Can you nail the mechanism of this burn?

Emergency Medicine Journal

A generally healthy 17-year-old female presents with a wound on her left medial thigh.

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Image challenge reproduced from Currie RV, et al. Unusual wound with increasing prevalence caused by artificial fingernail glue: Emerg Med J 2022; 39:185-205, with permission from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

Reproduced from Emergency Medicine Journal, Currie RV, et al; 39:185-205, copyright 2022 with permission from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.