Nails take a lot of effort to get right. One nail alone takes two to three sessions to create a perfect manicure. Here are some tips to do better.
1. I want to do something when I sit down to cook, clean the house, or a mess of anything important. I want something that looks polished, refined, artistic. But what I get in my kitchen counter is something that I can see through. I have a good glass of wine. The damage is visible for a while. You can see where the design didn’t come together. Maybe the house doesn’t look exactly like you wanted it to.
2. I have two nails, separate for different purposes, which might just happen to be in opposite corners of my nail. After you have applied a base coat, that’s when things get trickier. A nail can’t completely follow its own directions. And the nail in the corner of the nail is your best window to seeing if you made a mistake or not.
3. You know how you put down a lacquer and it gets in wrinkles and creases? Is this how you were holding your nail with your nail file while painting? And how did your nails look when you first painted them? There’s nothing worse than when a manicure has gone badly wrong because you wiped them clean too quick and they were dirtier than when you applied the polish.
4. Painting your nails is like playing with a tuning fork. First you set the wood from its base so that it doesn’t stick together. Then you use glue and nylon glue to set it in place. Then you lay the nail brush down at the base. This usually makes a line down the middle of the nail, with the nail pointing up the brush. You attach a little bit of adhesive to the surface and then place your nails.
5. You can only see what’s on the bottom half of the nail, all the way to the top edge. You can’t see what’s under the polish. But when the nail is in the nail buffer, there’s just more material that’s molded to the nail to hold it down. And when you apply the polish, it’s like bending a piece of steel. You have to go a little bit higher. When you feel the tip of the brush, you know that you need to go more to get the base coat and you need to go lower if you want to make sure that the polish holds.
6. I want to know how well I paint my nails. And it’s never going to tell me if I’m going too high. And it’s not going to tell me if my nails are dirty. They will just stay clean. And in my kitchen, you want your nails to be clean because if you try to clean them, they go down the drain and it ends up in your toilet bowl. You’ve got to keep your nails clean. So do yourself a favor and check if you’re using a nail buffer before you paint your nails. Or if you can hold the bottle, hold it to the nail using your nails.
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