Sarah Greenaway, 17, applied her own false nails at home with cosmetic glue bought but days later she was rushed to hospital with a serious infection.
Bar worker Miss Greenaway was in agony as the index finger on her right hand turned green and started dying.
Sarah Greenaway, 17, had to have the tip of her finger amputated after it became severely infected. The index finger became infected after she used some nail glue that she bought from Boots
Doctors had to cut off the top of the finger to save her hand - and cut the finger open from tip to palm to clean it out.
She said: 'I bought the glue for a set of nails I had at home already. All I wanted was for my nails to look nice.
'But later the next day my finger was really hurting, so I took the nails off.
'My nail had turned a greeny-black colour underneath.
Miss Greenaway went to hospital with a severe infection in her nail (left). She had to have surgery to remove the tip of her finger (right) and save the rest of it. She also had to have the whole finger opened up and cleaned
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