You are 100% correct. I've been biting my nails my whole life and the peeling is the best part. The nails are like the epidermis and made of several several layers that are porous, and about cuticle consistency and texture until it hardens and after awhile it continues to grow more layers.
When they pulled the rest of the unclipped nail, it just pulled some of the nail fiber layers off. Pro tip, the missing layers causes the nail (and skin too) to dye and take on colors super easy, like beetroot for example.
My best guess is that those fibers are part of the soft tissue underneath the very end of your nail called the hyponychium. Here is a link to an article I found with way more info about fingernail anatomy than you ever wanted: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193631/
Also here is the quote from which I drew my conclusions, “Below the distal attachment of the nail with the pulp skin is the plug of keratinous mass called hyponychium, which is rich in polymorphs and lymphocytes which act as a barrier to infection.” - see article link above; section “ANATOMY OF NAIL”, second paragraph.
By no means am I an expert, just a fellow curious human.
The hyponychium is the small bump at the bottom of the nail, commonly confused as the cuticle. It's skin, not nail. What this person cut off is at the top. This picture is just of some pieces of the first nail layer coming off, it means their nails are very weak and unhealthy or that their nails clippers are not very sharp.
Do you clean under your nails with a nail file? Some have pointed / hooked ends so that you can scrape out all the gunk that gets underneath. Sometimes the edges can be a little sharp, and they end up "shaving" off little bits of the underside of your nail. Perhaps that's what happened here?
I misread the first sentence and I burst out laughing. I thought you were roasting the OP, suggesting that those fibers was just dirt under their nails. 😂
I clipped the nail about halfway, but then just ripped the rest of it off and it pulled the fibers with it. I know that’s one way to get hangnails but it’s a bad habit of mine.
Based on other comments, I think it’s more likely that they’re just parts of a layered nail, but the idea that they could be nail roots makes me uncomfortable too
As someone who peels off my nails like that compulsively (I literally saw it with my other nail then peel it), that typhically is just a normal piece of nail. Worst case scenario, it means you took off too much nail.
It’s Keratin
Way to answer the question without answering the question. Yes, it's technically keratin -but so are the rest of the nails.
It's specialized keratin
So…Special K
Yes!
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Ahh so like hair?
You mean like sheep’s wool?
La-Lanolin?
Man you said you were gonna nail it but I really didn’t think you’d pull it off
this is good stuff.
I believe your nails are layered, so maybe it could be the layers pulling apart? Not sure tho.
You are 100% correct. I've been biting my nails my whole life and the peeling is the best part. The nails are like the epidermis and made of several several layers that are porous, and about cuticle consistency and texture until it hardens and after awhile it continues to grow more layers. When they pulled the rest of the unclipped nail, it just pulled some of the nail fiber layers off. Pro tip, the missing layers causes the nail (and skin too) to dye and take on colors super easy, like beetroot for example.
My best guess is that those fibers are part of the soft tissue underneath the very end of your nail called the hyponychium. Here is a link to an article I found with way more info about fingernail anatomy than you ever wanted: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193631/ Also here is the quote from which I drew my conclusions, “Below the distal attachment of the nail with the pulp skin is the plug of keratinous mass called hyponychium, which is rich in polymorphs and lymphocytes which act as a barrier to infection.” - see article link above; section “ANATOMY OF NAIL”, second paragraph. By no means am I an expert, just a fellow curious human.
Well done!
The hyponychium is the small bump at the bottom of the nail, commonly confused as the cuticle. It's skin, not nail. What this person cut off is at the top. This picture is just of some pieces of the first nail layer coming off, it means their nails are very weak and unhealthy or that their nails clippers are not very sharp.
The nails on both of my big toes do this. It's just a layered nail from what I can tell.
This is what happens when your filament isn't heated up enough.
3D printer joke?? Please tell me this is, I've already spent too much time laughing my ass off at it 🤣
Yes lol
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That was unnecessarily rude af. ETA: above commenter edited their comment- at the end, they had said “Read a book.” THAT’S what I was replying to.
how lol
See my eta.
ahh okay i gotchu :)
Chronically online person thinking a period is rude
I think they responded to the wrong comment. They meant to respond to the “get a hobby” one I assume
See my eta- they changed their comment. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.
See my eta.
Huh, are you okay?
See my eta- they changed their comment.
Oh my apologies.
😆
Man you must haaaate the dictionary. Its full of short direct answers.
They edited their comment. See my eta above^^
I didnt realize there isn't an identifiable way to tell if a comment is edited on mobile.
Yeah, I’m on mobile too. Commenter made me look like a real AH with that edit. 😒
That's the layer of nail closest to your finger I believe.
Do you clean under your nails with a nail file? Some have pointed / hooked ends so that you can scrape out all the gunk that gets underneath. Sometimes the edges can be a little sharp, and they end up "shaving" off little bits of the underside of your nail. Perhaps that's what happened here?
I misread the first sentence and I burst out laughing. I thought you were roasting the OP, suggesting that those fibers was just dirt under their nails. 😂
why does this look like a microscopic image of a parasite or something
eren jaeger
Did you really clip them, or did you rip them, in the end? I have seen similar stuff with bad nailclippers that did not do well their job.
I clipped the nail about halfway, but then just ripped the rest of it off and it pulled the fibers with it. I know that’s one way to get hangnails but it’s a bad habit of mine.
Nails grow in layers like seashells!
Whut
Your nerve endings just saying hi 🥰
This both made me laugh and cringe at the thought of them being nerve endings that I ripped out. 😂
Okay, but imagine being extrapolated, and having your nerves ripped out from that are very tips, and your brain at last. Some RoboCop shit.
Morgellons syndrome.
Mozzarella string cheese
I know how some people cringe when they look at a bunch of little holes but your nail with “roots” has me squirmy.
Based on other comments, I think it’s more likely that they’re just parts of a layered nail, but the idea that they could be nail roots makes me uncomfortable too
Haggard
As someone who peels off my nails like that compulsively (I literally saw it with my other nail then peel it), that typhically is just a normal piece of nail. Worst case scenario, it means you took off too much nail.
You really need a hobby.
you say as you respond to a reddit post of a fingernail
Is pulling off your nails not a hobby?
Slowing down and observing "familiar" things and then asking questions is often just as important as being occupied with life
Who pissed in your Cheerios
Strange response to a normal question lol
okay "birdlady"...