Tips to stop biting your nails 🚫🫦💅

[unicornglitzer]

That video caught me SO off guard, cause i was LITERALLY biting my nails as a clicked on it😭💀

[andromeda]

painting my nails a bunch definitely keeps me from biting my nails, but the desire to bite when they’re not painted is so strong!

[ohdang]

I was a biter for so long, but during my battle against depression and SH, I decided ’well how about I try not biting my nails first so I know I’m not completely hopeless’. It’s little wins like that that keep u going. And it’s totally ok if you fail a couple times, just make sure not to think ‘ah screw it’ and instead think of it as one small step backwards while you still have the ability to take many steps forward. I believe in u

[beardiemom]

I used to nailbite as part of my excoriation disorder. I got the biting under control, now I "only" pick at my skin until I bleed.
For people with excoriation disorder, redirecting can be just as difficult as stopping, especially when under a lot of stress.

[Alaylaria]

I figured out nail biting was an understimulation issue with me. Learning about that and taking steps to manage and give myself lots of other options for fidgeting has done wonders for dropping the habit!

[Haste_Waste]

A tip that changed my life as a former nail-biter: "Tools will fix my nails better than my teeth ever will." And it's true!

Also, try to find the trigger for your nail biting. Be calm and curious. You might be surprised as to the reason why. Good luck out there!

[lindaleck]

So true, I used to bite my nails but once I took care of them they looked too nice and strong! Plus always keeping a nail file with you so you can smooth out any rough/chipped bits you may want to pick at!

[emilybennett]

I was a chronic nail biter for years, would bite them til they bled. What stopped me was actually having someone paint them as soon as they existed enough to have polish on them. She did such a beautiful job i didn't want to ruin them. I had relapses but as of right now i havent bit my nails in probably 5 years and before that probably another 6.

[ArriannaTheWitch]

I'm 33 years old and have always bitten my nails, this year I've decided to stop and now I have long beautiful nails like you do and I'm so proud of myself. I just stopped myself. It's a mindset. ❤

[k_tubbs]

I used to be so bad about nail biting. I'd peel of strips of my nail layers and destroy the cuticlw area and peel the skin around my nails. I was always bleeding. Then I started dealing with my stress, I learned coping skills, and I started caring for my nails. I will spend hours doing my nails. And I use oils on my nails regularly. I also play with other things. So if the issue is severe it can require a lot of techniques to change. But painting them and seeing a therapist were the first step. It wasn't very good. It all took time. But it did work. ....then just recently I started trying gel and now my nails are super thin bc I don't know how to soak it off properly and I do not have enough patience so I end up filing and chipping it off. 🙃 back to regular polish! Lol. Oh well. Every moment is a teaching moment.

[Scrbyte]

I've replaced it with clipping nails - probably at least pure minimum once a week. - removing the ability to even feel pointy bits really busy keeps that part of the brain from activating.

[patch]

"The nicer your nails look, the less you want to destroy them" is SO TRUE. I bit my nails since I was very little, in the 9th grade I made my nails look nice, I shaped them and painted them. It was a little difficult at first, but I haven't bitten my nails in 5 years now and have no desire to anymore

[SamLovesMovies]

I used to bite my nails, but method 2 worked for me. I started painting my nails, and simply did not want to bite them any more because I did not want to ruin the polish. It was very easy for me to break it just like that, but of course not everyone will have the same experience/results.

[liviiblahblah]

The first option is what got me to stop. I figured out I was only biting my nails when I was bored so I did something else instead.

[Aurorya]

I used to bite my nails as a kid. One day I came to the sudden realisation that if by mistake, I'd swallow a nail bit, it would be able to hurt my throat, kinda like when you swallow a potato chips without munching on it properly and the pointy end stabs your oesophagus all the way to the stomach. Now it's nothing, just a potato chips. Food. Even if it stayed stuck, it would become soft quickly and pass, and the throat would heal. But a nail bit ? It doesn't soften, not the pointy end. I was overwhelmed by the idea that a nail bit would be able to get stuck in my throat like a fishbone, and hurt me. I was so scared I stopped biting on my nails on the spot and to this day I didn't do it again !

Now, that is nothing but the hallucination of a small child who had already crippling anxiety and hypochondria, and now I know that really, the risk was very small. But it's one of the irrationnal fears I don't regret having felt at one point, as now I am typing this with nails almost as long as Simply's (covered by I'm Rover it, btw), wich is something I wouldn't have imagine as a child.
Having nail polish helps with anxiety too, when it's too much I just stare at the pretty things and feel better... 😊

[swooziev]

I have dermatilmania and having my nails done has made it helpful in not picking. Not 100% but definitely improved.

[belyndamaniez]

Nail Polish and nail art saved my nails when i was 12, loves how it looked (so much that i changed it every day) and after months of trial and error, I never bit them again!

[aestheticoboist]

I used to have a problem with picking my nails. I need them short because of my career. So I decided once a week to have a self care session and trim them as short as comfortable and also make them look fabulous. This has been a game changer for me. I haven’t been tempted to pick them once and have found the process of taking care of them really enjoyable.

[unknown]

Lol I came back to your channel after a long time, surprisingly I am actually trying to get rid of nail biting recently, so here is what is working for me, I’m a Muslim so we don’t actually wear nail polish because we gotta pray, but personally I look at clean nails on insta, as inspiration and I can hold off biting nails and I go back to looking at it if I start again. But as a psyc major I want to say it’s also important to address and get help for the actual reasons you might be participating in this compulsive behaviour, unfortunately many of us live or have grown up in stressful conditions, and didn’t have emotionally available parents to help us develop coping strategies when dealing with difficult emotions or stress, which has resulted to an inability to deal with them effectively and only through compulsive behaviours later on in life like nail biting. Or also as result of anxiety and other disorders. So definitely start with self compassion, then try getting help? And with that you can go ahead and look into stopping nails biting actively. Unfortunately if you don’t deal with the underlying causes and go straight to not biting nails you will develop other compulsions to replace the nail biting like, compulsive buying, eating, hair pulling, skin picking etc
Good luck tho

[itzrose_fr]

I have a habit of picking my nails and painting them wouldnt help because i would pick off the nail polish but finding out that was bad for my nails has motivated me to start breaking my bad habit and I'm doing pretty well 😁