Andi Myricks Studio

Andi Myricks

This is onycholysis, the nail lifting away from the nail bed. It is not cosmetic. It is a structural failure between the nail plate and the bed epithelium. The bond has broken, and once that happens, the plate cannot reattach. Only new nail growth restores it.

Here’s the science:
Onycholysis happens when the bed epithelium, the thin layer under the nail plate, detaches from the plate. It can’t “stick back down” because the nail plate is non-living. The nail must grow out. 

Here’s my opinion:
When nail techs understand exactly what they’re looking at, they stop guessing and start solving.

If your experience is different, that doesn’t change the science.