Three Stroke Application

Apply nail varnish properly and your hands will look heavenly, apply it wrong and they will look the complete opposite. If you have a little patience you can have a professional look, if you don’t you are better off visiting a professional (expect high annual nail varnish bills).

Follow these straightforward nail varnish professional steps and you will be on the road to heavenly hands:

Nail Varnish Polish Application Steps:
1: Clean:
Use warm soapy water to wash nails (and under the tips) ensuring that they are completely dry before proceeding

2: Base Coat:
It is essential to use a good base coat with all polish applications. Stroke in the middle from the base to the tip of the nail. Then apply the base coat from the base of the nail to the very tip on both the left and the right part of the nail without touching the skin (if possible) – known as the 3-stroke application (as shown in the picture above). Wait a minute before next step

3: 1st Coat:
Use the 3-stroke application method used above and apply a light layer of your chosen colour. Wait a minute before next step

4: 2nd Coat:
The second coat adds depth to your nail. Follow the 3-stroke application again until fully finished

5: Protect:
Use a good quality top coat, this will protect your nail from chipping and peeling (leaving the top coat out can make your nail look dull very fast). Only a light coating is needed (you guessed it use the 3-stroke application method)

6: Perfect:
Using a very thin brush dip into a good quality nail varnish polish remover and gently eliminate any nail varnish polish that accidentally found its way onto your skin. This will give you greater precision than using cotton wool.

If there is just one thing to take away from this, make sure you use base and top coats for a longer lasting professional nail varnish finish.

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Beauty Nail Care

Let’s face it, woman are obsessed with nails. It’s amazing the feeling well kept nails can give a person, makes me feel sexy and make me want to show them off to the world.

I had no idea that nail varnish has been around for over 5000 years! Also nails are made out of thick protein called keratin.

There are some basic things that you can do for beauty nail care. Below are some tips straight from the experts:

Beauty Nail Care Do:

1: Never manually peel off your polish (some people do!)

2: Good calcium intake (e.g. milk) in your diet will encourage nail growth

3: Moisturise nails as part of your hand moisturising regime

4: Look after your Cuticles: Never cut them as they prevent bacteria and infections entering the body. Just soak fingers in warm water, apply cuticle cream (or olive oil) then gently push back with cuticle stick

5: File nails gently in a smooth motion (not too fast)

Beauty Nail Care Don’t:

1: Don’t bite your nails – will destroy any chance of sexy nails!

2: Don’t use acetone nail varnish removers too often, can damage your nail surface

3: Don’t wash dishes without rubber gloves

4: Don’t over groom cuticles

Just follow these simple basic beauty nail care steps and you will be on the road to the sexiest nails on the planet! There will be more in depth posts on how to apply nail varnish properly (coming soon).

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