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• If you're experiencing swelling from an injury, it is important to remove any rings
before the swelling worsens, because the rings might cut off the finger's blood
supply.

How to Repair a Torn Fingernail

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

To avoid nail breakage, moisturize your nails and use gloves when you're washing dishes
or gardening. Here's how you can fix those unavoidable nail snafus.

Instructions

• STEP 1: Remove any polish from the nail. Start with clean, dry nails.
• STEP 2: Cut a patch from a tea bag, coffee filter or swatch of silk. The patch
should be large enough to cover the tear.
• STEP 3: Put a drop of fast-bonding glue on a toothpick and apply it to the tear.
Use nail glue or a household glue containing cyanoacrylate. If you get any glue on
your skin, wipe it off with acetone-based nail-polish remover.
• STEP 4: Hold the nail in place with the toothpick for 30 seconds. If the tear is
small, this alone will fix it--no need for a patch.
• STEP 5: Dab the glue on the patch, then pick up the patch with tweezers.
• STEP 6: Use the toothpick or a manicure stick to smooth the patch onto the tear.
Act quickly because the glue dries fast.
• STEP 7: Allow the glue to dry thoroughly for 1 minute. Then smooth out any
rough edges with an emery board and a nail buffer. File nails in a square instead
of an oval shape to prevent breakage.
• STEP 8: Apply colored nail polish to camouflage the patch.

Overall Things You'll Need

• Nail-polish Remover
• Colored Nail Polish
• Tweezers
• Nail Glue Or Fast-bonding Glue
• Emery Board
• Tea bag, coffee filter or silk swatch
• Manicure Stick
• Nail Buffer
• Toothpick

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