Manicure Hand and Nails at Home

Doing manicure at home is not at all difficult. It's a very easy procedure which can be done easily at home and saves lots of your money which you usually have to pay to a beauty saloon if you go there to get your manicure done.

Just invest once in a good manicure kit and 100 times you can do it yourself as per your comfort in at your home to beautify your hands. Do it by yourself you need a nail polish remover, cotton, base coat and a nail color of your choice, nail cutter and filer, hand cream, scrubber, a small tub to soak your hands in, a clean napkin to wipe your hands and a manicure kit which have essential tools to polish nails and remove cuticles without damaging them. Follow these steps to manicure your hands at home-

1. Remove the nail polish from your nails with a good quality nail polish remover. If the color still persist in the corners or cuticles then remove it with the cuticle stick or if you don't have one you can use the ear bud after soaking it in the nail polish remover to clean the nail polish from corners and cuticles.
2. Soak the nails in the lukewarm olive oil or water for few minutes it makes them softer to cut them easily and give a good shape. Wipe the nails off with cotton or napkin and cut them properly. Now give them the desired shape with the filer. Some people like to keep them flat, some square and most of the people like to give them oval shape.
3. After shaping the nails now its time to cut the cuticles.Cuticles should not be scratched otherwise it harms the nails and the joint of the nail with the finger. So with the help of cuticle cutter, push the edges back so that the white cuticles don appear on the nails.
4. Now soak the hands in the lukewarm soapy water. Soap should be mild for the hands as excessive soda in soaps makes the hands dry and rough. Now apply scrubber on the hands and wash it off. Brush the nails with a soft manicure brush. If you don't have one, you can use your old soft toothbrush to help you with this.
5. Now wipe off your hands and massage them well with the hand cream or moisturizer.
6. Wipe off the nails from a cotton ball so that no traces of soap or cream are left on them. Now apply the base coat on the nails, let it dry and apply another coat. When it gets dry then apply the transparent coat to lock the color of the nails.
7. When the nails color is 3/4 th dry, soak them in chilled water in a bowl for few minutes. It freezes the color on the nails and helps it stay on them for longest time.

Now your beautiful nails and hands are ready to make many jealous of them. For the natural beauty of nails eat balanced food including dairy products and take vitamins in adequate quantity.