- 1). Look very closely at a nit and observe its shape. A live nit will be plump and have a small, but visible bump on top. A hatched egg will be plump and rounded like a live egg, but the top will be flat and will not have a bump. Dead nits have a distinctly different shape -- they still have the bump on top, but the rest of the egg should be crumpled inward.
- 2). Observe the egg's color. This can help you differentiate between hatched and dead eggs, as hatched eggs will be pale or white while dead eggs will be brown. Unfortunately, live eggs are also brown, so do not use color as your only indication of whether an egg is dead.
- 3). Pluck the egg in question off the hair and smash it between your fingernails. If you can feel or see it pop, the egg was still alive. If it did not pop, however, it was dead. From this information, you can conclude that a brown egg that did not pop between your fingernails was dead before you tried to smash it.
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