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Your nails do not have to be long to start filing – they can be just before the tips of your fingers to actually have enough nail to work with. Here is a little step-by-step guide, if you have never attempted to file your nails.

Use a two-sided emery board, which you can find at any drug/beauty store for a buck or two. Stay away from the metal files because they have a tendency to be rough on thin or brittle nails – you want to avoid filing too much at once or splitting your nail.

Start by washing your hands and nails (hint – a nail brush helps to get dirt underneath) with very warm water and then rinse with cool water, before drying.

You will notice that the emery board has one rough side and one side that is fine. Start with the rough side and gently file from the outer edge of your nail towards the tip. Keep that same motion and avoid going back and forth like you were sawing wood – that method can weaken the nail. Do the same with the other side of your nail. Repeat for each nail until you have achieved the length and shape you want.

When you have filed all of your nails using the rough side of the emery board, use the other side to finish and smooth the edges of your nails. For each nail you will file in the opposite direction as you did before, that is you will start from the center or tip of the nail to the outer edge.

That’s all there is to it! Now, if you have any ridges on the top of your nails that you would like to remove, consider purchasing a buffing block. They are sold at drug/beauty stores also and are very inexpensive.

Buffing blocks usually have at textures on two sides, sometimes all four, but basically there is a side for smoothing out ridges and a side for buffing your nail to a shine.

When removing the ridges use the smoothing side across your nail in one direction only, not back and forth. After smoothing, use the buffing side with the same motion to bring out the natural shine in your nails. There are also buffing creams available to help condition your nails and bring out more of a shine.

It tackles the possible causes of the habit and helps readers focus on different strategies to try and block the habit. This is a helpful book, written at a level that children can understand – not like an adult talking down to a child. Some other books in her series include “What to do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger” and “What to Do when You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety.”

There are germs under your fingernails! So every time you bite your nails, the germs enter your mouth. Think about all the germy stuff you touch throughout the day, like your baby sister’s diaper, your sweaty socks, handling raw meat, or touching restroom doorknobs, and you won’t believe the bacteria on cash money! Do you really want to ingest that mess and become sick? You could wash your hands every few minutes in hot soapy water and scrub under your nails with a nail brush, but for most nail biters, that would just be an after-thought. Too late!

Besides the germ factor, nail-biting can cause bleeding and irritation and can then increase your risk for infections in and around your nail bed. The same goes for your mouth, especially if germs get into any irritated areas of your mouth or gums.

Long-term nail biting can also result in deformed looking nails and nails that stop growing properly.