16 Tips For Growing Stronger, Healthier Nails

Raise your hands (or maybe not) if you’ve broken a nail in the past few days. Or noticed that your fingernails are starting to fray and split way too easily. We’ve got enough snags in our cashmere sweaters and runs up and down our black tights to suggest our nails are anything but smooth. 

Frustrated with how weak our nails have become and beyond baffled over our manicures barely making it to the five-day mark, we asked three nail pros to spill their secrets on growing strong and healthy nails.

Scroll down below for 16 nail care tips, including the truth about nail strengtheners, what you should do before shoving your hands under the salon’s LED lamp and why you’d want to think twice before unhooking a trapped zipper with your fingernail.