Nailhandbook Editorial Desk compiles what manufacturers, tool makers and established application procedures actually specify about nails — gel, dip, acrylic, press-ons, polish and removal — and puts it in one place, in one vocabulary.
Nail information online is unusually inconsistent. The same grit number means two different things on two brands’ packaging. Cure times get quoted without the lamp they belong to. A removal step gets copied from page to page until nobody can say where it came from. This desk exists to fix that: every figure published here is traced back to whoever published it first.
How the desk works
The desk reads manufacturer instructions, product specification sheets and documented professional procedures, then standardizes them into one format. Where two sources disagree — and on cure times and soak-off durations they often do — both figures are given with their source, rather than averaged into a number nobody ever stated.
What you get here
- Traceable figures. Grit numbers, cure times, soak times and mix ratios are attributed to the manufacturer or the standard that specifies them.
- Removal treated as seriously as application. Removal is where nails get damaged, so the published procedure for taking a system off gets the same space as putting it on.
- Consistent terminology. Shapes, finishes, systems and tools are named the same way on every page, so a term means one thing across the site.
- Stated limits. Where the sources do not answer a question, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
What this desk does not do
Nailhandbook Editorial Desk does not wear, swatch or test the products it documents, and does not write from salon experience. Nothing here is a review, and no page will tell you which shape or colour suits you — a specification cannot answer that.
Nothing here is medical either. If something looks like fungus, an infection, an ingrown nail or a nail-bed injury, the answer is one sentence: see a professional. The desk stays strictly cosmetic.
Found a figure that contradicts its source, or a procedure that has since changed? Use the contact form. Corrections are applied on the page.