Best tips that how to prevent nail polish from chipping

Best tips that how to prevent nail polish from chipping.

In this article I'm gonna take you guys through my own at-home manicure and the

different tips and tricks that I do to keep my nail polish lasting longer.

I have a full article on how to do your own manicure at home and I will link that

for you guys down below if you want to see an in my article and how to do

that yourself this is just going to be more on the different tips that I do to

keep my polish lasting longer.

The first thing I'm going to do is remove the old

nail polish etc,,,,,,,,

 Make sure that you're using a good nail polish remover and I really like using with lint or cotton

balls because it removes all that leftover polish on my nails because

sometimes you can still have leftover base coat cuz it's clear on there and

you can't really see it so you just want to make sure you remove everything now.

I want them but I find that when your nails are shorter your nail polish

lasts a whole lot longer than when they're longer I think is when they're

longer they just hit more on things and they just chip a whole lot easier so

just try keeping your nails a little shorter and I guarantee you will see a

big difference now I'm just taking my nail file, this is actually just made for

natural nails.

 And I'm just gonna be filing around the edges of my nails.

 you want to make sure you also file the corners of your nails.

 A lot of people forget about that but that's usually

where your nail polish will start chipping. first so if your nails have a

nice clean edge there's no hang nails or anything and everything is nice and

smooth and your nail polish is just gonna stay on a whole lot longer.

some people also say not to stall back and forth but I think as long as you do

it gently and you have strong nails I never have a problem with I never have

any splitting or anything your nails are very weak then you want to follow in the

same direction.

 Today I'm gonna be using a wooden cuticle pusher but you can use anything. wooden sticks that have a little bit of grit at the end and that's gonna help scrape off the cuticles that are on your actual nail.

 so I think this is the most important step to keeping your nail

polish lasting longer is pushing back your cuticles if your cuticles are too

long then they start to come up over your nail and then if you polish your

nails the nail polish can just get all over those and it just won't stay on

right in your nail polish will start peeling up from the bottom so just

pushing it back and removing any of the skin that is on your nail is essential

to keep your nail polish lasting longer so that's what I'm just doing here I'm

just gently pushing it back and then since it's metal you can easily use that

to scrape off the excess skin that is on actual nail if you do this after you get

out of the shower or if you soak your nails in water it will be a whole lot

easier to remove that extra skin.

So after you push back your cuticles you might find that there might still be a

little bit of skin on there you can just see where you were scraping it back and

that's where the buffer block comes in if you want to skip pushing back your

cuticles you can also just go straight to the buffer block but the buffer block

makes a huge difference in how smooth your nail is it'll just smooth out any

of the ridges and you have the extra skin that might still be on there.

 I like to just hold my cuticles back on the side so I can really get on the sides

and remove all that extra stuff gets rid of any stains from nail polish that's

been on there for a while and my nails also peel on the top so this really

helps smooth all that out after that comes off it just makes it totally

smooth again cuccio polish goes on perfectly and it also has a better

surface for the nail polish to stick to which makes it stay on a whole lot Longer.

If your nails are super slick and shiny then the nail polish doesn't and

hear as much to it.

so now you can tell my nails look like brand-new compared to before set lobbies

in the Burt's Cuccio natural  milk & honey cuticle cream.

  because it keeps your cuticles from getting too dry and cracked and it keeps you from getting hang nails but if you're going to be using any cuticle Creams, or cuticle oils you want to make sure you wash your hands with soap and water before you paint your nails.

Because you don't want any oil residue on your nails and you also want to a

coarse wash your nails with soap and water to remove all of that dust from

filing and buffing the nails then you just want to let them set for a little

bit so they can totally dry so you're not painting over any moisture that

might still be on your nails.

So now I'm going to be applying a base coat  this is this session a this is the

same thing as the cuccio top coat that I'm going to be using later on but

this is the base coat version a base coat is so important for your nail

polish lasting longer it not only fills in any ridges and stuff because this base hood actually is for rich filling.

 But it also just provides something for the nail polish

to stick to it just makes it go on a whole lot smoother it makes it last a

whole lot longer so I definitely recommend applying a base coat. before it

will also prevent your nail polish from staining your natural nails so this

dries pretty quick but I'm just gonna let it set for a second just to make

sure it totally dries before I move on to the Polish so the formula and of

course the brand has everything to do with how long your nail polish lasts.

 I personally really like Cuccio that's my favorite,, I find it lasts a really long

time especially when I use a topcoat. with it I also like O.P.I but I feel it

doesn't last quite as long I can get a few more days wear out of the Cuccio

polishes but today I'm just gonna be using the O.P.I one because I wanted to

paint my nails this red color so when you're painting your nails you want to

make sure you avoid getting it on your cuticles at all if any of the nail

polish gets on your cuticles.

  I like to take like a cuticle stick or something just to wipe it off or either I use my

other nail because you want to avoid getting it on your cuticles if it dries

Over top your skin then eventually that nail polish will peel off and it can

also peel off the polish that's actually on your nail so you just want it to only

adhere to the nail and not get on the skin or anything so when I'm painting my

nails I like to leave a little bit of a border around the nails even on the

sides and if you're using an OPI polish or even some of the drugstore polishes

come with that wider brush and that makes it a whole lot easier to apply

polish perfectly if you do get any polish on your skin you can just take

one of these wooden sticks and dip it in

some nail polish remover or you can use it dry - and just go around the edge of

your nail to remove that polish so another thing I like to do is actually

paint the tips of my nails you want to totally wipe off your nail polish brush

because you don't want a big glob to end up on the top.

I'm just really lightly going over with whatever is left over on my brush just

to paint the tips because especially when you're wearing a dark color

sometimes you can see where the end of your nail isn't painted especially if

you have really thick nails that really shows up better but I find that this

also helps the nail polish to last longer because I end up not having as

much wear on the tips if I actually paint the tips of my nails.

 So now I'm,,,,,

just applying another coat of Polish and the trick with nail polish is applying

to very thin coats of Polish if you apply it too thick or you use a nail

polish that's old and it's a really goopy and stuff it'll just peel right

off so it can't be too thick but you still want to have two layers to get

that opaque color so just do two very thin layers.

Now that I'm done with the nail polish I'm just gonna let this dry almost

totally a hundred percent before I go in with my top coat so now for top coat I'm

gonna be using my cuccio---- fast dry top coat and I like this one because it

does dry really fast top coat also just covers up any imperfections like if you

bump your nail when you're letting them dry or anything or you get a dent and

then where you just didn't clean them very well it just smooths over

everything it makes it look perfect and also make sure nail polish lasts so much

longer and a whole set shine too because sometimes a lot of nail polishes can

just look dull after a while especially if you don't have on a top coat.

So a top coat just makes the world of a difference especially a good one like

this one another thing you also want to keep in mind when you're applying a

topcoat is to make sure you totally follow through with your stroke so by

that I mean when you start at the bottom make sure you go all the way to the tip

of your nail and then you also want to cap off your nail too like I did with

the regular nail polish that's gonna ensure that it doesn't ship on the ends

because when you're using it clear it's hard to see that you might not have

gotten the tips especially if you're working really quickly the tips can kind

of get avoided a little bit.

 so just make sure you're going all the way to the end of your nail so the tip is also covered very well.

so now our nails are finally done I'm just gonna let these dry a little bit

and then I have perfect long lasting nails and they will last me about a week

sometimes they last even longer especially if I use an cuccio polish some

of the drugstore brands that I really like that are very long wearing are the

sinful colors sinful shine it's the gel polishes the ones that have like a gel

technology in this and there's also some from the drugstore like the cuccio

extreme where once those also lasts a really long time so I hope you all

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