{"id":3077,"date":"2025-03-30T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/the-purpose-of-the-hole-in-nail-clippers-explained.html"},"modified":"2025-03-30T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:23:36","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-hole-in-nail-clippers-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/the-purpose-of-the-hole-in-nail-clippers-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of the Hole in Nail Clippers Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<h2 class=\"\">A brief history of nail grooming<\/h2>\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap \" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.women.com\/1821280\/nail-clippers-hole-use-explained-what-for\/\" data-post-title=\"Here's What The Hole In Nail Clippers Is Actually For\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1821280\">\n                                             <picture id=\"p340197d2adfb3391bb838f250332a63c\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.women.com\/img\/gallery\/heres-what-the-hole-in-nail-clippers-is-actually-for\/a-brief-history-of-nail-grooming-1743180887.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.women.com\/img\/gallery\/heres-what-the-hole-in-nail-clippers-is-actually-for\/a-brief-history-of-nail-grooming-1743180887.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>The modern nail clipper has been a medicine cabinet staple since the 19th century.\u00a0Inventor Valentine Fogerty from Birmingham, England, received the first patent for a lever-style nail clipper in 1875. Nail grooming dates back to ancient civilizations, and per\u00a0Atlas Obscura, before the invention of the modern-day clippers, people used small knives and other sharp objects to trim their nails.<\/p>\n<p>Around the time Fogerty received his patent, there were growing superstitions surrounding the timing and method of nail trimming. An article published in the Boston Globe in 1889 said, &#8220;if you cut [your fingernails] on Friday you are playing into the devil&#8217;s hand; on Saturday you are inviting disappointment, and on Sunday, you will have bad luck all the week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, today, we know that there is never a bad time to give yourself some much-needed TLC, and thanks to that little hole at the base, you can use your nail clippers wherever, whenever. In addition to using your nail clippers, make sure you have a nail file on hand to clean up your manicure and to achieve the shape you desire.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief history of nail grooming The modern nail clipper has been a medicine cabinet staple since the 19th century.\u00a0Inventor Valentine Fogerty from Birmingham, England, received the first patent for a lever-style nail clipper in 1875. Nail grooming dates back to ancient civilizations, and per\u00a0Atlas Obscura, before the invention of the modern-day clippers, people used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}