u/samanthadill13

Everyone go home. No fireworks.

Dashing Diva one step polish in the color Rogue

Ignore my crusty cuticles theyre on a ✨ journey ✨

My supervisor plays solitaire every night, all night. She clicks the mouse every single second for 8 hours straight. It was only mildly annoying at first but after sitting across from her for 3 days straight i literally feel like im going to explode. Im a 911 dispatcher so i cannot wear headphones because i have to monitor a radio channel

Verbally assaulted and banned from the crappy design sub for posting about a mildy inconvenient paper towel dispenser. Gotta love Reddit!

My husband still bites his nails and he got an infection again recently. Just wanted to show you guys what can happen in case it helps some people stay clean. Hes one of those people that will peel off a strip of nail and pluck it out so if you do that beware. I had to take one of his insulin needles and i took the plunger out poked it in near the cuticle and it all just started gushing out (thats not necessarily a recommendation he just refuses to go to the ER and i have a limited medical background)

I dip my fingers in this desert skincare jojoba balm (which is 50% jojoba oil) and then twist to make sure that it’s applied to the entire cuticle groove area. I also make sure to scratch it a bit so that it gets under the tip of my nail to moisturize the nail bed. Then I put on a pair of exam gloves and go to sleep. This has been helping with my overall cuticle health and smoothness (less dry bits of skin sticking up to make me want to pick at) and is has marginally increased my nail growth speed. I know this is not a new method by any means but I really like this product and just wanted to turn people onto it

Was going through my camera roll and found this pic from 4 years ago when i bit a hole into my nail plate at the BACK by the cuticle. I always see people asking if their nail will ever be normal again and just want to say it only took probably 6 months for the nail to go basically back to normal and i included a pic of the same nail now (4 yrs on) and you can see theres no permanent damage/deformation. I was an extreme biter and used to peel strips of nail plate off all the way do to the cuticle and then pull those strips straight out of the nail matrix and it would bleed. If you think theres no hope for you youre wrong, you can do this. Happy Friday everyone stay strong 💪

Edit: i quit by learning how to do diy nail enhancements. Ive tried a number of things over the years but polygel and hard gel worked best for me

I started getting into DIY nail enhancements about two years ago to kick my biting habit and it has worked pretty well. I’ve tried press on, gel polish, gel X, and then polygel/dual forms and they all served their own little purpose along my learning journey. I just recently bought a proper e-file and gave hard gel a try and I have to say I am a big fan and don’t think I will be turning back. My cuticles are a little rough around the edges, but I’m still getting used to the eval and using the nippers, but l’ll get there. Just wanted show off my mediocrely executed french fade im pretty proud of it myself lol 💅 I started with the left hand and I think I was getting a little better by the time I got to the right hand at least more consistent

I have relapsed once or twice but mostly ive been clean for 2 years. A couple months ago i learned about lower parallels and overfiling and now that theyre actually starting to grow in its sooo obvious what i was taking away before. Just wanted to post in here to the people wondering why their nails are flimsy, this could be your culprit. Basically do not file into your sidewalls down to the growth point but you can look up overfiling on google or YouTube for more info. Your sidewalls/lower parallels are very important for nail strength

made this printout of L train map and go fest landmarks for 2026 go fest. my husband and I are road tripping from maryland. if anyone wants a higher quality pdf version you can private message me your email address

Posted here a couple days ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/s/4UtSSVHQcu

Went to a local fish store and said we don’t know anything please give us everything we need to take care of a beta fish and they sent us home with a 2.5 gallon tank and some food. No nitrifying bacteria additive. No test strips. No dechlorinater. And a filter that flowed so fast it killed the first fish in 20 hours (maybe less idk i was at work). Went back for a second fish and came here for more help and ended up buying a 6 gallon tank and some live plants and other things. Bought test strips and seachem prime.

The second fishy started floating sideways on day two (pretty sure due to high ammonia in the original tank) so I put him in a little bowl with some treated water and gave him a mild Epsom salt bath, then put him in another bowl of clean water and just let him rest in his beta log in a shallow bowl. By next morning, he was swimming straight and the tank was ready to go (for fish in cycle) and he seems much happier now. Big thanks to the user who commented on my other post and helped me out.

Open to any other critiques on the new tank. I have a heater set to about 78 and the new filter is baffled with filter foam so the flow is very mild but I did order a new filter because I’m worried that the phone I stuffed in the top of the one that came with the tank is gonna come out and increase the flow while I’m gone for work or something. It was definitely a learning process and I wish I had researched before and not trusted the pet store to put me on the right track, but I think I’ve got the hang of it now. Husband is very attached to him (i didnt tell him the first one died) and hes named him Tatsugiri after the pokemon