If the nails are very dirty, before you brush them apply a moisturizer. This will soften the skin around them, and will make easier the cleaning. Wash your hands with antibacterial soap and hot water, then moisturize your hands. Wait a few moments, for the emollient to be absorbed and brush thoroughly your nails. You will see that even the dirt embedded in the skin will be easily removed.

When you choose a nail brush, you should pay attention to some certain details. Its bristles should be flexible and strong enough, so they can get under the nails and remove all the dirt. Non-absorbent bristles are the best, because they do not retain the germs.

There are two types of nail brushes on the market: fused and stapled. The first one has the bristles fused into the brush, while the second has its bristles stapled. The fused fingernail brush seems to be better because it doesn’t allow germs to remain in it.

Nails are the perfect place for bacteria, germs, viruses and fungi. They hide beneath your nails and may develop severe infections. On the other hand, dirt and grime give nails a very unpleasant look. In order to remove dirt and any microorganism you should brush your nails constantly.

It’s hard to believe, but fingernail brush can be a good friend when it comes about house cleaning. Being so small, it can help you remove the dirt from the most inaccessible areas. You can clean with minimum effort the animal fur from any furniture or carpets. Simply, pass the brush through the upholstered surface, clean the brush and repeat the operation.

Lampshades can be also treated with a soft fingernail brush. You can’t image how much dust they collect. In just a few minutes you can have them cleaned with the help of your little friend. Nail brush can also clean carrots or potatoes. Your jewels will look as new, if treated with the brush. Put them in a bowl with warm water. Pour a few drops of whitening tooth paste and brush them carefully. The result will shine! Dare and clean your shoes with the little nail brush. You can easily handle it will remove dirt from the seam and sole.

For another simple but nice design you will need only a brush and a pin. First of all, polish your nails in a neutral color. Let it dry, then with a pin place dots on nails, and use the brush for drawing thin lines. You may create a beautiful flower: place a colored dot and surround it with other dots in different colors. Transform them into petals with the paint brush.

Designs look good if you paint them over with a coat clear polish. For the best results, a second coat can be applied. Here it is another design: Apply on your nails clear or neutral base coat. If you want the design to become more visible then choose as vase colors like white, cream or any other light tone. Dip a round brush in acrylic craft paint and let your inspiration work, by creating a special design: flowers, stars, hearts… anything you imagined. If you want to have an original drawing, then Chinese characters may be appropriated.

Nail art is very popular. For those who have no talent at drawing and find no inspiration in creating nail designs, there are many alternatives. You will save money and time if you buy artificial nails. Some of them are printed with awesome designs. A good alternative are stickers, but some people say they are out of fashion and too popular.

Round Steel Stencils may be as solution if you have no time, but you need a perfect manicure. Before you go, you only have to be sure that lower coat is completely dried. Decoupages look also great, but they only fit the artificial nails. Simply cut a picture that you liked from a magazine, shape it and glue it on your nail. Textile may be used instead of paper. In this case you can bet that everybody will ask you about the…designer.

Fake tattoos can also be transformed in original designs. Paint your nails in the base clor, then apply the tattoo. Finish everything with a clear coat of nail polish. Nail art looks great on both long or short nails. French manicure is very appreciated by lot of women, some of them preferring to paint nail tips instead of white in vibrant colors, for a really special look. Now you know the secrets of how to do easy awesome fingernails designs. You only have to be inspired and dare to draw paint or color!

If it is too big you may end up cutting your nails too short or injuring the skin around them. You must buy special nail cutters for children. In this case fingernail clipper handles are enclosed in plastic. The design shouldn’t be too complicated, so that you can easily use the instrument. Three types of clippers are available on the market: the plier type, the compound lever type and the push button model. All of them have usually incorporated a file and a tool for removing dirt.

Protect the fingernail clippers for bacteria and germs and keep it clean. After using, wash it in warm water with liquid soap in it. Let it there for 20 minutes, rinse it and dry it well to preserve the metal. With an alcohol disinfectant wipe, clean it once again including the fingernail clipper handles. Give a special attention to the cutting edges. Place the dried instrument into a plastic bag, secure it and store it in a safe place. Keep it away from children reach. If you noticed that your nail cutter is rusted or dull, throw it away and buy another one.

Clip your nails, after you cleaned and dried them. Although often recommended, don’t soak your nails in water before getting started. The nails become too soft and they can easy tear when being clipped. It is better if you just wash your hands. Open the clippers by sliding aside the handle. Position the blade over the nail white and push it down. Cut the nail from one motion. Smoothen the corners of the nail with a file. Do this entire operation in a place with good light and close to a waste-basket.

Decide the shape you want for your nails. You may want to cut them straight, leaving a bit of the white tip. Or you may like really short cut nails, with a round shape and no white tip. The most important thing, in any case, is to pay attention not to cut the nail below its quick. Otherwise, you risk to cause infections, bleeding or severe injuries. Simply depress skin away from nail and carefully press down the nail clippers, to be sure there is no skin caught between its jaws. Nail clippers have their bad parts too. You cannot control the depth when using them, so there a risk you cut your nails too short. The nails must be filed after being clipped, because the cutter leaves sharp parts.

Fingernails grow slower than hair, approximately 3 mm per month, so it takes 6 months for a nail that have been torn to grow back completely. There are some people that love so much their nails, that they decided to stop cutting then. World longest fingernails in the world belong to Lee Redmond form USA. She hasn’t cut her nails since 1979. They reached 7.51 meters length. She is a fan of a high-protein diet, and her favorite logo is that “you are what you eat”.

She used to carefully manicure her nails and, once a week, soaked them in warm olive oil. As they grew longer and longer, the operation became impossible. She established the record in September, and soon she cut them so she could take care of her ill husband, suffering form Alzheimer. Lee Redmond lost her nails in a car accident. She suffered a lot, but admitted that it was much easier to do things.

With or without her nails she demostrated she could do anything. The lady even said that vacuuming or cutting her granchildren’s hair wasn’t difficult at all. Before her, the record was hold for 20 years by Shridhar Chillal. He cut his nails in 2000, because his hands started to be deformed, as consequence of the heavy nails. He has been growing only the fingers from the left hand.

Another record is held by a retired Indian Photographer from Poona, close to Mumbai. He let his nails grow for almost fifty years so his thumbnail reached the length of almost 1.5 meters and looked like colored spiral made of thin tortoise shell. He put his nails up for auction.

Li Jian Ping, a Chinese from Fujian Province, is another record-man. He also let his fingers grow for 50 years. He only wanted to beat the Indian, but his nail reached one meter. Barbara Wing from Salt Lake City is another holder of one of the world longest fingernails. In her case, nails looked great. Over fifty years she applied interesting nail art on them. She has 10 Jazzmen on her almost 18 centimeters nails.

Red or pink nails show in most cases poor peripheral circulation. If you have respiratory problems, then your nails might be blue. Half pink, half white nails indicate kidney problems, while some small white spots are the result of nail bed injuries. Deficiency of B12 may be mirrored in your nails. In this case they became purple or even black colored. If you observe changes in the shape or color of the nails, you may have problems with your liver, kidney, lung or heart. Persons who smoke or use often nail polish and enamel remover may see that their nails are yellow.

Choose one of the bellow treatments, if you observed unpleasant changes in the color of your nails. They don’t take much time. So in just a few minutes you will have again health nails.
1. Whitening tooth paste is a very good nails whitener. Brush your nails with it only twice a day. So is denture cleaner. Soak nails in it for ten minutes and you will have unexpected results.

2. A well-known astringent is lemon juice. Soak your fingers for 20 minutes in it and your nails will be white again. You can also rub your nails with lemon slices, twice a day, for the same results.
3. Mix lemon juice with baking soda. Apply the pasta on your nails and it will do miracles.
4. Mix in a bowl one tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide with three tablespoons of baking soda. Rub it on your nails, wait some minutes and wash your hands.

Discolored fingernails provide important information about the inner state of health. This is the reason why, all doctors pay nails a special attention on every routine examination. They often pinch gently the nail and count the time it takes to the nail to get back its natural color. So examine with attention your nails at least once a week. They immediately change shape or color if you suffer from psoriasis, heart diseases, diabetes, dermatitis, liver, kidney or lung diseases. There are many cases when a common medicine such tetracycline provokes color change of the nails. You should be aware of the fact that smoking is also a great enemy of your nails, having as result discolored fingernails.

Removing them is also easy. Soak your nails in a pure acetone, and carefully get them down. Do not snap them, because you can produce serious injuries to your natural nails.When preparing to apply acrylic fingernails, you have to pay a special attention to your natural nails. They have to be clean, the cuticles pushed down and the old nail polish carefully removed. This first step is very important, because if you do not execute it correctly, germs may enter the blood stream, leading to a severe infection. Dissolve grease and oil and to kill the germs, by cleaning the nails with isopropyl alcohol.

Now you are almost ready. Cut natural nails short. If they remain visible, your nails will look as being dirty. Buff the nails. It will help the acrylic nail to adhere on it. A thin coat of the real nail may be dissolved with the help of some methacrylic acid. The nail bed will be rough, so the acrylic anchors strongly into it. There are beauty experts that consider this step unnecessary, because you might provoke damages to the nail bed.

You have to prepare the acrylic resin short time before it will be applied. Be careful, it rapidly gets hard. Yet, you should wait an hour before you start shaping the fake nails. For this operation, apply on your fingertips a special foil, made by metal or plastic, in order to prevent acrylic resin from moving away. Now you can start shaping nails with a fine file. Once you finished, check the acrylic. If it is hard enough you may remove the foil.

There are two more steps before you finish: filling and manicuring. At every three weeks, you should fill with resin the acrylic nails, to cover natural growth of your real nails. You are ready! Now you can wonder your beautiful nails. If you know how to apply acrylic fingernails you can save money and time.

Soon you will find this fun, so you can ask your friends to be your clients. When you decided you want to remove the acrylic nails, you have to obey certain rules. First file the top of the fake nail, until the protective coat is broken. Do not force nails! Trim them and after that soak your fingers in a bowl with acetone. Ten minutes will be enough for the beginning and try to remove slowly the acrylic nails. Do it again, until you succeed getting down all the glue and plastic from the natural nails. Do not snag the acrylic nails because you may tear the natural ones. It can be also painful, and you may catch an infection!

Homemade remedies are also very good. Lemon juice and baking powder are really good. The lemon has astringent properties and will whiten your nails in just a few seconds. If you combine these two ingredients, then you will have a pasta, you should rub on your nails with a brush. Wash carefully your hands, dry them with a towel and apply a hydrating moisturizer. The results can be seen after the first application.

You can remove unpleasant color from your nails by soaking them in water with denture cleaner. Yes, you read it well! Denture cleaner! And you know what? It really works! For the same results, you can use whitening toothpaste. Apply it on your nails with a little brush and wait for 20 minutes.

One tablespoon of baking soda mixed with another of 3% hydrogen peroxide will do the same thing. You only have to apply it on your nails and remove it after 10 minutes. Wash and moisturize your hands. If you don’t have time for any fingernail treatment, but your nails have to look great, French manicure may be the solution! Tips of your nails will look whiter and brighter than ever.

It often happens that nails turn to yellow after several nail polishing procedures. In order to prevent that, apply a base of clear enamel before the colored one.

If your nails split than you have to be aware of some details:
- always use household gloves
- take a shower instead of a log bath
- use a fine file for shaping nails. Buff and file nails form one direction.
- constantly trim your nails and shape them in a gentle curve
- your nail polish remover shouldn’t contain acetone. Use it instead of scraping off nail polish.
- often moisturize your hands after washing them and buy cuticle oils that contain  Vitamin E and jojoba oil and vitamin E.
- don’t use your fingers as tools, in order to open thinks or scrap different surfaces

If you caught a fungal infections than here are some fingernail treatments. Use Listerine, Alcohol or Hydrogen Peroxide to prevent its spreading, due to their antiseptic effect. Any of these solutions will have good results. Soak your nails in it for 20 minutes, twice a day. Tea Tree or Emu Oil are another two helpful antiseptics, that determine keratin production.

If the nail or its root is struck, blood vessels broke and invade the area under the nail, having result a big black spot on your nail bed. If the injury was severe, the entire nail bed may be affected. Nails grow slowly, so it takes pretty long time for it to disappear.

If you are sure you haven’t suffered any nail injury in the recent past, and you observe that the blackness on your fingernail gains dimensions, than you should be worried. Infected black fingernail becomes deformed, crumby and thick. The infection starts on one nail, but soon it affects the others too. This is the moment when you should go to see a doctor. Black fungus is the sign of advanced stage of infection. It may have result peeling of the skin around nail and pain in the fingertip. If not treated infection can cause serious damage to the entire nail.

Black fingernail appears often at people who like gardening and come in contact with the soil and decaying vegetation. That is why you have to wear gloves and wash carefully your hands afterwards. If you suffer any minor injury, such as a cut or a scratch, on your finger while gardening, apply as soon as possible first aid, so that germs have no time to enter under the skin.

One can get black fungus by contact with persons infected. Swimming pools, lockers and public baths are places appropriated for germs to spread. Choose carefully the salon where you will have your manicure or pedicure done. The instruments need to be sterilized before each use. If you are not sure that it happens, then bring your own set.

Here are some treatments for the infected fingernails. Although it doesn’t kill the fungus, Vicks Vaporub stops its spreading. Hydrogene Peroxide can be also useful. Soak your nails in the solution for 20 minute, twice a day. You will see the results soon, due to the antiseptic ingredients. Tea Tree or Emu Oil are other two good antiseptics. Apply them on your nails with a cotton stick. You can also try to soak your fingers in Apple Cider Vinegar, or if you think that products from drug stores are safer, then buy Lamisil, a medicine with well-known results in fungal infections.

Arthritis, diabetes, heart diseases, dermatitis, kidney, liver or lung disorders – they are all reflected in the state of nails. Any change of their color is the sign of fungal infection around fingernail area. Fungi are plant-like organisms, which live inside or on the human body, searching for warm places. That’s why nails are perfect.

The humid and warm part of the year is the perfect time for the fingernail fungus to get installed. Germs enter nails through exposed tissues, and the infected nail becomes dry and brittle, and often separates for the nail bed. In most cases, infection appears on only one nail, but it rapidly spreads affecting even the other hand. The nail becomes darker as the germs are killing the keratin. Without a proper treatment the infection may cause pain and attack the entire fingernail area.

Trichophyton rubrum, for instance, affects the skin, while if you got pseudomonas, your nail will have a greenish color. Another disease affecting nails is onycholysis. In this case the nail turns yellow and slowly separates from the nail bed. If you seize black color on your nails, it may indicate infection with the black fungus. Pink or red nails show bad peripheral circulation, while problems with respiratory system have as consequence blue colored nails. Deficiency of B12 is signed by purple or even black colored nails. Half pink, half white nails indicate kidney disease and white small spots are the result of nail bed injuries. Frequent use of nail polish and enamel remover may have as consequence yellowish nails.

There are various ways you can treat fungal infection around fingernail area. Vicks Vaporub-it does not kill the fungus but stops it from spreading. Alcohol, Listerine and Hydrogen Peroxide – any of them is useful. Just pour the solution in a bowl and, for the next 20 minute, soak your nails in it. Do this operation twice a day. The antiseptic ingredients will have rapid results.

Tea Tree and Emu Oil – this are two well known antiseptics. With the help of a cotton stick, apply oil on nails. It stimulates keratin production and regeneration. Apple Cider Vinegar – pour it in a bowl with warm water. Soak your nails in this solution for 20 minutes. Lamisil, cream or tablets, is a medicine with great results in the fight against fungal infection.

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Select as base a neutral coat. The design will be emphasized if you choose white or beige. Apply a coat and let the nail dry. Dip the brush into another color and put little dots on nails. You can use glitter glue instead, but in this case you will need blow dryer. If you desire a precise design with tiny lines, then clean a brush with nail polish remover and trim off some of its bristles, until you obtain a fine brush.

It’s very easy to draw a flower: place a polish dot in the center of your nails, and around it dots in a contrasting color, for petals. Now you can make the leaves with the fine brush. Finish everything with a coat with clear polish. French manicure looks great if decorated. If you are not good at drawing and want to save time you can buy from the local beauty stores artificial nails printed with gorgeous designs. In spite of the fact that many people say that are out of fashion, stickers are funny and still have lots of fans.

Round Steel Stencils are appropriate if you are in a big rush. You will only have to wait for the first layer to dry completely. An alternative, if you want to decorate your nails, are jewels. Cover them with a coat of clear polish and they will last longer on your nails. Piercing looks also astonishing, but its result may be weakened nail. Before applying it, polish your nails with at least two coats, and try to make the hole in the upper section of the tip.

A decoupage may be a choice, if you have artificial nails. Shape a picture to your nail’s size, then glue it on. Think about using instead of paper a piece of cloth. You will have a masterpiece. Experimenting colors is fun. Gold looks special if mixed with red, and silver looks fabulous on black. Be aware! Let dry each coat of polish before combining colors. Fake tattoos may turn into exquisite models. Fist, paint the nail in the usual color, then cut the tattoo pattern and apply it. Finish everything with a coat of clear polish. Can you show me some fingernails designs? Now you have the answer, you only have to choose the design that best suits you. Good luck!