What do you need for a manicure at home? A set of tools, description and recommendations of professionals

A set for manicure at home can vary greatly depending on the way the nail is treated. Each professional has a special case in which he selects tools that are convenient for himself and his clients. Accordingly, at home, the kits may be different. What tools are needed for manicure in different cases, let's see below.

European manicure

Uncutaneous manicure, which is quite enough in well-groomed hands with fair skin and thin cuticle. In this case, the cuticle grows slowly and looks neat, even without circumcision. Moreover, circumcision may even be contraindicated in these cases, since skin rupture close to the capillaries forces the epithelium to run protective reserves and, therefore, to grow faster. So, what you need for a European manicure:

• Orange sticks, pusher or ceramic "hoof". These two tools are interchangeable, but many pros have in the arsenal, and both. It is convenient to clean the pusher with a purse on neglected nails, a ceramic "hoof" - a more delicate tool. For very delicate sensitive nails, it is better to take orange sticks.
• Remover for cuticle. Professionals call them keratolytic. The product can have different strengths of action, at home you can take, for example, a remover from Sally Hansen (according to reviews it is one of the most effective). A thin and well-groomed cuticle can be softened with an ordinary emollient cream (apply a lot of cream, hold for one or two minutes). For more intensive softening apply the remover simultaneously with the bath (put on the nails of the remover, lowered into warm water).
• Bath, water. Many prefer to do without pre-soaking the cuticle. This is reasonable, because not every nail is favorably received by water. There is a type of nail plate, which under the influence of water begins to separate.
• Sawdust, scissors. Professionals almost do not use scissors for cutting nails, they just use a file with a high degree of abrasiveness, if you need to remove the length. However, it is perfectly permissible to remove the length of the scissors. Then you can shape it with a saw. The main rule: saw only dry nails, cut only softened (immediately after the bath, for example).
• A buff is a tool for grinding. If the nails are thick enough and their surface is uneven, then it can be treated with a bass and polished. By the way, if you only take polishing, then it is very useful: the risk of microcracks appearing, which as a result can lead to breakage, cracks, and detachment of nails.
• Brush - to remove dust and debris.
• Cuticle oil. They finish the procedure for processing nails. The most advanced "lakomanyaki" also use a specially selected moisturizer. Apply it to the cuticle several times during the day - this allows you to keep it in a moist, elastic condition, slows its growth and leads to the fact that the next manicure cuticle does not require serious handling.

Trimming manicure

What do you need for this kind of manicure? The set is almost the same, it will take all the same thing as in the list above, only in addition:

• Scissors or tweezers. Both of these tools require a certain dexterity. Professionals are taught a special setting of hands and the correct position of the instrument in the hand.

Hardware manicure

It is not necessary to follow the list above and select, according to him, all that is necessary for a manicure. Tools can be replaced by one device. For a hardware manicure at home you will need:

• Apparatus for processing nails. At home, this device can rarely be seen, but there are affordable devices that are easy to handle.
• Antiseptic. The treatment of nails and cuticles with the apparatus is carried out only on dry skin, so it is better to use a volatile agent on an alcoholic basis for the preliminary preparation of nails.

For the home choose the device with a speed of up to 15 thousand per second, lightweight, compact and affordable. The nozzles can then be purchased separately. Suitable models: Vital System from Zepter, SPA VT-2209 from Vitek, MP-7010 F0 from Rowenta, machines from Victory, Strong.

Coating with conventional varnish

The cuticle is processed, the nails are ready to be applied to the decorative coating. To normal lacquer kept well and the manicure did not take too much time, you should approach the issue competently. You will need:

• Base.
• Decorative lacquer.
• Top-drying.

What you need for manicure gel-varnish - read below.

The sequence of the manicure with conventional varnish

Manicure with the usual varnish is performed as follows:

• Preparation of the cuticle, its softening. On the cuticle, apply a remover or lower hands into the bath, or both at the same time - from 10 to 20 minutes. If the manicure is hardware - this stage is not needed!
• The cuticle is removed (either cut off or processed) by a circular cutter.
• Remove pterygium - those parts of the skin and dirt that accumulate directly under the cuticle. If they are many and hands are not well-groomed, then the cuticle can be as if "attached" to the nail plate. With a good softening it is easy to remove. If it is very rough, "keratinized", it is better to use only the apparatus.
• During the treatment, the nail plate dries up, it is possible to apply a base. Keep an eye out for nails to be completely dry! If they are even slightly damp, the varnish can "bubble up", and for a long time to keep such a manicure will not.
• Wait for the base to dry out and apply decorative varnish in one or two layers as needed.
• Apply top-drying.

Manicure with gel-varnish

What do you need for a manicure gel-varnish? The list below:

• A set of coatings (more about it - below).
• The ultraviolet lamp is 36 W (4 bulbs each 8 W each).
• Files or buffs.
• Liquid for removing the adhesive layer (cleanser).
• Napkins without lint.
• Liquid for removing gel-varnish.
• Foil.

For processing cuticles, you can use any of the tools listed above, that is, the list is formed individually.

Set of manicure coatings with gel-varnish

Set of manicure coatings with gel-varnish

• Rev.
• Bond.
• Base.
• Gel-lacquer.
• Top.

This is perhaps the most important thing for a homemade manicure gel-varnish, in addition to the lamp. Especially carefully it is necessary to approach to a choice of such varnish (everything else is chosen from products of the same brand in order to avoid conflict of means).

Brief overview of gel-varnishes

Professional varnishes of the road (the price of the bottle 15 ml - from 700 to 1500 rubles.), It will be expensive to collect an impressive palette at home, but it should be borne in mind that the difference between gel varnishes of different price categories can be huge. It will be noticeable in durability, obedience, safety for nails, even brightness and color saturation.

Shellace from CND many masters consider the best, although there are also negative reviews: the varnish is very poorly kept and flies unpleasantly. However, in most cases it is praised: thick, rich color, smooth, thin, but dense with this application, resistance to chips and scratches, durability on the nails. A bottle of 7.3 ml is enough for 15-20 manicures.

In'Garden So naturally is an ambiguous option. The gel-lacquer of this brand has excellent bright colors, firmness, caring properties, but it is not easy to remove it - a mechanical option is preferable, but not every hand can remove gel-lacquer so as not to damage the nail plate. In addition, there are reports of yellowing of the nails after this remedy.

Color Couture is an interesting, although not very common gel-lacquer. Pros: very good consistency, huge palette (140 shades), firmness (three weeks of impeccable appearance), carefully thought out brush and convenient bottle. This varnish allows you to make a quality manicure very quickly.

Sherilyn - is rare and mostly among professionals, reviews from ordinary customers about it a little, but this brand with a truly German quality is worthy of attention. Plastic and durable, it perfectly fits on the nail plate and keeps a fresh and neat appearance throughout the process of wearing socks.

Ways to save money

It is not necessary to buy everything you need for manicure gel-varnish, in professional stores. There are opportunities to replace these materials and, consequently, to save:

• You can meet the recommendation to use exclusively lint-free napkins, ostensibly this excludes the ingress of small debris on your fingernails, but you can also use ordinary paper napkins with the same success, any lint is poured when wetting with liquid. You can use ordinary cotton handkerchiefs.
• Foil is suitable for food, roll is inexpensive, but enough for a long time.
• If the gel-lacquer is single-phase, the base and top are not needed.
• Also do not always need prep. It is designed for degreasing the nail plate and is a strong enough tool.
• Instead of a special remover, you can use a conventional nail polish remover.
• The liquid for removing the sticky layer can be replaced with alcohol.

How is manicure gel-varnish

We dismantled what is needed for manicure gel-varnish, but how to use all these means?

1. Cuticle treatment is one of the ways above.
2. Grinding the surface of the plate. So the adhesion of the coating with the nail is better achieved. Do this very lightly, the plate should only become rough, and not thinner.
3. It is applied with light, very fast movements. To handle all the nails, one brush is enough.
4. Bond-coupling is a kind of glue that will allow the coating to stick to the nail better. Usually it is applied to the tips. But you can also treat the area near the cuticle, if the varnish on your nails generally do not hold well.
5. Application of the base - drying in the lamp for 2 minutes.
6. The first layer of gel-varnish is drying for 2 minutes. The number of layers depends solely on the lacquer itself, in some cases there will be enough one. Gel-varnish differs slightly in consistency from usual, so if there is not enough experience, it is better to apply thin layers. A thick layer can easily ugly.
7. Apply the following layers, drying each.
8. Application of top - drying for 2 minutes.
9. Removing the sticky layer.

It is better to treat the hands in turns: while one hand is in the lamp, another is applied to the varnish. But even if you have everything you need for manicure at home, step by step processing is rarely possible, so be prepared for the fact that an independent manicure gel-varnish will take more time than in the salon.