Hello everyone, new here. I stumbled across this place while browsing google, looking for a solution to my problem, which is overgrown cuticles. At least that's what I thought. But the more I researched, the more I was convinced my problem was unique.
https://www.salongeek.com/threads/excessive-skin-growth-from-my-nail-bed.31401/
Until I stumbled that thread. But since there are no pictures, it's hard for me to imagine what's going on, and if it's identical to my problem or not. I am a guy BTW, so all this talk about nail attachments or however they are called is not valid in my case. Anyway here's some pics of what I'm talking about
Anyway I decided this is the best place on the internet to ask my question. What can I do about my problem? I work outdoors so my hands see a lot of action, and as you can see my nails are screwed. There's a ton of excess skin growing around my nails, which may not be just cuticles at this point. I had poor manicure habits as a child so am not surprised it came back to bite me in the ass. But what can I do about it tho? Like I said since I work outdoors a lot my fingertips get all sorts of injuries and my nails do a bad job at protecting, since they are 'trapped' by the excess skin growth around them, so they cover a smaller surface than normal, and that skin is super tender and easy to injure, infect etc. I tried pushing it back but it is really painful and comes back
I contemplated seeing a professional, which I might, but you never know, I might find someone online who can help. What I am looking for is to get rid of that excess skin(it might not look like much on pics, but trust me it is bad, I even compared it to other people's nails and it is clear mine have a deformed growth) around the nail, and 'grow out' my nails, mostly in width so I get more 'protection', since that's the role of the nail. Any advice, suggestion, helpful thought is welcome.
Thanks all
https://www.salongeek.com/threads/excessive-skin-growth-from-my-nail-bed.31401/
Until I stumbled that thread. But since there are no pictures, it's hard for me to imagine what's going on, and if it's identical to my problem or not. I am a guy BTW, so all this talk about nail attachments or however they are called is not valid in my case. Anyway here's some pics of what I'm talking about
Anyway I decided this is the best place on the internet to ask my question. What can I do about my problem? I work outdoors so my hands see a lot of action, and as you can see my nails are screwed. There's a ton of excess skin growing around my nails, which may not be just cuticles at this point. I had poor manicure habits as a child so am not surprised it came back to bite me in the ass. But what can I do about it tho? Like I said since I work outdoors a lot my fingertips get all sorts of injuries and my nails do a bad job at protecting, since they are 'trapped' by the excess skin growth around them, so they cover a smaller surface than normal, and that skin is super tender and easy to injure, infect etc. I tried pushing it back but it is really painful and comes back
I contemplated seeing a professional, which I might, but you never know, I might find someone online who can help. What I am looking for is to get rid of that excess skin(it might not look like much on pics, but trust me it is bad, I even compared it to other people's nails and it is clear mine have a deformed growth) around the nail, and 'grow out' my nails, mostly in width so I get more 'protection', since that's the role of the nail. Any advice, suggestion, helpful thought is welcome.
Thanks all