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    Default Weak nails!

    helo

    my natural nails are so WEAK and bendable - its kind of gross. obviously they arent healthy. i bought this nail stregnther, but i dont know if it works or not. i heard some vitims or food help grow stronger nails. what would those be?

    also, i have a bad cuticle problem. my cuticles are always hanging and it hurts to rip them off. i always have peeling skin around my nails since forever, and i really dont know how to get rid of it!

    any help would be great. thanks
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    My suggestion would be to go and get a manicure or opt for acrylic nails I have worn fakes for most of my adult life i have them for over 3 years straight now THey look great and are affordable just got to keep up with the fill ins.

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    If you do acrylics they will be even weaker if you ever try to wear them natural again.
    I've had this problem for a long time, and i've finally found something that works! Kelp tablets (or powder). The stronger the better. English kelp is supposedly the best
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    Somebody isn't taking the magic Walmart Hair Pills. Tsk Tsk.

    No seriously - take them. I swear by them. They are three dollars a bottle in the Walmart pharmacy section. This is a white bottle with orange writing on the front that simply says "Hair". I take one in the morning, one at night, and my hair has grown six inches in six months, no joke, and my nails are fabulously long, strong, and perfect bright white and pink. Read this hulking monster of a thread, it turned me into a believer!

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    Mine too. And the whites are occasionally really clear too.
    I've been using OPI Nail Envy, and they are better. But I think that diet is more important for your nails.

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    Calcium deficiency. Calcium is a component of finger nails.

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    Anemia or iron deficiency can also lead to weak nails. Not enough protien can as well. So can over washing the hands. The best thing to do is eat right, get some good vitamins, have some protien with every meal, and buy a moisturizing hand soap, and use a good hand cream before you go to bed, and possibly throughout the day if you can ( I can't it makes my hands too slippy, and never seems to absorb.... but I live in Tx where it tends to always be 90 degrees during the day so that may be why.)
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    My nails were in similar condition to your description and I did three things which has helped tremendously:
    1. Wal-Mart Hair Vitamins (I will never stop taking these...they are incredible!)
    2. Sally Hansen's tinted pink hard as nails. You can paint tips on yourself to do a french manicure and the stuff seals the nail well enough that your nails will not split.
    3. Aveda Hand Cream - it moisturizes through approximately 3 handwashings and not only keeps your cuticle beds moisturized, but also makes your hands seem "younger" and more...elastic. Seriously...

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    Hard as Hoof can be found in the nail section of most stores and they make a nail polish specifically for thin nails that peel and/or bend. I've been using it (it's a clear coat) for 4 years now and I have extremely long, strong natural nails. My only other recomendation is LOTION. Keep the cuticles and the nails themselves moisturized by putting on hand lotion, rubbing it in really good on the nail and the cuticles themselves at least twice a day. I always get compliments on my nails, usually something along the lines of "OMG, your nails are so beautiful, how do you get them to grow so long and pretty" from complete strangers like when I'm at the store or something. I actually refuse to wear colored nail polish or do a french manicure because if I did someone would think they were totally fake, but with them natural with that clear coat they have no question they are mine...lol.

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