=( I abuse the hell out of my poor little toesies. I cut them down to the quick - no cute little V for me. Only time I ever got an ingrown nail is when I was walking around Burro Gap and got some sort of thorn in the inside corner of my right big toe, and being on a road trip had to wear shoes for the next week of getting home. Seems that the thorn left a bit of bacterial nastiness in the corner of the big toe, and it pushed the tissues against the nail, and it got in under the toe=( and kept the nail growing sort of funky so I had to cut and yank that strip out about every 2 weeks. I cut and yanked out a strip of toenail about 2 mm wide, squoze the hell out of it, soaked in serious epsoms salts and went barefoot for the next month [wasn’t working, and it was nice weather outside, late september 89] Healed up after about 6 weeks and never had trouble with it since.
Still cut my nails totally improperly, but I go barefoot most of the time, so I dont have hammer toe, nail fungus, athletes foot, or the funky toenail malformations from being crammed into shoes. I just saw a thing on one of the shopping channels for the pointiest toed shoes in the world, and they looked absolutely painful, like 4 inch heels and absolutely no toe room…I can see a podiatrist making serious cash off the wearers of those little items!