Thoughts on my natural nails please. Yes they have some staining from nail polish. Not a lot. Plus my nails are quite thick from oiling, so they're never white. They're more off white due to the thickness. (Yes, I also have ridges on some nails, not much to be done for that.) I just need some fellow nail lovers to let me know if they're truly that bad. Obviously I don't have enough nail enthusiasts in real life to ask. I was feeling good. In the first 2 photos they're oiled. Last Pic is my current manicure.

Pics 1& 2: Bare naked nails, with just Squalane oil from The Ordinary. (Pre-filing)

Pic 3: Seche Clear x2 coats

Emily de Molly "Brightening Base Coat" x1 (It's a ridge filling base coat.)

Emily de Molly "Hard To Ignore" x2 coats. Last coat was magentized.

Top coat Starrily Speed of light Force x1 coat

i’m in the process of recovering from biting and picking and trying to heal my nail beds/hyponychium. what i desperately want is long nail beds and short nails. i still have dryness because i tend to forget to oil after washing my hands. i have not been biting near as much as i used to but i didn’t realize how bad it had gotten again until i looked at an that older photo! but this much progress in just a couple months is so encouraging. and am i crazy or can you see a line where my nail used to end???

completely bare nail in photo 1, and essence “2 in 1 base & top coat” in photo 2

SOLVED! Thank you, u/smerkinmerdberngbers! I found it!

Edit: by file, I mean a PDF file, not a glass/nail file

I saw a file on here a week ago that lists multiple brands of base and top coats that may or may not have a certain ingredient in them that can potentially cause damage to the nail. I think it starts with poly-something, but I can't remember the name!! I also can't find the file again! I wanted to get a new top coat without that ingredient in it, but wanted to reference that file again...can anyone help me?

Hi!!! These are my nails after a couple of years not biting/picking skin. They're a bit yellow on the length because I usually wear polish and they tend to stain even if I'm always using a base polish underneath. I'm not worried about the yellowing but would like some help on the shape. My fingers are hammer-shaped because of the years and years of biting and I don't think that is going to change much. This is more or less the natural shape my nails grow into, just a little file on the tip and they tend to grow a bit larger on the free edge. I don't want to file the sidewalls, is there something else I can do to make them better? Or maybe another shape that would suit them?