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Paul Magnussen -> RE: Curved thumb nail (Apr. 24 2012 17:35:51)
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See if this helps: I wrote it several years ago. It certainly works for thumbnails like mine, which hooks over its whole width; yours may be more problematical.
Does anyone have a solution to nails that curve downward? If my nails grow to where you can just see the nail from palms up, they curve down and no amount of filing seems to avoid hooking. This has been a major problem for many years and any help would be greatly appreciated.
The solution to this is easy, but almost nobody seems to know it. I owe my knowledge to an article by the late Peter Sensier, in the old "BMG" magazine. My nails are very hooked indeed, but, using this method I have had no problem for 30+ years. Unfortunately, it is easier to demonstrate than describe.
Hold your hand horizontally, palm down. Then the usual way to hold the file is vertically. But instead, hold the file horizontally too, so that it's parallel to your hand. The basic idea is to file your nails this way, from underneath; then the resulting cross-section must be flat, because the nail-file is flat.
There are a few wrinkles:
1) You will need to tilt the file towards you a bit, i.e. about 15º
towards the conventional position.
2) You will also need (if you play off the left side of your nails,
as most people do, Presti/Lagoya excepted) to tilt your hand to the
left a bit, so that nails are shorter on the left side than the right.
3) When finished, round off the nails with the file in the conventional
position to remove the resulting knife-edge.
4) Be careful not to cut the quick of your nails with the file -- and
especially, don't use an emery-board!
Hope this helps.
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