Nail Journal Week one

So I've decided to take off my Solar nails and go all natural. Well, as much "natural" as I can.

This is what my nails looked like before I decided to take them off. It had been about two to three weeks since I had them put on. So you can see the ridge widen from the cuticle. I took them off at home and did not go into the salon. You can do that and around here it costs about $10-$15 to have them do that but I chose to do it myself to see if I could without hurting myself.

I used this stuff that I bought over at Sally's Beauty Supply. It works really fast and it helps if you put some one a cotton ball, get some aluminum foil and wrap your nails for about 10-15 minutes each. This does take a lot of time but you do it at home for free. You can go to a nail salon and have them remove the nails but they do the same process except they have their electric nail file that remove. them faster.

As you can see, my nails are very weak and damaged. I had to buff them and cut them because they were so weak that they bent so I didn't want to keep them. Even though they looked long they were NOT strong.

Here are my nails now. They have been buffed, cut and polished. I have been using Sally Hansen's Hard as Wraps.

As you can see my nails are very short and very thin. This is my first day and I am hopeful but not overly as I have tried this before and did not succeed. I ended up going back and putting on a full set of nails. Of course that was only within a two week span. I am going to try to post daily. Not only for my whole five readers but to keep myself on track. I am going to hold out for a whole month and see if I can make a difference.

Until next time....

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