Natural nail cracking in the same place query

[MrsR]

Hi guys, a friend of mine is coming to me next week for a mini manicure, she has really thin and bendy nails and is constantly banging her nails and hands, washing them, all things in her job to not give her the greatest nails in the world, now she saids one of them when it grows always grows and then cracks horizontally in zone 2, always in the same place - does anyone know why this is? If it cracked vertically it would make sense to me but horizontally? Any ideas? Her nails really are thing and flimsey.

 

[Vetty]

Hi guys, a friend of mine is coming to me next week for a mini manicure, she has really thin and bendy nails and is constantly banging her nails and hands, washing them, all things in her job to not give her the greatest nails in the world, now she saids one of them when it grows always grows and then cracks horizontally in zone 2, always in the same place - does anyone know why this is? If it cracked vertically it would make sense to me but horizontally? Any ideas? Her nails really are thing and flimsey.

I suspect that her nail is breaking at what would be the apex/stress point of an enhancement? All the trauma to her nails, coupled with them being thin and bendy means that the natural nail is not strong enough to support a free edge of any length. So, whenever her nail reaches a certain length it will split - same as if you had enhancements with no apex that is the point they would break. The apex gives protection and strength where the natural nail is lacking it. Does that make sense?

 

[MrsR]

I suspect that her nail is breaking at what would be the apex/stress point of an enhancement? All the trauma to her nails, coupled with them being thin and bendy means that the natural nail is not strong enough to support a free edge of any length. So, whenever her nail reaches a certain length it will split - same as if you had enhancements with no apex that is the point they would break. The apex gives protection and strength where the natural nail is lacking it. Does that make sense?

It does thanks, she has no enhancements on but seeing how flimsey her nail was just having a natural free edge of any length would do the same wouldn't it. I will be selling her some Solar Oil to religiously put on see how they go with that and keeping the free edge a sensible length for a while.

 

['chelle]

Hi hun

Could you reduce the length and give her a toughen-up basecoat to add extra cross links, then maintain them weekly (plenty of S.O between times of course), and see if you can get some strength back in them that way?

 

[Vetty]

It does thanks, she has no enhancements on but seeing how flimsey her nail was just having a natural free edge of any length would do the same wouldn't it. I will be selling her some Solar Oil to religiously put on see how they go with that and keeping the free edge a sensible length for a while.

If you have any Toughen Up try that as well - it's CND's natural nail strengthener......

I assumed she was enhancement-free, but I hoped using the structure of an enhancement would help explain why I think her nail is breaking where it does :hug:

 

[pringle12]

hi
do you think it could be furrows? furrows can run either horizontally or vertically across the nail plate.ridges that run lengthways are normal and can increase with age .Ridges that run across the nail plate could be caused by illness,trauma or poor circulation.hth.xx

 

[MrsR]

I have toughen up and will try that along with tons of S.O for the first month and see how that goes for her then go from there, thanks ladies x