Anyone begin using acrylic nails to stop picking?

Acrylic nails were like a fun, hard tool that let me have a free-for-all on my face. I have a cheaper, and for me, more effective option. I clip my nails down to the cuticle and then I use a little electric/battery-powered nail-file to thin out my nails, pretty much almost to the point that it is painful, and then smooth down any lingering rough edges. I can't open a soda by myself, but when I'm feeling really desperate, it gives me a few days of peace to deal.

I've tried using creams, but I never remember past the first day to keep using them. ... of picking and they begin to hurt is when I even realize I'm doing it. face treatments | cheek implants | laser eyelid surgery

Hey girls, I'm a scalp picker. If I can find scabs on my scalp, I am one happy camper. Isn't that terrible?! Well, I must say this topic really caught my eye because acrylic nails were like an instant CURE for me. Actually, I'm a scalp and lip picker, but I also have a tendancy to rub at my skin in a destructive way. Acrylic nails literally prevent me from scratching and picking at my scalp to the point where I even forget I have this compulsion to do it. It completely goes away. Sometimes I will feel a little ... I don't know, I guess lost? Because I can't pick with the nails. But it goes away quickly. It also helps me to forget that I want to rub my skin, too. The acrylic nails are literally a god-send for me, I really cannot cope without them. Which is unfortunate for me becaue I lost my job almost two months ago and I haven't been able to afford the nails since then. Before that I constantly had acrylic (or gel) nails for almost a year. My scalp had completely healed. But as soon as the nails were gone, I was picking again, even with the flismy and damaged nails that I had! Also, my boyfriend is black and has a naturally dry scalp and dredlocks and he loves it when I scratch his scalp, which is horrible for my own personal scratching condition, which he knows nothing about. I'm sure he sees me scratching my scalp, but I think he just thinks I have a dry scalp, too. I even pick off his little clunks of dandruff, but he doesn't realize how nasty it is because i think he just thinks I'm soothing him and trying to get the gunk off of his scalp, I know he doesn't realize that I'm enjoying it. Ugh. Fake nails make it hard for me to peel my lips, but I definitely still feel crazy and like I need help. I can't afford it though, I don't have insurance. I hope this site helps.

I'm 50 and have been picking my skin for years. My picking is mainly done on my fingers and the palms of my hands, but I also have a difficult time leaving cuts, stitches or sunburns, etc alone. This past winter I had surgery on my elbow and kept messing with the incision until I had opened it up. I had to have another surgery! When I was in my teens I mainly picked at my lips and the inner cheeks of my mouth. A couple of years ago, I began peeling off pieces of skin and then putting them in my mouth to chew on. I still do this. I get almost like a "high" when I pick my skin. I tried using the acrylic nails to keep myself from being able to pick, but that didn't work because I just went out and bought a pair of tweezers for getting out splinters.....these kinds of tweezers have very sharp points on them and makes it really handy to peel with. I've been in psychological counseling for about 2 years now for past sexual abuse and for an abusive marriage. I take 90mg of Cymbalta daily which helps with depression, but so far as I can tell, does nothing for the skin picking.

Hi, I am an nail biter and skin picker as well. I have used acrylic nails in the past and for me it really was a life saver. I bit my nails so that there was not nail left at all. I felt a sigh of relief when I had them put on. I make them really short. I went in maybe every two weeks and had them revised. My nails grew back under the acrylic nails. If one fell off I went back in and had them reseal it. It took about 6 months for me to feel in control and at that point my nails had no flaws and I was able to stop biting.

Thanks for all your input everyone. Really appreciate it. I still pick at the cuticle skin and my face with these nails. Having the acrylics for the 1st time was like a challange for me to overcome to continue picking. I won of course so no sense getting these filled anymore. Too much $$ when I still pick anyway. Any advice on getting these off? Plan on soaking in 100% acetone when I can let my cuticles heal up enough to avoid the pain against raw areas.........

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Acrylic nails never worked for me altho I have tried them many times. Sure I would stop for maybe a day or two, but it never lasted long. Id find finger nail clippers or tweezers to pick at my skin. Even the glue to adhere the acrylic to the nail would get on the skin and just cause me to find something to pick it off, and then I would just end up picking the skin since I was going at the glue. I stopped spending the money on them once it wasn't working. The only reason why it would work for a short period of time is because the acrylic was thicker than the actual nail, making it harder to use the nail to pick the skin. After several attempts with acrylic nails I just gave up on it and I continue even now to just find other ways to stop or postpone the picking.

Acrylic nails never worked for me altho I have tried them many times. Sure I would stop for maybe a day or two, but it never lasted long. Id find finger nail clippers or tweezers to pick at my skin. Even the glue to adhere the acrylic to the nail would get on the skin and just cause me to find something to pick it off, and then I would just end up picking the skin since I was going at the glue. I stopped spending the money on them once it wasn't working. The only reason why it would work for a short period of time is because the acrylic was thicker than the actual nail, making it harder to use the nail to pick the skin. After several attempts with acrylic nails I just gave up on it and I continue even now to just find other ways to stop or postpone the picking.

The solar nails worked for me until I bought a cuticle cutter. I went out and bought neosporin and bandaids and I'm healing the fingers that are really bad. If I can throw away the cutter, then I should be able to go back to stopping. I also use cuticle oil and try rubbing it in rather than picking...sometimes that works too.

Over the summer I had nice fingers and cuticles. I was proud to paint my nails and show them off. But since school has started, there has beena a lot of stress. It’s my senior year of high school and I’m more stressed than ever. I’ve noticed my fingers are also worse than they have ever been. It must be a nervous habit. That, cracking my knuckles and swallowing. i think I need to add a goal to my list: make a list of things that calm me down when I am nervous. Marta K www.directory2009.com

its really hard to do this so thank you everyone for making this available and free,... im going to be 22 years old and since i was 5 have been biting my nails untill there was nothing left, my parents tryed meds and even got me hypnotised to get me to stop, but the only thing that seemed to work was getting me acrilics. i have had acrilics since i was about 13 and about then is when the picking started, i had never had nails of my own so when i got the acrilics i got acustomed to them really fast, and now i cant stop the picking. it makes it worse cause 2 years ago i was told i had psoriasis and all i do is constantly pick at it and what ever else is on my skin, som im not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing what has happened, i went from being a horrible nail biter to an over controled picker, and its not just on me i pick, its on my family as well. i want this to stop but if i take off the nail i go back to being a horrible nail biter, what do i do??? is there any way i can stop both or is that not a possibility??? and all the doctors can tell me for the cause of it all is its from "unconscious stressing," which really doesnt help me to find a cure....

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