Nails are horny skin outgrowths, their structure is defined by heredity but can be changed by external factors (food, hands care, work). Healthy nails must be strong and elastic. Often problems with nails mean problems with health.

Here are some advice to make your nails stronger and healthier:

You should eat more dishes containing gelatine, more milk products, yeast, soya, sea products, millet, beetroot, grapes, yolk or tablet biotin. Try to make your food full containing all necessary vitamins and minerals.

Vitamin A makes your nails stron…

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Women used to color nails in different colors long ago. When false nails appeared and different nail length became possible women began not only emphasize eyes and cheeks with strasses but stick them on nails. That was the birth of nail art idea. There were masters able to fiddle about with the tiny pictures and strasses for nail art. In Indo-China European colonists firstly saw beautiful bird feathers stuck to nails of local women. This variant is now used for holidays and fashion shows in Europe and America. There is a wide choice of mate…

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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 pol…

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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 file…

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If you're going out and don't have time to visit salon, don't worry, use the following advice to make glamorous nails for your party. For home nail art you'll need golden or silver nail stickers, strasses, wooden stick and small manicure scissors.
You can play with your fantasy or follow the recommendations given below when decorating your nails. Here is one of the variants:
Apply polish to your nails and stick two pieces of golden foil in the form of angel to the nail tip, cover nails with transparent polish. You can stop here or add some deco…

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This is my first attempt at a full set of sculpted acrylic tips (On a real hand).

I think they went ok but hopefully any comments/improvements from anyone will help me out loads

Having problems uploading pictures.

Had a play with my acrylic and glitters.

This is my first attempt at sculpting, any comments on improvement will be greatly appreciated.

If anyone would like a tutorial let me know and i will create one.