Cuticle Care tip

The cuticle is the protective layer of skin between the outside part and the matrix of the nail, when you care for your cuticle- you preserve the health of your nails.

The nail is a protective covering composed of dead cells filled with a protein called Keratin.
The part of nail you see is Lunula and it is dead, underneath the nail surface is a life tissue. Nails grow out from underneath the matrix, as new cells are built old dead cells are pushed forward and that is the nail you trim and file. Repetitive pressure or strain on the nail can cause breakage and splits.

Eating a balanced and nutrient filled diet (fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains) will help improve your nails, hair, skin, health generally. Calcium and fluoride do not build nails, the nail is made of keratin, proteins build nail.

Cuticle Care: The best way to keep your nails healthy while avoiding nail problems will be to push back little cuticles every now and then with a soft bamboo cuticle pusher-Do not over do this. The cuticle is what protects your nails from infections or foreign invaders from getting into the inner matrix of your nail. (Source-healthy nails). 
 Trimming too much nails and cuticle can cause weak, brittle, ridge dented, peeling, unevenly growing nails?This problem may take time to heal anywhere from 3months to a year if healthy conditions are encouraged like eating balanced diet, eliminating toxins and taking additional supplement.

Avoid metal cuticle tools that appear too harsh because it can cause damage to nails, use it carefully and occasionally. The less you manipulate and cut your cuticle the better off your nails will be. Avoid cutting or trimming of the cuticle. Leave the cuticle alone, do not trim nail too short that hurts the nail bed. Over filling can tear nails and cause severe nail problems.

Push back the cuticles a little using a bamboo manicure stick, do not pull, lift, cut, tear or forcefully rip cuticle. Apply garlic cuticle oil, almond oil, jojoba oil, aloe vera, Jason fortifying nail saver.

Soft nails are more prone to damage and tears, so never file your nails while wet. Dry nails before filling, use gentle file and pressure to shape nails. Some advice that you file your nail in one direction this is not as important as filling gently, you can file in crossed direction so longs as you use gentle filing strokes. Don’t file too close to the nail bed. Keep it simple and neat.

Expensive nail treatment or polish doesn’t equal to a good looking and healthy nails so beware of nail salon price scam. Some nail products promise great things by adding protein, calcium, amino acid to help nails grow faster this is not the case, The nail are dead, all the protein and amino acids applied in your nail polish won’t make a big difference when you don't get a proper nutrition and especially if you use products that contain some toxic ingredients like formaldehyde. Formaldehyde toughens the nail but at the same turn causing damage to nails. 

Natural is beautiful in its own way- its human been natural. Avoid keeping nail polish in cold area to avoid condensation, exposure to cold air-thickens and dries it. Keep it airtight or it will condense and harden with exposure to air like how it dries on your nails.
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Why Fake/Acrylic nails

Let me tell you a quick story, I had an Aunty who enjoys looking good like Fran Drescher in the Tv show "the nanny named fran" and like the ladies in pretty woman (favorite comedy). She always had her nails done, hair done, beautiful and that is what most women want each individual, her own taste. My Aunty had a taste for acrylic nails, it looked pretty but one day she was wearing a long red polished acrylic toe nail while climbing the stairs she mistakenly stepped on the wrong side of the door, as she pulls away from the door so did her toe nail, the nail lifted off her nail bed, it was the first time I saw that happen, it was bloody gruesome, too sad to see her pretty nails destroyed. So it’s wise to have a grasp of the pros and cons of what you do with your nails and how long is safe.

It remains a mystery to me why many women wear on toxic nails. Now tell me if these disorders associated with acrylic nail treatment such as horizontal (grooves that develop at the beginning of the nail bed close to the cuticle, the greening or yellowing of the natural nail, thinning of nails, is worth your hard earned money- what is the value? Is what we ought to ask, Are your nail product ingredient safe and healthy. Is it really fashionable?

Drill techniques equipment are used by manicurist to buff out the acrylic nail or to roughen up the natural nail surface to create better adhesion to the fake nail. This nail equipment is used to speed up the process because using emery board is time consuming. However, it is best to use an emery board on the nail but this is usually not what is used by the manicurist in the salon.

Thinning of the nail occurs when the acrylic nail are removed once the nail is weakened and damaged from acrylic application there’s nothing you can do to fix the damage but only give it time to renew itself is all you can do and that is if you prevent more damage from occurring by not applying acrylic and toxic ingredients to your hands.

Applying acrylic nails on top of your natural nail can cause nail damage. If lifted accidentally from your nail bed it can cause separation of nails from the nail bed allowing bacteria and fungus to enter the area causing infections like onyolysis because these nail harbor bacteria and fungus; and that is the reason why most hospital and food companies do not allow acrylic artificial nails; to prevent the spread of infection. The chemicals and file procedure used when applying Acrylic nail makes finger nail turn yellowish or greenish-yellow.
Avoid wearing this kind of nail when caring for an infant/baby.

Inflammation may occur as an allergic reaction to chemicals in the nail product or from acrylic materials. 

Another painful problem is only chotysis (separation nail bed) acrylic nails look more colorful: here you have it- According to Dr Draelos” the adhesion between the artificial nail and the natural plate is stronger than the adhesion between the natural nail plate and the nail bed”. It can cause your real nail to pop out if the artificial nail is glued too strong plus the glue used is not healthy for your nails. If you have nail inflammation or yellow green black color on your nails that is not going away see your physician.

Nail strengthener won’t help nail grow but can keep it from chipping off, don't be fooled by nail products containing formaldehyde and toluene no matter how healthy the label looks because it gives nail an inferior hard and will damage your nail in the long run. It is  harmful and could make the nail brittle. Formaldehyde may be labeled under other toluene, toluene sulfonamide, toluene, sulfonic acid.

Note: Toluene is illegal in the state of California due to the health risk it pose-cancer and respiratory problem.

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