Manicure tips

Manicure tips

A manicure which involves thorough cleaning up of hands and finger nails comes under the category of cosmetic beauty treatment. Either hands or nails alone or both the hands and nails together can be treated by using manicure programme. It involves the process of cleaning, filing, shaping and painting of nails by using nail polish or even applying nail art on it. It may often include the application of artificial nails also.

As the process of manicure involves a risk of infection, it is always advisable to seek the help of a beautician specialized in this field unless you are an expert in doing it.

Seeking the assistance of a specialized beautician to undergo manicure treatment definitely is expensive and so it has always been considered as a luxury by many. But if you are ready to take enough precautions against infections and wounds, you can do it yourself at home without spending much money.

Here are some tips for performing manicure:

• Do not forget to remove the nail polish on your nails before you start manicure
• Collect the tools to be used in manicure before hands. Tools usually include orange stick, nail file, pumice stone, dead cell removers, nail clippers etc.
• Use only lukewarm water to soak your hands. Using hot water will have a negative impact on your hands.
• To mix with water use only mild shampoo or liquid soaps
• Avoid using acetone based polish removers to avoid excessive dryness of your nails.
• Mixing up of a few drops of vegetable oil with nail polish remover will be helpful to avoid nails and skin from drying.
• To remove nail polish, especially dark pigmented nail polish got on the side of the nails, use an orange wood stick wrapped by a piece of cotton on the end and soaked in the polish remover.
• To remove dirt from the side of nails, instead of digging the same with the help of sharp objects, you can opt for diluted hydrogen per oxide readily available in the market for cleaning purposes.
• Excessive filing is not good for nails.
• Do not cut off the cuticles. Instead apply quality cuticle removal creams available in the market and softly push it off by using orange wood stick.
• Pumice stone is good to remove dead skin cells from the hand.
• When you apply cream on your hand pay special attention to the areas around and under the nail.
• While you brush your nails, brush it softly in a down ward motion. Finally with the help of an emery board give it a smooth and shiny look.
• Make sure that your nails are clean and dry before applying polish.
• Always use a base coat white colouring to your nail.
• To apply the second coat of nail polish wait till the first coat dries up.
• Soaking nails in a mixture of lemon juice and water is helpful to remove stains from the nails.
• Soaking nails in warm olive oil will strengthen the nails.
• Do not forget to give your hands a rejuvenating massage ever