Q&A for How to Make Your Fingernails Look Good

Nail polish ingredients aren’t meant for human consumption, so you should try avoid nibbling at your polish whenever possible. If you’re tempted to bite your polished nails, try applying a polish with a bitter flavor!

Nail vinyls are stencils that you can use to paint specialized patterns and designs on your nails. You can easily find them at most beauty shops, or buy them online.

Keeping your fingernails dry, clean, and neatly trimmed will help prevent breakage and damage. Use moisturizer on your hands and avoid harsh manicures to keep your nails from getting overly dried out and brittle. When you do work that’s hard on your hands or exposes them to lots of hot water or detergent, like washing the dishes, wear rubber gloves to protect your nails. You may also be able to add strength by applying a nail hardener and taking healthy hair and nail supplements, like biotin.

If you have a vitamin D deficiency, it may cause your nails to be thin and brittle. Talk to your doctor about whether you might benefit from taking vitamin D supplements. You can also get vitamin D by eating foods like fish, egg yolks, and vitamin D fortified dairy.

Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do to increase the natural growth rate of your nails. However, you may be able to help them grow out faster by protecting them so that they don’t break or chip. Avoid biting your nails or exposing them to lots of hot water (e.g., when showering or washing the dishes), which can weaken them. Applying a cuticle moisturizer and nail hardener may also help them grow in faster without breaking or tearing.

Essie or China Glaze both have a strong reputation for high quality products.

No, pushing back cuticles is one of the things you can do to extend the nail bed. Do not remove or cut the cuticle, though, because it can cause infection if you remove it.

Keep your nails clean and avoid using harsh chemicals without gloves. Keep your nails hydrated and healthy, and do not to bite or pick at them. (If you do this often, a good trick is to keep a small manicure kit with you in a purse or bag, so if you see cracking or unevenness you can cut them instead of picking.) Optionally, take biotin supplements to increase strength and growth, and every so often use a deep conditioning hand/nail treatment.

Clean the underside of your nails with a nail or manicure brush. The best time to do this is when you are washing your hands or taking a shower/bath.

These are signs of minor trauma to the nail. You may have gotten them when you hit your nail on something or pinched your finger. It's your nail's equivalent to a bruise. All you really can do is to allow it to grow out. If it really bothers you, you can wear nail polish to hide it.

If you nicked a nail you just painted and your nail polish is still in between wet and dry (more wet), use your spit. Believe it or not, it works. Lick the tip of your finger on your other hand and lightly rub the nicked area. Apparently the saliva softens the paint and blends it. If you are looking to fix a nail polish that is beginning to get really sticky/old/over-used, drop 3 to 5 drops of nail polish remover into the nail polish bottle. Shake the bottle for about a minute and you are ready to use the polish again. The remover, as intended to, thins the polish and lessens its thick consistency.

Use cuticle oil and anything else that is natural and good for you nails. Avoid harsh chemicals and don't use nail polish remover too often or it could make your nails worse.

No, you won't get the results you want. You may also want to consider stop biting your nails. You may find How to Stop Biting Your Nails helpful.

Try using a cuticle oil or cream, or use vitamin E oil. Also, avoid biting the skin around your nails; use nail scissors to cut them if necessary.

Buy a nail strengthener or apply clear nail polish to your nails. This will help the nails to stay stiff while they repair.

You can purchase nail polish from a variety of places such as beauty or nail salons, department or box stores, drugstores/pharmacies, online beauty product retailers and even dollar stores. It is important to check the ingredients though, as some nail polish isn't well made and might pose health risks if it contains ingredients such as formaldehyde.

If you want good looking nails and you've already got some length, here's what you can do: File your nails to match in length and shape, apply hand lotion every morning and night, and a couple minutes after the lotion, apply Vaseline or cuticle oil to your nails and cuticles and rub it in. Good looking nails can't last forever after one time of doing these, you'll have to do it every day. Having nice nails takes work!

It will happen often. You need to regularly clean your nails.

Just one simple answer: file them!

Good/presentable hands are an attractive quality. Take care of your hands and avoid biting your nails. I don't think guys would like long nails because they can be dangerous and almost be used as weapons. Keep them at a good length, though, unless your job or an activity (such as a sport) doesn't permit you to do so.

If you pick the polish off, yes. If not, then no. Let it drop off instead of removing it, because you are taking the top coat off your nails.

The methods describes in this article will help keep your nails strong, even if you are going through menopause!

I would recommend doing this on Saturday or Sunday because it's a long process. Start by taking off all old nail polish from your toe nails with nail polish remover. Wash your feet with warm water and exfoliating them with sugar, sand, or salt. Wash them with soap after that. Dry them off, apply some lotion and cut your toe nails, file them if needed. Make sure they don't have any sharp edges that could snag on something, because you want to be comfortable while in class. Wait for the lotion to completely be absorbed into your skin. You can paint your toe nails if you want, but you may want something like a clear polish or another color that's easy to touch up during the week if necessary.

Use nail vinyls of you want to put patterns or pictures on your nails. If you want to make stripes, use striping tape. If you want to freehand your design (without a stencil), just draw it with nail art brushes. Or you could buy patterned nail stickers or false nails.

Start by filing all your nails to match in length and shape. Apply lotion on your hands every morning and every night. Using a special nail oil or cuticle oil (or you could use Vaseline), rub it into your nails and cuticles a couple minutes after the lotion. This alone will improve your hands and nails dramatically. You could paint your nails too, if you'd like.

Target, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, any drugstore works. You don't have to get expensive stuff to make your nails look good.

The condition of your nail can be improved with how you treat your nails (diet, moisturizing, filing). But genetics are the determiners of how thick your nails are, apart form those considerations.

If you don't have a glass file, you should get one. they're much much faster than the regular emery board file. If you have a crack low in the length of your nail, cut it down to the break and file it to even it out. If your nails are long, only cut the nail down to about halfway then file the rest of the way down.

You can apply new nail polish and remove it immediately with a tissue. This will remove all the polish from your nails without having to use remover.

My sister used to get fungus all the time. The only thing that worked for her was rubbing coconut oil on it. Just rub a little on a couple of times a day and you should be good.