Funds for protecting the skin from varnish for manicure. Their use and removal.
The content of the article
- How do fingers cover to protect against varnish during manicure, what is the name of the product?
- How to use a cuticle to protect the cuticle in manicure gel varnish, shellac, ombre, gradient and water manicure?
- How to remove varnish from a finger around the nail?
- Video: How to apply a defender to protect your fingers during manicure?
Beautiful manicure is a guarantee of a great mood in a girl. The technician of its implementation is quite a lot, because even experienced ladies practicing home manicure sometimes encounter the need to wipe excess varnish from the skin of fingers and cuticles.
If you notice the varnish from the nail plate and managed to immediately remove it with a cotton swab moistened in acetone, then beauty on your fingers is provided. And if not, you have to wipe it for a long time.
Professionals in salons know a number of ways to prevent such inconvenience.
Consider these methods more detailed.
How do fingers cover to protect against varnish during manicure, what is the name of the product?
defender in the hands of the girl and on her fingers after the varnish
Among the means to protect the skin around the nail plates and the fingers themselves during the manicure are known:
- scotch
- pVA glue
- hand or face cream
- petrolatum
- cutter softening
- liquid tape, or liquid latex
- protective fluid
- Skin Defender
If the first four can be safely attributed to improvised products for home manicure, then the last three are definitely for professionals.
You will meet Skin Defender in a pink bottle with a special brush. However, ordinary ones are also found - white with a familiar brush, as for applying varnish.
The liquid tape has a pleasant mint color. The brush in the bottle with it is identical to the lacquer.
Each of the listed funds has established itself well for specific types of manicure.
How to use a cuticle to protect the cuticle in manicure gel varnish, shellac, ombre, gradient and water manicure?
a liquid tape is applied on the finger before painting varnish
For water manicure, ombre, gradient, do not use skin, petroleum jelly and tape as protecting the skin and cuticles from the entry of varnish. Especially the last remedy that is afraid of water and will simply depart at the most inopportune moment.
An alternative is a defender, a liquid tape and a protective fluid. Cover the zone around the nail with any of these products, avoiding entering the nail plate. If necessary, expand the processing zone by 3-5 mm around. Especially if you plan to make a water manicure, gradient or ombre. Thanks to the brush that these funds have, you will not have difficulties with their application.
In the absence of “assistants”, take a regular PVA.
- Distribute it as close as possible around the nail plate and on the skin with an ear stick or a thin brush. If he accidentally got on the nail, remove the cotton moistened in acetone.
- Be sure to wait for the complete drying of the product on the skin before dyeing your nails.
Fat cream and petroleum jelly are effective when using gel polish, shellac. Distribute any of them with a wooden stick or thin brush so that the nail plate remains dry. In the case of the product, remove the cotton with cotton in the liquid to remove varnish.
How to remove varnish from a finger around the nail?
liquid tape - applying to the finger and removal after solidifying varnish
The most convenient way is the use of liquid tape, defender or PVA glue. They are removed with a film after the varnish dries on the fingers.
- To do this, use tweezers. At one end, pry the edge of the film on the skin, press it with the second and carefully pull it up and to the side. Or separate part of the dry film from the skin with a wooden stick and grab it with tweezers.
- The stained surface will easily be removed and leave clean skin and beautiful edge along the nail line.
The second method is to quickly wipe the excess fresh varnish with cotton wool moistened in a liquid to remove it.
A number of other proven methods:
- corrective felt -tip pens,
- a toothpick or a match with a thin thin layer of cotton wool, which should be dipped in acetone before use,
- synthetic thin brush, dry napkin and varnish removal. Dip the brush into the liquid and with an effort to draw cuticles and skin rollers through the stained areas. Wipe the brush on a napkin, plunge into the liquid again and spend 2-3 times in the same places without pressure,
- oil for the cuticle or ordinary sunflower,
- hot shower an hour after the manicure dries with subsequent massage of the cuticle zones and skin rollers with a terry towel
- washing hands with soap followed by moisturizing the skin with cream. So you will achieve softening varnish in areas of the skin and easily remove it, for example, with a towel or scraping,
- orange wand. The methodology of its use is similar to a toothpick with cotton wool. Therefore, keep at hand a liquid to relieve varnish and a napkin to smack the sticks before processing the stained areas.
So, we examined a number of ways to prevent the spreading of varnish on the skin and cuticles during manicure procedures. Determined their effectiveness for different types of manicure.
If you are committed to any specific way of protecting the hands in manicure, then it’s time to try alternative and get your experience and opinion in the convenience of its application.