The editorial staff of Wday.ru and Elena Larshina, the leading instructor-technologist of “Manicure Express”, have collected the top 5 procedures for hands, when performed only once a week, your hands will look perfect, and your nails will become strong and healthy!
As the world famous Coco Chanel used to say, “hands are a girl’s calling card.” Therefore, you need to take care of them and pay special attention to them. In addition to regular manicure, it is necessary to use moisturizers every day, do not forget to thoroughly dry your hands after any interaction with water, and also wear rubber gloves when doing housework.
Thanks to this useful and pleasant procedure, the skin of the hands and nails will be beautiful, hydrated and healthy. When masters make paraffin baths, they use the immersion method: hands are dipped into paraffin several times, thus building up a certain layer, then the hands are wrapped in polyethylene and a terry cloth. And after the procedure, be sure to lubricate your hands with a moisturizer.
Paraffin baths will help to cope with dryness, cracks, burrs, flaking and redness. When the skin heats up, blood circulation increases, the skin sweats, and with the sweat all the toxins are released. And when the paraffin cools down, it stretches the skin and smoothes out wrinkles, making the skin even, smooth and soft, and the nails strong and elastic, so they do not break or exfoliate.
A simple but necessary procedure for hands and nails, which should be done 4–5 times a month. For baths, use ordinary or mineral water, as well as decoctions of chamomile, oak bark and other plants or oil. All ingredients must be preheated.
The benefits of such baths are felt after the first procedure: the skin of the hands is noticeably softened, and the nails become stronger. For those with flaky or brittle nails, it is recommended to soak with sea salt or iodine.
And for those who want to return a beautiful shade and transparency to their nails, we recommend adding 5-7 drops of lemon juice to the bath.
Regular nail compresses will significantly improve their condition and appearance. The most common are compresses with vegetable oils and glycerin. The recipe is very simple: you need to mix olive (or sunflower) oil with lemon juice and glycerin in proportions of 3: 1: 1. Stir the mixture thoroughly and use a brush to apply to nails like a regular varnish.
Another good remedy is iodine. Apply it to your nails and let dry. It is better to do this procedure at night, since the nails acquire a not very aesthetic appearance for some time. However, by the morning the iodine will be absorbed, and its remains can be easily washed off.
Fresh potatoes are also good for compresses. It should be grated, applied to nails and held for 40-60 minutes, and then rinsed with warm water and applied to the nails with a nourishing cream.
Do not forget about such a procedure as nail masks. All the required ingredients for masks are always at hand: vegetable oil, honey, lemon juice, iodine, vitamin E, sea salt.
Remember to heat the oil and honey in a water bath before preparing the mask. A mask of salt and lemon juice will help whiten your nails, and a mask with iodine and vitamin E will make your marigolds strong, oil and honey will nourish and saturate them with useful substances, preventing fragility and stratification.
Masks, like baths, are recommended to be done about once a week for 15–20 minutes.
A hot manicure is recommended for people with dry skin. It’s no secret that if the skin is too dry and dehydrated, then wrinkles and cracks soon appear on it. The use of hand cream does not always help in solving this problem. A hot manicure multiplies the effect of the cream and gives an excellent result.
The procedure is very similar to paraffin therapy, but differs from the latter in that it has no contraindications. A hot manicure is done in a special electric bath, where a special cream, oil or lotion is heated to 55 degrees.
The temperature is specially selected in order to activate vital processes in skin cells, increase blood circulation and open pores. As a result, the nutrients contained in the cream penetrate the cells much better, moisturizing the skin several times more.