How to do Acrylic nails yourself at home

Women always desire to look beautiful and there are several ways that they can follow to get it which can start from toe or as simple as maintaining beautiful nails. They believe that well maintained hands and nails will make them look elegant and gorgeous; however at times it is impossible to retain these nails owing to the reasons like poor nail growth or tendency of biting them off during stress.

As an alternative to natural nails and nail polish, acrylic nails have been introduced which has proven to be a boon for women who wish to show off their fingernails but are not able to do so due to the brittleness and meager nail growth that hinders their length of perfect nails. Acrylic nails with artistic nail art designs are perfect option available for women which have only a disadvantage that once they are done in a salon are very tough to maintain on long term basis and also they cost fortune to get them done.

Doing these acrylic nails by yourself at home will save from the salon charges every couple of weeks also they will be readily available anytime at home that makes it lot easier.

Step by step process to do acrylic nails by yourself.

Doing acrylic nails for oneself is quite simple but requires practice and patience, before setting off to know the process how they have to be done it is better to have clear understanding of what acrylic nails are. They actually are liquid and powder when mixed together form dense consistency solutions which can be directly applied to natural nails which later on turn out to be attention grabbers.

What is required?

• Nail brush
• Nail files
• Nail polish remover
• Acrylic nipper
• Nail oil
• Liquid acrylic
• Artificial nail tips
• Powdered acrylic

1. Start by preparing the nails by doing neat manicure for which trim the nails using nail clip and file them with nail files that will give them a smooth and clean look. Rough edged or even nails will damage the actual purpose of applying acrylic nails.

2. Cutting the nails back till the skin while trimming them will ensure that the risk of losing half of the original nail will be reduced even if acrylic nails happens to break off. Take care to not cut too deep leaving bruises on fingers.

3. After giving a perfect manicure to the nails, remove any previous traces of nail polish or acrylic using non-acetone polish remover. This step is not really necessary if the nails do not have any nail polish.

4. Apply glue to the acrylic nail tips for which the best way is to add a drop onto the edge of these acrylic nails and move in bottom up direction to the slight notch to where the edge of the nail should fit into the original nail. Even if the glue is applied in wrong direction it can be immediately removed by simply soaking the nail in plain water.

5. The length of these acrylic nails can be adjusted to suit your needs using an acrylic nail tip cutter. If there are any rough edges they can be smoothed by using the nail file.

6. While taking liquid acrylic into a dish make sure to leave few windows open since it is very strong to give headache when applied. Dip the brush into liquid acrylic and wipe it on both sides of paper towel. Then re-dip the brush into liquid acrylic and wipe that against the container that has powder acrylic quite similar to the way it is done while applying nail polish.

7. Apply little ball of the product that forms on the tip of brush to acrylic nail and natural nail which must be damp but not too wet.

8. Spread it out soon on the nail to give it a smooth and even look however care also has to be taken to make sure that it is not flattened too much. Simply wipe the brush to take off excess product.

9. File the acrylic nails after it dries off in order to give them more enhancing appeal. Lastly apply nail oil on the cuticles to retain some moisture.

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