Nail Growing Tips

Nails growing tips from the area under your cuticle called the matrix. The matrix is the living part of the nail. Your cuticle is the layer of skin that protects the matrix so the cuticle is very important for nail health and growth. As new nail cells grow in the matrix, older nail cells are pushed out toward your fingertips and become hard and compacted. Heredity and health determine how fast nails grow but nails typically grow about 0.1 millimeter a day, which means that it takes a fingernail about four to six months to fully regenerate. Healthy nails are smooth, without ridges or grooves.

Did you know: Nails grow faster in the summer than in the winter, nails on your dominant hand grow faster, and men’s nails grow more quickly than women’s, except when a woman is pregnant when nail growth speeds up.This is obviously very much a matter of personal choice but a couple of things to bear in mind:The optimum practical length for your nails depends on your activities and your lifestyle. In general the nail tip should extend no further than one third of the body of the nail.

Nails break less often when they are all of equal length and shaped square, oval, or round.Tips on growing, long and healthy natural nails:Long nails tip 1: Don’t use your nails as tools.Rather than using your nails use other parts of your hand, or a pen, to perform tasks like dialing the phone. Don’t pick, poke or scrape with your nails and especially avoid opening soft drink cans with your

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