Huh. I just recently noticed I have ridges - like the last year or so. I didn't know people buffed them off.

That's got to be some really fine paper to keep it shiny like that.

I got something similar from my mother in her last random package of stuff. I should check that out.

When I was in downtown San Diego, the people at the mall selling the expensive kit used to buff one fingernail of mine like that. I sometimes think that someday I shall actually get a buffer and do it myself and look like my nails are all Done since I paint fingernails like a neurologically impaired 5 year old. It's bad. No fingernail paint for me. But I think I could get behind the nail buffing thing.

My mom buffs her nails all the damn time. (She doesn't get her nails polished because she has her hands in water a lot and so it wears off really quickly.)

She also has extremely weak nails. Correlation =/= causation, but just an fyi.

It's actual nail polishing; I was surprised the first time i did it because it seemed unreal. I'm trying to remember if I'd polished stone before I first buffed my nails. It's not that big a deal, expensive or time consuming. The roughest side knocks off the roughest parts, the last step is usually a grey rubbery surface to make it shine. My nails are pretty thin but buffing seems to make them more durable. You can find the same thing as files, discs or all on one file. Unless you are screwing with your nail bed, you can see your health generally reflected in your nails, if you are talking about horizontal "ridges."

Oddly, in old palmistry texts, they have comments on nails that don't seem to realize that they've been attended to, but note that well formed smooth nails are often found confoundingly on superficially focused women.

My mother once told me that they use to use some type of flower petal wrap to stain her nails. I have to think nail polishing and treatments have been around forever. I do way too much with my hands for even the best lacquers to last very long in tact.

Interesting. By the way I found this youtube vid of someone trying out the product in question. It shines the f- out of her nail too. lol