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For Pro Ingrown Nail Nipper

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There is no other implement that works like this one. The nose is long and slender which allowes you to go alonside of the toenail and cut the portion of the nail that is bothersome without pain or getting the skin. If you are a nail technician and do not own one of these - you are missing it!!!! Your clientele will grow rapidly as your guests call you to book an appointment to get releif at the first sign of tenderness of their toe. Never use any tool on an infected area. Inform your guest of your new implement and how they must call you during the first stage of tenderness. I have introduced this implement to many and everyone has purchased it. I can't say enough - there is no other out there that works like this one.

I love this! it came in quickly, once I used it I felt instant relief! It's sturdy and it gets the job done quickly. great quality materials as well. Love it!!

My toenails have bothered me for years and I was needing some relief from them being ingrown. I had been thinking about having the nails removed for good. Then I saw these on Amazon and ordered them. The toenail clippers were a little smaller than they looked in the picture but after getting them out and using them they were just the right size. My wife trimmed them for me as I am too fat to reach them and what a relief. This is the first time they haven't bothered me since I can't remember when. I wouldn't hesitate to buy them again or recommend them to my friends.

This is by far the best thing I've used to get rid of ingrown toenails. I've used everything, had my whole nail removed by a pediatrist, used basically everything... this is boss. The ingrown toenails just grow back with the doctor's treatment.. and believe me, having your whole big toenail removed and using this clipper... there's just no competition the nipper is better, it destroys my ingrowns. GREAT PRODUCT!! And it is NOT too sharp or pointy, the pointedness is what sets it apart from the rest, it makes it much better and much less painful to use.

I HAVE HAD INGROWN TOENAILS SENCE I WAS A TEENAGER, AND LUCKY ME I DONT HAVE INSURANCE. I ALWAYS ENCOURAGE EVERYONE WHO HAVE BOUGHT SOMETHING ON AMAZON TO REVIEW IT PLEASE!IT HELPS ENORMOUSLY FOR EVERYONE TO SEE IF ITS WORTH BUYING DURING THESE TUFF TIMES.ANYWAY THIS PRODUCT CUTS THOSE HORRORABLE THINGS OUT OF YOUR TOE OR TOES GREAT. ALWAYS SOAK YOUR FOOT IN MILDLY HOT WATER BEFORE YOU CUT AWAY. THE WATER SOFTEN UP THE TOENAIL.TO CUT EASIER. NOW ALL I NEED IS TO BUY SOME TWEEZERS TO PULL ALL OF IT OUT NOW!

My podiatrist told me to get a pair of professional clippers to keep a big toe nail trimmed that had grown back ingrown after damage caused me to lose it. I priced around, read reviews, and ended up with this model. I've owned it a few months and I am 100% satisfied with it. I use it for all my nail trimming needs. I only wish I'd owned these long ago instead of fooling with those lousy square type squeeze clippers. I highly recommend these.

This product is perfect for removing ingrown toenails. I wish I would have purchased it years ago.

This nipper is very well made but the tips are just too pointed.
You're more likely to cause damage than to trim that ingrown toenail.
The tips should be at least slightly rounded to prevent them poking into sensitive tissue.
They might be better if someone else was using them on you but I'm a
do-it-myselfer.

I want to take a few moments to properly explain how to use these Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers for the best possible result you can have.

First of all, let me tell a story.

I know EXTREMELY well how frustrating ingrown toenails can be. I've had them since the 4th grade and I even remember the very first time one appeared. I thought I stubbed my toe so I had to be excused to the bathroom. I get there, take my shoe off, and notice a throbbing pain on the right side of my big toe (on my right foot). It was red, swollen and painful. No, that wasn't a bruise and I sure as heck didn't damage my foot on the playground or whatever by being careless- that was the first sign of an ingrown nail.

I should have dealt with the ingrown nail back then at the age of 10 and I surely would have avoided a bigger, more aggravating issue later on (when I turned 25) BUT at that young, immature age I had no idea whatsoever what was causing such an inconvenient and surprising amount of toe pain. You see, back then ingrown nails would appear for one day and then go away completely by the next day or two. I'd then be perfectly fine for the next 6 months or so. I was under the assumption this is how my ingrown nails would react for the rest of my life- cause pain for one day and then go away on their own. I was wrong- VERY wrong!!!

Instead what happened is that the ingrown nail eventually got worse over time (through my teenage years especially when I had to wear sneakers every single day for 8 straight hours) and as a result, ignoring the situation just caused the ingrown nail to dig into my toe even MORE whenever the problem came back! I didn't realize what was happening though. I didn't realize my actual toenail was causing me to feel so much discomfort. What a mistake by not acting on it immediately- a horrible, regrettable mistake.

Now, I can't exactly go to the foot doctor and get ingrown nails taken care of the moment they return. For one thing, the cost is nearly 400 bucks for the procedure and there's the hassle of two separate appointments. NO WAY!!! Second of all, in my case ingrown nails are a recurring problem anyway so I really have to find a way to deal with this situation on my own... and I have. With these Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers!

It's important to note that there's MANY different types of these nippers. Please please PLEASE try to find the ones that are small. The smaller the better. Trust me on this one. You want something small enough to fit under the nail. I can't promise the ones being sold here on amazon are small enough to fit under your nail- only you can determine that, but stores around your area probably sell exactly the right size that you need.

Anyway, here's how to use these Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers for absolute best results.

First, make sure your toe is wet. Soak it for at least 5 minutes, if not longer. It's actually JUST as important that your toe is moist and not just the nail. Keep reading and you'll find out why.

Then, take these Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers and cut down the entire side of the problematic nail all the way to the back of the skin (all the way down). Keep trimming all the way back as far as possible. EXTREMELY important note- notice how you have a white-colored, half-circle on the very bottom of your toenail (and fingernails)? It's located on the bottom of every single one of your toenails and fingernails, right smack in the middle. I believe this is your nail bed. If while trimming you reach ANYWHERE close to that area, you've trimmed waaaaaaaay too much, and I can only imagine how much pain you had to put yourself through in order to trim away *that* much of your nail!!! Just make sure you avoid this area completely otherwise your entire toenail will light up in serious pain and then you'll have to deal with this AND the ingrown nail... you don't want these two problems at once, believe me. Last year in a moment of aggravation and carelessness, I DID get close to that area, and my entire toe puffed up twice the size it originally was. Entirely my fault for not totally understanding what I was doing. Now however, I know what I'm doing.

Back to the instructions-

Now I'd *like* to say keep trimming as far back as the pain will allow, but... this being your first experience, you (understandably) won't know how far back you really need to trim which means you'll probably be more focused on preventing any pain issues and assume once you feel a little bit of pain that you've trimmed far enough... which means you probably won't remove enough nail. The thing is, if you don't remove enough nail, there's a very good chance you won't actually get rid of the ingrown nail because you haven't trimmed far enough back to even *find* it. You'll realize you didn't entirely fix your ingrown toenail issue when the pain associated with your swollen, throbbing toe sticks around over the next week or so and doesn't actually improve with each passing day. No improvements is a dead giveaway that it wasn't taken care of and that you have more trimming in your near future. If you do the entire self-operation correctly, all pain should be *completely* gone in about 3 days, if not sooner.

Anyway, let's get back to the instructions (since I got sidetracked there). Using these Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers, you will be removing approximately 10-15% of your nail as you work your way down, but fear not- there's very little pain if you take your time and work slowly. Remember, a moist toe produces *significantly* less pain. Also remember that because there's an ingrown nail in your toe, a small portion of your toenail is practically BEGGING to be removed anyway, which means even less pain you will have to endure during the trimming process.

If this is your first time cutting, there WILL be blood. Let that baby bleed! Hey, I neglected MY ingrown nail for over 15 years. Imagine how much blood was coming from the side of MY toe! You guessed right- 45 straight minutes of bleeding and a soaking red bathroom floor by the time it was finally over! It should be noted however, that after the first trim -when the ingrown nail returned several months later- the bleeding was never again anywhere NEAR as much. The same can be said for repeated trims. That first time though... oh boy. Blood city! Don't let it freak you out because the presence of a lot of blood is perfectly normal.

Now, while your toe is wet and your toenail is moist, cut all the way down to the bottom of the nail. Oh wait, I already said that. Well then, it bares repeating- you have to cut all the way to the back. That way you'll know for a 100% fact you got rid of the ingrown nail. That way you'll know there's no nail whatsoever poking through your swollen red skin. When you cut, make sure it's perfectly straight and smooth. These Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers are designed with the purpose of a smooth cut, in fact.

Now in my case, since my ingrown nails are worse than most, I'm NOT done yet. Most people would be finished after cutting all the way to the back (because when you remove an ingrown nail at the first sign of trouble, it never penetrates into the skin too deep) but not me, my friends. Not unlucky little me!

What I have to do now is take the Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers and search for the tiny slither of ingrown nail that's jammed somewhere on the right side of my toe DEEP within the skin, which requires me to push the nail nippers into that tiny, freshly cut section that I *just* exposed, and push these nail nippers back there as FAR as possible and squeeze the nippers repeatedly until I hear a snap (indicating that the pesky slither of nail has been trimmed). This could take me several minutes. You see I have abnormally huge toes and feet which probably explains why I have to dig my ingrown nails out. Please note this isn't even an issue for those of you who take care of ingrown nails right away.

Then after I manage to find the ingrown nail, and with about 10-15% of my regular nail now removed (as I mention above) I'm STILL not done! Man I definitely have worst case scenario here, haha. I laugh in a sarcastic way because it's not even remotely funny. Now for the toughest part pain-wise- what I have to do NOW is completely peel away the skin on the right side of my toe because for some reason or another, the swelling after removing an ingrown nail does NOT diminish, and the skin produces just as much pain (if not MORE pain) than the actual ingrown nail itself!! There is NO instant relief in my case, unfortunately. Not until that rough, dark-colored swollen skin has been completely peeled off.

Oh, and you might have this same exact skin issue as me and assume that the nail is *still* buried deep within the side of your toe- do NOT make the mistake into thinking the ingrown nail is still in your skin just because the pain has increased. Do NOT think that since your toe or toenail is now experiencing an overwhelmingly strong burning/stubbing sensation that it's because you weren't able to locate the ingrown nail, or that you pushed the nail in further. If you DO feel an increase in pain after trimming, you might be tempted to continue trimming even deeper and cause yourself additional pain when in fact it's probably just the awkward swollen skin that's causing the pain issues and has nothing to do with *either* your ingrown nail or regular toenail anyway.

Do your absolute best to peel as much leftover/ugly-colored skin away as possible! I want to see a fresh pink area when you're done with no ugly, discolored pieces of skin hanging loosely- that's doing the job correctly. That's how you get rid of the pain. Besides, after you peel away enough of that unwanted skin, guess what happens then? What was once a throbbing red area on the side of your toe is now light pink- an indication of relief. In case you're wondering how peeling the swollen skin can possibly provide relief, it's because under the swollen skin lies a build-up of yellow liquid. A build-up of this liquid is responsible for the swelling. I wish I had known this from the start because then an expensive doctors appointment wouldn't have even been necessary!

That's right ladies and gentlemen- if you're forced to deal with this type of situation -and the swollen area is causing a tremendous amount of pain on the side of your toe- I want you to RIP AND TEAR as much of that swollen skin that you possibly can. You may despise my directions and think I'm completely nuts but TRUST me, if this works and you feel immediate relief after peeling the skin around the swollen area, you'll definitely thank me! I *promise* you will!

Then after all THAT is over with, you're done! Put some peroxide on the exposed area and that's it. It's over. You should now be good for the next 4-6 months (assuming yours come back again many months later, like mine do). It's important to note that many peoples ingrown nails do NOT come back, though. Also, it's perfectly normal to feel a slight bruise sensation in your toe after you're done, and even though you can wear shoes immediately afterwards with only minor pain, it's probably best to relax for the next couple days until it heals. Standing up for long periods of time might present an inconvenience involving mild pain as well.

Trust me, for the longest time I had no idea that the actual skin on the side of my toe was causing the pain, so instead of peeling it off I just continued to use the nail nippers to cut even deeper into my toe/toenail and the result is that I'd have a toe so swollen and puffed up that I couldn't walk for at least 12 hours. All this time I was focusing on the WRONG part of the problem! It would be the equivalent of a doctor operating on a kidney during liver surgery. Do NOT put yourself in that kind of needless predicament!

On another note- if you followed my instructions the entire way through and a few days later the pain and swelling returns, it probably means you didn't *completely* remove the skin responsible for the swelling. Trace the exact source of the pain and pick and tear away the skin that's causing the discomfort. Even if it's not plainly obvious or visible, there's probably hard chunks of skin on the surface of your toe directly above where the ingrown nail once resided, and this particular skin needs peeled off right away. If you just leave it there, it might take several days (or in my case, weeks) for the pain and swelling to go away, seriously. Just rub your finger across the skin and if it feels rough and painful like a deep bruise, yes, it's swollen skin that needs peeled. Even if you're not experiencing any drainage of yellow liquid and it looks fine, the swelling means you need to pick at it some more.

One more thing. Don't be concerned if your toe is still red weeks (and months) after it completely heals. If it remains swollen you should be concerned and take action of course, but in my case at least, ever since I removed my first ingrown nail, my toe has remained red all this time. The color red never went away. There's nothing wrong with my toe however- *that's* the most important part. Just don't be surprised if your skin never turns white again.

Let me mention one other thing that's pretty important. It's entirely possible that the swollen area where the ingrown nail was removed might become (slightly) painful again 12 hours after all the cutting, picking and peeling that you put your toe through. I assume -though can't say for certain- this sudden increase in pain is a result of the trauma. This is where the situation gets tricky as far as whether you really removed the ingrown nail or not. I'm going to try HARD to explain what I mean here, even though it will probably sound confusing and contradicting. I'm not contradicting myself, trust me, it's just difficult to find the right words. Alright here we go-

12 to 24 hours after trimming, your toe very well could become swollen -and the skin will become shiny red- even though the ingrown nail is gone and the problem is actually cured- it just doesn't LOOK or FEEL like it's cured. The kind of swelling pain I mention in the paragraphs above is associated with a MUCH stronger and more aggravating type that appears a few days later and *this* type of pain means that your ingrown nail (or your skin) is still causing a problem. However, it's perfectly normal for a slight increase of swelling to appear out of nowhere 12 hours after self-operating and cause mild discomfort. If it causes SEVERE discomfort, you need to either cut more toenail or peel away more skin.

You see I'm trying to explain that there's a difference between curing the problem and not curing the problem, and it's associated with the level of swelling that you feel (and see). As I said above, determining whether you removed the ingrown nail is tricky because it depends entirely on the level of swelling that you feel. Basically, if your toe develops a tingly and itchy sensation 12-24 hours after surgery, this means you probably removed the ingrown nail and your toe is in the process of healing. It's like when you stub your toe and feel a throb and then an itch. In case you don't know, a stubbing feeling is like a bruise, such as when you accidentally kick the leg underneath a couch or coffee table- yes you've probably done this before by walking carelessly, and understand what it feels like. We've all stubbed our toes at one time or another.

However, if the swelling turns into a sharp pain upon putting your sneakers on, this means the ingrown nail is *still* poking into your skin and causing a problem. Unfortunately knowing whether you cured your nail problem or not by relying on the amount of pain you feel immediately after self-surgery is almost impossible. For me, I have to wait at least 12 hours. Sometimes the pain never returns so I DON'T have to wait 12 hours. Simply put- whatever is causing additional pain is hard to figure out the cause. I just assume it's trauma. The problem is, everyone has different toes, different toenails, different kinds of swelling, different levels of pain, etc. I can only tell you what *my* experience is like, and how *my* toenails function.

You're probably thinking "Wasn't it obvious that the skin was causing the pain after you removed the ingrown nail?" and the answer is no, because the same type of pain remained in place. Both the swollen skin and a penetrating ingrown nail creates an *identical* type of pain. It was baffling to me for the longest time. As far as I can tell, the ONLY difference pain-wise from an ingrown nail and the swollen skin is that, when you wear sneakers and take steady walking steps on a hard surface (such as, for example, walking down the aisles of Walmart... UGH what a nightmare!) you'll occasionally feel a sharp pinch when you bend your toe, which is an indication that the ingrown nail is pushing into your skin. As far as strictly pain is concerned, this is honestly the only difference I can feel between an ingrown nail and the swollen skin.

Something VERY important I forgot to mention. You can actually tell whether your toe/toenail is infected or not based on the smell of the yellow liquid being released. If it smells really awful and similar to a dirty foot, it's infected. If the yellow liquid doesn't have a smell, you're good to go. You see after self-surgery, more yellow liquid will probably continue to drip for the next several hours, and this is not necessarily a bad thing if there's no smell associated with it. Keep this in mind.

Oh, and on a final note, the pain you feel during self-surgery is not NEARLY as bad as you might believe. Trust me on this one. It's a lot better than the pain you'd experience having the ingrown nail removed by a foot doctor and the novocaine shots they'd inject into your toe, believe me. Those shots hurt like a son of a gun! Self-surgery is also not as painful as the annoying task of trying to get through the day with an ingrown nail stabbing directly into your skin with every step you take. You do NOT want either of these scenarios! Treating it yourself is a better solution and once you know how to handle it, you'll agree with me. Do NOT be afraid of the pain that you're creating by trimming deep and aggressively- I can't stress this enough. It's honestly not a big deal and you get used to it after a while. The bottom line- Pro Ingrown Nail Nippers are definitely necessary in order to fix this problem, and since they work so darn well that makes them *awesome* and HIGHLY recommended.

I suppose if you don't have these special nail trimmers in your possession, a good alternative would be miniature needle-nose pliers, and if you don't have any of those you could probably use a tiny, sharp pair of scissors but be warned- in order to use scissors, I imagine you'd have to press down REALLY hard in order to cut through a toenail (especially MY tough-as-a-rock nails!)

So there you have it guys. If or when these ingrown nails come back, please keep in mind the more often you go through with this procedure (by removing the ingrown nails and peeling away the problematic skin) the easier it will be. After two years of doing this for example, I'm totally used to it. Your toe *will* eventually adjust (and your body will eventually respond) to the fact you're taking care of a problem that clearly doesn't belong there. Good luck!

I've been buying different types of scissors for my ingrown toenail for years, now finally i found something that works great. Be sure to buy the nail lifter to help the process!! Good job guys, hope not to do business with you again but if i do, you'll be first on my list!!