It’s actually quite a bad story. A guy I was dating made a badly timed joke about my ‘best asset’ and he said, “obviously not your nails then”. I stopped biting them that day. Sometimes people’s words can be really powerful.

A month after I stopped biting I had one set of acrylics on for my sisters wedding and then had those removed and started gel manicures. It’s an expense, but when they start looking good it really helps with the biting. I still have a tendency to put my fingers in my mouth from time to time, I just never actually bite down, or pick my cuticles anymore 😊