Julep Reveal Take 2

Hey everybody!  Sorry I didn't get a post out last night.  We are having a little internet issue so over the next week and a half I will be doing my best to get posts out!

So about a month ago I posted about Julep Reveal Nail Growth Revitalizing Serum, but because I left it at my sister's when I went to visit a week into my treatments, I had to stop treatment so I was unable to show you the progress with my toenails.

However, my darling sister came home this past weekend and she brought with her my serum!  She's awesome :D  So I took "before" pictures again on Sunday and started the treatment again.

Day 1

Left Big Toe

Right Big Toe

I will continue to update this post on a weekly basis to show the progress of my nails.  Now remember, these toenails have had some trauma so it may take longer than the 2-3 weeks Julep says results will be seen in.  The story of what happened along with the original "before" pictures can be found in this post.  Come back in about a week to see my progress over the week with these :D

*UPDATE* -- Day 7

Left Big Toe

Right Big Toe

Ok, so it's been a week since I restarted my treatment with Julep Reveal Nail Growth Revitalizing Serum on my 2 big toes.  Though I haven't seen a vast improvement with growth, I think they both look healthier if nothing else.  I have been applying the serum to the sides of the nail, along the cuticle, under the free edge as directed and even "painting" the surface of my nail with it.  I don't know if this extra bit helps or not, but it's worth a shot.  I figure my new nail is growing underneath the top nail (gross, I know) so if it helps get the nutrients into the new nail, I'm all for it :D  Maybe for next week I will do a comparison chart with both toes and each week's picture -- I will work on that this week :D

*UPDATE* -- Day 14

This week I have compiled a "progress report" of sorts to show the progress so far with the treatments rather than an individual photo of each toe.  I apologize that the most recent picture is darker, the sun went down before I could get a picture with natural light.

Again, I don't see a huge improvement this week, but I think that there has been some progress since day 1 :)

*UPDATE*  -- Day 21

Sorry I didn't get this update done for you guys yesterday.  Here is my final progress report for the Julep Reveal Nail Growth Revitalizing Serum

My final verdict is this -- I think this product helped with the look of my toenails, they definitely look healthier if nothing else.  I think it was hard to tell with the overall "growth" of them because the actually growing part is taking place under the "dead" nail on top.  So what I have done, and I will be working on, is getting the remains of the top nail off my healthy nail growing in so that we can really look at the growth the Julep Reveal Nail Growth Revitalizing Serum helps with.  It's going to take a bit of work to get down to the good nail, and maybe a trip to my local chiropodist to get the final bits off so we can really study this :)  This is what I should have done before starting the treatment in the first place, but I was just so excited to try it! :D  I will be sure to announce on my Facebook page when I will be starting the treatment again.

Thanks for following along with this adventure!  I hope I can bring you beautiful pictures of my toenails in the very near future!  I so badly want to paint them, but treatment comes first, polish second :D

OMG I'm Naked!

Haha, just kidding!  Well sorta ;)  My nails are naked at the moment because I'm planning an awesome nail art for tomorrow :D  Plus, I wanted to show you what's "under the polish".

So while you're waiting oh-so-patiently for tomorrow to come so you can see my awesome nail art, here are some pictures of my naked nails.  (I do have a basecoat on in these pictures.)  I hope this nail art design works with all this hype....

I don't do anything special besides hope and pray one of them doesn't break off while I'm doing stuff.  I do use Julep's Cuticle Oil, I try for a few times a day.  I am also very prone to hangnails.. BIG ones!  It's partially my own fault because once I get one I pick at it :(  They occur mostly on my thumbs and when I get one it also affects the skin around my nail, not just the hangnail part of it.  And then it bleeds :'(  I try to put bandaids on them with polysporin but it's so hard during the day because I wash my hands a lot, so they don't stay on anyways.  And I never think to put them on before bed.  *sigh*  Life with beautiful nails and fingers is hard to come by, lol!

(Sorry for the glare in the pictures with the flash - I wanted to show them in a little brighter light but it got dark on me faster than I expected :S)

I like to have my nais a little longer than they are in these pictures, but it always happens that once I get them to the length I want, one will break off :(

For being a life-long nail biter and having "quit" a little over 2 years ago, I think my nails are beautiful even if they are a little yellow from polishing them all the time.