Tips for Orderly, Dry & Tidy Nails

Your nails also need your attention and proper care like the other parts of your body for a healthy life style. Our nails are composed of laminated layers of a protein called keratin, it grow from the area at the base of the nail under your cuticle. When new cells grow, it pushed the older hard cells towards the nail tips. So it’s equally important to keep your nails not only neat & clean but healthy as well.
Smooth and healthy nails are not too difficult to get, all you need is appropriate care and suitable diet. Healthy nails possess consistency, uniform in color and they are without pits and are in harmonize shape as well.

Things you should do to have healthy nails

Hygiene; the best you can do to have healthy nails

Keeping your nails orderly, dry & tidy is the best thing you can do to your nails. This habit not only prevents your nails form many types of bacterial and fungal infections but gives you fine looking and healthy nails. If you have to perform chores like washing dishes etc on daily basis, or bond to do chemical related jobs then do not forget to wear cotton-lined rubber gloves; and then right after performing the jobs treat your hands with a skin loving lotion or moisturizers. It’s good to rub the lotion into your fingernails and cuticles, to have long lasting healthy nails. Trim and file your healthy nails, if not daily then at least four to five days in a week. If you do it at home then use a sharp manicure scissors or clippers. Trim straight across to have Healthy nails, then round the tips in a gentle curve.
It might be easiest to trim and file your fingernails when they’re soft, such as after bathing. On the other hand, if you rely on manicures or pedicures for Healthy nails, then you should know that weather salon is having current state license or not? Weather good technicians are working in it or not? Never remove your cuticles of your healthy nails from them; it might lead to nail infection. Do check that all tools are properly sterilized during your procedure; as various infections can spread through the use of unsterilized tools and can kill the image of your healthy nails. Last but not least, keeps the size short for having Healthy nails.

Things you should not do for healthy nails

Don’t consider your healthy nails as toy to play with

Abusing and biting your healthy nails not only lead them to damage but it also reveals secrets about you in terms of psychology. Don’t make them a tool of picking, poking and to try things. These habits can damage the bed of your Healthy nails. Besides the biting, even a minor cut alongside your healthy nails can allow bacteria or fungi to enter and cause an infection. If you feel any problem of such type, don’t ignore it in any way because Healthy nails are easy to lose but quite difficult to get. Consult your doctor or dermatologist for an evaluation. Don’t forget to use a good moisturizer to your healthy nails many times a day and especially after going to bed.
Applying standard nail polish to your healthy nails no matter with thin coat, it can help maintain moisture. Limit the use of nail polish remover if you are in a habit of using much. When you do need to use nail polish remover on your healthy nails, choose the acetone-free variety. Acetone dries nails. The most important factor to have Healthy nails is the use of vitamin and calcium rich diet. Intake of calcium and multivitamins strengthen your health nails.

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