Lines and ridges on my fingernails - gone!

Executive summary:

I had horizontal ridges on my fingernails that looked unsightly. The diagnosis of various Internet blogs/sites was that I was malnourished or lacking in one or more vitamins. I found one site though that had a simple solution: stop picking your cuticles and wait a few months for the nail to start growing back normally.

Common sense

With this in mind I made it my mission to stop my nervous habit of picking at my cuticles and see if there would be any difference after six months.

The difference was dramatic. The nails were growing back heathy and the horizontal ridges completely gone. The moral of this story is: there's no quick fix, I need to change my basic bad habit of picking at my nails. That it was really, really, hard to change. I need to constantly remind myself to not pick at my cuticles but that's what it took to make my nails look good again.

Here's the difference after six months using a side view.

To the left you can see the sheer amount of nail growth I was losing when I was picking my cuticles. The old nail is thin and has the horizontal ridges in it (seen in the picture above). The new, lower section, of the nail looks heathy and has no ridges.

In conclusion, I didn't need to buy any herbal remedies, vitamins, minerals etc. I just needed to stop picking at my nails. If you have horizontal ridges in your nails, and want to see if you can 'heal' them, try not picking at your cuticles/nails for a few months. It's tough but the difference was definitely noticeable for me after about four-months. Good luck.