You'd better use polishes without acetone. Except color polishes you'll need base coat and top coat. There are polishes containing strengthening substances that can make your nails stronger.
Good-quality nail polish won't dry up in 6 months, but it has its expiry period. You can make your polish more liquid with the help of solvent, however in two-three use the polish will be useless, there will be nubbles, beads, and the layer will be spotty.
There can be some difficulties when you choose polish in the shop. Paper testers don't show real polish color as it will look on your nails. You can see the real color just on plastic testers.
Examine the polish thoroughly, especially consistence, a drop from the nail brush must fall during 5 seconds, otherwise the polish is too thick and you will get bad cover on your nails.
Inspect the brush ' hairs must lie evenly and the brush must be long, soft with thin elastic hairs.
You'd better buy polish with mixing balls, they make it easy to shake polish before use.
Nail Polish producers
There are four groups of nail producers:
1) Exclusive, expensive, professional.
2) Professional, their producers have representatives in Russia. For example: LCN, Akzent Direct, Creative nail design, OPI. There are also producers that have two types of production: professional and ordinary, for example Orly.
Possibility of purchasing professional polishes depends on a salon-distributor philosophy and the company producer itself. Some of them sell professional production to private persons and some don't.
3) The polishes being advertised and sold in cosmetic shop. Such as: Revlon, Paloma, Lakme, Avon, Bourjois Paris, Margaret Astor, Maybelen, Green Mama.
4) The polishes sold in the market. There are producers which make cheap cosmetics and there are forgeries of famous brands, for example: Golden Rose, Veronigue, Catherine Arley, Gala.
Nail polish features
Ordinary polish. The most widespread and popular. The nails are covered in two layers.
Pearle polishes. Very firm, have perfectly seen structure that's why it's necessary to draw a brush directly from the nail foundation to the nail tip.
Transparent polishes. Used as a base coat or top coat. They protect nails and add some gloss. They also make color brighter.
Base coat polishes. Serve to make nail surface even. It can be pink or transparent.
Quick drying polishes. Express-polishes. They get dry for one minute.
Polishes with glitters. Transparent (colorful) polish with glitters of different shape, size and colors.
Mat polishes. “mat frostâ€. Such polishes don't have any gloss. Nail surface is even and velvet. They quickly get dry.
Strengthening polishes. They are applied after manicuring, contain silk fibers and keratin. They protect nails from environment influence and make them harder.
Bitter polishes. Have bitter taste, stop you from biting nails, usually green-transparent color.
Hypoallergic polishes. They don't cause allergy, don't contain toluene-formaldehyde resin and mixing balls don't contain nickel. You can buy shuch polishes in the drugstore.
Chameleon. These polishes change color depending on angle of slope.
Temperature polishes. They change color depending on nail surface temperature.
“Old china†effect. Nail surface looks like cracking with time. Top coat starts cowering in 3 seconds after applying.
Aquarelle. Transparent polish with different tints. They have more glossy surface than usual polish, look like still wet. They're good with French manicure as they smooth hard edge between “smile†and nail bed.
Dance Legend polishes. they change color depending on light around, usually used for discos. They shine brightly in UV-illumination.
Cream-polishes. Include insoluble, thick pigments.
Micaceous polishes. Contain large pigments and have rough surface.
Peel-off polishes. They are taken off the nail as a film and contain special polymers.
Nail art polishes. They are thicker and more liquid. Every bottle has a special brush for painting nails.
Nail Polishes
You'd better use polishes without acetone. Except color polishes you'll need base coat and top coat. There are polishes containing strengthening substances that can make your nails stronger.
Good-quality nail polish won't dry up in 6 months, but it has its expiry period. You can make your polish more liquid with the help of solvent, however in two-three use the polish will be useless, there will be nubbles, beads, and the layer will be spotty.
There can be some difficulties when you choose polish in the shop. Paper testers don't show real polish color as it will look on your nails. You can see the real color just on plastic testers.
Examine the polish thoroughly, especially consistence, a drop from the nail brush must fall during 5 seconds, otherwise the polish is too thick and you will get bad cover on your nails.
Inspect the brush ' hairs must lie evenly and the brush must be long, soft with thin elastic hairs.
You'd better buy polish with mixing balls, they make it easy to shake polish before use.
Nail Polish producers
There are four groups of nail producers:
1) Exclusive, expensive, professional.
2) Professional, their producers have representatives in Russia. For example: LCN, Akzent Direct, Creative nail design, OPI. There are also producers that have two types of production: professional and ordinary, for example Orly.
Possibility of purchasing professional polishes depends on a salon-distributor philosophy and the company producer itself. Some of them sell professional production to private persons and some don't.
3) The polishes being advertised and sold in cosmetic shop. Such as: Revlon, Paloma, Lakme, Avon, Bourjois Paris, Margaret Astor, Maybelen, Green Mama.
4) The polishes sold in the market. There are producers which make cheap cosmetics and there are forgeries of famous brands, for example: Golden Rose, Veronigue, Catherine Arley, Gala.
Nail polish features
Ordinary polish. The most widespread and popular. The nails are covered in two layers.
Pearle polishes. Very firm, have perfectly seen structure that's why it's necessary to draw a brush directly from the nail foundation to the nail tip.
Transparent polishes. Used as a base coat or top coat. They protect nails and add some gloss. They also make color brighter.
Base coat polishes. Serve to make nail surface even. It can be pink or transparent.
Quick drying polishes. Express-polishes. They get dry for one minute.
Polishes with glitters. Transparent (colorful) polish with glitters of different shape, size and colors.
Mat polishes. “mat frostâ€. Such polishes don't have any gloss. Nail surface is even and velvet. They quickly get dry.
Strengthening polishes. They are applied after manicuring, contain silk fibers and keratin. They protect nails from environment influence and make them harder.
Bitter polishes. Have bitter taste, stop you from biting nails, usually green-transparent color.
Hypoallergic polishes. They don't cause allergy, don't contain toluene-formaldehyde resin and mixing balls don't contain nickel. You can buy shuch polishes in the drugstore.
Chameleon. These polishes change color depending on angle of slope.
Temperature polishes. They change color depending on nail surface temperature.
“Old china†effect. Nail surface looks like cracking with time. Top coat starts cowering in 3 seconds after applying.
Aquarelle. Transparent polish with different tints. They have more glossy surface than usual polish, look like still wet. They're good with French manicure as they smooth hard edge between “smile†and nail bed.
Dance Legend polishes. they change color depending on light around, usually used for discos. They shine brightly in UV-illumination.
Cream-polishes. Include insoluble, thick pigments.
Micaceous polishes. Contain large pigments and have rough surface.
Peel-off polishes. They are taken off the nail as a film and contain special polymers.
Nail art polishes. They are thicker and more liquid. Every bottle has a special brush for painting nails.
