The Mother of All Nail Tears!!!!!

While I was getting ready for work yesterday morning, I reached down to open one of the sink cabinets. To give you some background, the doors to my sink cabinets are weird in that they are old and outdated things with tiny little handles (think the size of a doorknocker of a dollhouse) located in the MIDDLE of the door.  (more ornamental than functional) To make the process of opening said cabinets even more difficult is that they are sealed from within by magnets.  So I try and pull at the corner of one of the cabinets, not paying attention to what I was doing and LOW and BEHOLD I catch the corner of my thumbnail, my nail polish peels/chips off the corner ruining my mani, and I get a small tear.  I was annoyed at the polish chipping because it was pretty noticeable and it meant that I had to take off all my polish before trying to get out the door on time for work.  I didn't really worry about the nail tear since I have this lovely little nail repair kit, which I tossed into my bag.

I've used this only one time previously and it worked really well, so as soon as I got to work, I applied some glue, threw on some powder and went about my work.  Towards the end of the day I notice that the repair didn't hold, and to make it worse it got bigger!!! ( > o < )  I'm disappointed in this product and will not be using it again.  I got it because it was cheap and I definitely got what I paid for.


I remembered a tip from a book I read where it said you could use kleenex as a patch.  I grabbed some kleenex, applied some glue and that seemed to work.  

I awoke the next morning to find that my second attempt to fix this tear failed.  I remembered that a piece of teabag used with nail glue could ALSO be used as a patch for a torn nail, and that previously worked for me.  Got to work, applied glue and patch...more glue....more glue....OKAY.  I go about the rest of my day, check on the patch...still holding...good good!  BUT when I come back from the gym, I notice that my THIRD attempt to fix this stupid tear has failed and my tear is worse.  (FYI...this tear is below the quick and it's deep enough into the nail bed that it would be impossible to try and salvage by cutting and filing it down.)

I whine and complain to my friend/co-worker and then immediately search the web for a better solution.  I find this lovely tutorial using silk wraps by a fellow blogger, My Simple Little Pleasures.  (Click here to view her tutorial)  I get the necessary items and am in the process of putting the finishing touches to this patch.  I'm hoping FOUR times is a charm.  Here's the offending nail:

OUCH!!!  I'll post an update if this works. Stay tuned...