Healthy nails make for quicker, longer-lasting manicures. Whether you hit the salon once a month or once a year, you can keep your tips strong, smooth and ready for the latest colours! Follow our simple step-by-step guide for this spring’s best nails.
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1 Start with a nourishing nail polish remover. Saturate a cotton pad and then press down on the nail, hold for a moment and then push down from the nail bed to the tip in a clean sweep. |
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2 Massage a nail butter into your cuticles and gently push them back from the nail, preferably after a bath or shower so the skin is soft and ready to roll. |
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3 Use a crystal nail file to shape each nail – this season is all about the squ-oval (square-oval) shape. |
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4 Buff up to a natural glossy shine and top with a strengthening nail food complex to support and nourish, followed by a crystal base coat to prevent staining. Apply with one stroke down the middle and one on either side for an even finish. |
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5 Finally, apply a topcoat to prevent peeling and breaks, et voila: gorgeous glossy nails ready to rock any colour you should fancy! |
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To combat the drying effects of air conditioning, washing and cooler climes, apply a treatment mask to your nails and an overnight hand cream before bed and wear cotton gloves to aid absorption. It’ll actually help prolong the life of your manicure.
SS14 is all about polar opposites. Either make a bold statement with a gutsy red or keep it simple with a pale pink hue. And the very chicest nail art: floating luna lines along the nail bed in white, easily drawn with a nail tip brush.
