First of all, you need to thoroughly clean the nail plate from the nail and degrease it. It is best to use the nail polish remover, which included no acetone, which greatly harms the nails.
After the well is necessary to moisten the nail plate and soften cuticles. For this great warm bath with sea salt and lemon juice, which helps whiten nails.
Next you need to process the cuticle. With the help of a special wooden blades can push it towards the skin. Furthermore, it can be cut or dissolve with the help of special tools. For self manicure will be the last best way, as an independent manicure can injure the cuticle.
The next stage - processing nails with nail file. To do this, it is best to use a nail file made of glass, it is minimally traumatize the nail. Nails should be completely dry, it will help to avoid them in the future delamination.
When nails acquired the desired shape, they need to be polished. This is done using a special polisher, which at first glance looks like a nail file, but with four working surfaces. To begin to eliminate unevenness of the edge of the nail better with the most granular surface polisher and finish - the least granular part.
The final stage of any nail polish - lacquer. Before that nails better cover ad hoc basis, it will protect the nail from the harmful effects of varnish. Need to wait to get the foundation has dried completely.
Lac lie perfectly, if you start to put it at the very edge of the cuticle in the center of the nail plate, and then, without looking up, hold the brush until the end of the nail. Similarly, the need to apply varnish on the lateral edge of the plate.
Varnish dries faster if send him a stream of cold air or hold nails under cold water.