Nail varnish discolouring toe nails

[leadrightfoot]

Hello lovely people
Generally my toes are painted by myself except when I have a biennial pedicure by a professional
When I paint my toes I put a coat of clear varnish on before any colour
However upon removing the lady lot of professional colour about a third of both big toe nails are discoloured, frosted if you like.

From tip of nail down towards bed, and are REALLY dry, flaking even.
Doc did not think was fungal infection but was stripping of the nail oils
I left the varnish off and massaged a load of moisturiser into them
The frosted effect is receding but I need would prefer my toes painted
So ....
do I leave this until frosting is gone?
Could it be fungal? So I need to treat this
Can I paint my toes if not now when?

Do I use clear first?
Thank you!

This also happens to me! I left my nails varnish free all winter and the whiteness & flakiness is gone. But now that the weather is picking up, I want to wear sandals which would mean painting the nails again

It's because you're painting them. I get this on my fingernails, I definitely have no problems like fungal infections there but if I wear polish too much, they get discoloured, slightly yellowish & a bit flaky, even with basecoat. Not attractive. Try, not painting them at all for a good few weeks, rub in some nail & cuticle cream/oil every day, & some intensive hand & foot lotion before bed. You pretty much need to let the staining grow out, but this will help with the flakiness.

Use a better basecoat. A moisturising or strengthening one (formaldehyde free). You will still get staining but less flaking. For the yellowing try massaging whitening toothpaste into them it helps remove it. Or you can buy 'bubble white' from Sally's. You put it in water and soak your toes, It whitens the nails. Use cuticle oil regularly to combat dryness.

I'm a beauty therapist & unfortunately this happens particularly if wearing dark nail polish & even if using a base cost.
Using a 4 way buffer will help with the flakiness & remove any top staining. Lemon juice helps also a whitening nail polish remover.
If you can leave polish off for a whole that will help.
Formaldehyde free polish seems to help too.

Thank you I feel better knowing others suffer this too

Currently use formaldehyde free varnish remover and Rimmel diamond top coat, but I have used Sally Hansen and Opi but suffer the same thing

Currently varnish free for 3 weeks and slowly improving. Will try lemon juice in my self pedicure session this afternoon.

Thanks!