TODAY.com’s Never Have I Ever series offers guidance about procedures and practices our trusted health experts would never participate in. Discover why they should be avoided and which healthy practices you should turn to instead.

Dr. Mona Gohara, a dermatologist and clinical professor of dermatology at the Yale School of Medicine, is quick to share that she loves a manicure and never faults her patients for getting them, but one kind in particular brings more risk than they may have bargained for: the Russian manicure.

Also known as a dry manicure or an e-file manicure, the acetone- and water-free treatment involves meticulously grooming the nails and skin around them with electric drills, sharp cuticle cutters and scissors. The result is an immaculate-looking nail bed primed for polish

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