10 Tips to Get Well Groomed Nails

Want beautiful, strong nails that don’t chip or break? Follow these tips for strong, elegant, pretty and feminine looking nails

1. Make rubber gloves your friends

Do not try to do the dishes or clean your home without wearing rubber gloves. The chemicals you use for clean­ing are very strong and can really damage your hands and your nails. Not only that they will make your nails weaker, they could also give you nasty burns.

2. Calcium gels and nail hardeners

Even though they can make your nails stronger, you can’t expect results right away. You may need to give it some time and use the products regularly.

3. Nail creams

Your regular hand cream is sometimes not enough. In or­der to take good care of your nails, you need to get special nail creams. Quite affordable, find the one that best suits you.

4. Cuticle removing

One of the biggest mis­takes many do when it comes to their nail is cutting the cu­ticles. This should never be done. Instead, apply cuticle remover gel or cream and gently push your cuticles with a cuticle stick.

5. Regular clipping

You really have no reason to have super long nails. Not only is it unpractical, it makes you look a bit slutty and dirty. Keep your nails at length in such a way that it doesn’t come in the way of your daily chores and clip them regu­larly. Besides nails that are too long are prone to break­ing.

6. Filing and polishing

Invest in a good nail file so that every time you clip your nails, you can file them. Do this by moving the file in one direction only. Whn you move to the left and right, you are actually creating tiny cracks that weaken your nails. Polish your nails not more than once a month. If you do it too often, you can make your nails thinner and weaker.

7. Easy on the nail polish

Although colourful nails are quite cool, they actually do a lot of damage to your nails. The reason is that nail polishes contain acetone which makes your nails soft. Don’t manicure your nails more than once a week and buy only high quality nail polishes. Throw nail polish away if it has passed its ex­piration date.

8. Oil based nail polish removals

The bad effect of acetone on nails requires that you invest in oil based nail pol­ish removers. they are much less harmful

9. Acrylic or gel nails

Acrylic and gels keep natural nails from breaking. Be careful though as some people react badly to them not to talk of the risk of pull­ing your natural nail together when it is applied. It can hurt

10. Keep your nails healthy

No treatment or special care will help you if you don’t know how to keep your nails healthy.