Home Manicure

Hands of an individual should look neat, clean and well groomed. Beauty of the hands lies in the softness, cleanliness and smoothness of them. Manicure helps a great deal in making the hands look healthy and clean. People often go to the salon to get the manicure done. However, manicure at the salons can be very expensive. An individual can do a manicure at home also, if one follows the below given steps properly. With the help of the instructions that have been stated hereunder, an individual would be able to do manicure at home in a professional manner, as is done in the salons.

First of all, make sure to remove nail polish from the nails, with the help of cotton soaked in nail polish remover. Thereafter, file the nails properly in the shape that you want.

Take a big bowl and make a mixture of water and soap. Soak the hands in this soapy mixture for around ten minutes. Make sure that the water is lukewarm. Adding some drops of almond oil or olive oil in the soapy water would be benefiting for the nails.

Take the hands out and clean them with a towel, making sure to press the cuticles with the edge of the towel in the. Apply some hand cream or cuticle oil on the nails and trim the loose skin, if any, with cuticle trimmer.

An exfoliating hand scrub is then taken and the hands are massaged with this scrub. This would help in getting rid of any dead skin, thus making the hands clean and soft. A good exfoliating hand scrub can be made at home by combining sugar and olive oil. Make use of circular motions to rub the mixture on the hands. Thereafter, rinse the hands and apply hand cream.

Make sure that the hand cream is absorbed into the hands completely before applying nail polish. First apply base coat for making the nail polish stay on the nails for a longer period of time. After it gets dry, apply nail polish of your choice. If the nail polish goes out of the nails, remove the excess with the help of cotton soaked in nail polish remover.

With the help of the above said tips of doing manicure at home, an individual would be able to get well groomed hands in a very less time span at a very economical price.