Nails and Nail Varnish
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will sort pictures.I wear nail polish most of the time, but I only discovered recently how important it is to put a strengthening base coat first: your nails grow, and the varnish lasts much, much longer before it chips. Before, I used to ruin them wearing bad quality nail varnish, now I can wear any colour, provided the nail is protected with some decent quality base first. In fact my current Rimmel base coat does the trick, nothing fancy.
Callie
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OK naily ladies - I have really crappy weak nails, they never grow very long and its very difficult to get them all to something resembling a length equally! However I really quite like the idea of wearing nail varnish. I wear nail varnish indoors but remove it before venturing outdoors cos I think my nails look silly and I end up painting half my fingers as well as the nails 
Do you lot have any tips for keeping short nails looking nice? I keep thinking I need to sort my cuticles out- I can only see the half moon bits at the base on my thumb nails - should the moons be visible on all fingers? whats the best method for cuticle care... as oppsed to occasionally poking them back with apen lid? :S
Do you lot have any tips for keeping short nails looking nice? I keep thinking I need to sort my cuticles out- I can only see the half moon bits at the base on my thumb nails - should the moons be visible on all fingers? whats the best method for cuticle care... as oppsed to occasionally poking them back with apen lid? :S
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
could you treat yourself to a manicure to start you off? it's much easier to maintain than to start from scratch. groupon often do cheap deals.
Callie
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yeah i did think about that - there are plenty of nail bars near me but think theyre more for pretend nails how do you decide where is good to go for a manicure?! i think there might be nail bar type places in a couple of the department stores in Croydon - would they do?? *useless*
how do you decide where is good to go for a manicure?! i think there might be nail bar type places in a couple of the department stores in Croydon - would they do?? *useless*OK naily ladies - I have really crappy weak nails, they never grow very long and its very difficult to get them all to something resembling a length equally! However I really quite like the idea of wearing nail varnish. I wear nail varnish indoors but remove it before venturing outdoors cos I think my nails look silly and I end up painting half my fingers as well as the nails
Do you lot have any tips for keeping short nails looking nice? I keep thinking I need to sort my cuticles out- I can only see the half moon bits at the base on my thumb nails - should the moons be visible on all fingers? whats the best method for cuticle care... as oppsed to occasionally poking them back with apen lid? :S
My nails used to be like that for yers, and like you, halfmoons are only visible on my thumbs, but I think that's normal, jsut different in different people.
Start by using a strengthening base, as I posted earlier, it really had a big effect on my nails' overall condition. I don'tlike mine very long, but they look even and healthy an no crappy nail polish can get through the base coat and break them (well, up to a point).
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
yeah - you probably don't want a south london nail bar. more likely a beautician if local. alternatively, if you can afford it, i'd go for a nails inc manicure. the one that's about £30-35 is good. Not the 'two week' manicure, though. that's not really what you want.yeah i did think about that - there are plenty of nail bars near me but think theyre more for pretend nails
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
btw - i really like the nails inc kensington caviar basecoat and topcoat. the topcoat is a genius product.
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Miss-Shelf
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Did you do those yourself? Amazing!
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daughter did them - but I have been learning to repair her nail jobs on my nails and I can now do a passable polka dot set
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You hold a magnet that comes with it over them and it makes a pattern/stripes
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