Beautiful nails are a desired enhancement to feminine beauty, but many ladies may have trouble attaining them. If nature did not bless you with wonderfully strong, healthy nails, you can still enjoy the glamorous look that long and painted nails can give you. All you have to do is apply strong and durable acrylic nails over your own nails.
You can find a service for acrylic nail application at nail salons. It is an expensive option. It is not as expensive for you to apply the acrylic nails yourself. By following instructions and with practice, you can apply your acrylic nails with the same care and great results that you can get from a nail professional.
As for supplies, you will need non-acetone nail polish remover, artificial nail tips, liquid acrylic, powdered acrylic and nail oil. Your equipment needs to include a nail brush, nail files, nail filing block, acrylic nipper, small acrylic brush and a working dish for the acrylic liquid. Choose acrylic nail tips that are the same size as your own nails or you will have to file the nails down.
Give your nails a manicure. Smooth rough edges and remove dead skin. Use a non-acetone nail polish remover to remove nail polish and acrylic. Use the filing block to roughen your nail surfaces. Cut the nails to the skin portion. Do not injure yourself. You want to prevent your nail from being broken if the acrylic nail tip is broken.
Line up your acrylic nail tips so that you can reach them easily when you are ready to put a drop of glue on the tip. The glue drop should reach from the bottom of the nail to the indentation where your nail's edge will fit in. You can remove a crooked acrylic nail by immediately soaking it in water.
Use the acrylic nippers or a large nail clipper to trim the tips to your desired length. Use the nail file to remove any rough edges and to even out the lengths of your nail tips. Use the liquid acrylic in a well-ventilated area. You will paint the liquid acrylic on to your nails so that the beds will be smooth without any bumps where the edge of the acrylic nail tips rests on your nail.
You will be dipping the acrylic brush into the liquid acrylic and then into the acrylic powder that will create a ball of thickened acrylic on your brush. Paint the acrylic onto your nail so that you can create a smooth finish for your acrylic nail tips.
Have the acrylic powder container open. Prepare the acrylic brush by dipping the brush into the liquid acrylic and then wiping it on a paper towel to remove excess liquid. Then lightly dip half of the brush into the liquid acrylic and then remove the excess by wiping against the inside of the liquid acrylic bottle.
You are ready to dip the brush tip into the acrylic powder. When you do, you will create a ball of thickened acrylic. It should be damp instead of wet. Paint this thickened acrylic where the acrylic nail tip is on your nail. Work quickly to spread the acrylic onto your nail surface without flattening the acrylic. Wipe the brush on the paper towel to remove any excess acrylic.
Continue working until you have built up the surface to resemble the curve of your own nail bed. Apply a bit at the tip of the nail to create a natural look as necessary. Avoid getting acrylic on your cuticles because mould or fungus could grow under the nail at that spot.
It will take about ten minutes for your nails to dry and set. You can safely use a grit nail file on the sides of the dried and set nails and close to the cuticle bed to shape your nails. Use the filing block to smooth your nails. Remove any acrylic filings and dust by washing with soapy water and using a brush. The exposure to the harsh chemicals requires that you moisturise your nails with nail oil. As your nails grow out, you will need to paint more acrylic on to your nails every two weeks.

It is used to dot and draw circles. It is a necessary tool for designing polka dots. There are various sizes of RBI tools. It is recommended that novices start with the RBI tools of medium size at one end and small size at the other end, so as to facilitate the conversion of sizes at will. You can buy stippling tools at the beauty shop. In addition, you can also use the small black hairpin to make one. Break the card straight and dot it with the round head end. After use, wash and dry the card to prevent rust.
Very important manicure design tools, long and thin brush heads attached to nail polish, can be used to hook or add patterns. It is suggested that novices start with two colors. You can buy the hook pen separately, but not all brush heads can match the nail polish. The newly purchased manicure brush is the safest from the water based nail polish. Finally, thoroughly clean and dry the brush head with acetone, soapy water and paper towel.
A very practical gadget for manicure. It is particularly useful when constructing lines and geometries. You just need to cut the transparent textbook into a straight line or any shape you want, then stick it on your fingernail, and tear off the tape after applying nail polish, you can get the desired line segments or geometric shapes.
If you want to do Art Manicure, you must have a set of painted manicure brushes, including five basic shape brush heads: Fan Brush, flat brush, flat bevel brush, fine brush (used to draw details) and line brush. The most practical and economical way is to buy a suit containing the above five brush heads. Or start with one of the most commonly used nail brushes and buy a professional painting brush set until you are skilled.
Five, three Nail Polish
Three kinds of nail polish are necessary for exquisite nail enhancement: high quality color nail polish, bottom oil for color protection and repair, and bright oil for increasing luster. In time of rush, quick drying and bright oil will save time, but if time is enough, transparent nail polish is more suitable for complex and exquisite manicure. Nail polish is best to choose a large brand with guaranteed quality, hold the color better, and apply it on the nail surface more smoothly.

Of course, tools are ready before manicure. The tools used in this manicure are: nail clippers, various brushes, silver loose powder, silver sequins, and nail drill. Well, start manicure now!
Basic steps of nail enhancement
1. Manicure shape, push finger skin.
2. Cut finger skin and polish nail surface.
Polish the nail surface with a sponge file. During polishing, the trailing edge and front section of the nail shall be polished neatly. If the nail surface is not smooth, the nail polish is easy to fall off.
3. Clean the nail surface and apply protein bond.
Clean the nail surface with a special cleaning solution. Apply the protein bond evenly to avoid being too thin or too thick. Then light the phototherapy lamp for 1 minute, and the lighting time of protein bond shall not be less than 1 minute. If it is less than 1 minute, it cannot be dried, and it is easy to fall off. It shall not exceed one minute. If the lighting time is too long, the floating glue on the surface will be dried. The floating glue on the surface can enhance the adhesion with colored nail polish glue.
4. Nail polish glue
Wrap the edge before applying, sweep the brush at the bottle mouth before applying, and then wrap the edge thinly at the front edge of the nail. Apply the nail polish on the nail surface thinly and evenly. The nail polish should be thin and evenly applied. If it is too thick, it will wrinkle.
Light the phototherapy lamp for 2 minutes. The first coat of nail polish must be lit for 2 minutes. If the time is not enough, it can not be completely cured. It is easy to tear the whole piece or the edge is easy to tilt, and it is easy to layer with the color of the second coat if the first coat is not dried.
5. Apply the second coat of nail polish glue
The method of applying the second coat of nail polish glue is the same as that of the first coat.
6. Apply the first seal coat
Light therapy lamp for 1 minute
7. Apply the second seal coat
Light therapy lamp for 2 minutes
8. Clean the surface with cleaning fluid
Clean the surface with cleaning solution after the sealing layer has been illuminated for 2 minutes. Avoid using other cleaning fluids. Poor cleaning effect of other cleaning fluids will affect the gloss of sealing layer.
In this way, a glossy simple nail enhancement is completed.
Nail tips
First, apply nail polish before applying nail polish.
The paint in nail polish is the arch criminal of nail damage and nail breaking. So before you paint your beloved nail polish, you must not neglect to apply nail polish. It can protect the nail surface from being directly infringed by pigments. If you like to paint your nails in different colors every day, the link of primer must not be ignored.
2 Without facial oil, the nail surface will be vulnerable
The surface cannot withstand a single blow on the surface and the patterns and patterns on the nail surface. If you don't want to make the masterpiece that is hard to draw is scratched or damaged, nail polish is the protective coat for nail polish.
Three. Short nails are best for dark nail polish.
Women with short fingernails are better off giving up the idea of applying dark nail polish. Dark color has a visual contraction effect. It will only make the originally short nails shorter. A nail as big as red bean will only make the fingers appear thick and short.
4 Nail color should be coordinated
Keeping the color of fingernails on hands and feet consistent can leave an elegant and detailed impression.
Don't underestimate the manicure tool. It can trim your nails and make them smooth, and lay a good foundation before applying beautiful nail polish.

As the saying goes, "workers must sharpen their tools before they do a good job.". If you want to have a beautiful manicure, you must first understand the necessary tools for manicure and use them correctly to create a more beautiful and eye-catching manicure.Basic nail enhancement toolsNail clippers: completely trim all types of nails


Nail clippers can be divided into different sizes, with flat heads and oblique angles on the front. Do not cut your nails too deep during use, which will affect the beauty of your nails.Finger skin forceps: used to cut off excess nail skinFinger leather pliers have scissors and pliers. After cutting off the dead skin and thorns just pushed, the fingers can look beautiful and neat. Be careful not to pull and cut directly.
Nail file: used to trim the leading edge of natural nailsNail files are divided into steel files and color files. The cut manicure shall be polished with a nail file in the order of front and rear ends until it is neat. Attention must be paid to the fine grinding of both sides of the nail and the roundness of the front end.Sand stick: used to push the skin of fingers
It is used to remove bumps and make the nails smooth, so that the polished nails are smoother and smoother, and the nail polish is smoother.Tweezers: used to hold nail pieces, diamonds or nail skins for trimming.Tweezers are used to remove excess nail skin to make the overall nail shape cleaner and cleaner.
Nail professional toolsPillow: used to support the manicurist's arm to facilitate the manicurist's operationHumidifier: used to care for dry and broken hands and make them moist and delicate


Glass bowl: soak nails to soften skinPhototherapy machine: dry and fix the nail shapeNail Essentials
Softening cream: it usually contains glycerol group, which can remove the aged cuticle and keep the skin moist. It is used to massage and care for broken hands.Nail skin softener: used to soften nail skinBleach: contains hydrogen peroxide or citric acid to remove stains on crystal nails.
Nail polish thinner: used for diluting viscous nail polish instead of using nail polish.Base oil: transparent or milky white. It can enhance the adhesion of nail shape before nail polish.Nail polish: all kinds of nail polish are chosen according to their needs.
Nail Essence: it can make natural nails stronger.Bright oil: used to protect nail polish and keep luster. The more viscous the bright oil is, the longer the drying time is, the higher the luster is.How to create a beautiful nail style, professional nail tools are essential. After the introduction of Xiaobian, do you have a general understanding of these nail enhancement tools? It is very important to use nail tools correctly!

Reinforcement glue is to thicken the nail to avoid that the nail is too thin and the nail polish glue will have a layer. Generally, after coating the reinforcement glue, don't wipe it with clean water and apply the color directly; If the nail thickness is enough, you can not use reinforcement glue. The general steps of nail reinforcement are: first use primer - then reinforcement glue - color - and finally seal.Function of nail reinforcement glue1. Reinforcement glue is used to thicken nails to prevent nails from breaking easily due to too thin nails;


2. Generally, do not wipe with clean water after coating reinforcement, and apply the color directly.3. If the original nail thickness is enough, reinforcement glue can not be used. Reinforcement glue is mainly for people with particularly thin nails. After coating reinforcement glue, the hardness and thickness of nails can be increased to avoid the cracking and warping of nail polish glue in a short time.Difference between reinforcing glue and functional glue
Functional glue is a general term. Reinforcement glue is a kind of functional glue. Common functional glue include carving glue, relief glue, color painting glue and so on. Therefore, the reinforcing glue is included in the functional glue, which cannot be distinguished!Which step is nail reinforcement usedNail reinforcement glue is not required by everyone. Reinforcement glue can only be used in the following two cases:
1. If the nail is uneven or the nail is thin and soft, you can brush a layer of reinforcement glue after the primer, and then brush nail polish glue. That is, the reinforcement steps should be: primer - reinforcement - color - seal.2. If you find that the nail surface is uneven after making the style or want to reinforce and paste the jewelry, you can brush the reinforcing glue headlamp and then seal it.Function of nail reinforcement glue
Who is not suitable for manicure1. Pregnant people are not suitable for manicureIn any case, manicure is manicure. No matter what mistakes can be made, we must pay attention to all aspects. Because of the ingredients contained in nail polish, some chemical components are harmful to the fetus and are not conducive to the growth and development of the fetus. Therefore, pregnant women are advised not to make nail polish. In addition, if they are infected with onychomycosis during the manicure, they will also infect the baby. Therefore, pregnant women must be careful when doing manicure. It's best not to do it.


2. People with allergic skin had better not do manicureBecause manicure manicure contains manicure chemicals, these chemicals may cause allergic reactions to some allergic constitution. If you envy the manicure especially the nail, you should first do some skin tests to see if you are allergic to fingernail oil, and if you don't have allergies, you can carry out nail polish.3. People with skin infections should not have manicures
If skin infection is caused by skin injury, the injured and infected skin is most afraid of contacting some chemicals, because it is easy to cause allergic reaction and make the wound more difficult to heal. Therefore, if you want to do manicure, you must wait until the wound is healed.4. People who do manicures too often
The first step in nail enhancement is to remove the nail epithelium on the nail surface, that is, file the nail. This process is actually a kind of damage to the nail. After many girls have done a manicure, because the beauty and charm of Manicure make girls particularly satisfied, they will especially want to do it again, so they will like to do it more and more. However, the problem is that frequent manicure brings many health hazards. People who have done manicure many times had better stop for a period of time and do it again, at least a month later. Because frequent manicure will make nails thinner, brittle and softer, and the color of nails will become dark and gray, the harm of frequent manicure is still great.