Nail conditions that are not contra indicated

[yummymummy2702]

HELP! My college tutor has given me some research to do but I am really struggling, been doing research for days and not getting anywhere. I need to find a list of nail conditions that are NOT contra-indicated. Please help me.... really finding this difficult. Thanks!! xxx

 

[Susie H]

hi and welcome:lol:
I'm not sure I understand the question, do you mean things like ski slope nails?
If I'm on the right track then its just sitting down and thinking about all the different things that will make it difficult to do a nail service and what you would do to make your clients nails look as perfect as a models.
I.e a nail biter is difficult but not impossible a nail with ridges or white marks can be helped with a custom blend.
A trawl through the tutorials here should give you plenty of inspiration :lol:

 

[annemac]

I found everything i needed in the encyclopedia of nails and on google. Oh and Doug shoon's book try your college or local library. Hope this helps. xxxx

 

[Purelynailz]

HELP! My college tutor has given me some research to do but I am really struggling, been doing research for days and not getting anywhere. I need to find a list of nail conditions that are NOT contra-indicated. Please help me.... really finding this difficult. Thanks!! xxx

Hi,
Ive been doing my NVQ , and had the same question. Do you have any Books like The Encyclopedia of nails or Marian Newmans, The complete nail Technician, Doug Schoons Nail structure and product chemistry. I found these books really helpful when having to do research and you should have some information in your notes from college that would help you.

Haze x

 

[Gilly T]

Hi,
Ive been doing my NVQ , and had the same question. Do you have any Books like The Encyclopedia of nails or Marian Newmans, The complete nail Technician, Doug Schoons Nail structure and product chemistry. I found these books really helpful when having to do research and you should have some information in your notes from college that would help you.

Haze x

I invested in both of these books (still to get Doug Schoons book) and I found 'everything' I needed in them for my NVQ.. they were excellent and are still an essential part of my kit, so to speak. I would definitely invest in one of them.

 

[Mrs.Clooney]

HELP! My college tutor has given me some research to do but I am really struggling, been doing research for days and not getting anywhere. I need to find a list of nail conditions that are NOT contra-indicated. Please help me.... really finding this difficult. Thanks!! xxx

I would assume your college tutor has supplied you with information about nail diseases and conditions.

Separate your diseases from your conditions and take it from there. eg. if you have a client with pus oozing out from the side of the nail, would you perform the treatment? OR if you had client with white spots (leukonychia) in the nails, would you perform a manicure?

You have been given some good advice about text books, however, we can guide you, but not give you the answers. Hope this helps.

 

[An*Gel]

There are so many nail conditions and it can be so hard to learn them:irked:
Here's a list of some
Beaus lines (horizontal ridges across the nail plate )
Bruised nails (go easy on these)
Furrows (Ridges running from base to tip)
Hangnail (tear or split in cuticle)
Koilonychia (spoon shaped nails..usually soft)
Lamellar dystrpohy (flakey nails)
Leukonychia (white spots)
Onycatrophia (degeneration)
Onychauxis (thickening of the nail)
Onychogryphosis (Curved nail)
Onychopagy (bitten nails.. my all time fave)
Onychorrexis (splitting of a furrow)
Pterygium (overgrowth of cuticle onto nail plate)

Have to say you will come across all of these conditions as most of them are fairly common... why oh why do they have to be so hard to pronounce and spell :cry: ah well makes me feel very clever when I tell my clients that they have a condition called lamellar dystrophy and they say 'wow and I thought I just had peeling nails' ha ha... now I'm off for a cuppa after all that.. good luck missus! x

 

[geeg]

Pterygium (overgrowth of cuticle onto nail plate)

This for one is not correct.



Cuticle does not grow as it is dead exfoliated cells.

Pterygium is often confused with eponychium, hyponychium or cuticle, but is actually an abnormal adherence of skin to the nail plate and is usually caused by injury. NEVER cut or remove Pterygium. To care for it, soften it with solar Oil and gently manicure (this condition can be painful).

When Pterygium forms on the top part of the nail plate, it is called dorsal Pterygium. Experts believe that the underside of the eponychium becomes fused to the matrix. This prevents normal nail plate growth. Instead the skin is slowly stretched and dragged across the exposed nail bed.

Dorsal Pterygium is a contraindication to nail enhancements.

Inverse Pterygium is another type of Pterygium ... most refer to it as extended hyponychium (which is what it in fact is). This occurs when the skin under the fingertip remains attached to the underside of the nail plate. As the plate grows away from the fingertip, the attached skin is stretched and dragged along. Nails with this condition can be enhanced but care needs to be taken if sculpting as it can be painful to apply the sculpting forms.

 

[An*Gel]

Wow!! Think I better go back to school... who's coming with me?

 

[Mrs.Clooney]

Wow!! Think I better go back to school... who's coming with me?

Salon Geek is the best school for nail education hun :lol:. At most colleges they teach that eponychium and curicle are one and the same! They also teach that pterygium is overgrown cuticle! Quoting from my college notes:

Pterygium - overgrown cuticles. Thick hardened growth of dry cuticle adheres to nail plate as it grows.

I politely challenged my college tutor about this and her reply was that the college is duty bound to teach what the examining board requires.

Fortunately I have been on salon geek for a few years now to know that the above description is not correct. I gave the answers the college required as much as it irked me to, but I know differently. However there are loads of peeps who are unaware that this info is incorrect and go on believing that pterygium is overgrown cuticle.