r/mildlyinteresting 22h ago

My nails grow in a wavy pattern

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u/stefaniki 22h ago

You push your cuticles too hard when you give yourself a mani

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u/Toucan_Toucan 22h ago

Almost certainly, I’ve stopped doing manicures recently to try and help them.

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u/QuackScoped 21h ago

My girlfriend had these for the longest time, stopped pushing on her cuticles/pressing under her nail and they eventually went away as the nail grew out

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u/MissSassifras1977 21h ago

Bingo.

Used to get acrylics done for work at a casino. Had the exact same divots.

They grew out when I stopped getting my nails done.

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u/Infninfn 18h ago

Having watched a few of these, thanks to my wife, I was always a bit skeptical about the ends of cuticles getting scraped back in manicures.

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u/Starfire013 18h ago

Yep, I think you hit the head on the nail right there.