Find your nail size.
Store-bought press-ons are cut to an average American hand. That's the whole reason they overhang your sidewalls, catch on your hair and lift by Tuesday. Here's how to get sized properly — and you don't even need a ruler if you have a ₹10 coin.
The ₹10 coin method
You don't measure anything. We do.
- Lay your hand flat on a table, palm down, fingers slightly apart.
- Put a ₹10 coin flat on the table right next to your nails.
- Take one clear photo from directly above. Repeat for the other hand.
- WhatsApp us both photos.
A ₹10 coin is exactly 27 mm across. That's a known ruler sitting in the photo, so we scale off it and read all ten nails ourselves — usually more accurately than people manage with a ruler at home.
Send my hand photos →The paper-strip method
- Find the widest point. Look straight down at the nail. The widest part of the nail bed is usually about a third of the way up from the cuticle — not at the tip.
- Lay a strip of paper across it. Press it into the natural curve of the nail. Don't pull it flat and don't leave a gap — both give you a wrong number.
- Mark both edges where the nail meets the skin.
- Measure between the marks on a ruler, in millimetres.
- Do all ten. Your hands are not identical — nobody's are.
Between two sizes? Go bigger. A slightly wide nail files down in thirty seconds. A narrow one is just unwearable.
The standard size chart
Most press-on tips sold anywhere in the world use this scale. Size 0 is the widest. If you already know your numbers from another brand, just send those.
| Size | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Width | 18mm | 16mm | 15mm | 14mm | 13mm | 12mm | 11mm | 10mm | 9mm | 8mm |
Typical groupings
Thumb → pinky. These are averages, which is exactly why we'd rather have your real numbers.
Why we ask for ten numbers
A "size M" set assumes your ring finger is a 6 and your index is a 5. Plenty of people are a 6 and a 4, or a 5 and a 5. Those two nails are the ones that lift first, because a 1mm overhang on a curved nail is a visible gap on both sides.
Ten numbers costs you two minutes. It's the difference between five days and two weeks of wear.
The four mistakes everyone makes
1. Measuring the nail plate instead of the nail bed
If your nails have any length on them, don't measure the free edge. Measure where the nail is still attached to skin — that's the part the press-on has to sit on.
2. Pulling the paper flat
Nails are curved. Flattening the strip gives you a number 1–2mm too big, which is enough to make every nail overhang.
3. Measuring one hand and doubling it
Almost nobody is symmetrical. If you write, cook or carry a bag with one hand more than the other, that hand's nails are usually slightly wider.
4. Rounding down "to be safe"
It's backwards. Too big is a thirty-second file. Too small is a set you can't wear and we have to remake.
We'll post you a sizing kit. Free.
Nobody else in India does this. You get a set of blank tips, you try them on, you tell us the numbers that fit, and then we start making. It adds a few days — and it means the fit is right the first time.