Mellowby Nail Growth Oil

You are already growing nails. You are just not keeping them.

Brittle nails snap and peel at the free edge faster than they grow out, which is why length never happens after gel or acrylics. The nail plate you can see is dead keratin — nothing brushed on top speeds up what is happening under the cuticle. What an oil can do is keep what is already there flexible enough to stop breaking.

• A twist pen with a brush. Twist until the oil comes through, brush it round the cuticle and over the plate. Ten seconds, once at night.
• For nails coming off gel, acrylic or builder gel. Thin, bendy, peeling in layers — that is the state most people are in when they go looking for one of these.
• A blend of nutrient-rich organic oils. No synthetics, and it sinks in rather than leaving your hands slippery for an hour.
• Cuticles first. That is the visible half of the improvement, and by far the fastest.
• Cruelty-free and vegan. Never tested on animals, no animal-derived ingredients.

Use it nightly, on bare nails or over polish. It works around gel.