Oopsadaisy1
I used to have the Gel Nails until the day that my fingers suddenly swelled up and the skin split open, I was obviously allergic to the glue (?)
Once the nails were off my own nails were very soft and bendy and I had to cut them very short, since then they have been very flaky, peeling like an onion and I haven’t been able to grow them above the line of my fingertip.
I think the false nails have ruined my own, I used them for 4 years or so.
I thought gel nails were just a special kind of varnish applied with a brush. I used to have my toenails done like that but the lady I go to now doesn't do it. Removing it requires special products, but no glue is involved.
My fingernails have never grown. They always flake off.I never bit them, there was never enough of them to bite. I have spent a fortune on creams, buffers, powders, tablets and other forms of treatment to encourage growth, prevent breakage and generally strengthen them but nothing has ever helped.