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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. 

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How to create newspaper-nails

Today I'll tel you how to create easy and cute newspaper nails. I can't upload videos yet, because the harddisc of my laptop is broken so it's very slowww... I'll try to upload vids as soon as possible!

Here are the simple steps:

1. Prep

Give your nails an easy prep. It  doesn't need to be as thorough as with gel or acrylic nails. Just push back your cuticles, and just scrape away the dead tissue a little bit. Then file your nails in the shape that you want, one direction only, and buff, just a little, on top of the nail with a whiteblock. Remove the dust with a brush.

2. Basecoat

Begin with a (strengthening) basecoat to protect your natural nails and let it dry. Basecoats tend to dry 

pretty fast.

3. Polish

Paint your nails any color you want, I chose a grey/ brown-ish color. If necessary apply 2 coats of 

polish.

4. Let it dry!

And make sure it is completely dry before you start with the next step. It's best to wait too long than too short, because if the polish is still a little wet, the next step won't work properly.

5. Apply newspaper

Select 10 tiny pieces of newspaper, best is to pick pieces with small letters. Just cut or rip them out of the newspaper. Then you'll need some alcohol. This technique is also possible with water but alcohol works way better! Just dip your nails, one by one, in the alcohol, or tap your nails with an alcoholpad. Hold it there for a couple of seconds and then remove it from the alcohol. Then press your piece of newspaper firmly on your nail and hold it for at least 10 seconds. Make sure every piece of your nail has newspaper on it. You can choose to apply a little bit more alcohol on top of your nail with the newspaper.

Now release the piece of newspaper and tadaahh.. You now have cool newspaper nails.

6. Topcoat

Just finish of with a sealing topcoat to protect your design.

I'm sure you'll amaze your friends with this cool design. Good luck and let me know if you tried it!

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