INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If your home treatments are not making your toenail any better after 2-3 days, check in with your doctor. If you have diabetes or another condition that causes nerve damage, see your doctor immediately and consider seeing a podiatrist.  If you notice red streaks coming from the toe, you need to see a doctor immediately. This is a sign of a major infection. You should also see a doctor if there is pus present near the toenail. Your doctor will ask you when the ingrown toenail started, and when it started to swell or get red or painful. He or she will also likely ask you if you are feeling any other symptoms, such as fever. Be sure to talk about your symptoms fully. Your general practitioner is usually able to treat an ingrown toenail. But for more complicated cases or recurrent conditions, you might choose to see a podiatrist (foot specialist). If your toenail is infected, your doctor may prescribe an oral or topical antibiotic. This will ensure that the infection clears up and new bacteria does not take root under the toenail. Your doctor will likely want to try the least invasive procedure, which is to lift the toenail slightly away from the skin. If they can get the toenail edge away from the skin, they may pack gauze or cotton underneath. Your doctor will give you instructions for replacing the gauze every day. Follow these instructions to make sure your toenail heals. If the ingrown toenail is very infected or has grown significantly into the surrounding skin, your doctor might opt to remove part of the nail. Your doctor will administer a local anesthetic. Then the doctor will cut along the nail edge to remove the part of the nail growing into the skin.  Your toenail will regrow in 2-4 months. Some patients worry about the look of the toenail after this procedure. But if your toenail has been growing into your skin, chances are it will look better after this partial removal. Toenail removal may sound drastic, but it actually relieves the pressure, irritation, and pain of an ingrown nail. When you get repeated ingrown toenails, you might want to look into a more permanent solution. In this procedure, the doctor will remove some of your nail, along with the nail bed underneath this section. This will prevent the nail from growing back in this area. This procedure is administered by laser, chemical, electrical current or other surgery.

SUMMARY: Get medical attention after 2-3 days. Talk to your doctor about your symptoms. Get a prescription for antibiotics. Allow your doctor to try lifting the toenail. Ask about partial nail removal. Look into permanent partial nail removal.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Before you start cutting hair, spray it down so that you can easily mold and cut the hair. The hair should be lightly damp but not soaking wet. Take a towel and pat down the hair again to dry it slightly. Then grab a comb and part the hair.   Knowing where the hair will be parted is important because you may have to blend the shorter side a little more than the longer side depending on the style. A lower guard size means a shorter cut. Pick a higher guard number to start with like a #3.  You can use a higher number to get an even shave around the sides and back of the head as a baseline. To get the fade look you will switch to shorter guards as you move down. But by starting with the larger guard size you can easily get an even fade. You will shave the entire sides and back of the hair with your first guard and then repeat with a lower guard, moving part way down the head, leaving the top the length you just cut. The fade line will determine where the hair transitions from one length to another. It will wrap all the way around the back of the head, essentially going from ear to ear.  Fade lines don't have to go straight across in the back. In fact, some fade lines dip slightly around the back of the head, then return to the original line before reaching the other ear. You can have more than one fade line. Start with one on your first cut; as you get more confident, try doing two. Where you position the fade line is a matter of personal taste. You can put it anywhere from slightly above the top of the ear to 2 or 3 inches (5.1 or 7.6 cm) above that. Take a comb, and trace a rectangle above the round of the skull. This will separate the longer top hair from the shorter sides. Use a clip or an elastic band to keep this hair out of the way.  If you are uncertain how big the rectangle should be, use the eyebrows as a guide. The lines of the rectangle should line up with the outer tips of the eyebrows. Include the entire crown at the back of the head. Start to clean up the fade by grabbing a regular comb. (Use a white comb for dark hair, and a dark comb for light hair.)  Angle the comb so that it's at a 45-degree angle to the fade line and comb upward toward the top of the head, only moving the comb an inch or two into the hair. Run the clippers upward over the comb, from the fade line, so that they cut the hair that's above the teeth.  Repeat this process around the fade line(s), taking care to keep your combing distance the same all the way around. If done correctly, you should have a nice even fade with no visible fade lines. The hair should gradually get shorter as it gets closer to the base of the skull. Either use scissors if you want to keep the hair long, or a higher guard if you want a buzzed look. For something like a quiff, pompadour, or messy top, you’ll use scissors; while a caesar, or crew might need clippers.   To cut with scissors, use a comb or your fingers and pull the hair up, cutting above the fingers or comb a little at a time.The fingers or comb should be kept straight and parallel to the floor as you cut. Take into account the angle at which you are cutting. For a fade look with longer hair on top, you will want to cut the hair at an angle as you move towards the back of the head to blend it. Check the corners as you cut. To do this, pull out a lock from the top of the hair and check the edges. The corners of this cut should be soft. If too much hair is falling back from the top, you can use a thinning shear or clippers to trim it back.

SUMMARY: Get the hair damp. Choose the right guard size for the fade line. Decide where you want the fade line(s). Section off the top portion of hair. Clean up the fade line with the clippers-over-comb method. Cut the top of the hair.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: To begin this 21-card spread, separate the Major Arcana from the Minor. Shuffle each set of cards, cut them and lay them out in rows of three across, seven down with one card to the side. This will use all of the Major Arcana but leave some Minor Arcana cards. Set these aside in a pile. Make a list of the cards you've laid out. Pick a word that best describes each and write it down beside them. What do they suggest to you?  Identify a narrative pattern, as though you are looking at a book of illustrations and trying to find the story. The patterns can go across, down, diagonally or first to last. The card to the side signifies the most important element of the situation. Ask yourself which situations in your life or in the life of the person whose cards you are reading, the cards seem to be alluding to. Look for narrative patterns that offer alternatives to the end first perceived, things that could make the situation better or worse. Consider the words you've assigned to each of the cards. How do these apply to the stories you've identified? Combine your perceptions from the above steps into one reading. You might be amazed at how much more accurate the reading is than when you use the deck's guide. Remember that if at some point a card feels like it has a different meaning to you than what the book says, go with that meaning.  Trusting your intuition is the true way to read tarot cards and something you'll begin to do naturally you become more experienced. Just let the cards speak to you.

SUMMARY:
Separate your cards. Create the spread. Write down impressions. Look at the pictures on the cards. Ask questions. Consider alternatives. Review your words. Put it all together.