From the mysterious white flecks that sometimes appear on nails to unusual ridging or changes in thickness, what do these ...

Have you noticed the small, white, crescent-shaped mark at the base of your nails? This is called a "lunula", which ...

When a client sits at your nail desk and presents you with a nail like the below, you may wonder whether it is a ...

The half-moon shape seen at the base of the nail is the lunula, which serves as the "growth centre" for the nail, producing the cells that will eventually harden into the nail plate . It sits ...

Take a look at your fingernail (or your thumbnail). At the base, you may spot a white semicircle, looking a little like the sun peeping over the horizon. That crescent is the lunula. We don’t al ...

The half-moon shape at the base of the nail, beneath the cuticle, is known as the lunula. The lunula is part of the nail matrix, which is where the growth of the nail occurs. Any damage to the ...