Maintain hardness: how to restore and strengthen nails after gel polish

Gel manicure makes nails smooth, strong, beautiful, and for a few weeks we forget about the nail file and varnish with relief. However, after removing the gel, many nails become thin, brittle and exfoliating. You have to skip the next procedure and engage in recovery.   

How to strengthen nails

It is important to remember that any serious manipulations with your nails should be trusted to specialists. Performing a manicure or pedicure at home, you risk doing much more harm than good. So, for example, in no case do not remove gel polish on your own, so as not to damage the natural nail. After removal, be sure to shorten the length of the nail. Remember that the recommended length of the free edge of the nail should not exceed 2/3 of the nail bed. Also at home, do not forget to use rubber gloves while washing dishes or using household chemicals. Neglecting this, you only prolong the period during which you can restore the nail plate.

Please note that in order to grow healthy nails, one to two weeks will not be enough. This period should last at least 3-4 months. During this time, the nail plate will be completely renewed and will become much stronger than it was. Since the formation of the plate comes from the inside, it is important to establish nutrition, take vitamins, mineral supplements and a sufficient amount of clean water.

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home care

It is important to constantly take care of your nails at home. Use hand cream and cuticle oil daily, as nails become more brittle without timely moisturizing. You can make your own special baths for nails.

• Oil bath. The most affordable method of moisturizing and care. To two tablespoons of oil, add half a teaspoon of lemon juice. Soak your nails in the mixture for 10 minutes and then dry with a tissue. This procedure can be carried out even daily – it whitens and strengthens nails.
• Salt bath with oils. Suitable for brittle rather than exfoliating nails. For a liter of warm water, add a tablespoon of salt, for example, sea salt with rose extracts and oils. Soak your nails in the bath for 10 minutes. Then rinse and apply cuticle oil. Such procedures will require 7-10.
• Mineral seal. Take flannel or suede, rub fine sea salt into the nail with a piece of cloth. Dust off your hands. Now, with a cloth, rub beeswax with the addition of an oil that suits you into the nail plate. Buff with a clean piece of suede. This should be done every two weeks.
• Honey mask. Mix honey and coconut oil. Rub the mixture into your nails and fingertips. Put on warm gloves or wrap your hands in a cloth. Leave for 10 minutes. Repeat this procedure twice a week, and once a week an overnight mask is possible.

Among the salon procedures for strengthening nails, you can try various options. For example, with a unique system of internal action and valuable oils that penetrate deep into the nail plate, making even very weak and brittle nails strong. As well as spa complexes with vitamins, berry and citrus extracts, hyaluronic acid, egg yolk proteins and calcium, providing a quick and long-term regenerating effect. Or a complex of healing products based on mineral oils, with the addition of white gold powder and diamond chips, which provides restoration, strengthening of the nail plate, as well as deep moisturizing and nourishing the cuticle.