Broken nail - how to seal it at home: step-by-step instructions

• file and buff;
• dehydrator;
• degreaser;
• primer;
• base for gel polish;
• polygel (acrigel, combigel);
• liquid for working with polygel;
• putty knife;
• brush;
• polymerization lamp;
• dust removal brush;
• top for gel polish.

Before repairing a nail, you need to stock up on the necessary tools
. Let's get started:

• We completely remove the coating using any method (using a machine or soaking). Attention: work carefully with the problem area!
• We go over the nail with a buff - we level the surface, smooth out the transition to the problem area.
• Carefully brush off the dust with a brush and degrease the nail plate.
• Apply dehydrator and primer.
• We cover the nail with a thin layer of base and polymerize it in a lamp.
• Take acrygel, squeeze out a small amount, pick it up with a spatula and transfer it to the nail.
• Dip the brush into the fluid for working with ParisNail polygel and distribute the material over the nail plate. Work “by air”, building the desired architecture and smoothing the surface. The thick structure of acrygel holds its shape and height well, so it is ideal for adding missing lengths or corners even without forms. Cure in a lamp.
• If necessary, apply a second layer of polygel: we also transfer it using a spatula, dip the brush in acrygel liquid, distribute the material evenly, stretching it along the entire length of the nail and completing the missing length and volume. Don't go under the cuticle! If you feel that the brush is starting to stick to the material, immediately dip it in the ParisNail polygel liquid. Make sure that the brush is not too wet - this may disrupt the density of the polygel. Cure in a lamp.
• Remove the sticky layer. File the desired nail shape. Sand the surface and brush away any remaining sawdust.
• Cover with top coat to secure the result.

Apply polygel according to instructions

What to do if your nail is broken?

There are a lot of techniques and technologies that allow you to seal cracks and build up a broken nail. It all depends on what is available and how advanced a user or customer you are. If a girl has little knowledge of manicure and leaves almost all the work on the shoulders of professionals, then you can use the simplest techniques.

What to do if your nail is broken:

• No matter how strange this method may seem, it works; thin threads act as reinforcing fibers that prevent the crack from increasing in size. To do this, you need to remove the coating from the nail, file the surface a little so that it becomes rough.
• Under no circumstances try to remove a large amount of the nail, because it will be difficult for the technician to repair it and increase its length. It is necessary to degrease the crack with alcohol and apply a small amount of regular superglue.
• Now lay out a few thin fibers of cotton wool, which can be plucked from a piece using eyebrow tweezers. Place thin fibers across the crack so that they hold the nail pieces together. When the glue has dried, you can apply another layer of glue with a thin brush. After drying, you can use a decorative coating.

Broken nail

How to cover a nail with silk at home?

Another good method that is often used by home users is the use of silk. It can be found in any manicure store. It would be nice if every girl had similar products for repairing cracked nails. You can repair both extended and natural nails.

Instructions on how to seal a nail with silk at home:

• To do this, you also need to prepare the nail by first removing the decorative coating and degreasing it. After this, a special nail glue is applied, which is sold in a manicure store.
• A small patch is cut out from a piece of silk. Next, you need to apply a little glue to the crack area and attach a piece of silk. Press the patch with an orange stick so that it is completely saturated with glue.
• Let dry. After this, you can carry out a surface sawing in order to remove protruding silk fibers, if any.

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What not to do

• seal a natural nail with glue - the aggressive composition of the adhesive irritates the skin and disrupts the structure of the plate. You can use glue only if the extended nail is broken;
• treat with acetone containing product . This is especially true in cases where the nail is broken “down to the meat.” Acetone is irritating and causes inflammation. In the case of extensions, it is also not recommended to use acetone - it will destroy the strength of the material and will probably catch entire nails;
• hesitate . You shouldn’t put off repairing it – careless movement of even a slightly damaged nail can result in more serious damage.

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How to seal a nail with a tea bag?

If you do not have the opportunity to purchase repair products, you can use a regular tea bag.

Instructions on how to seal a nail with a tea bag:

• It is best to use fabric bags rather than paper bags for these purposes. They are usually sold for Lipton and Kurtis teas.
• Cut a piece of fiber and apply it to a grease-free nail using superglue.
• The nail will be worn for a long time, and the thin fiber will not stand out from under the coating.

Tea bag

How to seal a crack with fiberglass nails?

If you are proficient in manicure techniques, or have some minimal experience in working with gel polishes, and have an ultraviolet lamp available, then repairing the crack will be much easier and faster. To do this, you can use both a special tool and improvised items. The ideal option is to use fiberglass. This is a popular product that is now back in trend.

Instructions on how to seal a crack with fiberglass nails:

• With its help, you can not only build up and strengthen the nail, but also close the crack and prevent further damage to the nail. Most often, cracks form in the zone of transition of the free edge to the nail bed; they can be quite painful, even along the flesh.
• In this case, it is better not to delay the repair or completely cut off the nail at the root, and seal it as soon as possible. For these purposes, the coating is removed from the nail, the plate is degreased, and a thin layer of base is applied. You need to take the fiberglass, coat the nail with the base again and place pieces of fiberglass on it so that they lie across the crack. In general, repairs resemble those carried out using cotton wool fibers.
• Only in this case, fiberglass is used, it is much stronger and has reinforcing properties. The possibility that a fiberglass-reinforced nail will soon break is almost zero. Next, you need to apply a leveling layer of base to hide the pieces of fiberglass and make the nail even. After this, you can apply a decorative coating.

Fiberglass repair

Tips for preventing the problem

To keep your nails in good condition, you need to adhere to the following recommendations:

• saw in one direction, this way you can prevent the appearance of cracks;
• do not cut it too short to avoid nails growing into the meat;
• massage your hands regularly;
• steam the nail plates before the manicure procedure;
• eat meat and fish dishes, herbs, vegetables and fruits daily;
• thoroughly dry your hands after contact with water;
• use only high-quality tools and materials for nail care.

You can keep your nails in good condition not only by following the necessary rules, but also by using the services of specialists. Salons offer the following procedures:

• wax or paraffin applications;
• spa or aromatherapy;
• Japanese manicure;
• ultraphoresis;
• sealing;
• biogel.

Such procedures should only be performed by trusted specialists.

Healthy and neat nails indicate not only the neatness of a person, but also the condition of his internal organs. Therefore, you need to regularly take care of your body, consume as many vitamins as possible and give up bad habits. It is quite difficult to prevent nail damage, but if it has already happened, you need to approach this situation wisely.

The extended nail is broken, what should I do?

Very often, manicurists do not use any additional products, but carry out repairs using gel, acrylic or acrylic. This method also works, but it is necessary to cut out the nail from the inside after the repair is completed. This is due to the fact that very often the edges of the cracks are torn, so in such places they form from the puff paste.

That is why the nail is cut out after repair, leaving only the artificial coating. However, this option is only possible if you use artificial nail polish and do not simply strengthen your nails using acrylic, gel or polygel.

An extended nail breaks, what to do:

• If you don’t have acrylic or gel, because you are working only with gel polish application technology, you can prepare a paste that will also strengthen the nail and become a reinforcing base. For these purposes, you need to mix a small amount of gel polish base with transparent acrylic powder on a palette.
• It is necessary to obtain a thick mass. It is applied with a brush to the prepared nail, having previously distributed a small amount of base. After the patch is installed, it is dried in a lamp, and then sawing is carried out to smooth out the unevenness.
• You can repeat the alignment with a regular base in order to hide the transition from the patch to the natural nail. This method is also great and does not require gel or special nail repair products in the house.

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What is construction fluid used for?

Beginners often wonder why a construction fluid is needed at all; is plastic polygel really not enough?

No, acrylic alone is not enough for quality work. Without a special liquid, it is impossible to achieve an easy and uniform distribution of the material over the nail plate - the brush will pull it, it will lie in lumps. Many people are afraid to work with polygel liquid because of the pungent odor. The nail industry does not stand still, and we at ParisNail have developed a special composition that not only does not smell of chemicals - it has the aroma of ripe berries!

In addition, the product has a number of other advantages! Thus, it does not have adhesion properties and allows you to interact comfortably with acrygel without clogging the brush. It has a neutral composition, does not contain activators (monomers), therefore does not affect the condition of the artificial surface, does not change its structure and does not leave greasy marks. It does not pull the material behind the brush - it does not frizz or clog. Does not dry out or irritate the skin even after prolonged use.

Now the process of repair or extension will not give you a single unpleasant moment!
You can’t do without a construction fluid when working with polygel.

How to cover a nail with a plaster?

Now on sale you can find a special repair gel that contains reinforcing fibers. It resembles a suspension of small fibers in a gel. They are worn with a brush; the fibers can be straightened using tweezers. It is made using gel technology and is dried in a lamp.

How to cover a nail with a plaster:

• If the nail is broken at the root, it hurts and bleeds, then the ideal option is to leave it alone and apply a band-aid.
• Pre-disinfect your nails and apply a bandage so that the nail is not injured and dirt does not get into it.
• After a few days, you can remove the patch, clean off the glue with alcohol and begin extending or restoring the nail. There is no need to work live when there is meat or a crack.

Patch

Diagnostics

If you find a plate splitting, contact a podiatrist or dermatologist to prevent the condition from getting worse. If left untreated, the crack will grow and reach the free edge. It will divide the nail into two halves and cause detachment from the bed. In addition, violation of the integrity of the plate opens access to pathogenic pathogens and often leads to bacterial or fungal infectious complications.

The specialist will examine the structure of the plate, assess the severity of the damage, suggest how to treat onychorrhexis of the fingernails or toenails, and how to improve their appearance.

To find out the cause, he will ask the patient about chronic diseases and prescribe additional examinations:

• examination of a nail scraping for fungus;
• general blood test, sugar test;
• consultation with an endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, vascular surgeon;
• microscopic examination;
• examination with a dermatoscope at 10x magnification.

What to do if your nail breaks in the middle?

This usually happens in the case of overextension of coverage, when clients ignore the words of the master and come for correction less than once every 3 weeks. This happens after 5 weeks of wear, the apex line shifts significantly towards the free edge. Therefore, the stress zone remains open and has a very thin layer of material on it.

Thus, the free edge outweighs, which can cause a crack right in the middle of the nail. This is very inconvenient and often painful, because not only the artificial coating cracks, but also the natural nail plate.

The nail is broken in the middle, instructions:

• Blood may also be released. In this case, it is necessary to remove the coating using a milling cutter, disinfect the wound with alcohol or another antiseptic, and remove all shaggy hair and fringe that has formed at the site of the crack.
• Now you need to choose a nail repair method. It is best to use special gels with proteins that heal the nail plate, promote fusion, preventing the emergence of bacteria and fungi in the area of ​​the crack or wound.
• However, it is worth understanding that only professional craftsmen have such products; in addition, such a gel quickly becomes unusable under the influence of water and acetone-containing liquids. Accordingly, when doing homework, you must wear rubber gloves.
• There are special means that podiatrists use. These are gels that can be applied directly to living tissue, even if it is damaged. Typically used for extensions and patches for onycholysis or fungal nails. Accordingly, you can fix a broken nail down to the meat in the middle using this gel. The nail plate is prepared in the standard way, the top coat is removed, and a thin layer of base is applied, and then the gel. It is dried in a lamp and sawdust is produced.

Nail repair
There are a huge number of methods for repairing nails at home. It all depends on the materials you have and how well you know the gel polish or nail extension technique. Ordinary home users most often choose the simplest methods for nail repair, using silk, cotton wool, tea bags and superglue.

The main reasons for the fragility of the nail plate

The structure of the nail plate can be damaged for several reasons:

• prolonged contact with water;
• exposure to high and low temperatures;
• negative effects of ultraviolet radiation;
• frequent contact with chemicals: nail polish remover, household chemicals, decorative varnishes and gels, etc.;
• use of low-quality nail care tools;
• improper implementation of cosmetic procedures: extensions, manicure;
• mechanical damage.

All these circumstances lead to overdrying of the sheet plate, and therefore it becomes brittle and brittle.

Also, the condition of the nails can be caused by several factors:

• insufficient intake of vitamins and minerals as a result of aggressive diets or poor nutrition;
• chronic stress;
• regular overwork;
• fungal diseases;
• hormonal disorders;
• psoriasis;
• bad habits.

Important! Despite the fact that cuticles seem unattractive and spoil the aesthetic appearance of your nails, cutting them is not recommended.