do you clip or file your nails ( on fingers)?

[pinkfrocks]

Just wondering...

I find filing a chore. I have short nails and like to have no more than 1mm of nail over the edge IYSWIM. My nails grow quickly and need sorting after a week. Do you file ( with an emery board), clip or both?

I tend to clip then finish off with a quick file but clipping does make them very short....

I do both. I clip them then a quick file. I file in between trims to sort shape or rough bits. I like my nails short too.

Clip then file here too.

File (and sometimes chew).

trolley, is that YOU.
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clip then file. I can't have long nails as medical issues make them snap off so I keep them short

Surely clipping only makes them short if you clip them short? I do both.

Clip. Mine are very short as they tend to flake. And I hate the sensation of them being long.

Clip then file, with a glass file - much quicker and easier than an emery board.

Is there a reason that I don't know about why no-one cuts their nails with a scissors??

Nibble..

This sounds a but wierd but I had never used nail clippers until a couple of months ago when Sali Hughes extolled the virtues if the muji nail clippers. My nails grow so so quickly and I would go through a nail file each week keeping them under control, plus it too forever to file them down - I like dark or bright nail polish, and I don't like talons. Now I use nail clippers it takes a minute or so every couple of weeks, plus I like that I can clip them shorter. I don't need to ever file them now, as the clipper makes them perfect as they are.

Nail scissors here, so cut.

i clip, then file to take away
any 'roughness'. I have to keep my nails short for work. I don't like the feeling of long nails anyway.

mother I find it really awkward to use scissors with my wrong hand - clippers much easier.

Nail scissors then file away any sharp edges.

I use nail scissors because it's the way my mother taught me and after 31 years I don't see any reason to change. Apparently it's bad for the nails but I've always had strong healthy nails.

I use a Leighton Denny glass file to smooth the edges after.

Clippers and crystal file here too. I'm a recent convert to the big clippers after having to borrow a pair for a broken nail at someone else's house, they are so much easier to use than the tiny ones.

I clip. Once in a while I will file but I've never got the hang of doing it properly.

Clip, then file if I need to/find the time/remember.
I only started when I bought some baby ones when dd1 was born.

Mine grow fast and I prefer them short can't use the touch screen on my phone with longer nails