You can buy nails care instruments in kit or separately. Here is a list of what you need to provide a proper care for your nails at home: Nail files Nail files are used as for polishing and filing so for shaping nails. That's why they have various grain. Coarse-grained files with rough surface are used for working with false nails. For your natural nails you'd better use files on rubber or cardboard base. If you got used to metal files, take a short-grained file. Nail files can be diamond, ruby, ceramic, sapphire. More coarse-grained files are good for hard nails, for thin and soft ones there are files made of flint-paper. The best variant is a ceramic double or three-side file, one side is for first nail shaping and another side, short-grained, for polishing edges. Remember you should file only dry nails, and move the file just in one direction in order to prevent nail splitting. You can add some gloss to your nails with a special nail polisher. To remove cuticle you can use special products for cuticle softening and orange stick to move the cuticle back. You shouldn't cut the cuticle off every time you manicure your nails as it will grow much harder. You can also take a cuticle oil pen for everyday use to soften and nourish cuticle. Agnails are removed with special tweezers. The tweezers have triangular tips and beveled edges that provide perpendicular adjoining to the skin. The tweezers carefully bite the agnails off in contrast to manicure scissors that just draw them off. Varnish remover shouldn't contain acetone as it dries nail plate and makes it fragile. Today varnish removers are based on various esters, alcohols and other chemical compounds which are more careful to the nails but anyway they deoil nails. That's why varnish removers also contain wax and fatty additives. Varnish removers are used not only for removing old polish but for deoiling nails before covering them with a new polish. Thus the polish lays evenly and stays longer.