Hello, I wondered if anyone could take a look at this pic..please ignore the polish, I hadn’t finished applying. I had completed usual prep which included pushing back the eponychium whilst removing cuticle from the nail plate. My question is...would you have used nippers and removed the excess eponychium? It sort of did get in the way a bit, but I am extremely wary about cutting this skin...worried about letting in infection. I’d be very grateful to hear a few views on how you would have dealt with this.
Cuticle/eponychium?
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Personally I use the nippers on the majority of my clients, I would have taken off the white bit that is loose from the nail plate to tidy it up! It is one of those things that the more you do it the more confident you will be
Some peoples' eponychuim tends to be pretty thick and stretches farther down. If its like that and you push it back, its going to look like a chunk of lifted dead skin just like in the picture. You don't want to push the actual eponychium. You just want to push the cuticles off up to the eponychium.
Sometimes you have to use a nipper because some peoples cuticles just wont come off. And then theres eponychiums that are in bad shape from heavy hand usage. So you have to discern.
Now, if you had cut that skin in the picture, you would've left that client open to an infection. Just pushing it back left her open to infection because germs could get underneath that seal. Usually by the second manicure, everything will be easier to clean without having to cut any skin.
That flap of skin is skin.
Here you can see the cuticles grow out in a line. Sometimes you have to cut it with a nipper because it won't come off with a pusher.
Sometimes you have to use a nipper because some peoples cuticles just wont come off. And then theres eponychiums that are in bad shape from heavy hand usage. So you have to discern.
Now, if you had cut that skin in the picture, you would've left that client open to an infection. Just pushing it back left her open to infection because germs could get underneath that seal. Usually by the second manicure, everything will be easier to clean without having to cut any skin.
That flap of skin is skin.
Here you can see the cuticles grow out in a line. Sometimes you have to cut it with a nipper because it won't come off with a pusher.
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cheekychick
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Yes I would have nipped the excess cuticle as it’s dead skin. Eponychium is living tissue and from what I can see in the picture that is cuticle not eponychium.
Ah ok. Thank you x
Thank you, yes I can see what you mean x
uhhh no. Ops pic is eponychium, not cuticle. Btw, the cuticle is the most misunderstood thing in our ENTIRE industry.
