Why is it impossible to cut the nails of my right hand with nail scissors?

Question

It works perfectly the other way round, but no matter how I hold the scissors or in what way I present my nails to the scissors, the only succeed in painfully bending the nail.

Answer 1

Are the nails tougher in anyway compared to other nails, and have to tired to cut them after soaking them.

You are best seeing the doctor as its possible it could be an infection of some sort.

Answer 2

that's the question that's been plaguing man since the stone age 8-)

Use nail clippers...

Answer 3

Maybe because you are using right handed scissors instead of left handed scissors.

Answer 4

Because you don't have a left arm

Answer 5

because your using your left hemisphere,,

Answer 6

Because nail-scissors are basically small shears, and as such exhibit chiral preference.

It's all to do with the angle from which your thumb enters the handle.  When you hold a pair of scissors in your right hand, you naturally push the blades together as you close them.  When you hold the same scissors in your left hand, you naturally push the blades apart as you try to close them.

You could try tightening the rivet by giving it a few taps with a hammer, but this is likely to be unsatisfactory in the long run.  Or try not pushing your thumb inward so hard.  Better would be:  Get someone else to cut them for you, get some proper nail clippers, or use wire cutters  (box-jointed ones are achiral; lap-jointed ones are much less chiral than scissors).

Answer 7

nails usually become harder to cut the longer u dont cut them...im guessing your right handed as your left hand nails cuts easier...its the same as toe nails...they are always harder to cut than hands...the more often u cut, the easier it will be....and use nail cutter, NOT scissors.  

Answer 8

You need left hand scissors-the anvil is on the other side.

Or, do what I do, use a good pair of wire cutters.

Answer 9

Because your right handed???

Try using nail clippers. They're alot sharper.

Answer 10

Scissors work by shearing. If used conventionally, held in right hand when cutting nails of left hand, the lower blade supports the nail and the upper blade shears it. If you try to cut the nails of the right hand when holding the scissors in the left hand, the cutting blade is towards the end of the nail and there is no support from that blade as the upper blade tries to shear the nail. Without that support, the nail just bends. That's why there are left-handed scissors out there. Right-handed scissors can be made to cut a nail on the right hand if they are held with the points facing the person instead of away so that the lower blade again acts as a support. This is awkward and needs practice.