Problem Nail

[Sara Satchell]

A regular client came to see me last night and bought along her Mum for a manicure. Her Mum asked me if I did men's manicure's and if so could I do somthing for her husbands nail...A few years ago, he injured his finger in an accident, and the nail split. Ever since then it has ALWAYS grown split - from the centre of the free edge, right down to the just under the cuticle area. The nail is quite painful as he catches it on the split all the time. I can't beleive he's not had it seen to! Is there ANYTHING that I can do as a technician (overlay?) too help him sort this or do you think he should seek medical help??

 

[naturalnails]

As long as there is no infection, I would suggest you do an overlay on this nail - use clear rather than pink so that it blends in with the others and do it nice and thin. Only oil buff it so that it is not too shiney, also to blend in with the others.

As this has been an injury probably to the matrix, it will more than likely always grow like this - I don't see what the doctors would do in this instance.

 

[Bud]

I had a client whose nail grew with a split from her free edge (not right though the nail plate like this man), I put a gel sculpt over the top, which was fine (although I haven't seen her since so not sure what happened as it started growing?

I just wondered whether it might be worth asking him to check with his GP to see if there's any reason why he couldn't have an overlay over it?

If the split is quite deep (and exposes the nail bed?) then you'd need to be really careful about cleaning / sanitising etc. Is there any chance the product would get through underneath the nail (or have I misunderstood your description of his nail?). If so, would this make the product lift?

Let us know how it goes...!

 

[talented talons]

If its an old injury it should be fine to overlay it. I would say sanitise well and then i would try a fibreglass overlay. It can then be nice and natural and made to look the same as his other nails. Obviously you can achieve this with L&P overlay as well, so its your preference.