At-Home Manicure

Have your nails cleaned and polished quickly!

1. Wash your hands or dip your hands to a bowl of clean, warm water. Wash with soap, to get your hands and fingernails clean. Nails have to be cleaned before you give them a manicure.

2. Start cutting your nails. If you have long nails, cut them shorter. Don't cut too short, and most importantly don't cut in squared shape!

3. Start to stroke the tips of the fingernails with an emery board. In this step you get to form the shape of the nail. Oval is recommended than square because when it grows it looks longer and better. Square is not a very preferred shape because nails don't look good when it grows in a square shape.

4. Take a hand lotion and massage it to your hand. Massage your hand in a circling manner. This helps the blood to circulate to the hand better.

5. Dip your hands to another bowl of clean, warm water for ten seconds. Wipe off after that with a clean cloth or hand towel.

6. There are two options left; either to paint your nails in color or in transparent polish. Transparent polish is perfect if your school don't allow girls to paint their nails in color. Transparent color also gives the glossy look on your nails, so that it looks healthier.

7. If you decide to paint your nails in color... Apply two coats of base coat to your nails. The base coat help protect the nails from turning yellow when you paint your nails. Yellow nails don't look attractive right? That's why you apply a base coat!

8. Apply three coats of nail polish of your desired color on your nails. Three coats of nail polish is applied so that the polish doesn't come off easily, and in a bad way.

9. This is optional: Apply one coat of transparent polish on your nails. This gives the glossy look on your nails!

10. YOU'RE DONE!

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