#so try not to take showers or rawdog washing dishes with naked nails.

[sergle]

hello miss sergle, i have been trying to grow my nails out to sort of the length of yours, but now that im about half way there im realising that nails of this length tend to uh bend unnervingly under stress. most of my nails have pretty shallow c-curves as well so i dont think that helps. anyway as a long natural nail haver do you have any tips for strengthening them that doesnt involve paying for an acrylic coat at a salon

MMYEP mine are bendy too!! you and me, bud, we can't have long nails and naked nails at the same time... that's the trick y'see.. but no, I pretty much just always have polish on my nails! you don't need gel or acrylic, a regular mani you do at home will add some thickness to your nail, and it'll feel a LOT sturdier. 95% of my nail breaks occur when my nails are without polish.

#nails also swell when they get wet #and get even bendier #so try not to take showers or rawdog washing dishes with naked nails. #if you don't like the look of having polish on all the time #you can sincerely just wear like 3 layers of top coat. for the thickness #it'll peel off faster than regular polish but if you use a basecoat (HT's long lasting base and ORLY's bonder base are both good) #then it'll stay on longer. #also bendy nails are actually a blessing in disguise. if you had BRITTLE nails then they'd just snap. #having nails that can bend and still recover is a great thing #sergle answers #nailposting