Manicure at home

The main means for nail care is manicure. Manicure is usually referred to as giving nails a beautiful shape, removing or moving away the cuticle, colorless or decorative coating of nails varnish. In order to make a manicure for your claws, you can resort to the services of a specialist, but you can try to cope on their own, especially since this is not difficult.

So, for a manicure you will need: a thin wooden spatula for moving the cuticle, a nail file, nippers, nippers, cotton swabs, 3% hydrogen peroxide solution for disinfection.

When starting a manicure procedure, it should be remembered that it is always necessary to remove the old varnish. It is best to do this the day before the manicure, so that the nails "breathe". You need to start a manicure with shaping the nails. If the nails have grown very long, they should becut to the desired length with the help of pliers-cutters. It is important to remember that too long nails become brittle, the optimal length of the nail plate - the nail should extend over the tip of the finger by 3-5 mm.

What kind of file to choose for nails? Experts do not advise to usemetal nail files, they only contribute to the stratification of the nails. For strong healthy nails, sand or sapphire files are suitable, for artificial ones - files with a coarse granular structure. Well, if the nails are weak and puffy, then you should choose a fine-grained semicircular shape with a buffer zone. In addition, glass nail files are also popular, which do not damage the structure of the nails.

Nail files should be sawed, moving a file in one direction, preferably from the edge of the nail plate to its middle.

Which shape suits nails? In fashion, completely different forms: and pointed, and almond-shaped and rectangular. Optimal oval shape is considered, as it visually lengthens the nails, making them more elegant, and, moreover, more resistant to brittle and nasal stratification.

After shaping the nails, you need to proceed removal of the cuticle. In general, there are two traditional ways. It cuts the cuticle and pulls back the cuticle. When cutting the cuticle, each new cuticle grows thickened, and the process of pruning can injure the skin and infect. Just moving the cuticle can damage the surface of the nail and the skin. Therefore, special means, softening the cuticle, are becoming increasingly popular. These remedies gently soften the cuticle, and some even completely dissolve it, without harming the nail. Also, many such drugs prevent further growth of the cuticle.

Experts advise in the home cuticleDo not trim. Before removing the cuticle, the hands should be lowered for a few minutes in warm soapy water - this will soften the skin and facilitate the removal process. It is important that the skin of the hands remains soft as long as possible, so do not treat both hands at once.

Next stage - deburring. Before carrying out this procedure, specialtweezers for the removal of burrs must be disinfected. The skin of the hands must be previously steamed. When removing the burrs, the tweezers need to be kept almost perpendicular to the skin. You can not pull a burr, you better gently bite it with tweezers.

When the procedure for removing the burrs is over, rinse your hands, wipe them with a tissue and to put on hands nourishing cream. Rubbing the cream, you can do a light massage of the hands.

After the completion of all hygiene procedures, usually begin decorative nail lacquer coating. The choice of the color of the varnish depends on the fashion trends of the season or individual preferences.