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- Remember, your nails are not tools.
- Always use cotton lined rubber gloves, when working with chemicals or water.
- Gardening--Scratch your nails across a bar of soap to create a coat on the underside of your nails. When gardening is done, use a nailbrush to remove soap and dirt. Gardening gloves are most helpful when pulling weeds and working in garden.
- Tanning and swimming in chlorine pools will discolor your French manicure.
- Apply cuticle oil daily to prevent hangnails and to keep cuticles moist.
- Be very careful. Moisture trapped between your natural nail and artificial nail may cause mold--The green finger nail.
- Do not cut cuticles, but do trim hangnails.
- If you decide to glue to reseal a lift, make sure the nail is sanitized and DRY.
- Split or breaking nails- apply nail glue to the split, let dry, then buff with fine block buffer.
- To help prevent your polish from chipping, make sure nails are free of oils before polishing (use non acetone polish remover).
- Keep them short with a square shape to lessen the chance of breakage during activities.
- Use sunscreen on your hands. The skin is delicate and ages rapidly.
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