Category: Hair & Beauty

When it comes to maintaining healthy nails, cuticles are often overlooked but play a crucial role. The skin that lines the underside of your fingernails is called the cuticle. They act as a protective barrier, keeping dirt and debris from penetrating the skin and hiding under the nails. Hangnails are actually pieces of the cuticle that have dried and separated from the remainder of the cuticle, and boy does that ever hurt! The pain is emanating from anywhere on your body you have hangnails. Hangnails are painful because they put pressure on the nerve endings and blood vessels in the nail. Using a nail scissor you can control these.