After Damaging My Nails With Gel Extensions For A Year, “Nail Slugging” Helped Bring Them Back To Life

At first, my fingers felt very greasy. However, rubbing the hand cream in helped spread the products all over which allowed them to absorb better. If I really wanted to kick the moisturizing factor up a notch, I could’ve slept with gloves, but since I usually run hot when I sleep, I opted out of that option.

In the morning, I didn’t have any leftover residue from the cuticle oil + Aquaphor + + hand cream concoction. Instead, my hands, nails, and cuticle area felt incredibly soft. 

For the sake of trying this trend — and in the hopes of desperately bringing my nails back to life — I stuck to the habit of applying my cuticle oil and Aquaphor combo every night for an entire week. I settled on trying it out for a week because I figured that would be an adequate amount of time to see if nail slugging really made a difference and improved the health of my nails before I made it a staple in my nighttime routine.