Look, fake nails aren’t anything new. You’ve probably seen them before, either exiled in the back corner of drugstores (always alongside stockings and nipple covers, for some reason) or looking glaringly obvious on the tips of someone’s hands. Rarely on Instagram—that’s the territory of professional nail design. If you think …
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“Learn to resist the urge,” says Tara S. Peris, an associate professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is co-director of the Child O.C.D., Anxiety and Tic Disorders Program. Psychiatrists consider nail biting a “body focused repetitive behavior,” along with things like …
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Did you know a “nail health expert” is actually just a… dermatologist? Still, not very many dermatologists actually specialize in treating nails, with the exception of people like Dr. Dana Stern who teaches nail surgery (it exists!) at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. A big chunk of …
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