Prepared by: Cristyl Jane T.

Erandio’
 You can expertly groom, strengthen &
Beautify nails
 Knowing the difference between cuticle &
eponychium
 Prepare you for advanced nail services
 Technical name Onyx
 Natural nail
 Hard protective plate
 Protein – Keratin
 Appendage of the skin (integumentary system)
Composed of keratin
 Same as found in hair & skin
 Healthy nail
 Whitish
 Translucent
 Pinkish color of nail bed showing through
 Firm flexible
 Most visible and functional part
 Hardened keratin plate sits on and slides
across nail bed
 100 layers of nail cells
 Free Edge
 Extends over tip of finger/toe
  Living skin on which the nail plate sits
 Richly supplied with blood vessels
 Pinkish area
 Supplied with nerves
 Bed epithelium
 Thin layer of tissue attaching the nail plate to
the nail bed
 Helps guide nail plate along bed as it grows
 Naturalnail is formed
 Contains
 Nerves
 Lymph
 Blood vessels to nourish cells
 Create new cells as long as healthy
 Extends under the nail fold at base of nail to
nail plate
 Lunula
 Lighter color shows the true color of matrix
 Growth can be effected
 Poor health
 Nail disorder or disease is present
 Injury to matrix
 Dead colorless tissue attached to plate
 Seal the space between natural plate and
living skin above
 Prevents injury and infection
 Living skin at base of nail plate covering
matrix area
 Cuticle is dead tissue
 Eponychium is living tissue – legally we
cannot cut
 Checklist page 201
 part of the nail that can be filed and
shaped, it is an extention of the nail plate
that overlaps the eponychium.
 Nail folds
 Folds of normal skin that surround nail plate
 Form nail groves
 Nail grooves
 Slits or furrows on sides of nail on which it moves
as it grows
 Sidewall – lateral nail fold
 Fold of skin overlapping the side of the nail
 Growth of nail plate affected:
 Nutrition
 Exercise
 Person’s general health
 Length, width and curvature of matrix
determine the thickness, width and
curvature of the natural nail plate
 Longer matrix produces
 Thicker nail plate
 Highly curved matrix creates
 Highly curved free edge
 Average growth – normal adult is 1/10” to
1/8” per month
 Faster
 Summer
 Children
 Middle finger
 Slower
 Winter
 Elderly
 Thumb
 Rateincreases dramatically in last trimester
of pregnancy
 Hormonal changes in body
 Rate decreases dramatically after delivery
 Returns to normal as hormones levels return
to normal
 prenatal care vitamins
 Myth – makes grow faster
 Grow faster whether taken or not (hormone
changes)
 Toenailsgrow thicker, harder and slower
 Did you Know? Page 203
 Disease, injury, or infection occurs in matrix
 Shape or thickness of nail plate can change
 Natural nail will grow as long as matrix is
healthy and undamaged
 Replacement natural fingernail –
 4 – 6 months
 Replacement natural toenails –
 9 - 12 months
 Nails
are not shed automatically or
periodically as does hair
 Creativitymust be rounded in a full
awareness of the structure and physiology of
nails and the surrounding tissue