Hangnails: How To Do A Home Manicure

Video Transcript

" I’m Lillian with expertvillage.com and we’ve completed pushing the cuticles back. Now we’re ready to do some nipping. What this is there’s some loose skin or loose cuticle that I’ve pushed that need to come off. Also, you could just if you don’t have a nipper you could just kind of wipe it off with something rough, but real convenient thing to use is a cuticle nipper. This cuticle nipper has a little lever here that you twist up to the top and it leans against the opposite side of it and so that gives it the spring action that you’re going to need to successfully remove the dead skin from the base. So what I do I just go all around where I’ve push the cuticle and I go all around removing the excess cuticle. Sometimes a person will get what they call a hangnail. A hangnail is removed with these nippers as well by gently picking up the excess skin that’s kind of just hanging from the side of the nail and just squeezing the nipper and cutting it right off. You don’t want to get too close to below the skin, because you could make it bleed so you just kind of have to go by feel. Where it feels comfortable but successfully taking off the complete hangnail and there’s a lot of dead skin on this of this nail, a lot of dry. As you could see the dry skin coming off on the cuticle and you just from time to time wipe it on the towel and just continue right along on to the next nail."