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How do you do the perfect manicure?

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Girl96

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The perfect manicure relies as much on preparing your nails and letting them dry as it does on applying the polish.

Before you paint make sure that your nails are perfectly clean and smooth. File your nails to get rid of snags and hangnails, and run nail polish remover over bare nails to remove oils.

When you are painting your nails, focus on applying thin layers and keeping them on the nail. Thick layers take longer to dry, and break faster. If the nail polish runs onto your skin, it will peel or break off easier.

Use a basecoat and topcoat. Wait two minutes between layers. You want the previous layer to be a bit dry, so that you aren't moving the previous layer across the nail, but not too dry, so that the two layers adhere to each other.

Do not touch anything for at least half an hour after you apply the final coat. Anything you touch could smear the polish and ruin the manicure. After the nail polish has dried, you should still wait a few hours before wearing gloves, or washing dishes.

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