So apparently I’ve been overfilling my lower parallels. This mani is a week and a half old. I had cut them down all the way but apparently I’m not supposed to cut them down on the sides? Do I still need to grow out my lower parallels more?
Haunted – Ether
by Lookimawave
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I would try to grow them out more! I overfiled mine for ages to try and force an almond shape too soon and I would get length, but they would break sooo easily. Structurally when I filed the sides like yours, my nails had no support to grow and would just snap.
I don’t file the sides past my fingertip anymore. It took a few months to grow out and I played with shapes while doing so. Went squoval, then round, and now I’m slowly working on getting them back to almond-ish now that I’ve got more length and nail strength.
It’s not letting me add more than one picture to the comments, so I’ll post before and now pictures to show you where I personally like to stop filing now!