 I’ve been in the process of rehabing/healing my nails for a little over a year now.  They were badly damaged from inexperienced e-filing, developing an allergy to HEMA from improper/uneducated gel use, and then prolonged press on nail use.   I decided to try and give them a break from all of that, to try to treat the proper and grow them out.           

All that said, I FINALLY have a little bit of growth to my free edge (yay!).  I’m still dealing with some minor peeling here and there but it’s mostly just one or two nails and only a tiny bit.          

Ive begun to notice that my free edge seems to  start at different places on my sidewalls on most fingers, as well as that my nails seem to sort of flair outwards making them look like a bell shape or kind of like the duck shape I’ve seen people get with acrylics.   I’m personally not a fan of the shape, but no matter what I do in terms of filing them on the sides or trying to make them straight it doesn’t work and they end up tearing/breaking and I have to cut the whole nail down and start over.       

Is there any way to “fi” where my free edge starts at the sidewalls? It’s driving me crazy (even though I know no one else notices small things like this).  Also any advice for shaping wide flaring free edges so I can attempt to shape an almond or oval shape in the future when my nails are longer? 



Thanks! 

Why does my free edge/sidewall grow like this? Is there any way to fix it?