So, nail drama.....a broken nail, ugh.  Here is the dilema.  How many nails must break before you cut all the rest?  One, two even three?  Yes, fake nails will never have this dilema, but fake is let's say it - fake!!  Is it hard to grow real nails, hell  yes.  But real women wear real nails,paint them, design them, and buy coffee to make it through the day. Once you start fake nail fiasco, you can never stop.  It is a hook that gets you at your core and will NOT let go. The problem is -----$$$$$$$$ and time.  You must never go past two weeks before a fill.  The longer they are on the softer and more damaged the real nail bed gets.  Sometimes the nail bed tends to grow strangely.  It is a full year before the real nails and nail bed are "human" again.  So I am going to say = Three nails.  If a thumb nail breaks, well live with it, if a pinky nail breaks, live with it...but three broken nails is just time to cut them all down. Painful, yes.  Depressing yes.  But fashion is painful, even when it is on your fingertips.  Cut and clear polish is in my future.