The task of each girl is to maintain the nails and hands in perfect condition, because our brushes are always in sight. Someone prefers to visit the master, and someone likes to conduct their own home care procedures for their fingers. For hands to always look perfect, it is important to take care of them regularly. How to use a manicure set? In this article you will get acquainted with the main types of tools and their application. A useful video will help you choose the best quality manicure sets.
Types of sets for manicure
To choose the type of manicure set, you need to decide what kind of manicure you prefer: classic, hardware, unedged European. There is a general rule, regardless of the type of accessories, - good quality, in connection with which the cost also increases. If you are not a professional, it is better to give preference to a kit for home use that will be comfortable, help to avoid damage and injuries to the skin, nail plate.
It is necessary to pay attention to the material, which consists of working parts of manicure tools. They should easily succumb to boiling, sterilization. This is important if you use a manicure kit not alone. After, before the application, it is necessary to disinfect the instruments, which prevents infection by blood borne diseases, reduces the risk of infection when applying a microtrauma during a manicure.
- Classic sets allow you to manually handle the skin of hands, nails. In most cases, they are dressed in a case or case. The classic manicure set includes: nippers or tweezers, scissors with straight ends, with thin and rounded, knipper, nail file, scraper, tweezers, trimmer.
In addition, they can be road-based( includes a minimum number of tools that provide emergency help to nails and hands), professional( for use by craftsmen in salons), home( contain many adaptations for full-fledged manicure).
- Professional - consist of tools that are characterized by a long service life, increased durability, expensive materials. In addition to the device used to care for the hands and nails, the kit may include pedicure accessories. Designed for long-term operation.
- Men's sets - include the same number of items that are included in the classic. The tools are larger, massive, so that men can more easily use these accessories. Clad in a case or a cover of laconic design, given the tastes of the stronger sex.
- Electric - the composition includes a portable device with different nozzles, which lead the nails, the skin in due form. With it, you can remove the cuticle, shape the nails, polish them, perform other procedures for quality manicure. Adjustable speed, interchangeable nozzles, special functions make it possible to achieve high efficiency portable device. Electric manicure sets can be home and professional, which differ from each other in power.
What is included in the mechanical set for manicure
The largest manicure set can include from ten or more tools, some of which women may not even know. The following list will allow you to familiarize yourself with each device:
- Tweezers or nippers. For neatness of the manicure it is necessary to process the cuticle. In most cases, it is moved away with an orange stick or cut off with scissors. Sometimes tweezers are used, which should lie comfortably in the hand. When selecting, you should try to open and close them, so that these actions do not have noise and noises. Tweezers should not jam, be too tight. The width of the jaws of this tool should be up to 0.5 mm, the joint without looseness, the stroke is smooth, soft, and the cutting edges are sharp, smooth, without scratches, notches.
- Scissors. They can be different for performing certain functions: shaping, cutting the cuticle. This tool is made of stainless high-quality hand-grinding steel. The main requirement is sharpness, as blunted cutting edges can lead to injuries, burrs. If the cuticle is thin, choose scissors with narrow blades, for thick - with wide ones.
- Knipser - is designed to give the hard nails the desired shape, cutting them. Has a comfortable handle, innovative design.
- Scraper - a spatula designed to move the cuticle. It is made of stainless steel, other durable alloy. The scraper can be bilateral, when one end is used to move the cuticle, and the second - to clean the protruding tip of the nail. The tool handle must not slide in the hands.
- Saw. In large sets, there are several different options that differ in material, granularity. The tool with diamond one-sided coating perfectly filings nails, removes the dry old skin of the cuticle. The next suitable material is crystal or glass, which allows you to undergo sharpening in any direction without harming the nail. Crystal or glass nail file is durable, looks aesthetically. It is better not to use a metal one. Any tool of this kind should be strong, abrasive coating - have increased resistance to abrasion, do not crumble with each application. To nail the nail from different angles, under all possible degrees, the nail file must have flexibility, so the ideal tool is a paper-based. There are universal polishing nail files with four working surfaces, which have different granularity.
- Trimmer is an object with a forked tip, designed to handle burrs. It is not recommended to work with a blunt instrument. The second end of the trimmer can be designed as a scapula for moving the cuticle.
- A stick made from an orange tree for the cuticle, which has a high softness, carefully pushing the skin away.
How to use the
mechanical set Before starting to care for the nails, all instruments must be disinfected or boiled. Then you can proceed directly to the procedure. How to use a mechanical manicure kit? The sequence of the manicure is as follows:
- First hands are steamed.
- Nails are given the right length, the base is made for future shape by tweezers.
- With a nail, the nail plate is filed along the entire edge, while removing irregularities after shortening.
- With a cosmetic scissors, the barbs are removed.
- The edge of the nail plate is polished.
- Apply the product to the cuticle, the stick exfoliates from the nail. Removed if necessary trimmer.
- The whole surface of the nail is polished by the side of the nail file, which has a soft coating.
What's in the electric set for the manicure
The kit of the electric manicure set includes a rechargeable machine and special nozzles:
- Shovel for raising the cuticle - should not penetrate too deep under the skin. Processing is done from one edge to the other and back.
- Large cone-shaped nozzle - for grinding corns, rough leather. The nozzle moves neatly over the required area.
- Cylindrical nozzle - designed for nail care on the feet.
- Small discs - designed for sawing, giving the desired shape. For thin nails a disc with a small notch is used, for thick nails a large disc is used.
- Cone-shaped nozzle - is designed to remove coarse areas of the skin, work with ingrown nails. Used in the direction from the outside inwards to the base.
- Disc for polishing and polishing - gives a beautiful shine.
- Disks for removing coarse skin from the soles of the feet with a rougher surface and palms with less roughness.
Tips for using the electric set
How to use the electric manicure kit? The sequence of application of this tool is as follows:
- Fingernails need not be soaked in the bath before treatment. At the first procedure, select nozzles with a small abrasive and low speed.
- Treat the skin, located near the nail, grind, file the nail. Treat the corns and cuticles.
- In damaged areas, it is impossible to make an apparatus manicure.
- Operations should be done carefully, without much effort, so as not to damage the manicure, not to injure the skin.
- When using the scapula to lift the cuticle, make sure that it does not penetrate very deeply under the skin.
- Cone-shaped nozzle for handling ingrown nails, removal of coarse skin should be used in the direction from the outer to the inner base of the nail plate.
- Small cutting discs give the correct form.
- The disc is polished to give a shine.
How to use the manicure set of the house
Beautiful manicure is the final touch that completes the image of a well-groomed woman. To do this, you can use a mechanical or electrical kit. Cosmetic scissors need to remove hangnails. Pincers trim the nails, and with the nail file, give a certain shape. Spatula is used together with the agent, which must be applied to the cuticle, wait a bit, remove the softened skin. If you do an unedged manicure, then the skin should be removed. The last step is grinding the surface of the nail with a saw blade.
When working with electric manicure sets do not require pre-steaming hands. Removable rotating nozzles are processed rough and dry skin, adjusting the shape, length of the nail, removing dead skin. First you need to charge the device. Also, the tool needs rest so that the motor does not overheat. To change the nozzle, it is necessary to insert a new one, turn it, press it in order to fix it in the required position.
When adjusting the length, the nail should move along the disc in one direction, and the device itself must be kept straight. To remove the cuticle a special nozzle is used, as a result of which the nails become longer, well-groomed. To polish the nail plate, use a cone with a felt cover. After completing the manicure, do not forget to use hand cream and oil.
Video about the use of electric set for manicure
The electric manicure-pedicure set makes a wide variety of manipulations due to a large number of nozzles. With this tool you can handle both natural and artificial nails. The set has a lot of advantages: painless elimination of the cuticle, the possibility of processing the inner surface of the overgrown part of the nail, careful removal of calluses, corns. To know how to properly use such a device, see the video below.
Video tips for choosing a manicure set
A neat and beautiful manicure gives the girl confidence in her impeccable appearance. For proper, high-quality nail care, a manicure kit is required, which includes a variety of tools: manicure scissors, tweezers for cuticle removal and processing, trimmers, curettes, nippers, nail files, scrapers. The beautiful look of our fingers depends not only on the skills, but also on the quality of the accessories, the material from which they are made. The presented video will help you to choose a good manicure set that will last a long time.