Hi there,
I have a client who's nails I have been doing for some time. In around Feb this year we stopped doing acrylics and moved onto manicures and nail foil application (nail foils most of the time). Upon removing acrylics her nails were fine but in time I have noticed the white free edge appears to be moving down her nails. My first thought is Onycholysis with the thought that perhaps filing away the nail foil at the free edge was too much trauma to the nail. I have however been concious of this and work very carefully.
I am unsure however that it is Onycholysis as I have seen pics of this nail disorder online and it doesn't seem the same. It doesn't seem anything is caught between the nail bed and nail plate and upon looking down the barrel from the free edge it doesn't seem that the nail has separated from the nail bed. It is also doesn't look as deep as the online pics.
My other thought was perhaps the adhesive in the nail foils could be causing this problem, sometimes the client removes them on her own by peeling them off. The removal for foils simply involves peeling the foil away slowly so I am unsure whether this could be the problem anyway.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
I have a client who's nails I have been doing for some time. In around Feb this year we stopped doing acrylics and moved onto manicures and nail foil application (nail foils most of the time). Upon removing acrylics her nails were fine but in time I have noticed the white free edge appears to be moving down her nails. My first thought is Onycholysis with the thought that perhaps filing away the nail foil at the free edge was too much trauma to the nail. I have however been concious of this and work very carefully.
I am unsure however that it is Onycholysis as I have seen pics of this nail disorder online and it doesn't seem the same. It doesn't seem anything is caught between the nail bed and nail plate and upon looking down the barrel from the free edge it doesn't seem that the nail has separated from the nail bed. It is also doesn't look as deep as the online pics.
My other thought was perhaps the adhesive in the nail foils could be causing this problem, sometimes the client removes them on her own by peeling them off. The removal for foils simply involves peeling the foil away slowly so I am unsure whether this could be the problem anyway.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.
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