1. trim cuticle
Manicurist, who can call themselves professionals, constantly asserting that manicure you can not do. The reason is very simple. Cuticle - a strip of skin that protects the root of the nail from contamination. Trimming cuticles, nails we deprive this protection. At the same time leave the cuticle completely untouched too should not be. It is important, for example, to peel it with a special means-remuverov that help remove dead skin cells and make the cuticle neater appearance.
2. Cut nails "to and fro"
It seems to be doing everything. To quickly shorten regrown nails, sawing them quickly in two directions, it is impossible to do. Experts say that because of this, the nail is damaged, it appears the micro cracks, making it weaker and more brittle. Properly cut nails in one direction, starting from one of the corners and working your way to the second. This requires more time and patience, but it retains the health of nails.
3. Apply thick layers of varnish
Better to put three-four thin coats than two fat, thicker. Thin layers dry faster, and thick will bubble and due to the fact that they require more drying time, will create a risk of spoiling the manicure. Lubricate the varnish is easy.
4. Shake the bottle of varnish
To nail it became a little more liquid and therefore easy-to-application, shake the vial up and down is not necessary. Because of this, in the thickness of the lacquer there are small air bubbles. After the application it will bubble up on the nails and manicure bumpy few people need. Just go instead a bottle of varnish in her hands.
5. Leave the tips of the nails without treatment
To varnish kept longer without skalyvaya need "seal"Nails at the tips. Getting to the application of the finishing coat, walk a couple of times a brush on the edge of the nail to create a kind of protection against chips and cracks. This trick helps extend the life of classic manicure.
6. Casually-coat finish
Due to the fact that the topcoat is transparent, it is applied to the nails not with such precision, as a color lacquer. It is not visible at first. When all the layers of varnish dries, then you have gone beyond the border color will be visible. Moreover, in those areas where a coating of lacquer-finish there, it starts to flake off faster and shear, so that the manicure because of this negligence is long and not live.
7. Drying nails in cold water
Contact with the cold water only change consistency of nail polish, but it does not help it dry. That's because he really does not dry, and gradually hardens under the influence of oxygen. And for this to happen, better to keep your hands are not in the water and in the air. However, a manicure a couple of hours ago, to wash your hands in cold water better. Because warm nail plate can expand, and wherein the lacquer layer does not change its size. Fresh manicure for this reason quickly deteriorates.