Also called: White nails · Bloodless nails

Where on the hand: Across the nail plate, judged with the hand warm — cold hands pale the nails temporarily.

What it looks like: Little or no pink showing through; the nail bed looks washed out or bloodless.

Low energy, "thin blood", anaemia, stress and exhaustion; in character, coldness, lack of sympathy and selfishness. Indian sources read the same nail more kindly: hardworking people determined to achieve their goals at any cost.

Read with care: The anaemia reading is folk-health doctrine; and "selfishness" is a character verdict drawn from circulation, which the Indian sources contradict outright.