You can not surprise anyone with nail polish on your hands , this procedure has long and firmly entered into the lives of many women, but it turns out that they often increase their nails not only on their hands and on their feet. This is usually done in order to disguise cosmetic defects, to give the nails a natural color and shine.
Such a procedure will help to solve the problem of ingrown nails, hide deformed or simply irregularly shaped nails. In addition, the nail varnish lasts longer on the nails, they will look more well-groomed and attractive, without requiring frequent pedicure. And artificial coating will serve as additional protection against harmful influence and may even prevent infection with fungus.
Types of nail extension on the legs
Nail extensions on the legs, as well as on the hands, can be done with gel, acrylic, or simply make a gel manicure.
- Nail extensions on the legs are usually used to get a more natural appearance of the nail. The gel is applied in a thinner layer, which is more comfortable when you wear it, especially if you prefer closed shoes.
- Nail extensions on the legs with acrylic are used when it is necessary to disguise the unnatural color of the nail, the ribbed surface, to increase the missing part of the nail plate. In addition, acrylic nails are much stronger than gel nails.
It is clear that the design of nails on the legs is more limited. Usually they make either a neat French jacket or a painting only on the thumb, while the others simply repeat the elements of the picture. Sometimes an aquarium design is used.
How to build nails on legs?
Before doing the build-up, make sure that you do not have any allergies to the materials you intend to use (especially if it's acrylic). Building is done only on healthy nails. It can not be carried out in the presence of cracks and other damages. In addition, you can not build on the nails infected with a fungus, no matter how much you want to disguise the defect. This can only aggravate the disease and deprive you of the opportunity to engage in treatment.
Nail extensions on the legs are carried out exactly the same as on the arms. The only thing, before its carrying out it is better to make a simple or hardware pedicure . In addition, the toenails never make a length of several millimeters.
Extension of the nails on the legs step by step:
- The feet are treated with an antiseptic, after which the cuticle is carefully moved away and the fat film is removed from the nail with the nail file. The surface of the nail is thoroughly disinfected.
- The material (acrylic or gel) is laid out on the nail plate. This can be done with tips, molds or simply apply it to the surface of the nail. It's all up to you.
- Unlike the build-up on the hands, it is quite possible to do without forms on the legs, just applying the gel in one layer. Although the most popular is still building-French, when the first layer of transparent gel is applied a strip of white, and along the edge of the nail and from above - another layer of transparent material.
- After solidification of the material, the edge of the nail is filed, all irregularities are removed, the roughness is polished, the surface of the nail is polished to give it an ideal shape.
Since the nails on the legs grow much more slowly, the correction of the build-up is carried out about once a month and a half. And sometimes one procedure can be enough for the whole summer. If the exaggerated nails are boring, then you can just not make an adjustment, and nail the nail as it grows. If necessary, they can simply be removed, using the same technology as on the hands.