How to properly paint your nails at home?

In our article "How to properly paint your nails at home" we will tell you how to learn how to paint your nails. If long nails can still be neatly painted, then with short nails will have to tinker. How difficult sometimes to make up exactly the nails, without hitting the area around the nail and cuticle. We will tell you how to properly paint your nails, so that the manicure looked beautiful, and your hands would look well-groomed.

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We turn to the technique of applying varnish How to make up short nails?

General rules how to make nails exactly

Before you can make up your nails, you need to treat the nail surface with a nail polish remover, or wash it with soap and hands and dry it well. On low-fat, clean, dry nails, the varnish will not bubble, crawl and will hold on for a long time.

Then we will put the first layer of varnish - a special basis for varnish or a transparent shade. As a result, the surface of the nail will become even, and this will allow the varnish to last longer, provide the nail plate with additional nutrition with useful substances and vitamins.

Always apply two coats of varnish - a bright saturated shade or a translucent shade. These two layers will help you to enjoy the color of the nail polish, the lacquer will lie flat and smooth, and the manicure will look perfect and complete. One layer of varnish, as a rule, does not get saturated, hence the nails look faded.

On top of the second layer of colored varnish, a fixer can be applied. This is to ensure that the nails do not peel, or add extra shine to the nails. If you have applied two layers of lacquer, a transparent shade underneath, then this is enough. Then it's up to you whether to apply a fixer. You can do without it

Dry your nails, you need, as long as possible. You can dip your fingernails into cold water, or wiggle your hands, but after applying the last layer you need to hold a minimum of 20 or 30 minutes, after the last coat of varnish is applied. On the nails can remain the fingerprints of what your hands touched. The more layers of varnish are applied, the more your nails will dry.

When the nails have dried, take a toothpick (cotton bud and match very thick) and on the tip of the toothpick wind a piece of cotton wool. Floss the toothpick into the liquid to remove the varnish and wipe off the smeared varnish on the edges of the nails. It is necessary to bear in mind:

• To erase a varnish which has got on a skin, it is necessary then, when fingernails or nails dry. Then you can not spoil your manicure if you accidentally hit your nails.
• Nails should be painted smoothly, so that the skin does not get varnish. If you even erase, then, that does not neatly hit the skin, the manicure does not look 100%

We turn to the technique of applying varnish

We will put a varnish on long fingernails or nails. There is nothing complicated. Long nails are much easier to paint nicely, and we'll tell you how you can do it beautifully and correctly.

1. For any long nails, any color of varnish, from light to bright, can be suitable, but you can not tell about short nails. All shades will look stunning beautifully. The main condition for nails to look varnish, there must be a manicure.
2. If the colored varnish has thickened, then only one layer of varnish is enough. If you see that the lacquer is so thick that it is not possible to gently make up the nails, then you need to dilute the lacquer with a special remedy.
3. Before applying the varnish, you need a bottle of varnish to shake well and warm in the palms of your hands. The varnish is mixed and will become a uniform consistency and will lie evenly.
4. To begin to paint fingernails or nails it is necessary from a little finger. Put on the edge of the table fingers of the hand so that the palm hangs down, and the fingers are comfortably and stably located on the edge of the table. If you are right handed, the light on the nails should fall to the left and from above.
5. Brush the paint into the lacquer so that it is completely immersed in the lacquer. Then wipe the brush off the edge of the bubble, and the varnish for the most part will then remain on the outside of the brush. This side will paint the nail.
6. Divide mentally the fingernail across into 3 parts. Let's step back from the cuticle 1 part, let's drop the brush with the varnish on the nail so as not to stain the cuticle. Further confident fast movements we will spend a brush in the middle to an end of a fingernail, then on edges or territories of 2 or 4 smears a brush. We shall dip a brush in a vial again, if it is not enough varnish. If you see that the varnish on the nail is excessive, we will draw it with a brush, removing excess lacquer.
7. We will paint one nail and again we will brush a paintbrush in a varnish.
8. Dye our nails and leave to dry.

Only when the first layer of varnish dries, we will apply the next one, because the nails will then dry for a long time. How can I check if my fingernails are dry? The nail of one hand touches the other, as if slightly patting. If the nails are not stuck together, the varnish has dried. When the colored varnish is applied, we will apply a varnish-fixer or drying for nails.

How to make up short nails?

Do not confuse nails of medium length with nails short. Medium nails are easy to make up, as well as long, and when the nails are short, it is very difficult to make them beautiful and tidy.

For short nails, use a liquid lacquer. Thickened varnish on long nails can be applied smoothly, a second layer of varnish is not needed here, but a thick varnish on short nails will stain the skin around the nail. Do not put bright shades - the colors of fuchsia, yellow, black, red, it looks rather untidy. For short nails suitable translucent varnishes or pastel shades.

The principles of applying varnish will be the same as for long nails, but will be with some nuances:

1. Lacquer on the brush is typed a little so that there is no smearing of the varnish around the edges and avoiding excess.
2. If you leave the unpainted edges on the sides of the nail, then the short nails will appear more elegant and longer.
3. If you when you painted short nails, hooked the area around the nail, then you can not erase it neatly, remove large spots of varnish. In the gaps between the nail itself and between the skin, the varnish will come off when washing dishes or hands. Here the main thing is not to get on the cuticle with lacquer, it will be better not to finish it 1 mm before touching it.

Now we know how to properly paint your nails at home. Follow these tips and you will be able to properly do a manicure. That's all the subtleties that will help you.