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Color and toned enamels of last generations help people to retain natural glitter, firmness and even color. They protect nails productively from cleaning and washing facilities, chlorinated water. If your nails are covered with this nail they stratify and break much less. In the sun high grade nail-polishes prevent nail plates from overdrying. Thus, enamels provide our nails with beauty and sure preventive measures.

When choosing a high rate preventive enamel you have to pay special attention to its make-up:

- there shouldn’t be acetone in nail-polishes;

- the amount of formaldehyde and toluol should be taken in a minimum of; these agents get into the nails and make them soft and dull;

- the enamels have to hold oils, calcium and vitamins which strengthen the nails and quicken its growth.

And you need to apply the layer of curative moisturizing base even under the most perfect nail-varnish. The nail-varnish will stay longer on your nails if you rinse them with cold water right after you colored them. Many ladies dry enamel with hair-dryer; actually, it gets dry very quickly but the color will be dull.

Fashionable trends

The classics of the genre. Whole-colored nails, when the nail plate is colored completely and with equal intensity, are still in fashion. You can use noble scarlet dim gamma or quiet pastel tints. You may apply such special effects as slight golden or silver nacre without imitating marble or cracks. The American style of manicure has the 2nd name: “Beverley-Hills’: the juiciest, brightest and most extravagant tones of enamel are applied evenly, without acute transitions to the nails which reiterate the shape of prolonged ovals. The color should be the same as that of your lipstick or there can be one tone of difference. French manicure doesn’t give up its position; it’s still a success. Its basic aim is to make the nails acquire a healthy and natural look. To achieve this effect you underline the prominent part of your nails with a narrow stripe of white nail-polish. The nail itself is covered with a flesh-colored, beige or tender pink tint. This type of manicure is a universal one; it fits any make-up and style of clothes. The fashion of our century lets us exchange the white stripe for the golden or silver, but you’d better do it on one or two fingers. This method is very practical – even peeled ‘French’ doesn’t strike the eye.

The varnished cover of art-french is based on the principals of French manicure but the nail itself and the accent of its tip are not flesh-colored with white but combine various colors. For instance, red with green or white with dark blue. The Spanish school of manicure prefers the deep mirror-like look of nails. To make it possible you apply the layer of snow-white enamel on the basis and from the top the nails are covered with a bright juicy transparent tone.

Nail-art. This style is restricted by the pictures of plant ornaments, marine metaphors, sceneries of different seasons. It’s a sign of good taste to have the picture only on 1 or 2 nails. Fourth-fingers are adorned more often; index fingers and thumbs are seldom applied to with a picture.

Daily nail-art refused from feathers, spangles, pastes and dry flowers. And not in vain. Modern manicure is directed to the combination of beauty and health. As everybody knows many adornments aren’t harmless for nail plates. They can injure the nail under the surface of sticking; piercing makes the nails fragile; pictures which are applied to nails lead to pigmentation and they become yellow. That’s why nail-art is incompatible with problematic nails.

Basic rules

1. When you use a basis, nail-polish and some fixing agent you should try to follow one firm. Their ingredients supplement each other.
2. Most of enamels are applied in two layers, especially enamels- chameleons with special effects: light-sensitive, which change its color depending on light; thermal, which change color depending on the temperature of the environment; enamels-halogens, which shine under the ultraviolet light; shining enamels; enamels, imitating cracks and other.
3. You should color nails with quick motions along the nail ‘in 3 strokes’. The first stroke dyes the middle in the down-up direction. Then the side stripes are colored. Then you let the upper layer dry a bit and apply the 2nd layer.
4. When coloring the nails you’d better leave a tiny space between cuticle and nail-polish – the nail plates breathe through the base.
5. You remove the enamels by means of special solutions which contain no acetone and formaldehyde.
6. You shouldn’t wash your manicured hands too often. You may purchase anti bacterial moisturizing gel in the drugstore; it will clean your hands without damaging the beauty of your nails.
7. If the base of the nails is overgrown but the nail-polish still bears up you shouldn’t cut the cuticles off. You just keep hands in a bit warm water with a drop of soft foam; then you apply olive oil or special oily product for cuticle to the base of the nails and with caution move the skin to the edge of the nail plate. When moving you’d better use wooden sticks.

The ruses of visage

There are many color ruses, which are known to painters; they will help to underline the perfection of nails and keep its natural disadvantages in the background.

1. Shining dark enamel will prolong your nails visually; the light one will shorten them.
2. All dark shades of manicure like cherry, vinous, winy will look to advantage on nail plates of middle length of an oval or rectangular shape.
3. You shouldn’t draw attention to the rounded broad nails of irregular shape – you need to avoid freakish ornaments and color them in tender quiet tones.
4. Broad nails shouldn’t be colored fully; you may color only the middle.
5. On the almond-like nails of middle length intensive tints of dark colors look very winsome. But you should know when to stop. The sign of inaccurate taste is a dark nail-polish on very long nails. Beige tints and the tints of tea-rose will better match the nails.
6. If you have furrows on your nails and you cover them with pearl enamel it will only underline the defect. Uneven nails should be applied with dim enamel – it’s capable of ‘smoothing’ them.
7. If the skin on your hands is of yellow shade warm tones of manicure will suit to perfection; they are salmon-colored and tender pink. In this case the color of skin becomes an advantage out of a shortcoming.