A nail file which actually FILES DOWN NAILS - any recommendations?

RainbowsInTheSpray

I need a nail file which gets to work with a vengeance. Something which abrades nails QUICKLY and doesn't result in having to spend hours on my nails. I need it for shortening and not shaping.

It's amazing how all the online information virtually talks around this. Almost goes out of its way to avoid the subject, as if there was really no such thing.

Can anyone offer a recommendation from personal experience which actually works? Forget emery and sand boards of any description. For me, a total and utter waste of space.

p00hsticks

For shortening why use a file at all rather than nail clippers ?

Spoonie_Turtle

Crystal nail files, from reputable brands anyway.  But for speed, clippers then finish off with a file to smooth them out.

RainbowsInTheSpray

p00hsticks said:

For shortening why use a file at all rather than nail clippers ?

Because I want to use a file. Hence the posting.

QrizB

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

I need a nail file which gets to work with a vengeance. Something which abrades nails QUICKLY and doesn't result in having to spend hours on my nails. I need it for shortening and not shaping.

If you're serious about this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226395335496 should do the job. 

I don't own that particular model but I've got something similar and it's filed down lots of things in the past 40 years, including both sorts of nails!

donnac2558

Agree, crystal nail files.