When removing your old nail polish, soak enough nail polish remover on a cotton ball and remove the colour from your nails starting with your writing hand.
Pick a file that has three to four different textures, a coarse filing texture, a fine filing texture and a buffer.
When filing, don't scrub backwards and forwards across the nail as this will damage the nail and cause splitting. Draw the file gently over the nail in one direction only.
The shape you're aiming for is squared off tips, with soft rounded edges. Filing your nails to a narrow point only weakens them.
The only time you should be filing from the sides is if you have a breakage.
If you have ridged nails, rub the buffing surface over the nail in one direction to remove ridges, strengthen the nail bed and provide a perfectly smooth surface. This is the ideal foundation for nail polish.
The best time to push your cuticles back is when they are soft, so after you've been soaking in a warm bath or doing the washing up without gloves. Use an orange stick to gently push back the skin, lifting it off the nail.
Use a good hand cream or cuticle cream every night to keep cuticles supple and moisturised - a soft cuticle is a healthy cuticle.
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