HOW to FIX CUTICLES [YOU'VE BEEN CUTTING THE WRONG THING!]

What cuticle remover do you recommend for excess cuticle on my feet Anna??
PS. Love your videos!!!

I’ve been doing it all wrong all this time. I always hated using the nippers. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you so much for this excellent video!!

Okay in school in 2017 and in the Milady books it DEFINITELY SHOWS AND TELLS students where the cuticle is AND WHY it is not to be cut. It protects the nail from infection. Like a condom. I’m so upset because it’s very well explained. Techs remove it for the look. Doc Schoon also contributed to the Milady books for cosmetology students and nail techs. It’s like you said if you cut the skin it will bleed ❤
Your channel is smart

I'm glad I randomly decided to do more research before buying cuticle scissors! This is super helpful, thank you. :)

I’m in California and it’s impossible to find a nail tech like you. They ALL take the aggressive approach to manicures. They all soak the heck out of your nails and they always cut the proximal fold. Now from watching your videos I understand why a few days after my manicure my skin looked like crap. I also understand now why for most of my life I could never get my nails to grow. I appreciate SO much the information you have given me.

I am so appreciative of the cuticle video. It was very helpful. Thanks. It is 7:51pm Central time

There are cuticle bits very thin and can go under the flap of skin in the market.

Thank you so much for the advice. My nails always start to look horrific just a day after I do them or get them done with all sorts of random peeling skin even in areas that weren't touched. I will try your method after this and also try the nail oil after hand washing and try to rejuvenate my zombie hands!

I always struggle with this. I occasionally nip myself and I have made other people bleed on occasion (friends and family I do nails for occasional. I try to not use too much pressure and be careful cutting but I still sometimes cut skin. Everything I had seen showed cutting them and the company I get my gel products from really encourages it.

I have been cutting the nail fold for years thinking it was the cuticle. My nails peel and break and I believe my care is at least some of the reason. This video really helped me understand what I've been doing wrong and I hope my nail health will benefit.

Ended up here because I was looking for ways to properly cut the "cuticle" so i could get that pretty manicure look at home that i see all over reddit and on nail videos and wow have I learned something new! I guess I'll throw out my 'cuticle' nippers XD How have we all been taught so incorrectly by nail techs all these years??

Love your content

This helped me so much to understand how my nails were because for about 10 years, I was biting my nails, and now they look very bad. I just want to take care of them again

Thank you SO much!!! I’ve just graduated and have been struggling with this. I read my book and it clearly states we are prohibited from cutting live skin, (the skin around the nail plate, the nails folds) the cuticle is dead tissue ON the nail plate and can be removed but we should NEVER cut the skin above the cuticle that’s on the nail plate. Also where the book explains hangnails says cutting the skin will also cause more hangnails. it makes total sense! like with ingrown nails (which we’re also prohibited from cutting) if you cut them they grow right back! lol I’ve been wanting to talk about this with techs but didn’t want to come off as snooty or offend anyone bc majority of them do it :/ I’ve had so many thoughts about working in salon, thinking “what do i do if a client wants me to cut their ingrowns or “cuticles” i know i’ll just say i’m sorry my license doesn’t prohibit me to preform that. but i don’t want to rub my employer the wrong way, i’m new coming in basically telling them they’re doing their job wrong you know?

also known as the "Eponychium"!

This has been immeasurably helpful! As someone who stopped getting their nails done because it always hurt so much when they nipped the “cuticle” and after trying for years to rehab them, this makes SO much sense!!! Thank you so much for the info!!

Great information! Thank you so much for sharing!

I’m new at this I’ve never done nails but interested in learning and this was extremely helpful! I want to be the best I can be for my future clients 🤍

Where are you located?

Perfecto!🫶🏽 💅

Wow very well explained and now I understand my nails better so I can improve on prepping my nails

I have been cut so many times by an over enthusiastic nail tech with a cutcile nipper that I will never go to another one again ! Ouch! I never cut my cuticle. I think mine look great but of course I maintain them

Ah jeez, I was cutting the proximal fold🙁.

I'm a manicure master, but I don't work. Because everything in Russia does a very deep manicure, so the skin grows a lot in three days already burrs. I don't want to work so much, I love nails. And I love their natural look, I just do it like you. I remove the dryness a little and remove the cuticle. But I don't have clients. Everyone wants deep and thick nails that look like a pie

I have been so confused on what to cut what not to cut. I’m a nail technician in training and this video has helped so so much. Thank you. I’ll be subscribing asap!

Omg! I'm sending this to the salon that cut my skin until it bled! 4 of my fingers had to be treated after the manicure 😭 It made me afraid of going to the nail salon for a long time! Luckily I found a wonderful salon who took their time and helped me overcome the fear! They're at the other side of the city, but I happily make the trip for her!

Traduire en français cup je soufres de ça merci d’avance

Anna I am cram watching so many of your nail care video and I am learning so much, thank you again. In this video you refer to what I thought was hangnails as little catches and yeah I pulled at them cause I thought they grew up sidewall from proximal nail fold. I would love a video on what is hangail or catches from corners of proximal nail fold up sidewalls. So from what I can gather only ever push back proximal nail fold and use nipper for anything that pops out from corner up sidewalls 🙏🏻🙂 ordered pomegranate and fig cuccio oil 👍🏻

I was wondering about that. I see people cutting the proximal nail fold all the time and calling it the cuticle and it didn’t make sense to me to cut it off. It is living tissue after all. Thanks for clearing this all up for us.

Where have you been all of my life, well maybe not all my life but you know what I mean. About 2 months ago I thought I had the worst nails ever. I had just made them look like hamburger, I was so embarrassed. All the way down to the very bottom layer it was awful 😖 but the 2 months, a lot of clipping, and lots of Vaseline. Boy, do I appreciate you. I have pic's if you want to see them?✌

What nail treatment is appropriate if you are going to do gel or polygel manicure? I know those processes need a dry nail plate. Do you treat the PNF after the gel manicure is complete?

OMG… I learned SO MUCH. Thank you.

Can you please spell out the oils u use in the vid I’m not english speaker

Overall good information, but did you know that urea comes from urine?

Thanks for a really informative video. I've never understood what a cuticle was!

What electric nail file would you recommend now that the one you use in this video is unavailable? Thanks for a very informative video.

Thank you for the video!You explained very clearly!You're a great teacher !🌹

"We use this for precision and not speed" - that's problem with most nail techs I find, they use the e-files to cut corners and save time, the faster they go, the more manicures they make in a day, the more money they get and they don't care if they damage the nails. I even suspect some of them do it on purpose, because if you have damaged nails but sitll want them to look nice they can sell you acryllic or other extensions, so again more money for them. It's a damn shame.

I learnt this years ago & I see everyone chopping their clients fresh skin off ty for this

thanks so much for sharing. im starting to get into my nail tech journey with practicing on myself and friends and i always wondered why my cuticles were so stubborn, this taught me so much!

This should have more views 💅🏼
Btw his nails before and after gives me hope

So pleased I have seen this. Was beginning to think I have been doing it wrong for 30 years…. Thank you!

The nails on my hands are fine, my problem is with my feet 😅 dead skin, overgrown cuticles, stuck skin on nail, and dry flakey heels 🥲💔 no balm or cream are helping lmao
I might need to invest in foot masks

Hi again! Another question for you. If you did cut that part of the nail fold and want to stop because what you said would happen did happen. Now it grew in thicker and dryer. What do I do to get that part healthy again? Will it look ugly before they get healthy again? You are the best tho real talk!!!🥰

It’s so hard when people have been getting it done the wrong way for so long that when they come to your their upset cause you’re only nipping the cuticle ughhh

It would be really helpful to see a video with who you described as a new client. My nail folds are stretched up onto my nail and I they don’t seem to be training the way you described

Hello what is the name of the nail oil on that little bottle you used and where can I purchase it? Is it really greasy?

Excellent video. So well explained. Thank you.