Do you cut them straight across then file ? Or do you cut a curved corner shape ? Just bought very good clippers from Amazon and think I will now do the curved shape
Yes and I usually get them when I visit my daughter. She treats me and we have a nice relaxing time talking and being pampered. Then usually a lunch out. Good times with my daughter. Usually the pace is fast and furious at her house so I love the one on one time with her more than even the pedicure. Also, in Fresno my toes are bare about 9 months out of the year. I do it less when I wear Uggs...no point.
I cut straight across then if needed I file for better shaping my nails. I have been seeing a commercial about a new kind of nail trimmer that looks very easy to cut nails. Electric nail cutters seem safer than the traditional nail cutters. I was checking prices on amazon and they go for quite a good price.
I cannot cut my toenails straight because the corners would give me pain in the toes. But when I cut it rounded to remove the pointed corners, the problem is the so called ingrown nail that grows on my 2 big toes. That is what I am enduring - ingrown nails on 2 big toes than painful pointed corners in all my toes. By the way, I have 10 toes in all, hahahaaah. And for that ingrown nail, I go to the salon at least once a month just for that, they are expert in removing the ingrown nail at the side of the big toes.
@Corie Henson Interesting Corie - so although you have the toenail treated, it grows back the same I need to be careful rounding them off ...............
Yes. The staff at the salon says that trimming the nail rounded would result in the ingrown which is true because I regularly go there for the cutting of ingrown on my big toenails. But as I said, if I cut the nail straight, I also have pain because the nail becomes pointed. My husband even joked that he can relieve me of that problem with the use of pliers. Sometimes I think he is really crazy.
@Corie Henson Have you not seen those nail pliers Corie - they are to look at When you cut yer nails across, you should then file away the point, that's what I have always done and they have been fine Now - with me new clippers, I have rounded them off - maybe I shouldn't have, time will tell ....................
I was taught that toenails should be cut straight across. The reason is that it helps prevent ingrown toenails. Rounded toenails help to cause ingrown nails.
I agree with Texas Beth. I am a straight across person as well. I am dying for a mani pedi, but I think I am going to end up giving myself one. However, I am going to get my hair highlighted...That is something isn't it? I have never had an ingrown toenail either, not would I want one. I think sometimes they get so bad surgery may be required. Who would want that? Not I said the fly....!
@Corie Henson Corie, when I was 15, I experienced an ingrown nail on one big toe which "resisted treatment", the foot doctor said. His treatment was to slice the side of the nail away, back almost to the cuticle. This caused horrible "proud flesh" growth, bleeding, pain, even had to cut open the front of my shoe. Then, everyone saw the blood coming through my sock! After 6 months of treatment, with no success in sight, I learned how to cure it myself. I used one of my Mother's crochet "hooks", flattened the end with a hammer on the concrete floor, to make a little, spade-shaped tool about 1/8 inch wide, tapering in thickness to almost a sharp edge on the front. This tool was used to insert a tiny bit of dry cotton under the corner of the nail. After a day, the cotton will have formed a small cavity under the nail edge, forcing the tissue underneath away from the nail. Then, a slightly larger bit of cotton was inserted. It must be kept dry, if wetted, a fresh dry piece must be inserted. Complete healing takes dedication and time, perhaps several months. Meanwhile though, there is no pain or bleeding, light sports activity is even possible. Inserting the cotton is at first quite painful. That's why a very tiny piece is used at first. As the nail grows, it will be kept from contacting the flesh by the cotton. Once grown out far enough to not allow the corner of the nail to contact flesh, the cotton can be discontinued. It worked for me. Over the years, I have had to resort to similar method once or twice, but it never was allowed to get as bad as when I was in high school. Frank EDIT: An alternate "tool" to my homemade one is a standard nail file, as most women carry in their needed items area, the metal kind, with a rounded, pointed end. I found ours too thick to effectively slide under the nail, so sanded it's thickness thinner on abrasive cloth.