In order to have beautiful well-groomed nails, it is not necessary to visit the nail salon. At home, to give your hands an attractive, neat look will help small nail scissors.
Manicure scissors for nails and cuticles
A beautiful manicure is guaranteed only in the case of a properly selected tool for the treatment of nails and cuticles . Nail scissors are of three types:
- To cut off overgrown nails - use scissors with straight ends.
- For cutting cuticles - use scissors with rounded ends. Good manicure scissors for the cuticle should be curved smoothly.
- Universal manicure scissors - narrow with slightly curved blades. They are designed for cutting both nails, and cuticles, as well as nail rollers.
However, not everyone knows that it's not enough to just buy a pair of nail scissors, they need to be selected correctly. Carefully look at your nails and cuticles, as well as the peri-ogular region - it is also called lateral ridges.
Depending on the density and thickness of the cuticle, you need to select scissors with curved ends. For the finest cuticles, respectively, and scissors are needed with a very thin cloth at the end - they are also called scissors-needles. For a dense cuticle, they do not fit. Here you need a nail scissors with thick blades. They will also help to cope with the dry necrotic lateral ridges.
Scissors are considered standard, the thickness of which is approximately one millimeter. They are used for cuticles with medium density and thickness.
It should be noted that relatively recently there was another kind of nail scissors - safe scissors. Their peculiarity is that their tips are rounded. Due to this, the risk of injury is minimized, so they are most often used to cut marigolds in young children. Also they can cut off hairs in the ears.
Which nail scissors are better?
When choosing a manicure scissors, you need to pay attention to such criteria:
- sharpening;
- Closure;
- convenience;
- the material from which they are made.
It is best to choose scissors from medical steel, as they are:
- do not rust;
- long do not stupid;
- can be treated with special hygienic solutions.
The sharpness of the scissors is not difficult to check. You need to take a thin cellophane bag and try to cut it. If the scissors are sharp, the edges at the points of the cut will be even. Otherwise, you should not buy such goods. Scissors of good quality are more expensive, but this is best not to save.
Manicure scissors
Among the brands that make manicure scissors are the following:
- "Stalex" - are considered one of the best, scissors are made of high quality steel, do not rust. Such a brand of nail scissors is preferred by professionals in salons;
- "Zauber" - scissors of high quality, although made of ordinary steel, hand sharpening, are cheaper, used for home manicure and pedicure;
- "OLTON" - are made of high quality medical steel, do not undergo corrosion;
- "PODIUM Professional" is a new trade mark, sharpening of manual blades, scissors of high-quality medical steel. The progress of the blades is smooth.
Another useful tip: it is better to buy a pair of nail scissors separately, and not in a set, as there often "lame" the quality of the instrument.
Manicure scissors for left-handers
Relatively recently, manufacturers of manicure accessories began to produce goods for people with the predominance of the left hand as a leader. Scissors for lefties - a mirror copy of the usual. The difference is in the position of the blades. If the right blade is located on top of the conventional scissors, which provides visibility of the cutting line, then in the scissors for left-handers there is the left blade on the top.