Nails are one of the most sensitive parts of the body — many women get frostbite if they don’t keep their nails protected. Because your nails are so delicate, you need to be extremely careful when weeding around in the salon. Even a small bit of wear, over-drying, polishing, or polish application can cause your nails to crack, chip, split, and even break.
Below, we’ve rounded up a few helpful tips from Houstonian and style guru Nailnie Rose on how to prevent damage to your nail polish or how to prevent and repair nail damage. Happy doodling!
Protect with No-Style French
The key to keeping your polish from peeling from your nails is to use a non-type 1 French manicure tool. These polishes have a tough rubber coating to prevent your polish from getting too salty and get banged around.
Keep Your Nails Oil-Free
Oil is the number one reason nails get dull and discolored. It dries out nails and interferes with the polish’s ability to keep color on your nails.
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To remedy this, apply a hydrating moisturizer and hand cream into your hands and around your nails.
Plan Ahead for a Late Beauty Day
Most modern manicures that fall in the summer or fall look very similar, which results in super-dry nails, fading nails, and chipped and cracked polish. To prevent this, you must add an oil treatment to your manicure.
If you have more hours of downtime than you’d like to wait, you should add a protective top coat to keep your polish on your nails.
Restage Your Nails
The point is, we cannot reach for polish every day. So we should restage our nails before popping our polish in the morning. This will prevent that boring color that goes on unevenly on your nails and no longer looks like your nails.
Stay Hydrated
Nails need moisture. They are like our fingerprints, so we should wear something for extra support so your nails have structure.
Use a nail oil masque or polish for extra nourishment. Sunflower oil, coconut oil, jojoba oil, jojoba seed oil, jojoba essence oil, and tanning oils all work great.
And last but not least, you should avoid deep exfoliation and hand cleansers.
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