Cracked my right thumbnail a few weeks back. Argh. I use my left hand a lot for a right hander, to avoid breaking nails, but from time to time you break one. This time was right on the part I pluck from, top of the nail to below the skin line. Around a 5-6 week grow out I reckoned. Too long! I'm not ready to go fingernail free just now!
So out came the trusty super glue. Yeah, standard, cheap, super glue. If you haven't mangled the nail, if it is just torn, put some super glue in the tear, apply a little bit of pressure and it will join straight back on, tough as! Put a little extra on the join like nail polish, let it dry out. The surface-to-surface contact joints will dry in seconds, but air drying superglue on a surface will take fifteen to thirty minutes. Kick back, don't fiddle with it, be patient.
If you don't put too much stress on it, it will stay joined until it has grown out. Lasted a week easy, then tore again. Applied more superglue. Lasted another week, tore again. More superglue. Lasted a further week, decided to give up at that point and cut it back to the start of the tear - which was 3 weeks growth, so not terrible.
When you don't want to cut off a nail at the base because you tore it - super glue is your friend!
My last sensei used to us bits of ping pongs and superglue. He did one nail for me once. Superglued to the underside. With excess pingpong material sticking out, clipped it off and filed it to match the nail. I thought it was genius at the time, but I never adopted that method.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, nice! I've heard of using ping pong material but never tried it myself.
DeleteSometimes I wonder if we all should go nail free... nah :-)