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Knowledge Base
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- Bruised nail
- Calluses and corns
- Chloronychia
- Dermatitis
- Habit-tic
- Hangnails
- Hapalonychia
- Hyperhidrosis
- Introduction to Nail Conditions
- Koilonychia
- Lamellar Dystrophy
- Leukonychia
- Nail biting
- Nail Clubbing
- Nail Grooves / Depressions
- Onychocryptosis
- Onycholysis
- Onychomadesis
- Onychomycosis
- Psoriasis
- Pterygium
- Splinter haemorrhages
- White Superficial Onychomycosis
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Ask the Experts
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- 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?
- The keratinised proximal nail fold.... Its living tissue yet most techs still cut, nip or e-file it away for a more pleasing look. But is it not medically trained professionals only who can cut living tissue?
- 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?
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- Can I use my oven to sterilise my tools?
- Do I need qualifications to do nails?
- Is Covid or hand sanitising affecting nail services?
- My client has chipping/loss of enhancement and I’ve never had this before?
- Some of my clients are getting heat spikes when curing the base and top coat.
- Some of my clients experience lifting. Should I use a type of ‘protein bonder’?
- What is a Brazilian style manicure?
- What is a combi manicure?
- What is a Russian manicure?
- What is the difference between cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation?
- Working on 16 and under with acrylic or gel. My insurance states I am insured as long as I have consent. I feel when I read forums there's a mass of mix messages, I feel confused if to offer or not.
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- Do gel nails ruin your nails?
- Does using UV gel with full cover clear tips cure properly?
- How can I find a non-toxic UV gel polish range?
- Should I get gel or dip nails?
- What does 'overcured' really mean?
- What is the difference between a French manicure and pink and white?
- Why are we seeing more reactions/allergies/irritation from gel polish services vs gel enhancement services?
- Why do you advise wiping a no wipe to coat?
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- Do Nails Need to Breathe?
- How do I avoid ‘greenies’?
- How do I treat ‘green nail syndrome’?
- I'm pretty sure my UV gel manicure client has WSO
- What is Onycholsyis?
- What to do with unhealthy nails?
- Why are there ridges in my nails?
- Why is it we should no longer cover greenies? Is there always a secondary infection?
- Why is silk or fibre glass good on thinner / damaged and weaker nails?
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- Do all nail plates grow 1mm a week?
- The keratinised proximal nail fold.... Its living tissue yet most techs still cut, nip or e-file it away for a more pleasing look. But is it not medically trained professionals only who can cut living tissue?
- What are the seals of the nail unit?
- What does the nail matrix do?
- What is the difference between the nail bed and the nail plate?
- What is the nail matrix also known as?
- Where is the cuticle?
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If this discolouration is associated with the lifting of a nail coating from the nail bed it is probably ‘greenies’ or chloronychia all of which are a bacterial infection of Pseudomonas. Please see the full article on the condition chloronychia
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