How come when nail grow, the flesh under them doesn’t come forward along with the nail as it grows?

Question

Nails have a fleshy bottom layer attached to them that somehow doesn’t come forward with the nail as it grows, why is that?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Speak for yourself, I left my big toe untrimmed too long and now that skin has grown out some and I can’t cut the nail back as far as it used to, very irritating…