Simple Manicure Tutorial

Here's, as promised, my simple manicure tutorial WITH VID!

I did this manicure on a good friend of mine. (I'm sorry for the crappy quality)

Here are the simple steps, again:

1. desinfect and cuticles

desinfect both of your hands. Push back the cuticles with a cuticlepusher, and scrape away the dead tissue with a cuticlescraper and the backside of your cuticlepusher, Again remeber to keep your tool nice and flat so you won't put too much pressure on the nail and you won't hurt your client. Also be carefull with your scraper, It's a sharp tool and you don't want to remove layers of the natural nail.

cuticlepusher and cuticlescraper

2. trim cuticles

You can do this with a trimmer, but I chose to do it with my scraper, as it is a very sharp tool and I won't have to worry I trim too much (plus I can work very precise with this tool). Gently scrape away the excess cuticle, don't trim too much! Your cuticles are there for blocking bacteria!!! 

sharp blades on the cuticlescraper

3. clean and file

Clean up the nails with nailcleaner en start filing. I'm using a glass file and a 240grid file. Allways file one direction only when you're filing on natural nails. When you're done filing, buff the nail with your whiteblock. 

glass file and 240grid file

whiteblock 

4. remove dust

Remove the dust with a brush and cleanser.

5. apply basecoat

Apply a strengthning basecoat to harden and protect the nails. These basecoats tend to dry pretty fast. But make sure the nails are completely dry before you begin with the next step.

6. Creme and oil

Apply some nutricious handcreme and cuticle oil and massage it in. I'm using a pipette to apply my cuticle oil, because it's hygienic. I believe that using the same brush from the oil on every client can transfer bacteria from the one client to the other. I keep the brush for myself :).

Handcreme and cuticle oil

cuticle oil and pipette

And that's it! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. 

xoxo