Buff Your Nails
A simple and inexpensive way to create cute, shiny nails.
Steps
- Purchase a nail buffer at your local store that you trust. This will look either like an emery board with a few different colored panels, or it will be a foam block with different textures on the sides. Some buffers have step one to 4 written on them to help.
- File your nails as you normally would,rounded,square or oval look best.
- Starting with the roughest grit side of the buffer, begin to buff your nails with a gentle, side-to-side motion. At first, just aim to smooth out major ridges.
- Move to the next roughest setting, and repeat with gentle side to side motion, again working to smooth out the nail.
- Repeat with the third side of the buffer .
- With the last (smoothest) part of the buffer, this is where you really get to work, polishing your nails until they look like you just put on clear nail polish.
- Finished.
Tips
- Use a good quality cuticle balm or oil after applying.
- Make sure to file your nails before as well!
- Use cuticle oil after.
Warnings
- Buffing the nail is fine occasionally - for example when a special occasion arises - but regular buffing can dry out the nail causing breakage and splitting. It can also thin the nail making it weaker and minimizing growth.
- The side with the roughest grit may be a file for the edges. If so, never use on the actual face of the nail.
- Don't work too hard with the rougher grit, it is simply to smooth out major lines and bumps on the nail.
Things You'll Need
- 1 nail buffer from local supermarket, drugstore, health dept. of large store
- 1 regular emery board
