What To Expect In A Manicure?

It is a beauty treatment for fingernails and hands; it can be performed at home or in a nail salon. When this treatment is done on toes and feet it is called pedicure. Manicure is cutting, filing and shaping the free edge of your nails, pushing and clipping them with cuticle nippers, it also involves usage of various essential liquids, oils, and massage of hands and fingers.

It is a full treatment of nails, right from cleaning, trimming, shaping and polishing of nails to applying various oils and artificial gel nails, tips or acrylics also referred to as French manicures. And finally painting them for a fancy finish.

You can make use of a nail-cutter, scrub, filer and warm water to rinse of all the dead skin cells, so your hand is fresh and clean ready for exfoliation and further treatment. The warm water will help kill all the harmful bacteria and remove oils or previous nail colour traces or any stickiness from your hand, it also makes you feel at peace, just dipping your hands in warm water is extremely soothing. You must first use the cuter or trimmer to get your nails into the desired shape and size. Filer and the scrub could be used to wash away the dead skin cells or any dirt stuck in between your nails.

Manicure also attends to any skin problems you have around the nail like sore skin or tearing of skin, which though is a small part of the body, causes immense pain. You can use oils, cream, waxes to exfoliate and cleanse your finger nails and the skin around your nails. It will also enhance the texture of your nails and skin.

In this treatment you could use acupressure or plain hand massage techniques to stimulate and increase the blood flow and lymph flow to your finger tips and improve your skin health.

After the treatment comes the interesting part where you make your fingernails look good. You can start with shaping them polishing them and painting them, using base coat and top coat for lasting benefits, top coat will also leave you with a glossy look.

How is manicure helpful?

Other than making you look good and feel good manicures also have this side-effect of making you feel relaxed. That is not it, while you relax it will also help you improve your skin and nail health and give it an amazing texture.

What precautions to take?

It is advised that, if you have any sort of an injury- cut, rash, swelling, muscle strain you must inform your manicurist or wait for it to heal so that you enjoy the manicure to the fullest.

You can be assured that after a manicure, you will be left feeling at ease, relaxed, wit