Today the complete image of every women is impossible without nail polish which differently name is nail varnish or nail lacquer. It’s a basic guide for nail’s beauty.
The combination of skin tone and nail color
The best effect can be achieved when nail color approaches to the skin tine. For example, the combination of red and orange, yellow and peach or brown colors is preferable for olive and bronze skin shade, while burgundy tones are more pertinent for medium skin. Pale skin will be shaped by berry reds and pink polish, and for dark skin are preferable purple, deep coral and strong red colors.
Polish finishes
- matte polish for giving natural look;super shine or wet finishes for glamour image;
- metallic polish;
- pearl and creamy lacquer for womanly image;
- glitter finishes for creation of a playful image.
Nail polish types
The structure of each nail polish includes such components as coloring, hardening, and drying agents. It is desirable to put on not only nail color, but also base and top coat. Use of a base coat is necessary for giving to smoothness nails. As for top coat, it helps to protect your manicure. Often there is a combination of these two types, when the same product can be used as top and base coat.
Besides, nail polish can carry out following functions:
- Fast drying. Use of such nail polish helps to dry your nails in few minutes? That’s why busy women prefer this type of polish.
- Long-lasting. In case of use such polish frequent chipping is excluded.
- Strengthening and growth enhancing. Such polishes are necessary for weak nails protection and growth promotion.
- All-in-one, when color, base and top coat are combined in one polish.
Nail polishes with natural components
The basic part of nail polishes consists from chemical ingredients. But the increasing quantity of cosmetic companies aspires to use the natural ingredients. Among them are Honeybee Gardens and Suncoat Products. Their productions are water based natural nail polishes and other treatments.
Nail polish application
The first step is the preparing of your nails by cuticles softening with special oil and subsequent removal, making the shape of nails, removal the old polish.The next step is nail polish applying. First, cover your nails with base coat, and after that apply the desired color in a direction from nail base to its tip. You can apply as many layers as you want for more intensive color, but in that case the more preferable are thin layers.
The final step is the top coat applying and drying the nails during 10 minutes.
Brands of nail polish and its prices
The prices for polishes in drug stores can vary in a range from 2 to 10 dollars. The most popular brands are Cover Girl, Maybelline, Neutrogena, Revlon and Sally Hansen. As to such salon brands as Sephora, OPI and Lippmann, their polishes can cost from 8 to 20 dollars.
