The Wonderful Life Of The Manicure

By Alexander Stone

Historically manicures have been done to make ones hands look as nice as possible. It maybe done with no particular reason or it can be done to make the hands look more decent for a ceremony like a wedding. Manicuring generally entails the upkeep and maintenance of the nails and when the hands as a whole is given required attention.

The other ways to make ones nails look nice is to attach fake nails and using special gels. Another way is to use special nail paints on them with small pictures and even attach precious stones on them. Because beauty salons are dealing with the cutting and trimming nails and sometimes skin, they have to adhere to safety standards, to prevent infection.

Going back to ancient history you can see the upkeep of the hands and nails was done by various civilizations like the Chinese and Indian civilizations. They took good care of their hands with the help of various tools and herbs. But hand care done in the present way started in 18th century France. At this time hand care became widely acceptable and popular.

In this day and age there are so many different ways to enhance the looks of ones nails. From artificial nails to different types of gels and not to mention tools it is not difficult to get those perfect nails. But some of these new products like gels are not very healthy for the nail and can make them brittle causing breakages. Especially when filed.

One of the before mentioned tools includes the nail file. This tool is extremely useful in giving your nails that perfect shape that you really looking to achieve when doing your nails. Files come in different models such as the emery file, steel and ceramic files and the newest addition is the glass file. Glass files are considered the best because they don't harm nails are cleaner and last the longest. - 30292

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