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Whether you spend the winter months traveling to faraway destinations or hunkering down for more than a month in your apartment, the time is now to tackle those tough nail salon visits. But no need to go crazy or make yourself feel guilty for thinking it’s time to get your beauty treatment on—there are easy-to-use tricks that can improve your manicure quality and confidence.

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Perhaps your nails are still feeling ragged from the long winter-seasony wear, or you may have decided you don’t want to be caught off guard with a new cut if you haven’t had a chance to properly plan a new manicure yet. We’ve sifted through our years of experience to share some of the most common yet simple techniques that can make your mani-pedi the most perfect, and ultimately, most attractive option possible.

1. Stick With Your Favorite Tips

There’s nothing worse than getting a new manicure and then feeling too tempted to try your best manicure out. So don’t ruin your effort on a few inappropriate, weird or impatient-looking colors, and stick to the old favorites: red, pink, or dark and delicate colors like red or silver. A gentle layer of color of your favorite shade, or a few less fussy warm finishes like nude or sandblasted bronze, add a little zing of shine, and let the natural mahogany and ivory of your nails do their best to give the impression that you are, in fact, a few shades from a full, deep red.

2. Use Lid Basics

Nonstick liners are all the rage in beauty salons this year, and not only is this an amazing necessity to use in drying your nails, but they also come in one of the best color varieties out there: turquoise. Mix the after-splash liners with your color of choice (we recommend holding on to a set of Moroccan Oil’s New Brighten Gel Top Coat for that boost in color), and we guarantee that the final manicure you get will appear a different color all over. We dare you not to get a little wild with that color wheel when you try out the turquoise!

3. Warm your Nails

Things can be a little bit more unforgiving outside of a run-of-the-mill salon setting than you may have imagined. For that reason, as warm and natural as you can get your nails, the problem of dullness is gone, and it’s good to remember that it takes a little more effort, a bit more care, and a little bit more strategy to get the perfect natural appearance you desire.

A layer of heat of a black polish (again, turquoise is great) or a dramatic base coat of chip-friendly color, mixed with a little bit of bare polish or a soft top coat or topcoat, ensures that the polish they’ve put on your nails will continue to stay on them, and never shine off. So long as your nails aren’t too brittle to support the product so your manicure doesn’t peel or chip, we’d recommend just focusing on neutral colors and raw finishes and mixing them with something that is a little fun and lush, just to keep things interesting and fun.

4. Clean Nails

If you have some time on your hands today, and the top coat already on your nails and color is not quite done, then that’s where you can strike while the iron is hot. We recommend a little bit of a cleaning technique in the form of a scrubbing down your manicure, and a little soothing stuff like make-up remover and warm water or lemon juice to help freshen up the polish for your next big manicure or last-minute weekender trip. You’ll thank yourself later when it comes time to check your favorite images, or when your boyfriend asks how gorgeous you are in a photo and you just can’t help but mention how much longer you’ve been off the grid since your own manicure.

Now let’s get going, and try out some new (and hopefully safer) manicures.