I had my acrylic nails taken off and now my real nails keep breaking and peeling off, do u girls know of anything I can use to repair them?
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I had my acrylic nails taken off and now my real nails keep breaking and peeling off, do u girls know of anything I can use to repair them?
YOu pretty much just have to let them grow out :( OPI makes a ridge filler specifically for the little dips left by the acrylics. That with a strengthening coat and cuticle oil to help them grow faster.
I did gel nails once. I used a nail strengthener to help. Sally Hansen's hard as nails nail strengthener, and OPI makes a good one as well. You also need to moisturize the cuticles to help with re-growth.
Best of luck. It really just takes time.
take good care of them and let them grow out. That is about all you can do.
The best thing in the world: http://www.amazon.com/Nail-Tek-Progr...5955992&sr=8-1
I had very weak nails, and tried a number of different things. Nail Tek is super cheap and works quickly. Highly recommended! The only thing I've ever tried that actually made a difference for my nails.
I wouldn't say that it stays on longer than other nail treatments, but it made a difference in my nails after two applications.
If you get acrylic again do NOT let them drill your real nails. They say drilling them makes the overlay flatter and prettier with less chance of lifting. Not 100% true. Yes, it's easier to put something over something thin than thick, but a good manicurist can file and buff your natural nail to a nice enough condition that the acrylic will hold well without drilling. They drill because it makes the job easier for them and less work. Putting acrylic over a regular strength natural nail is harder and more time consuming. The end result is the same look if the manicurist is willing to put in the extra work to ensure corners and edges look perfect with no ridges, lumps or bubbles.
CND's Solar Oil. Massage them regularly.
The only thing you can really do is wait it out and put something like Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails on to help strengthen and protect them. It took me about 2-3 months of having acrylics off to get my nails looking halfway decent again. It sucks, but you just have to be patient. :)
You could consider putting Kiss nails on:
http://forum.stripperweb.com/showthr...33#post2124433
I would lightly file the top of your nails a little bit and then put these on with a lot of glue.
The nice part is that when you're ready to have them come off, you can file the tops of the fakes, and then use the remover they sell separately. But in the meantime, cheap, strong, and they should help protect your nails while looking like acrylics.
I love mine. I can actually do my hands and my feet from the same package so long as I'm willing to file and cut the nails to fit my toenails correctly.
Just took mine off,do it every few months.My nail salon is great in the sense that it's cheap (esp for downtown),job looks perfect and the nails don't lift or chip at all(15 for fill).BUT...they drill very very hard,to a point that it burns,esp on the sides.I have to tell them every time to slow down the machine and drill lightly.But it seems that the faster harder drilling is faster for them and they can service more customers that way.Because of their cheap prices,they are always busy.Salons that do filing charge $40+,so there's a huge difference in price,plus nails usually lift which leads to much more often salon visits.
So when they are taken off,they are very damaged.My nails grow quick though so they get healthy fast.To help them grow I apply this product "Thicken up" by Sally Hansen,which is a gel coating for the damaged nail.It works pretty good for me.
I do realize that acrylics are damaging,but won't be stopping after 16+ years any time soon!
Hope this helps!
Taking MSM powder has made my nails grow back incredibly fast and much stronger too.
Pre-natal vitamins to help the nails grow faster & healthier. I'd suggest you look into silk wraps until your nails grow out & look nice. You can apply the silk wraps yourself at home, but be careful what type of glue you use because sometimes the glue chemicals can damage nails & you are trying to restore your nails. The wraps themselves are easy to find at Sally Beauty, & sometimes even stores like Wal-mart & Target. The other product I would recommend is a bit "old school", & I'm not sure where you can find it locally anymore, but it's called RevivaNail.
Super helpful thread... I just took mine off a week ago and my nails looked severel dented and weierd but at least a decent length for the first day or two...then because they were so weak...they all just chipped and broke and peeled away to reveal nails that look like I crush rocks with my hands for a living.
*sigh*
Just a note - When you have your nails taken OFF at the salon... which is usually pretty cheap... there tends to be a LOT LESS damage.
Duri Rejuvacote
http://www.amazon.com/Duri-Cosmetics.../dp/B000G33KEO
My cleaning lady recommended this, she saw my nails after my fakes were taken off and was like " Use this!!!!!" I thought why not, I wanted to wait a bit before putting another set on anyway, left it for 2 weeks on or so before I waited. It deff improved. The day I put it on my nails were very thin, ones it dried, my nails were harder and it hid the rough patches from the fakes.
T.I.P.S., sold on QVC. It's an oil that you brush onto your nails and massage in. It did wonders for my nails after I got rid of my acrylics. It won't make your nails get thicker where they drilled them down, but it helps strengthen the nail that is there, and it gets rid of some of the redness.
I had mine taken off at the salon, but the damage was already done from all the filing...
my nails were just too weak and thin :(
Im going to check out the suggestions in here. I need my nails looking nice again!
^Obviously there's still going to be damaged... but when people remove nails themselves... there tends to be a lot of peeling/roughness that you don't get when you have them removed/smoothed out at a salon.
That's all I meant.
Yup I feel you....the first time I had acrylics, I removed them myself....along with my impatience to just peel them off at certain points I *completely and totally* screwed up my nails.
I think that cause some damage to my nail beds or something, because it took forever and a day for them to grow out and look decent. It was many many years before I did it again, recently, and got the gel nails to boot, hoping that would be better when I was ready to take them off.
My reply was just my disappointment in that I did go and get them taken off professionally this time, and there was still the amount of damage to my nails that there was.