Daily Hand & Nail Care

Every day after washing you hands, push back the cuticles and clean under the nail tips.  Check up if the nail tips are absolutely even. Rub white iodine on your hands, whenever you get time.

Weekly Hand-care

Your hands deserve a weekly grooming session, even if you do not want to cover them with nail polish.

• After assembling all the materials For a manicure, remove the old nail polish with an acetone-free remover, Do it with cotton dipped In the remover and rub from the nail base towards the tips of nails.
• Now shape the nails into oval tips with an emery board. Always hold the emery board at an angle, so that you file nails from the undersides.
• Start filing from the sides of the nails towards the tip. Next, dip your fingers in warm, soapy water and clean the nails with nail brush.
• Now dry your hands, pushing back cuticles, at the same time. Apply a cuticle remover over cuticles with an orange stick, its tip wrapped in cotton, and dipped in cuticle remover. Cuticle remover softens and loosens cuticles.
• Never cut cuticles and do not push them back too hard as you might hurt live tissues at the nail-base.
• Massage a little warm oil around the nails and wipe them thoroughly, so that no trace of grease is left. Now is the time when you may bleach the tiny hair on your hands.
• Mix 3 spoons of hydrogen peroxide in one spoon of ammonia and apply the mixture over your flingers and hands with cotton wool. After two or three minutes, wash and dry your hands and rub in some hand lotion.
• Next, apply the first coat of nail polish with three distinct strokes from nail-base to tip, up the centre of the nail, up one side and then up the other side. Apply with quick strokes, not stopping to wipe overrun spots.
• While the polish is still wet, press the nail edges just a fraction of an inch away against blotting paper, so that the polish is removed. This avoids chipping.
• Apply nail polish a little away from the cuticle, to allow the air to reach the nail base.
• After the first coat dries completely, apply a second coat in the same manner.
• Dip the orange stick in a nail polish remover and remove any run over of nail polish.
• If your nails are too squarish, apply the nail polish in oval shape, leaving the edges unpainted. This way you will create the illusion of better-shaped nails.