you get hold of your material, you will have to find out which nail sizes are suitable for your own.

If you choose slightly smaller fake nails they will probably look more elegant and natural, rather than using those chunky fake nails; this would create a tackier look. But it really depends on your own preferences.

Time to stick on the fake nails

Start by applying a small drop of glue on each nail, on top of which you will later stick the plastic ones. You will notice how much glue you need as you go: apply enough so that the nails stick on, but not that much that will cause the glue to come out from underneath. If you feel like you haven’t applied enough glue, you can always add a bit more after.

Trim & file

Once you’ve stuck on the plastic nails, it’s time to trim them down, because it’s most likely they are now super long. You can take a regular nail-clipper and cut them off a bit.

After, you can go onto filing them: take a regular file and start shaping them. Bare in mind not to file the sides too much, as we’re not looking for a claw-like shape. We are rather going for a long, elegant look.

Throw in some colour

Choose the colour you want applied. We recommend the polish be of quick dry, as it will be more easily aplicable. A great trick we’d like to share with you, is that, in the case of applying too much product, or if you’ve «coloured out of the lines», you can always take the file you’ve used and gently remove it, instead of using polish remover. This will assure a nicer finished look.

Apply two layers of polish to your nails in order to obtain the desired «gel effect». They will look as if they came straight out of the nail salon. Lastly, apply a transparent top coat, and let dry.

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