Manicure Tips
Its, possible to give a professional manicure at home. Manicure means to take care of fingernails and hands, which usually involves soaking of hands, filing and shaping the nails, applying hand lotion, and nail polish. There are also some special types of manicures, such as French manicures. Creating a professional manicure set including pedicure machines for those who want all the manicure and pedicure sets and tools, is easy, and need is a few simple tools and professional approach of professional manicurists, just following which allows a person to give himself a professional manicure.
Professional Manicure Sets
A professional manicure set requires a bowl of warm water, nail polish remover, nail clippers/scissors, clear nail polish, cuticle pusher (preferably orangewood), nail file or emery board, nail polishing board/nail buffer, finger brush, massage lotion or hand lotion, pumice stone, hand towel and cotton pads. Also required are for a proper manicure are cuticle remover, cuticle oil, finger bath, bath salt, colored nail polish, base coat, top coat, and machines that can also be used for manicures.
How to do Manicure
Manicure includes a list of steps that professional manicurists follow when giving people professional manicure, these include
1. Remove old nail polish with nail polish remover, and then wash and sanitize the hands with soap, and hot water or scrubbing with bath salt. Bath salt is best as it helps remove dead skin cells, after which a clean towel should be used to dry the hands.
2. Trim fingernails and shape with a nail file, for these metal nail files or emery boards are generally used, but professional manicurists usually use fine glass files. to file properly, its’ necessary to start with the file at the outer edge of the nail, and move towards the center. Nail filing should not be done in a saw-like motion.
3. Soak hands in water and apply cream, oil or chemical cuticle remover to remove cuticles. the cuticles usually get pushed back with a cuticle pusher, for which metal cuticle pushers can be used, but they may damage the fingernails. Though its best to use orangewood cuticle pusher.
4. Polish the fingernails with a polishing board/nail buffers. These polishing boards are made up of soft foam layer with a polishing surface.
5. Nail polish is applied by professionals with at least one layer of clear nail polish. in case of a colored nail polish, at least 3 layers are considered appropriate, these include base coat, color coat, and a top coat. Clear nail polish can be used in place of a base coat and top coat.
6. Manicure is complete only with a hand massage, that can be given by using a hand lotion or oil. Soaking the hands in paraffin wax before putting on hand lotion also helps.
Home Pedicure Tips
The foot is sometimes the forsaken feature that needs to be attended to. They can’t be ignored as beautified feet completes the beauty that defines a person. Hence feet care is essential and some simple pedicure steps to beauty to the feet are nail brush, cuticle cutter, nail cutter, nail filer, cuticle pusher, basins, materials, acetone, moisturizing lotion, cuticle remove, bath salts, pumice stone, luke warm water, foot scraper, orange stick, epsom salts, liquid soap, hydrogen peroxide, and nail polish.
o Remove the nail polish with cotton dipped in acetone. using a cotton band is better than cotton balls as they tend to stick to the nail.
o Soak the feet in luke-warm water with hydrogen peroxide and liquid soap, adding Epsom salts or bath salts to the water also helps, after which the feet needs to be soaked for 10 minutes.
o Cleaning the feet with nailbrush, foot scraper, and pumice stone also helps smoothen the foot skin.
o Remove feet from the basin and cut toenail straight across, that helps prevent ingrown toenails.
o After cutting toenails, file them to make their edges smooth.
o on the base of the skin, apply cuticle to remove and rub in and then slowly push the skin back with orange stick to the place where it meets the skin.
o Also use a cuticle moisturizer if cuticles do not push back.
o Massage feet with a moisturizing lotion or a good cream.
o using an exfoliating lotion if the skin is too dry also helps.
o Separate the toes’ with cotton in between them is helpful.
o Apply a coat of nail polish and dry it for some time, and reapply a clear coat of polish once the previous coat dried.
Clean up stray nail polish on the toes, and apply the second coat and allow it to dry.
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