It is important for each of us that our nails always look well-groomed. What and how to cover them are already nuances.
Traditional varnish, gel, or hardener – the choice is yours. In addition, you can always give your nails a break from the coating and walk around with “clean” nails. Even if you are not a nail service master, you can do a quality manicure at home. We tell you what you need for this and what tricks you should pay attention to.
Of course, making beauty with professionals is a separate pleasure, but when one lockdown after another falls on us, we have to spin somehow. Good for those who managed to run to the salon before the forced weekend. But what if everything is closed, and it’s impossible not to think about the beauty of nails? Calmness, only calmness: a neat manicure with or without coating can be done independently without leaving home. All it takes is a certain amount of skill and ingenuity.
An independent manicure has obvious advantages: a home procedure saves money and time that you would spend on the road to the salon. In addition, it is not always possible to find a good master without any quarantines. And at home, you don’t have to worry about the risk of possible infection or fungus, and this is especially true today.
Lamps, devices for a home manicure, a full arsenal of bases and varnishes, as well as other necessary devices will come to your aid. But everything is in order.
Tweezers – optional, but a file will definitely come in handy
To shorten your nails and give them the desired shape, you will need tools. Don’t worry, the list is not as long as it seems. You can choose from it what suits you.
- Scissors, tweezers, and nail clippers (nail clippers)
They help to quickly remove the length. But if your nails haven’t grown too long, you can just use a file. At home, many people do this, and the masters do not always use these tools. In addition, without nippers, there is less chance of damaging the delicate skin around the nails.
- Scissors and cuticle nippers
Suitable for you if the cuticle occupies most of the nail bed, you have it thick and dense.
- Orangewood stick and pusher: individually or together
For those lucky enough to have cuticles that don’t need to be cut. Thin and soft cuticles are best softened and pushed back with a well-polished orange stick. The metal pusher performs the same function – it pushes back, but it lasts much longer than the stick. As a bonus, it cleans the surface of the nails from growing skin.
- Saw as an alternative to scissors
Once we used only metal files, and there were no others. But today this one should be abandoned: its hard abrasive surface makes the nails brittle. It is better to choose ceramic, glass, or emery on a soft basis. Another good option is a double-sided abrasive file: with the rough side we remove the length, and with a softer surface we give the nails a shape and smooth out small irregularities.
- File for polishing and grinding
She’s a buff. This file helps to smooth the edge of the nail and add shine to the nail plate. But! You have to be very careful with her. When polishing, you can not press hard on the nails with a file, otherwise, they will become covered with bumps, as if from an unsuccessful removal of the extension. If you have thin nails, you should polish them no more than once every two weeks or a month.
If both nippers and tweezers work for you, it’s a good idea to get a ready-made manicure set with all the necessary tools. It takes up little space and will last at least 10 years when used at home.
- Apparatus for home manicure
A very handy item to use on your own. But with him, you will need skill, accuracy, and knowledge of safety. You need to study the issue and practice. If everything works out, you may not even want to go back to the salon: with the help of different nozzles, the device is very convenient to grind rough areas of the skin of the fingers and the same cuticle.
Lacquers, bases, primers, and more
- Cuticle oil or remover
Above, we talked about the fact that the cuticle must first be softened, and only then pushed back with a stick or cut with wire cutters. Oil will help you with this. Suitable for both special and any other cosmetic. Also, the cuticle can be “dissolved” with a remover: a couple of drops on each finger – and after a few minutes it can be easily removed with a stick or a pusher.
- Bath with warm water or soapy water
Once upon a time, any salon manicure began with this procedure. But today, some masters make do with apparatus. In addition, it is believed that gel polish is worse on soaked nails.
- Degreasing nail coating (primer)
The primer is needed so that the varnish perfectly adheres to the surface of the nail and lasts longer. If there is no special degreaser, ordinary nail polish remover will do.
- Base coat
The type of base depends on whether you are applying regular varnish or gel. But the base is needed in both cases. With it, the coverage is more voluminous and long-lasting.
- Nail polish
Where without him! Fortunately, today there are many worthy options for sale, not only gels that have conquered the market, but also ordinary good quality varnishes. Remember what varnishes are used in the salons where you do your manicure, and read the reviews – this is sometimes very useful!
- Cotton pads
Discs, as well as cotton swabs, when you need to correct possible failures in applying varnish in time.
- Top coat
It’s the same with the base. The top is needed to fix both regular and gel polish.
- Nail polish remover or wipes
If you choose gel polish, you will need these products to remove the sticky layer. Important point! It is better to choose napkins without lint, otherwise small particles will mix with varnish, and it is not always possible to quickly fix this trouble.
- Cream for hands and nails
A nice bonus for every manicure. To keep the coating glossy, do not forget to remove the remnants of the cream from the already varnished nails.
Gel polish: lamp for drying and removing the coating
Many today are surprised that gel coating can be done at home. But drying lamps are easy to get. The main thing is to choose the optimal power. For home use, a 48W LED lamp is suitable. The drying time of the varnish depends on the specific device. But this is easy to figure out with the help of instructions and experience that will definitely come.
You can also remove gel polish at home using a special liquid. We collect it on a cotton pad, wrap each finger, and for reliability, we fix it with foil. We wait a few minutes and remove the remaining coating with the same orange stick. You can use special wipes to remove gel polish. They are sold in individual packages, so this option is even more convenient.
Editorial Team
