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Hangnails are torn skin, not pieces of your actual fingernails
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Despite their highly misleading name, hangnails have absolutely nothing to do with the actual nail plate. They are simply dried, fractured shards of the surrounding epidermal tissue that have decided to peel backward. Attempting to rip them off manually is a guaranteed way to tear a microscopic trench straight down into your sensitive dermal layers.
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