Some Nail Disorders
Deep horizontal, transverse grooves or ridges that run across the nail plate.
Beaus lines
Whiteish discolored spots on the nails usually caused by minor injury to the nail matrix.
Leukonychia
technical term for trumpet nail.
Pincer Nail
An unhealthy nail condition that is hereditary or caused by injury or disease of the nail unit.
Nail disorder
Proper cleaning and disinfecting reduce the risk of spreading
Nail infections between clients
Dark, purplish spots usually due to a small nail bed injury.
Bruised Nails
Significant nail darkening caused by increase pigment cells (melenocytes)
Melanonychia
Technical term for folded nails.
Plicatured nail
True or False: As a cosmetologist, you are not licensed to diagnose, treat, prescribe, or work on unhealthy skin or nails
True
Use a clean towel for each service and clean the table surface
before and after
Nails turn a variety of colors; may indicate surface staining a systemic disorder or poor blood circulation.
Discolored nails
Irregular stretching of the eponychium or hyponychium
Nail Pterygium
lengthwise grooves in the plate, often mistaken for ridges.
Ridged Nail
True or False: as a cosmetologist you can remove ingrown toenails.
False
Any nail that shows signs of infection or inflammation should not be
Treated or Diagnosed in the salon
Noticeably thin white nail plate is more flexible that usual, usually cause by heredity internal disease medication or over filling.
Eggshell nails
Bitten nails
Onychophagy
Damage to the capillaries under the nail.
Splinter Hemorrhage
It is very important that you distinguish between
Healthy nails and skin vs unhealthy nails and skin
If you repeatedly encounter nail infections on your clients’ nails
reexamine your cleaning, disinfection, preparation, and application techniques.
Damaged skin around the nail plate becomes split or torn.
Hang nails
Irrerular split or brittle nails apperaring as nail plate surface roughness.
Onychorrhexis
visible redness, pain, swelling broken skin or pus describes waht?
an infection
True or False: Approval from a client, such as a signed waiver, or a physician’s permission to proceed with a service, does not negate the parameters of your license.
True
Always begin a skin and nail analysis by
Washing your hands and asking your client to do the same