One year ago this week, I was a nail biter. Not just a nibble here and a nibble there, but I was the worst kind of biter there is. If you don't want to read a long story skip down to the pics!

For as long as I could remember, I bit my nails. I probably couldn't go an hour without my fingers going into my mouth. I would bite them to itty bitty stubs until they would bleed. I used to have to band-aid them because it was so painful.

When I got to high school I managed to stop biting one nail, my left pinky because I played the bassoon in band and you could see my left hand it was so embarrassing. Even back then Alex (yep I married my high school sweetheart) would try to police my biting but he couldn't watch me 24/7 so I would just wait til he was gone and kept on biting. All of this is odd because I really loved nail polish in my teenage years and bought a lot of it but rarely wore them because of my habit.

When I hit my mid 20's I managed to mostly stop biting all the nails on my left hand, but if I had a really bad day or whatever I caved and any growth on them would be gone in minutes.

Finally when I was almost 30, I started just clipping and filing my nails almost everyday so I never had any free edge showing for me to bite. This method worked most of the time. I've always dreamed of having long natural nails so it was painful to see my stubby cut ones. If I tried growing them out I would bite them, but if I cut them, they would never grow long. A double-edged sword so to speak.

Then last year this week, I was sick and tired of my terrible life long habit so in order to have a nice manicure for my birthday in June I painted them and told myself I would keep them painted without biting. Miraculously I somehow did it! My nails were pretty short for my birthday last year but they were smooth and nicely painted. Ever since that day I've had nail polish on my nails each and every single day. Today I can't imagine ever biting a nail again. Wow if you read all of this, thank you lol.

So as painful as it is, here are some pictures of my nails last year around April and May. I had no idea I would have my long nails today so never thought to take before pictures so I had to take them out of odd pictures. This is very embarrassing to show!


I wasn't wearing makeup in them so I had to take my face out =x.


This one is actually from 1 photo but again I had to take my makeup-less face out lol. April 2008.


Early 2007, I was wearing a t-shirt that said Chillin with ma peeps. lol don't ask (Allie you remember this don't you?).


Today. Woohoo! I had to coax Alex into taking this for me, what a cutie. This is 2 coats of China Glaze Warm Sable. I wanted to do a crazy mani for this occasion but I decided to wear the nail polish that started it all (wore this day 1 last year). Thanks for reading my insanely long post.

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