Natural fingernails are traditional and give an obvious natural look. With natural nails, it is important to keep them shaped and filed for a clean well manicured appearance. To ensure healthy, strong nails, periodically applying a fingernail hardener will help.
A disadvantage of wearing natural nails, is having to deal with breakage and frequent polish changes. Natural nails can be kept up rather easily with at home “do it yourself” manicures.
Overview of Acrylic Nails
Not all women have perfect nails. For women that are not satisfied with their natural fingernails, acrylic nails can be a good option.
Contrary to what people say, if properly applied, acrylic nails are perfectly safe and won’t harm the health of natural nails. Acrylic nails are very durable and can look just like natural nails and give the option to choose the desired length.
Polish also lasts much longer on acrylic nails. Even with the lowest quality nail polish, no chipping takes place, although the color may slightly fade with time.
Acrylic nails do require fill in’s every few weeks. How frequent someone needs to get their acrylic nails filled in depends on how fast their nails grow. On average, they take about two weeks to grow out before a fill in is needed.
Acrylics are perfect for a woman who needs durable nails and doesn’t mind visiting the nail shop about every two weeks in order to keep their nails properly maintained to ensure natural nail health and durability.
All about Nail Art
In the past few years nail art has evolved to an art form of its own. Many nail technicians specialize in this art and create mini masterpieces on natural or acrylic nails. Nail art is usually done with traditional nail polish or most often, acrylic paint.
Sculptured nail art is created by sculpting acrylic to create a 3D shape or design onto the nail. In many cases rhinestones, nail beads and nail foil help to complete ideal and extremely creative nail decorations of all kinds.
Extraordinary Minx Nails
Minx is a fairly new technique that is taking finger nail art to the next level. Minx nails are nail overlays that are available in metallic silver and gold which are the most common coverings. These nail decorations also come in patterns of all sorts, even customizable decals.
The minx process is pretty simple and involves no nail polish or harsh chemicals. The round edge of the minx overlay is matched up with the natural or acrylic nail, is pressed onto the nail like a sticker and lastly heat is applied to ensure the covering is bonded properly.
If applied correctly minx nail coverings should last about two weeks and bring stunning, glamorous attention to finger tips all the while.
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