Nails Tutorial

The use of nail polish dates back to thousands of years ago and probably originated from China. India also has an age old tradition of using nail polishes. Later it got spread to western countries. Initially these polishes were of herbal in nature- mostly made out of vegetables, herbs, eggs and gums that got mixed with colours. Later, they started including oils, creams, perfumes and metals into these polishes that made up the present forms of nail polishes. These compounds have been ever changing with newer inventions in the fields.

Most of these nail polishes contain organic polymers with many other additives added for thickness, durability, perfume and shine/ glitter. These ordinary nail polishes are less durable and get chipping or cracking within 2 or 3 days. How to do your Nail polish or Nail art
• The first thing you need to do, if you are already having stains of nail polish previously applied to the nails, is to remove the old polish and the stains from your nails. This is done by applying the nail polish remover (or acetone solution) and / or by scratching the nails with tools and then washing your hands with water and soaps. You may find some more instruction regarding how to remove gel nail polish with your kit of nail polish.
• The next step is to trim your nails with the nail cutter. While trimming, you may need to take care that entire tips are not removed. Leave some extra nail than your actual finger size so that it will look better and there is enough space to apply your nail arts.
• Manicuring the fingers by softening the skin around nails and removal of dead skin or trimming of cuticles also needs to be done before applying nail polish. This is done with the help of manicuring tools available in the cosmetics market. Filing of nail edges for perfect shapes is also a part of manicuring.
• Now, you can apply the base coat. Base coats are done with transparent ordinary nail polishes mostly either of white colour, skin colour or very thin light colours. Allow the base coat to dry for one or two minutes.
• After the base coat, you can apply one more top coat with any colour of nail polish or with a gel nail polish. This will make your base more durable and solid for performing nail art work. This top coat also needs to be dried for some minutes before doing designs or art work on the nails. If you are not interested in giving the top coat at this stage, then proceed with nail art straight away.
• If you applied a top coat after the base coat, then you can do all your nail art work more safely using different techniques and easy nail art designs that are available as discussed below in other capsules. The artwork will be more durable if done after a top coat or second coat.
• Remember that each coat should be allowed to dry well before doing the other coat or performing the artwork.
• After completing nail art, you need to give one more top coat to protect the artwork from damages. This will lengthen the life of nail art.
• The important thing to remember about nail designs and nail nail art is to be creative, express yourself, and most importantly - have fun!

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