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Also avoiding soaking your hands for long periods of time ie: washing up or having a bath that can soften up and weaken your nails.

You can try a nail hardener, but avoid products containing toluene sulfonamide or formaldehyde. These chemicals can cause redness or irritate the skin, and thats not a good idea for guitar players is it now.

-Pet]]> The Other Side Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/paged/2/#post-68843 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-68337 Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:29:06 +0000 The Other Side Elecktrablue https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-68337 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-67371 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:55:01 +0000 The Other Side hobsonator https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-67371 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-64701 Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:34:24 +0000
wish i could]]> The Other Side johnandhole https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-64701 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-64700 Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:32:28 +0000

BUt now i got finger picks.. i got from the local music store and they work just as good ANNNNDD i know how to take them offf haha]]> The Other Side johnandhole https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-64700 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-64174 Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:24:28 +0000 The Other Side BassGirl https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-64174 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-63212 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:59:59 +0000
I am actually blessed with fairly strong nails and I have never used fake nails, I have just seen the consequences of them before from people I know. I would strongly recommend not getting fake nails. When they are applied proffessionally, they file down your nail. I don't mean file to make shorter, I mean to make thinner and then glue the fake nail into place over the thin nail remaining. Then when the nails start to grow out, girls usually go back and have the new part filled. I don't recommend it because it leaves your natural nails in worse state than they are. The press on home type ones, as Portia says, do the same thing but you don't file down your current nail. Fake nails can lead to infections and fungus, especially the home applied ones. If and when you decide to stop using fake nails and can take awhile before your nails go back to normal. I think you are better off just trying to strengthen them.
Instead of using the enamel nail strengthener stuff or whatever it is, try clear nail polish. It is not as strong as the other stuff but still helps. I read once that buffing your nails can make them stronger because it gets more blood circulation to your nails, maybe try massaging them and lotioning them. Vic -maybe your left hand nails are stronger because they get manicured more regularly?

I just found this and it is from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/WO/00020.html

hope this helped]]> The Other Side purple https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-63212 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-63048 Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:13:00 +0000
Index finger - seems to be paper-thin and breaks so easily.......
Second finger - here's the weird one - my dad once caught his finger in a lathe and the nail split, one side used to grow over the other....since he died, it's like my finger was posessed - there's a pink streak down the midlde of the nail and it tends to split in the middle and break easily....
Ring finger - not as bad as the other two but just when it's geting to a decent length tends to break right at the bottom of the nail and I have to cut it right down.........

For some reason my left (fretting) hand seems to be able to grow strong thick fingernails with no problem whatsoever.....I have to cut and file them regularly.......you'd think the hand you finger-pick with would become stronger in time - like the hand you fret with gets calloused - believe me this is not the case!!!

So what, if anything, can I do to strengthen the nails on my right hand?]]> The Other Side Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-63048 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-62191 Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:40:58 +0000
any replies would be highly apreciated by me, also.]]> The Other Side PsYcHoNIK https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-62191 https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-62043 Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:21:07 +0000 The Other Side Portia https://guitarnoise.forum/the-other-side-the-other-side/fake-nails/#post-62043