The most important hand-care tip is to ditch the cuticle cutters and use a cuticle cream or oil. Cutting your cuticles can make them grow tougher and more jagged if not done properly.
The cuticle is like the root of your nail. If you want healthy and long nails you need to start taking care of your cuticles. All you need to do is use cuticle oil or cream and gently push back your cuticles.
The next tip for getting your hands extra moisturised. At night generously slather your hands in lotions, as well as the all-important cuticle oil, and then slip your gooey hands into cotton gloves. This retains moisture all night and you wake up with incredibly soft hands.
If your hands ever crack or get especially dry in the winter, you might want to look into a paraffin wax treatment.
Dip your hands several times in melted warm paraffin wax, let the wax harden around your hands, and then slip on towel-like mittens to keep in the warmth.
After about 10 to 15 minutes, or when the wax has completely hardened and cooled, you just crack off the wax and your skin feels crazy soft and rehydrated.
To remove glitter polish, soak cotton balls in nail polish remover and let them rest on your painted nails for a little while. It will loosen the polish.
Then when you squeeze the cotton balls down and pull them off the nail, the majority of the polish should come off.
Sometimes rubbing off dark polishes can stain your skin or even push pigment under your cuticles, so this is great solution.
Always use a base coat when painting your nails with anything colourful.
There is nothing more frustrating than waiting for weirdly stained and nasty looking nails to grow out.
If you do accidentally stain your nails, there are a few things you can do to minimise the damage. First, lightly buff the surface of your nails with a fine grit nail buff to help remove the stains; typically stains are only in the superficial layers of your nails so buffing them can make a big difference. Just remember buffing can also make your nails thinner and weaker if do it too aggressively, so go easy. After gently buffing, scrub your nails with a soft toothbrush using a mixture of peroxide, baking soda, and lemon juice, to help clean out any residual stains.
