Nail Care - Tips For Healthy, Beautiful Nails

Caring for nails is equally important as taking care and pampering all the other body parts. They just don't enhance the beauty but also reflect one's health. Many health specialists can guess a person's diseases with the color and texture of one's nails. In easiest way it can be said that eating healthy food and keeping the nails clean and cut properly keeps them in good condition.

But in today's world where there is no end of creativity, nails too have become a person's beauty symbol and there are many ways to keep the nails look artistic. Gone are the days when women use to wear just nail colors and used to keep the nails long in round shape. Now they are done by art and decoration on them.

They are paint by many shades in different strokes and are given many shapes as square, round, flat and slight curves. Designer nails and artificial acrylic nails are the trend of the season. Women do wear long artificial nails matching with their outfits to make their fingers look different and they do different art work on the nails to make them appear unique by using gels, colors, sequins on them. In body nails have the function to protect the fingertips' flesh and help us to deal with many little works as opening a lid or scratching some object. Nails are made of keratin an object in the body.

If kept in water for long time nails become dry and brittle and their texture becomes rough. One needs to put moisturizer on the nails or can put vitamin E oil to keep them soft and smooth. Smoking damages nails very badly so one should avoid smoking or should cut off the intake to keep oneself healthy and to keep the nails healthy. Women who always keep color coated on the nails too spoil the health of their nails. Too much nail polish makes the color of the nails yellow or pale so at times one should keep the nails color free and let them breath. Nails keep on growing so one need to regularly clean them and keep them in shape. To make give them a perfect look after cleaning and shaping them, one can put transparent color on them to make them appear natural.

Here are a few easy steps to clean nails at home with or without a manicure kit

for an easy manicure at home, remove the already coated nail polish from the nails with a good branded nail polish remover. Avoid using acetone on nails; many women use it to remove nail polish because it cheap but it damages the outer layer of the nails so one should invest in a recognized brand's nail polish remover.

After removing the nail polish soak the nails with a mild solution in lukewarm water for 5 minutes. Wipe them off and massage with some vitamin E enriched cream or cuticle based cream on the nails and with the help of the cuticle cutter, which is specifically made to remove the dead skin, removes the cuticles from the nails. Wipe the cream or oil off with a napkin or cotton ball. Now cut and shape the nails in a way and size you want.

Cutting and shaping the nails after soaking them up is easier because it makes the nails soft and easy to shape. Now you can apply base coat of the nail polish on your nails and then apply the polish. To give the final touch to your nails and to lock the nail seal the nail polish with a transparent coat on it. It keeps the color stay for longer on the nails. When the nail color dries 3/4 th way, then soak the nails in chilled water for few minutes. It will lock the color on the nails for longer time. Now massage your nails with a light moisturizer and your hands are ready to make everybody jealous with their fabulous look.

Shaping and cutting nails perfectly needs a little practice and patience. To learn it perfectly one can get it done once by a professional expert and can do it at home with one's own home manicure kit. If the nails have become yellow with the excessive use of nail colors then on should rub the lemon peel on the nails and should leave the juice on them for a while. One should stop applying nail colors for the time being to get the natural white and bright color of the nails.

Caring the cuticle

cuticle is live skin to protect the nails. One should not remove it harshly or just like that. It's the white skin, which we get on our nails around the joint of them with the finger of the skin. It should be push behind gently with the cuticle cutter to avoid any kind of nail and skin injury or infection. If one finds some pus or pain in or around the nails, one should take medical help immediately. One should never bite or chew nails as it spoils the nails and one's health.