Five Daily Habits That Damage Your Nails You Might Not be Aware

Taking care of your nails and keeping them healthy and nice-looking does not happen overnight. It requires diligence and patience, from picking out the perfect colours and spending a penny to keep them looking beautiful. There’s nothing bad about nail day to cut the vibes. Some of your nail habits and health care could be the reason to wreck your glorious nails.

From cuticles to brittle issues and everything in between, there’s a chance you’re unknowingly causing all sorts of damage to your nails. Here are the Five Daily Habits That Damage Your Nails That You Might Not Be Aware of.

Washing Dishes Without Using Gloves

Washing using detergent can dry out every single part of your hands and reduce the lifeline of your nail polish—washing and cleaning with bare hands is considered a major mistake. Nails swell in water, which leads to cracking and weakening the nail beds.

Picking At Your Polish

People start picking at their nails when the polish start chipping instead of going to the nail salon. Picking at nail polish is a BIG no-no. This habit can remove the actual top layer of your nail bed that cause your nails to thin and crack.

Using Your Nails As Tools

Scrapping, peeling off labels and opening a key ring using your nails is very tempting; these can all lead to breaking your nails. Using your nails as a tool puts them in danger as they can snap or be torn off.

Biting Your Nails

Biting your nails is the obvious act that leads to irreversible damage to your nails. Biting your nails can lead to ingrown nails and an infected cuticle. Chronic nail biting can even lead to permanent shortening of the fingernails./In fact, nail-biting can damage your teeth and increase the risk of colds and other infections by transmitting germs from your hands to your mouth.

Watch Out Your Diet

Nails can be a reflection of your eating habit too. Eating healthy food greatly impacts your nail health, such as iron deficiency known as koilonychia or spoon-shapes nails.

Five Ways To Break These Habits

1. Get a nice pair of gloves. Always wear protection when washing or cleaning to keep your nails looking beautiful and healthy.
2. To prevent picking at your polish, keep your hands and mind busy. Instead of moving your fingers toward your polish to pick, try clenching a specific object like a stress ball, digging your fingernails into
3. Use scissors or tin openers to open a tin or peel label stickers instead.
4. Keep your nails painted. The polish is an aversion to biting your nails as it tastes bad. 

Food with plenty of nutrients can help your nails from dry and brittle to healthy and strong. Foods that improve your nails include fruits, lean meats, salmon, leafy greens, beans, eggs, nuts, and whole grains.

Breaking bad nail habits takes time and effort, but most likely perseverance. Some people who end up breaking nail habits tried and failed hundreds of times before making it work. You may not succeed immediately, but that does not mean you can’t make it work.

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