My wife ran across a cool nail clipper from La Cross at Wal Mart the other day. The handles are comfortably shaped plastic. The neat part is that the jaws can swivel 360 degrees and cut from any direction. It must be fairly new as I couldn’t find many decent pics on the net. BTW, it comes in both sizes, toe nail and finger nail.
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100253&navAction=jump&navCount=1&id=prod1083797