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IP: 70.20.98.218 1/22/2006 10:59:06 |
 Subject: Hi, I'm new hereMessage: I am an avid reader and poster at the Q's BB, and I stumbled upon the "controversial" thread, LOL. How dramatic! Anyhoo, I have been wearing acrylics for years because my nails were so horrid...thin, brittle, split all the time, etc. I work with the public and was tired of being so embarrased, hence the acrylics. I know that these are not safe, and I am ruining my nails even further. After reading such positive results from most of the ladies that posted at the Q, I just might take the plunge and remove my acrylics and try this product. I am just so afraid of what my nails are going to look like during the process. Like I said, my hands are always in view of the public, and at work, I really need to make a good impression. Is there anything I can do to make the nails look decent while in the process of trying to make them healthy? OMG, sorry so long winded! Thanks for any help. |
| Barbara Wheeler IP: 69.19.14.31 1/22/2006 11:14:15 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: nineys Welcome to the ward! And that was not long winded, by any stretch of the imagination. You are right in that your poor little nails will be in a very fragile state. But a bit of time and perseverance along with the formula and you too can recover your own natural, HEALTHY nails. Do you know how to remove those nails safely yourself? If not here is the real skinny on doing just that: Copied and pasted from Cheryls previous post regarding safe removal. my suggestion to you on soaking off the acrylics is this: -use pure acetone, not non-acetone, found at wal-mart, eckerd, any drug store. i don't know about home improvement stores. you just want to remove the acrylic, not peel skin! -first, you might want to file down the surface of the acrylics and make them rough, more susceptible to the melting action of the acetone. -pour enough to cover the nail into a glass bowl, then set the glass bowl over into a plastic bowl with enough warm water to keep the acetone comfortable. acetone has a cooling effect and keeping it warm from beneath will help make it more tolerable. -do one nail at a time. it might take anywhere from 10 minutes to 20 minutes per nail. -have a orange stick-you know, the long wooden cuticle pushers, ready to scrape off the acrylic. the acrylic will start to harden as soon as you remove it from the acetone. you have to work fast and then put your nail back in the acetone. as you go, you will feel them becoming thinner and thinner. please resist the urge to pop them off. when you do that you remove layers of your own nail bed. they are going to be thin enough as it is, without that being heaped upon them. this process takes some time just as getting them put on and getting the fills did. all your nail beds will be extremely dehydrated from the acrylics and from the acetone soaking. either rub cuticle oil, pure shea butter or the NGF into them right away. just use the NGF twice a day, one minute per nail, really rubbing it into the base of the nail. that's where your healthy growth is going to come from before long. have patience, give your nails time to recover,and when i say time, it might take as long as a month to see some growth. one thing you will see right away is healthy cuticles, then before you know it you have nail growth that is healthy and pink. this is not an overnight "miracle grow" kind of treatment. what it is, is an ,"everyday, for 30 days, I'm going to do something really good and healthy for my nails, kind of treatment". decide you are going to have healthy nails that are yours and it can be done. i went through this exact process 3 years ago. i understand the trepidation in trying something so new and ridding yourself of the acrylics. you will not regret doing this. it is such a simple, one step process. we are here for any questions and support AND we are ALL a bunch of really nice ladies despite what is said about us elsewhere! patience, persistence and knowing you can have healthy nails are the keys. Now we're getting close to becoming long winded! lol A large part of my customers are in the health care industry, and there was a recent mandate that the acrylic, and all other topical applications were too prone to the spread of bacteria, so the formula is used widely among those ladies too. Let me, and all the wonderful ladies here know if we can help in ANY way. And please, be long winded when ever you wish to be long winded here! We love tropical breezes!!!!!! |
| Lorraine IP: 142.179.227.254 1/22/2006 11:22:19 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: I followed Cheryl's instructions and my nails looked a lot better than I thought they would. I had removed them some years earlier and they were a disaster, so I was not looking forward to having to remove them, but I developed an allergy, so I had no choice. My advice would be to keep them short. People will not tell you that you have beautiful nails, but they won't think they are ugly either. |
| cheryl IP: 206.159.161.156 1/22/2006 11:40:25 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: nineys, you are right in saying that acrylics are not safe. more than a few of us here have had horror stories with them. no doubt, they make hands look good, especially when they are in the public eye. but what they are doing to your own nail bed, underneath, is just tragic. many ladies here have had their own thinned out nail beds lifted off of the finger with the acrylics on, because they are sooooo thinned out in the beginning and throughout the fills. there will be some damage in the beginning after you have removed them, but they will recover. the NGF works best and most efficiently on bare nails. getting moisture and moisture balance back into the nail is the most important element in recovering your own healthy nails. about two weeks into using NGF i buffed the imperfections with the buffing cream and buffer and had a good healthy shine going and that got me through until i saw growth. just know this is not an "overnight growing" miracle cream. this takes 30 days of patience and persistence. you're really not going to know what kind of shape your nails are in until you actually see them. so i guess you just have to decide if you're ready to be done with the acrylics or not. most of here did not have a choice. we were "forced" into removing them due to nail beds lifting, bacterial or fungal infections, or nail techs who just kept on sending us home with burns and inflammed fingers. we're all a nice bunch of ladies who are here to help. |
| Barbara Wheeler IP: 69.19.14.31 1/22/2006 11:53:32 | Just FYI Message: Nails grow an average of one-tenth of an inch a month. Approximately six months from cuticle to tip. This is for a generally healthy nail. So nothing is over night or instant gratification. Patience and perseverance! KEY to recovery from all of the acrylic damage. But by no means are they insurmountable odds! |
| Moi IP: 66.215.188.48 1/22/2006 12:27:58 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: Hi nineys, welcome. That thread has turned into a nightmare. How can someone be so arogant as to tell someone else that their nails are NOT growing faster? I don't get it. That said.... my nails were a nightmare and I tried Pro Strong, Sally's and BurtsBees to no avail. And I DID try them. 5 months on ProStrong, 1/2 bottle of Sallys oil, 1/2 jar of diamond cream, almost the whole thingy of BB's cuticle cream... the only thing that worked was NGF and the results started within 1 day. After the first application of cream my cuticles were soooo much better. After 3 weeks I started noticing growth and healthier nails than I have had in my entire life. Please, just give the product a try, use it as directed and you'll be amazed with the results. Please come visit often, this board is so much fun and NEVER controversial.... well.... Barb has a really heavy southern accent and every now and again she'll say something that SOUNDS controversial, but it wasn't meant that way. We love her anyway ;) |
| Barbara Wheeler IP: 66.82.9.85 1/22/2006 12:38:21 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: Moi, are you just jealous of my southern *bell*-ness? You know if the truth be told here, you are a southern bell yourself. Where is it in California that you live? I wont hold that against you either. In fact when Cal. slides into the ocean, I have plenty-O-space here for you guys! So ya'll come back now ya' heer! Besides I love you anyway too! So quake or not you are always a most welcome party. |
| Lynnie IP: 69.207.171.31 1/22/2006 13:22:51 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: Hey, girlfriend! I'm fidget over yonder. Yeah, I know you feel about removing them. You get nervous about what lurks beneath! I had lifting. A couple nails had corners that had lifted almost halfway down and a threatening fungal infection in one of them. I could see that damage through the acrylic, so I was REALLY nervous. But, I think no matter how scary we suspect they might look, you are always surprised it's not quite that hideous. I wasn't onto NGF, so intitially I just buffed and used olive oil - alot of oil those first couple days. Then I bought a polish that was a frosty pink so I wouldn't have to look at them a couple weeks till I had some measurable growth! After that, it was ProStrong for a few months till it dried them out. Now, here I am. Nails have been off 6 months and I haven't worn anything but NGF the last couple growing months. I'm ready to take the plunge back to polish and am going to try that water based one for starters. I'll use the NGF for cuticles, though, and give my nails a break with it in between polishings. Nineys, unless you have an urgent problem, it's good to grow the acrylics 3 or 4 weeks past a fill. I had my tech remove them and she was very gentle - soaked them off, no nipping. The nails I had that weren't lifted looked pretty darned good. The immediate benefits come with being able to type, count coins and put on jewelry again. lol Good luck! |
| cheryl IP: 206.159.161.156 1/22/2006 14:22:28 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: nineys, if you do decide to let them stay on a while longer, just be extra careful to not whack them and bend them backwards when they become "looser". i did that to my thumbnail and lost the entire nail. it did grow back, but it was a painful lesson. also if you do decide to let your nail tech remove them, please don't let them use another plastic nail to run underneath the acrylic near the cuticle to pry it away from the nailbed. i've seen it done and had it done and it is painful. it's the "quickest" way for them to get you out of there. run, don't walk home, and soak them off. just some unfortunate lessons i had to learn along the way. i know every nail tech doesn't always have your best interests at heart. |
| nineys IP: 70.20.98.218 1/22/2006 14:59:00 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: Thanks so much for the welcome!! And also, for all the great information. Barbara, you sound like a doll. Are you the owner of this wonderful product? Lynnie (fidget), so good to "see" you over here. I'm glad that taking the acrylics off worked out for you. I have had a few come off on their own recently, and boy, are my nails a mess underneath. They are paper thin and totally drilled. Ick. It will be painful after they are taken off, just because of how thin and pink they look. I have taken them off myself in the past, and don't want to go through that again, but will probably have my nail tech remove them (carefully!) I will probably give them a couple of weeks more to grow out a little before taking them off, because it has only been a little less than 2 weeks since I had them filled. Also, I have a job interview, and will possibly be starting a new job within the next couple of weeks, so I think it is good that the acrylics will still be on for that! I'm excited to try this product, even though I'm scared. After I get it, I will probably be posting here for encouragement to get me through the beginning. Thanks again! Anna |
| Moi IP: 66.215.188.48 1/22/2006 15:18:44 | RE: Hi, I'm new here Message: Anna, don't be afraid... we are here for you, sweetie! ;) We ALL went through that... MY NAILS ARE SO UGLY LIKE THIS!!! But be brave, the only thing you have to fear is Barb running out of product! |
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