5 Easy Tips to Grow Your Nails Long and Strong

Growing long, strong nails is a multi-step operation. As long as you take good care of your nails, you can grow them to the length you want. You’re going to have to start by making sure you quit bad nail habits. After that, take the necessary vitamins and manicure properly,  avoid chemicals. It will help you develop long, healthy nails.

Here are the top 5 tips for growing your nails:

1. Avoid Bad Habits

Avoid biting the nails

Biting your nails is hazardous to your skin. It is a common nervous habit for many. But it can cause bacterial skin infections in your hands and in your mouth. If your nail beds are dry or loose, make sure to clip them away instead of biting them off.

• Try to keep your nails neatly polished or add nail painting, so you’ll be less likely to bite.
• Chew your gum when you’re bored. If you don’t have access to the chewing gum, play with a tiny ball, coin, etc.
•  Don’t bite your nails. You should persuade yourself that by chewing the skin around your nails, you don’t necessarily hurt the nail. This is false and will only cause your nails to fade from the added saliva moisture and make your nails brittle.
• Choose a nail a week that you’re not going to bite. Gradually add more “no-bite” nails to get yourself out of this habit.

Stop wearing acrylics and gels

Rusty removal of acrylic or gel nails leaves the nails dry, brittle, and unlikely to develop. And the proper removal of the nails will hurt the nails because the nail beds are soaked. When your nail beds are warm, they’re the most sensitive.

• If you want a gel or acrylic manicure, try alternating. Get a conventional manicure between a gel or an acrylic manicure.

Avoid using your nails as a blade

Peeling stickers, scratching glue, or unfastening keyrings are all items that can quickly damage or break your nails. You may not even know that you’re doing it, but if you want to make good nails, you need to start noticing. Try to keep the nails out of the water for too long. This will weaken the nail and make it brittle and supple.

• The only way to avoid this is to slow it down. Have scissors available or another tool to help you open, scrape, or peel anything you need during the day. Don’t do anything that will cause your nail to bend. Keep the nail polish transparent on your nails to prevent biting nails.

2. Having the right vitamins

Get a lot of vitamin H (biotin)

Biotin stimulates the development and vitality of the skin, hair, and nails. Aim to ingest between 30 and 40 micrograms per day by food or supplements. Whole grains, mushrooms, bananas, salmon, and avocado are all significant sources of biotin.

Eat foods containing folic acid

Folic acid, or vitamin B9, helps prevent nerve cell damage and keeps red blood cells healthy. It’s the best vitamin for nail development, and it’s hard to take too much because your body eventually excretes the waste. Fish, red meat, cheese, and fortified soy products are rich in folic acid.

Consumption of vitamin A

Vitamin A is going to help strengthen your nails. The recommended daily dosage is between 700 and 900 micrograms per day. Sweet potatoes, cabbage, squash, and leafy greens are very high in vitamin A.

Get a lot of vitamin C

Vitamin C is most widely considered to aid immune health. This means that it allows the body to heal. This recovery helps encourage the growth of the nails and gives them strength. Oranges, spinach, strawberries, and clove peppers are rich in vitamin C.

3. Manicuring Properly

Form and take care of your foundation

You need to start with a proper base to grow your nails long and solid. This means that you need clean, healthy nails to start with. File the cuticles in shape and keep them trimmed.

• File them correctly. Start the file from the outer edge to the middle. Going back and forth in a repetitive movement will damage your nails.
• Choose the right nail shape to help grow. The basic round shape is easier to develop. If you make a square nail, you’re more likely to use it as a weapon.

Care for your cuticles properly

Soak the nails in warm water for 5 minutes to remove the cuticles. Do this up to 4 times a week. To get rid of dead skin put a cuticle remover on your nails, and use a cuticle stick to force back the dead skin. Rinse off the remover and debris (Recommended once a month).

• For added skin protection, place hyaluronic acid on and around your cuticles after pulling them out.
• Keep it moisturized. Applying a moisturizer to your cuticles will avoid shingles and broken nails.

Apply to improve treatments

There are many reinforcement therapies available. When you have formed the right base, and properly cared for your cuticles, apply the one that fits your budget and schedule.

•  Serums are costly but also provide the quickest and best results to strengthen the nails.
• Creams are ideal for daily use. You can purchase intense protein treatments in the form of a cream that you put on your nails in the morning and then go to sleep in the night.
• Strengthening polish helps protect the nails from chipping. It’s very cheap and easy to use.
• Using base or topcoats and nail hardeners to protect your nails.
• Bear in mind that with nail hardeners or something like that, the nails have a higher chance of breaking or splitting, which can be painful.
• Jojoba oil is an oil that you can likewise use on your nails to make them more adaptable, so rather than your nails snapping, they can twist.

4. Practical, strong grooming

Regular nail care can also help improve the strength of your nails, promote growth, and reduce breakage. Some ways to keep your nails well done include:

• Keep your nails dry and clean, which prevents bacteria from developing under them.
• Using sharp manicure scissors or clippers to cut your nails straight through, and then use them to round the tips of your nails in a gentle curve.
•  Moisturizing your hands and nails with a lotion, making sure you rub it on your fingernails, particularly at the base where the cuticles are located.
• Preventing nail-biting or cutting your nails too short.

5. Avoiding chemical

Have you found that after cleaning the house, your nails look almost opaque? Chemicals in most cleaning products can have a detrimental effect on the strength of your nails, causing dryness and damage-just to the skin.

Wearing a pair of rubber gloves is a simple way to avoid this and help you grow long nails.

The Bottom Line

Your nails reflect your overall health. It is important to stick to a healthy diet if you want solid, fast-growing, healthy nails. This includes eating a well-balanced diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean protein sources, a sufficient amount of starch, and plenty of healthy fats.

But occasionally, nails need a little support getting healthier and stronger. This is where home remedies will help. Remember, you can’t make your nails grow quicker, magically. But if you take care of them, they will grow stronger and last longer, making them less vulnerable to breakage.