The beauty of nail art is that it allows us to take the style of our favorite designers, celebs, or personal style inspiration and apply it onto our fingers and toes. For beginners, that’s totally awesome. For experienced artists, it can be an intimidating and time-consuming process. That’s why I have everything on my Pinterest page, just in case I want to try my hand at it with different designs. As a result, while it can be frustrating trying to create real nail art, it can also be incredibly rewarding for me. For people with long nails, or those who have severe nail pain, real nail art can be just too time-consuming and unhealthy. So that’s where Cryotherapy comes in.
Cryotherapy, which means hypothermia, is a relatively new and often magical (but, with proper caution, way-too-expensive) treatment that just started to find its way into the United States. The point of cryotherapy is to numb your face, neck, wrists, and hands so you can lift your body out of the depths of hypothermia and work your body in a way that would have otherwise been impossible.
Cryotherapy takes an hour, with people starting the treatment at 30 minutes and going until an hour and a half into the session. After you emerge from cryotherapy, you’ll have to use a compression mask to dry off, and after a day or two, you may notice signs of inflammation on your skin, from the squeezing and shockwave to the numbness that comes along with the treatment. While there’s not enough to judge in such a short amount of time, I’m glad that my fingers have me fooled. Nails are growing on my digits again, which makes me especially happy.
However, I’ve had some players around here tell me that there’s much more to cryotherapy than just the physical recovery and body healing, and that I need to be prepared for the mental aspects of the experience as well. I first learned about cryotherapy in a post on Instagram from a woman who had lost all of her hair from a hair transplant. Her post was a bit of an eye-opener, explaining just how difficult it can be to get used to the aftershocks of the treatment when you come out of it. “Needless to say, after the light and shock of the shockwave is over, you come to an absolute blank,” she wrote. “The point of going through the pain and anxiety of cryotherapy, to get everything out the way, I guess, was worth it in the end. Got the call to go today right after a 10-hour night shift so I could finally chill.”
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So, I’m finally here, and I’ve left some changes in my place, so I can become accustomed to the strict schedule that is monthly cryotherapy and start strengthening my body instead of my nails. After my fourth cryotherapy, I saw a change in my nails that was like nothing I’ve ever seen. Instead of being cold, they were growing on. By the next treatment, my nails had not only gotten longer, but much fatter. The slightly more tingling and numb sensation was slowly becoming more pronounced, and although the rescheduling started to hurt, I got used to it and my nails kept growing on. I never felt like they were hurting, but I know that it’s good for my hands as well.
If you don’t have a story to share, I can just be so glad that my hands are growing after cryotherapy — whether that’s multiple places, or a single place — for better and stronger nails. Everyone needs some nail maintenance at some point, but if you want to try cryotherapy, it’s definitely something worth exploring. And if you don’t mind shelling out the cash, Cryotherapy in New York and Florida offers sessions for $85, and there are also a couple of places around the world where you can get the service for around $60 to $80.
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