A cooling gel may be applied to the surrounding skin to protect it from injury.
Affected areas of skin can become seriously sunburned while the surrounding skin tans.
These epidermal stem cells migrate up from the bulge into the surrounding skin, the researchers say.
Another option is treating the nail and surrounding skin with an antifungal nail polish.
The swollen blotches have a distinct border and slowly expand into the surrounding skin.
As a result, heightened sensitivity and abnormal pain sensations occur in the surrounding skin.
Sun damage and, unfortunately, ageing can increase the appearance- as the surrounding skin weakens, the pores appear larger.
The thin linear scar that forms is at first red and raised above the level of the surrounding skin but gradually fades until it is considerably paler than the surrounding skin.
The cells from the papillae have the ability to reprogram the surrounding skin cells to form hair follicles.
They make Miss Liberty look a little more down with the people, and protect their eyes and surrounding skin, which peek through the mask, from sunburn.
"We think that [during the miniaturisation that causes male pattern hair loss] cells are migrating away from the hair into the surrounding skin," she says.
