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Ricardo -> RE: Broken nail... options (Oct. 22 2012 13:29:50)
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Once again....don't be scared of superstition stories regarding cyanoacrylate (krazy glue, brush on nail glue etc). It is non toxic and used in surgical proceedure, sold now as liquid band aid, you can put it on open wounds. It does not dry out, soak in, soften, etc anything to your nails or skin. It hardens and acts as a second skin, and flakes off with dead skin cells. If you don't cover the entire nail then when you do rasgueado you will wear a ditch into your natural nail at the boarder so you will have thinned out top of your nail. (if you do enough rasgueado of course).
Keep glue on when playing, and when it wears down (mine wear down the center from nail bed to tip) simply apply more coats on. Don't ever try to remove or you risk taking some natural nail with it. If you don't want it on or want to check to see health of natural nails, just let if flake off over couple weaks time, or play it off.
Saddly if you do the quick fix as ruben suggests, it will eventually come off too and take your natural nail material with it. I would simply apply more glue to bare nails and file and try to play as normal...it will grow out enough in a week or so. With the minor damage the guy had, I could file flat and make perfect use of what he had left.
RIcardo
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