It’s easy to forget to take proper care of your nails during this time of year, so much so that some women experience split ends and dry nails come March. To keep your nails healthy this winter, here are seven easy tips that can help protect them from the dreaded dryness.
1. Treat Your Nails With Moisturizer After Clients
Instead of buying a bottle of nail polish remover, treat your nails with a moisturizer and your moisturizer will help your dry nails and split ends heal faster.
2. Dry Your Nails With Green Cloth
A tube of nail polish remover is more likely to damage your nail bed than with cloths. Instead, gently apply colorless green cloth to your nail bed, let it dry, and then follow with a plastic scrubbing pad. Rinse your entire nail bed as soon as the formula has been absorbed.
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3. Use Antiperspirant
No, this doesn’t mean you should spray a pheromone from your armpit to help with your dry, split ends. In fact, if you’re an odor sensitive person like me, making your bed harder to clean (see tip #2), may also cause your dry, split ends to become worse.
4. Check Your Ointment
After making sure your ointment has a moisturizing ingredient, remove it by licking it with a penny. If you really want to avoid damaging your nails, rinse out your bottle with clean water before applying.
5. Minimize Your Cleansing Time
Not only will it speed up the healing process, but also you’ll be reducing your time of cleaning at the office or with a manicure client.
6. Remember to Check Your Diet
If you are an energy vampire and eat two to three meals a day but have only taken half an hour to get your evening started, you are likely to have dry, split ends. Also, be sure to check your diet to ensure you are not ingesting products that can strip your nails of the moisture that normally coats them. If you have a lot of vitamin C, zinc, vitamin B complex, or beta carotene, you may have to make sure that is taken before applying moisturizer to your nails.
7. Decrease Your Daily Pat Day
Unless you are one of those people who constantly pat their nails down with cotton balls — which is gross — you don’t want to apply a damp ointment to your nails on a daily basis. Also, cutting down on the amount of times you pat your nails down will save you time since it will reduce the length of drying time and decrease the potential for dry, split ends.
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