I have had my nails done every 3 weeks for the last 13 or so years. My technician would shave off just enough from the top, refill the gap by cuticles and they were always so pretty and long. Today I said shave it all off, I wanna see what's going on in there and maybe give them little break. Boy do I wanna cry. I can't have nails like this, I am a bartender at nice place and I can't be serving drinks with these things, they are also paper thin.
Should I go back tomorrow and have gel with extensions?
Should I di press ons? Would that be less damaging?
Should I just paint it with regular polish and pray for the best?
by Low-Perspective601
15 Comments
Let them heal 😭
You need to visit a dermatologist. You have severe onycholysis and potentially a fungal thing going on. Your nails are not healthy enough to put anything on in their current state.
Girl that’s some serious onycholysis 😭 please don’t get gel or use nail glue on this, you don’t wanna lose the whole nail and it could also be bacterial or fungal, I highly recommend seeing your doctor for this. Sorry it’s happening to you 🙁
You absolutely cannot put any enhancement on this. Regular polish only. No gel, no nothing. You’re about to lose that whole ring fingernail. Don’t go back to that tech.
Your nails need a much deserved rest. Your ring finger and thumb need attention, not a cover-up. The other nails don’t look too bad after 13 years of gel, tho.
Every two years I take a 6 month break.
This is why.
Let them heal girl
Did took my have on gel or did you have acrylic or something on between your nail & the gel?
You can paint regular polish on it. The problem is the tech, do you always feel burning when curing the builder gel? That’s the number one reason for onycholysis from builder gel.
I would let them heal and see a dermatologist. You need medical help for this
That ring nail needs clipped back so it doesn’t catch and cause more lifting away. And would help air out anything underneath. I would not have nails for 6 months at least I’m sorry
this is how my acrylate allergy (from years of gel manicures) showed up first. it took a while to worsen, but i would caution you against gel or anything else with acrylate on the label until you can rule that out.
You have severe onycholysis! I had this happen to me as well on my right hand on 3 fingers(Thumb, middle and ring) and it took about 6 months to fully heal. I myself didn’t go to a dermatologist as I didn’t have the funds, so I just left them alone. Trimmed them down so they won’t snag, kept them dry and clean. I oiled my cuticles chronically until enough grew out to the point I could do sticky tab press ons for when I went to work for a few days and removed them to let them breathe again. I’m so sorry you’re going through this, I know how much it sucks. But you HAVE to leave them alone.
I have been through this. I developed an allergy after years of no issues at all. It’s so frustrating. That’s going to take a while to grow out. Like 6 months. If you can’t give your nails a break because of work you can look into Dazzle Dry polish. I used that during my grow out period and it helped make it less unattractive. It’s regular polish that lasts with no lamp needed. Whatever you do do not use any gel or gel polish or you could make it worse. Also no press ons or anything that uses glue because you’re probably allergic to the glues now also. Once you are fully healed and grown out you might be able to tolerate CND shellac. Good luck!
Yes, looks like it’s a cure burn! The gel was cured too strongly and too fast and the reaction shrinks the gel product and can cause burning. I’ve definitely learned that lesson too while learning gel nails. It’s not technically about flash curing, it’s more about slow curing so there aren’t heat spikes! It takes time for the nail to slowly reattach. Next time, make sure you are doing new sets after every 1-2 fills or the technician can leave a 10% layer so they never touch and drill the actual nail plate.
You need to see a dermatologist about your nails a responsible nail tech would have you do a soak off every 4-6 weeks minimum. Never see them again.