Nails contraindications and
contractions
Connect activity
• On the wipe board write word associated with
manicures
• Example buffer
Aims and outcomes
• Introduce the learner to contraindication and
contraction to the nail service.
• Outcome for learners to be able to identify
contraindications and contractions
• Produce a poster on contraindications and
contra- actions
Basic nail service
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A basic nail service includes:
Consultation
Nail polish removal
File
Buff
Hand moisturise with massage
Nail polish application
Contraindications to nail service
• Certain nail, hand and skin conditions prevent or restrict a
therapist from performing the nail service.
• These are known as ‘contraindications’.
• If, when looking at a client’s hands before a nail service, if it
appears that there is one of these conditions, then the nail
service cannot go ahead.
• The client will need to be referred tactfully to the relevant
person in the salon for confirmation that the treatment can
go ahead (or not).
Contraindications that
prevent nail services
• Impetigo
Warts
• Scabies or itch mites
• Tinea corporis (body ringworm)
Contrindications that
prevents the nail services
• Tinea unguium (nail ringworm)
• Broken bones
• Severe nail separation (onycholysis)
Contraindications that
prevent nail services
• Paronychia
• Cuts or abrasions of the hands
• Severe eczema of the nail
• Severe psoriasis of the nail
Nail/skin conditions
that might restrict nail services
• Onychorrhexis
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• Non-severe skin eczema
• Non-severe skin psoriasis
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Nail/skin conditions
that might restrict nail services
• Bruised nail
Onychophagy
(bitten nails)
• Pterygium
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Ridges in the
nail plate
• Hangnail
Leuconychi
Task
• You are going to research one contraindication
or contraction and produce a table
Name of the Cause
contraindicati
on/contra
action
Appearance
Treatment
Task
• You are going to research one contraindication or contraction
• Work in pairs or individual or a small group
• Produce a poster with 3 d images using materials provided
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Need the name of the contraindication or the contraction
What the causes is?
The appearance
Treatment
• You can use your mobile phones to access information
• Books provided
• Level 1 or level 2 beauty depends on how in depth you would
like your poster to be.
Extension task
• How do we sterilise or
disinfect the following?
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Orange stick?
Buffer?
Hand of foot bowl?
Emery board?
Spatula?
Scissors?
Workstation surface?
Recall and Review
• On the wipe board write down three key
words you have learned
• Or three things you have learned