Personal Victory
July 23, 2008 @ 10:51 PM 
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It’s not a big deal but I wanted to share it anyway as I feel it’s a personal victory. Something that I’m a little bit proud of as it took me so long to overcome this.
For as long as I can remember I have been biting my nails. Not to an extreme where the whole nail would be gone or where my fingers would bleed. But enough to make my hands (and nails) look ugly and uncared for. A few months ago I decided it was (yet again) time to quit biting.
Of course this is not as easy as it sounds, as it’s a habit that’s hard to get rid of. Especially if you do it without noticing it. So after trying to stop it, and catching myself doing it even during dinner break at work, I promised myself a nice reward if I could stop it long enough to make my nails look reasonably pretty.
The reward would be acrylic nails to make them look nice. Surely it’s not a good idea to bit fake nails as it will completely ruin your real nails, so stop biting would be vital.
I have managed to stop biting and my nails have started to grow. They are now up to a point that people actually make comments about them and come up to me to ask if I have fake nails. Which I don’t! They are now of reasonable length and they look strong and healthy.
Probably the main reason why people ask if the nails are fake is because I managed to give myself a French manicure and from a distance it really looks as if they are done in a salon. And even though I love the look of fake nails, I have now decided that I won’t get them for a little while, just because my own nails now look so nice and that it really isn’t that hard NOT to bite. It’s actually not that hard to even give myself a French manicure.
So who knows, maybe in the future I will get some fakes put on, but for now my own nails look great and that’s an even better reward than (expensive) fake nails. But because I now saved money by not getting the acrylic nails and also because I’m now able to change the French manicure to something that matches my outfit in an instant, I went out and bought a few nice colours of nail polish (and a leather jacket, but that’s another story)…
What’s your latest personal victory?
2 Comments on "Personal Victory"
Felisa says:
zooyorkfreak says:
I have a horrible problem with biting my nails.. but im a dude so its not a big problem. I have nice nails though (no homo).
Well for your personal victory .. congrats 
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Good for you! I used to bite my nails when I was young… until my thumb got infected. Then, I stopped.
When I let my nails get long and my mom gives me a French manicure, people also tend to think that I have fake nails on. I’ve never even done
Latest personal victory? Well… I can’t think of any. Haha Hopefully, I’ll soon be reporting about being fitter.