We might spend hours treating and painting our nails but there are some thing we didn’t know about them. Here are nine facts you also may not have known…
1. Your nails are made out of the same thing as your hair, keratin
2. Men’s grow faster than women’s (except during pregnancy when women’s grow at a faster rate)
3. Cutting them actually helps them grow (so does tapping them lightly on a surface)
4. Water is good for healthy nails
5. Stress can prevent growth (which means you should take more afternoons off for manicures)
6. Nail-biting is the most common nervous habit (and it’s called onychophagia)
7. Nails grown faster in summer than winter
8. Having your nails polished all the time is bad for them (it dries them out and weakens them)
9. The middle fingernail grows fastest, the thumbnail grows slowest
