split nails
Fractured fingertip plates
Split nails are fingernails or toenails that crack, peel, or separate into layers.
The condition results from dryness, repeated wetting, nutritional deficiencies, or underlying health issues.
Her split nails caught on everything.
The term also describes nails deliberately filed to a point and split for certain nail art techniques.
- brittleLiable to shatter
- crackedHaving surface fractures
- peelingComing off in strips
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
- keratinStructural hair protein
manicure · biotin · cuticle · cuticle oil · breaking · flaking · weak · layers · dry · dry skin · damaged · filing · calcium · strengthener · polish · hangnail · ridge · chip
- nailsfingernails, toenails, brad, sinker, fingernail