The photo to the left from LoodieLoodieLoodie after she enjoyed a crab feast, shows that continuous contact with water can make your nails transparent. Photo of clear fingernails used with permission from LoodieLoodieLoodie Water It’s not necessarily bad to have clear fingernails, as long as it’s not from too much water. They could be completely translucent, or be partially white with spots or bands of translucency, or fully white. Once you’ve properly rehydrated your nails with a jojoba wax ester nail oil, that’s the color your nails are supposed to be. A person with 60 layers is going to have more layers to keep hydrated, and if they don’t, the tips become whiter. A person with 40 layers may have tips that stay more transparent.
The average number of keratin layers people have is about 50 layers in their fingernails (100 for toe nails). Genetics, your health, and natural nail thickness are important parts in determining what color your nail turns as it leaves the fingertip.
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Is the reason white tips are so highly coveted because our society has never known how to properly rehydrate their nails? Is it better to have clear fingernails? Read on… Are You Average? This makes me wonder if we’ve got it all backwards. So-if your nail tips (free edge) are turning white, it’s because your nails are drying out and the whiter they are, the more dried out they are. Usually, they are fairly clear just as they move past the fingertip, then turn white because they aren’t being ‘hydrated’ by a continuous upward flow of body oil and moisture from the nail bed.
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The color of the free edge that extends past your fingertips depends on how much of the inner cell material stays in the nail plate cells as they continue to grow forward on the nail plate. They dry out, loose their opacity-becoming translucent, and flatten becoming the 50’ish layers of keratin cells that make up our “fingernails.” Most people can see the lunula on their thumbnails.Īs soon as those keratin cells pass the lunula area, they die. The reason the lunula is a different color is because those are the keratin nail cells that are plump and still alive.
The lunula (small moon) is the only visible part of your matrix. Your fingernail is produced in the matrix right behind your eponychium, (cuticle line). The nail bed provides a constant flow of moisture and oil through the nail plate. The pink area you see on your nails is actually the life nourishing, nail bed BELOW the nail plate. Translucent keratin protein-yep, the healthy nail plate is supposed to be semi-transparent. The most important thing to know is … that your nail plate is made of translucent keratin protein. There are many factors that can cause the free edge of your fingernails to be clear. Figuring out how clear fingernails happens can get complicated, so I will do my best to keep it simple. “Hi Ana! I have a question for you…What does it mean when you put Pure™ Nail and Cuticle Oil on and the free edge is practically transparent.I.E-the white is gone and you can see the tip of your finger behind the nail through it?” ~Kim
And it might not be an indication that something bad is happening.What the things are that cause nails to turn clear.While your fingernails are a reflection of your overall health, there are external factors that can make you have clear fingernails too.īy the end of this article you will understand… Often times people think that clear fingernails is a sign that something is wrong.
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