How I keep my nails healthy - no breaking and peeling!
February 24, 2015
First some history. I could talk forever about for how long
I was desperate and miserable because of my nails (first world problems) –
probably for about 5-6 years, after I turned 15. When I was very young
(12-14,15) and was first allowed to have my nails long, they were so shiny,
healthy, happy, strong, I was never using nail polish, all natural. But after I
began with high school and started living in a student's dorm far away from
home, make up and nail polish happened. And nail polish is what destroyed my
healthy nails. As soon as they grew for a few milimetres, they started
breaking, peeling, literally falling apart. Evey time. Sad times.
So began the 'era' of buying nail hardeners. I tried so many
I lost count. Usually I bought the nail base/nail hardener ones. I tried every
one there is from Essence, Kiss, the expensive salon ones (CND, Micro cell),
and when we got Essie in Slovenia I tried the Millionails. Maybe some of them
did work, but only for the first third of the bottle, later it was just the
same old story.
My boyfriend was always convincing me this is an obvious
sign that I am not really healthy. That I need to eat more protein, start
taking vitamins and minerals and all that jazz. Being a stubborn teenager, I
was convinced there will someday be a new nail hardener that will save my life.
So stupid. Should have listened to him from the start – he always knows best.
About everything. I mean it!
So I did some research. What to do, what magic pills to
take. There were many skin – hair – nails pills on the market, but all of them
were pretty expensive. So I researched some more. This word 'biotin' popped on
my screen a few times while browsing the net.
''Biotin is a coenzyme and a B vitamin and is also known as vitamin H. As a
supplement, biotin is sometimes used for diabetes, brittle nails, and
other conditions.''
Let's give it a try, I said. So I
found some biotin pills, very cheap, and they had written skin and nails all
over them. The pack contained 60 pills, one for each day. I started taking them
every day. After about 6 weeks the first
results where there. I noticed my nails are acting very strange – there was
suddenly much less chipping and peeling. Lord behold, a miracle! I bought
another box of pills, ate them all. So 4 months after the first pill, my nails
were reborn. Healthy, strong, no peeling at all.
I can't even tell you, how happy I was. I thought I was
saved. So of course I forgot about the pills. In about two months, my nails got
really bad again. So I started taking the pills again. A few months and
everything was OK again. This was about a year ago.
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| taken about a year ago |
What about today? My nails are still very strong and much
more healthier than a few years ago. From time to time a nail breaks, but no
biggie, it mostly happens because of work. I still take the biotin pills, but
only one or two a week. I don't think I will ever stop, because it is obvious
that I can't be without them if I want healthy nails. Plus, I honestly think
they had a very positive impact on my hair too – I color them red every 4-5
weeks, but I only see some split ends after about 10 months after I get a
haircut. I am really happy about that, because I want to have really long hair.
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| taken today |
So this is my long story! Congrats, if you made it to here!
I hope I helped you or maybe some of your friends, if they
are suffering from similar problems that I did. I highly recommend biotin
pills.
Za vse slovenske bralke: sama kupim Fidi Biotin tablete v lekarni, katerikoli - škatlica stane približno 5€, za dva meseca.
10 komentarji
Tudi jaz jemljem biotin v tabletah in je ful razlika, ko jih kak teden ne vzamem(morje recimo - ponavadi pozabima vzet zraven). Se takoj začnejo lomit in krušit in vse... jaz sicer jem tablete iz mullerja - majo presenetljivo dobre(kar se vsebnosti vitaminov in tega tiče), pa še poceni so :)
ReplyDeleteTočno tako! Takoj se pozna ko jih pozabiš vzet kakšen teden. Meni zaenkrat približno tri na teden še zadoščajo. Rešitelj je tale biotin!
DeleteV Mullerju bom pa definitivno pogledala za tablete, mi jih ravnokar zmanjkuje. :)
Definitivno naslednjič pogledam v lekarni ta čudež in ga kupim! :) Ker se mi zadnje čase spet nenormalno cepijo -.-
ReplyDeleteToplo priporočam, meni je rešilo nohte, dobesedno. :)
DeleteMoram priznati, da sem res vesela, da se je našla rešitev. Hvala, da si to delila z nami! :) Punce si tako po večini želimo imeti dolge nohte, ampak nas je res kar nekaj nesrečnih, ki se srečujemo s tankimi in lomljivimi nohti. Vsekakor bom kupila tabletke, da sprobam. Do sedaj sem jih že nekaj preizkusila, s tem, da niso bile poceni. Od 20€ naprej, pomagalo ni pa nič :/ pa te omenjene tabletke, ki si jih kupila v lekarni, so povrhu še za lase, kar je še en velik plus :)
ReplyDeletePa lep nov look bloga imaš! :)
xoxo
Hvala za vse pozitivne komentarje, sploh za videz bloga, res mi veliko pomeni! :) Z veseljem delim take stvari, saj ravno zato pa je blog, kajne :) Upam, da bo tudi tebi biotin pomagal!
DeleteNi kaj! :) Bom v ponedeljek takoj kupila, rezultate bom pa seveda delila naprej :) Pozabila sem še dodati, da mi je zelo všeč tvoja oblika nohtov. Meni nekateri tako poševno rastejo, da kar joj
DeleteJa tudi pri meni na desni roki ni tako rožnata situacija kot na levi, ampak se s piljenjem vse da rešiti, če le zrastejo do neke dolžine. Super za tablete, samo mej v mislih, da je pri meni trajalo skoraj 4 mesece preden se mi je res poznalo. Do poletja bo že, sploh pa tako hitro čas mineva da je kar joj. :)
DeleteO, morem preizkusiti! Hvala za super nasvet :) Sem pa sama tudi opazila izboljšanje nohtov odkar sem veganka, tako da ima tvoj fant na nek način prav :D
ReplyDeleteHvala za komentar! Upam, da bo tudi tebi pomagalo. :)
DeleteThank you for all your comments! :)