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Ask the Experts
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- Can I cut the keratinised proximal nail fold?
- Can I use just acetone to cleanse the nail plate before a service?
- Can Nail Polish be Organic?
- Can the cuticle cover the whole nail?
- Do all nail plates grow 1mm a week?
- Do manicures ruin your nails?
- Hangnails. What's your advice?
- How do I save a cut nail?
- How does cold weather affect the nails?
- Is calcium good for nails?
- Is cuticle remover a must-have?
- Is nail polish safe to use for repetitive use on clients because it 'can't store pathogens'?
- What are these thin black lines under the nail?
- What is a dry manicure?
- What is a Japanese manicure?
- What is a wet manicure?
- What is the safest type of manicure?
- What's the best type of manicure to get?
- What's the difference between a French manicure and an American manicure?
- What's the harm with a water soak?
- Which is better? Soap and water or hand sanitiser before a service?
- Which way to brush off the dust?
- Why do nail polish top coats get stringy when applied?
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- Acid-based or acid-free primers?
- Can I e-file the natural nail underneath an enhancement?
- Do acrylics have a limited future?
- Does a universal monomer exist?
- How much product to remove during rebalance?
- Pinching enhancements?
- To infill or to soak off?
- To pinch the nail enhancement or not?
- What do I do with my leftover monomer?
- What is the difference between a French manicure and pink and white?
- What size brush to use?
- Why do nails feel thin after the removal of a nail coating?
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- A chemical burn?
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- Fluff vs synthetic brush for dusting
- Is an E-File safe to use?
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- Should you pour the end of an old bottle into the new?
- Some of my clients are getting heat spikes when curing the base and top coat.
- UV light cabinets for nails files?
- What are the legal requirements for the treatment of minors?
- What is a Brazilian style manicure?
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- What is a Russian manicure?
- What is the difference between cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation?
- What is the difference between HEMA and di-HEMA?
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- Acrylates in gel-like nail polishes?
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- To infill or to soak off?
- To pinch the nail enhancement or not?
- Using cuticle oil during soak-off?
- What does 'overcured' really mean?
- What is the correct method for applying a 'BIAB' type product?
- What is the difference between a French manicure and pink and white?
- What is the difference between HEMA and di-HEMA?
- What UV gel brands do you recommend?
- Why are we seeing more reactions from gel polish services vs gel enhancement services?
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- Do Nails Need to Breathe?
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- I'm pretty sure my UV gel manicure client has WSO
- Leukonychia or not?
- Lichen Planus. What do I do?
- The onychomycosis (fungal nail) test is positive... Now what?
- What are these thin black lines under the nail?
- What is Onycholsyis?
- What to do with unhealthy nails?
- Why are there ridges in my nails?
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Do all nail plates grow 1mm a week?
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Now that’s a fun question!
On average yes, but, the definition of average in a nail salon is a bit murky!
A day in the life of a salon after lockdown showed us a larger deviation in nail plate growth than we expected after we were forced to go into lockdown for 11 weeks.

On the left: Client is 30 years old with this set applied on the 4th of March 2020 and the photo shows her on the 21st of May 2020 after we could return to work – its about 78 days or 11 weeks
On the right: Client is 60 years old with this set applied on the 7th of March 2020 and this photo taken on the 21st of May 2020 – its about 75 days or almost 11 weeks
Their nail plates have grown at a very different rate even though both have the same product and the same nail tech did the work. Neither have any medical conditions that may affect the growth of the nail plate – the only difference is 30 years in age.
There are so many factors to be taken into account.
How old is your client?
The older we become the slower our nail plate cells are made – also we may have some problems with our blood circulation, don’t forget our matrix gets its nutrients from our blood supply if the nutrients are reduced then so is the nail plate cell production
Is she pregnant?
When we are pregnant, we are full of growth hormones and our blood volume is greater, both things make us produce more nail plate cells faster so our nails grow quicker than normal
Does she have any medical conditions that may affect the growth of the nail?
All of these conditions can affect the nail bed tissue, the bed epithelium or the nail matrix and this in turn affects the nail plate growth.
All of these things can be a factor – smart is to use the 1mm a week as rule of thumb but make notes and measure your client’s regrowth when he/she comes back into the salon, then you know how fast or slow their nails grow, which product is more suited to your client’s nail plates, and when he/she needs to return for a rebalance.
Nail unit maintenance with oil and or lotion may have a positive affect by maintaining the elasticity in the bed epithelium ensuring nail plate movement is not slowed down by dryness.
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