Lee's Beauty Blog - All things beauty..

So..my last post was about my newly naked nails. Lol, I almost typed newly naked palette. What could I have been thinking. The pictures I took today are my nails one week post acrylic. I have to tell you since I do  my own acrylics my nails are screaming "Put back on the acrylics!! They are so pretty." Not going to happen. Hopefully my will power holds out. I had tried the Salon Sciences After Acrylics mentioned in the previous post. I used it for three days but it would just peel off. No bueno. I switched to Nail Tex Xtra for Difficult Nails. This seems better and I do see a tiny bit of growth. The problem I'm finding is strength. I give a bazillion immunizations at work and popping all those little caps off the vaccine vials is tearing up my thumb nail. Hence the excessive nastiness on my right thumb.     Anyhoo, this is the recult of one week using the Nail Tex Xtra. I shall keep you posted. Until next time..... Thanks for dropping by. Lee

So.....back in October, I had acrylic nails put on.  Lame, yes. Stupid, yes. My nails were fairly nice looking. Why?  Vanity. Pure and simple.  I love the stiletto nail look. I thought it was sexy. OK, I'm weird.  That's what I wanted sexy, stiletto nails. I couldn't have them as pointy as I wanted because I work in a medical clinic, I did however keep them as pointy as I could get away with without severing someones jugular vein.  Just kidding. I knew what the outcome would be when I took them off. I did take them off in January. Soaked off totally in acetone. My nails were trashed, toast, FUBAR, whatever you want to call it.  I put them back on and grew them out for six weeks under the acrylic.  After they had grown out a bit, I shortened the acrylics. Grew them put for a bit more and shortened them again. I believe what saved the nail was when they grew  out, I didn't put on more acrylic. I used LED gel polish. So anyway, this is what I have now. Not as bad as e