At my previous job, we used 10% hydrogen peroxide to soften nails.  You simply trim into the nail, then soak the nail.  Once softened, we could cut beautiful sections of nail.  If the pieces are just too big to even trim, soak the pieces individually in peroxide, then embed and cut them.  This was a trick that was brought to us by a tech from Las Vegas!

       
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