Fix Broken Nails with Teabags

• A tea bag. Any kind will work as long as it’s made of paper.
• A fine to medium-grain nail file.
• A VERY fine-grained nail file, and  a buffer or a four-in-one file.
• A base coat. 
• You’ll also need whatever colour you’d like to paint your nails afterwards, and a top coat.

Take your tea bag and cut the top off. Empty it out. Cut out a small, rectangular section of the tea bag. It should be about the width and length of your nail. Cover the nail halfway if it’s a crack, and a third of the way if the tip is peeling or super-weak.

Apply the basecoat. While it’s still mostly wet, position the rectangle of tea bag so that it completely covers the crack with room to spare underneath. That’s for extra strength.

Press the tea bag down with your fingers to make sure everything is smooth. You don’t want wrinkles or bubbles, and it doesn’t matter if stuff gets a little messy at this stage. Let it dry, then shellack the entire thing down with another layer of basecoat. The tea bag will start to turn slightly transparent--this is what you want.

You can cut off some of the length if you want. 

When everything’s dry, use your regular nail file and file away the paper overhang at the tip. It’ll come right off.

Take your superfine file and gently smooth the area where you just stuck the tea bag, blending the two parts together and making sure there aren’t any hard line or bumps. Use your buffer to smooth and shine everything to finish.

Now apply another layer of basecoat and let it dry. It might look weird but that’s why you're going to paint over it.

Wait until your base coat is totally dry.

If you run your finger over your repaired nail now, you should feel nothing but a smooth surface. No cracks, bumps, ridges, lumps or lines. If it doesn’t feel totally smooth, no big deal; just gently file the surface again, then apply another base coat.

 Paint your nails like you normally would. Two to three coats of polish, followed by a topcoat. Then you're done.