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Different kinds of finishing for artificial nails.

French Finish

Natural finishing:
Lengthening and protection of the natural fingernail utilizing dust and liquid of one only color (generally rose-colored, natural or clear)

French finishing:
Lengthening and protection of the natural fingernail utilizing dust and two-color liquid, with white tip (utilizing rose-colored color, natural or clear for the base)

Finish Tip

Finishing with TIP:
Modelings using tips ABS of high quality in natural, clear or white, with a coat of dust and liquid.

Sculptural acrylic models:
Sculptural creations with high-quality products and with works of high precision

Sculptural acrylics models with colors, purpurins, etc..:

Sculptural creations with high-quality products and with works of

Sculptural Acrylic

Sculptural Acrylic

high precision utilizing color dust, purpurins, and much more….

Refill:

It replaces the product damaged close to the cuticle or by the same growth of the fingernail.

Rebalance:

It replaces the product of the cuticle’s zone and the free border’s zone

Modeling for the toenails:

Modeling in 3d:

Designs created with liquid and dust. From the more simple designs to the ones with a bigger complexity.

Acrylics Modeled with dual system forms + plus tm:

Utilizing the technique dsf bonus we can accomplish all of the works related previously of a simple, fast and economic form utilizing high-quality products and with results of high precision utilizing color dust, purpurins, and much more

How to accomplish the care of the nails ?

First removing the enamel pressing the fingernails with a soaked cotton with an oily regenerative nail polish remover without acetone. To continue on withdraw the cotton dragging all of the enamel  along, repeating other passages if necessary.

Nail Care

Nail Care

Straightway wash conveniently the hands with soap and dry them before applying the treatment and decoration, since otherwise the  regenerative  and protective oils contained in the product, can prevent the adequate adherence of the hardener or enamels to the fingernails. 
Disinfecting : Use a disinfectant with alcohol base.
Filing : Not  using  metal files or those that contain metal bits, since they can damage the coats of keratin and they must be avoided. Those of cardboard, wood or crystal files are preferable.

If the fingernails seem too long and you want to reduce them, exceptionally utilize one nail-clipper, passing it previously for alcohol. Cut a part of the fingernails with the nail-clipper, and filing the rest till to reach the desired measure. The filing is effected displacing the file for the contour of the free border from the corners toward the center, making the  suitable  form and length according to the morphology of the hands and the characteristics of the fingernails. It is commendable to soften the free border when finalizing, filing from top to bottom and from the bottom up to avoid that the fingernails scale off. 
 

Cuticle Care

Cuticle:

Next immersing the fingers during an instant  in lukewarm water to eliminate the product. As much as possible it is necessary to avoid to cut the cuticles, otherwise they would grow much more strong and hard . But in case of overgrowth of the cuticle, its cosmetic clipping can be indicated.

Observation: For persons that due to their occupation have their hands often in touch with noxious products, water, detergents etc … we suggest to avoid this item and not to push the cuticle, since this habit can be harmful for the fingernails because the cuticle constitutes a physical preclusive barrier that prevents the accumulation of microbes and irritant agents that proliferate in the surroundings of the root of the nail, compromising its protective function and provoking a paroniquia. An inappropriate manicure can give rise to these problems.

In fourth place regenerating fingernails with one life-giving strengthener.  This product takes, in its formulation all of the nutritious elements, proteins, vitamins and essential minerals to strengthen and favoring the healthy growth of the fingernails Accomplishing a light massage with the product till its total absorption. Leave it to dry for some instants and repeat the operation 2 or 3 times, in this way the fingernail, acquire resistance and elasticity. We recommend leave the product act sufficiently during 5 or 10 minutes before going on with the following step.

According to the possible, it is preferable to apply the life-giving at night previous to the manicure.

In fifth place strengthening the fingernail applying a hardener of fingernails natural without formol and following the indications in the product. The fingernails must be very dry. The ingredients of this product are necessary to prevent and increase the resistance to the cracking, the fracture and the laminating. Letting the nails strong and brilliant. 

Applying 2 fine coats, if it is applied alone, or just only one fine ply, if it is utilized like base for the nail polish.
Very important: For better the adherence of the enamel to the fingernails, leave the product  dry very well before continuing with the following step .

In order to finalize, apply the Nail Polish of your election and without allergenic, with three brushstrokes. First one in the center and next at both sides from the base to the tip. In order to obtain a good result apply a thin coat first, and next another coat neither too thick nor too fine, having patience to leave to dry the first.
The election of the lacquer color should have into account the color of the lipstick and the rouge, the color of the clothing, the moment in which is going to be shown and the likes.
For fragile fingernails and bit fingernails, we recommend not painting them until they recover his hardness, flexibility and natural growth.

Applying cream for cuticles at the zone of the half-moon in little quantity and, distributing the product for all the borders. Allow it to act for some minutes. From now on pushing lightly the cuticle inwards intervening a little stick of orange tree giving form to the fingernail and to take out only the stepfathers ( little protruding portions of skin to the sides of the fingernails )

How to maintain our nails in perfect conditions?

fingernail

fingernail

From now on you will be able to learn to maintain your fingernails with the appropriate care, remind that the fingernails are the introduction card of the person, they are like an extension of us and the contact with the others.

The care of the fingernails does not mean that the fingernails have to be long and super-decorated, rather than they are healthy and well-kept. When our fingernails are healthy, one can shine the decorations and all we want to show.

The fingernails in addition of protecting us, show our health condition, the personnel care and about our personality.. When we buy something, we have work interviews or we look for the love of our life, the hands are very well observed.
The bit fingernails. the cuticles and archaic manicure evidence abandon and laziness and they provoke rejection.
If they are taken care of, they grow healthy, strong and pretty; in the course of time they become long and hard and in turn they help us to increase the power of our personality and spirit.

The neglected fingernails are synonym of abandon.

In order to take care of our fingernails we have to provide ourselves with the tools and convenient products for the use. You never have to remove the accumulated dirtiness  under the fingernails with scissors or the point of a file.

 Submerging the fingers in hot water with soap and rubbing them with a little brush to eliminate the more resistant dirtiness, and massage the fingertip  with disinfectant first-rate products.

The extended utilization of protective plastic gloves at the time of   accomplish housework or

Gloves for Nail-care

Gloves for Nail-care

working, can be sometimes  dangerous due to the humidification linked to the impermeability of the plastic, although not having allergy attached to that type of gloves. Electing always good-quality gloves and not too adjusted, but with a little superior size in proportion to your hands to let air go by and to avoid excessive transpiration.

The artificial fingernails of any kind can offer an ideal habitat for infectious factors, that’s why it is necessary to insist on the importance of following an adequate and strict hygiene of these artificial fingernails and to utilize first-quality products.

For people that due to their occupation have their hands often in touch with humid works, and may have more probabilities of contagious with fungus, we suggest to use treatments to prevent fungus infections.

Above all we don’t cut fingernails, neither with scissors, nor with nail-clipper, they are filed, but neither in anyway, nor with anything. The nail-clippers are used exceptionally only if we want to shorten too long fingernails. The cut of the fingernails is  fulfilled respecting its convex form in three steps; A side, the other and to finalize the center.
The cut of the toenails is done respecting a squareness to avoid alterations like in the ingrown nails.

Our fingernail is formed of 3 keratin’s coats, the first one is the brilliant part the second one is called medium keratin , and the third class, the sensitive keratin. These three coats run the risk to separate or to bend down with an intensive use of the nail-clipper or the scissors.

Remember: Never use wrong formulated beauty products like aggressive nail polish removers or hardeners loaded with too much formol, as these products dry too much the fingernails and they used to be the leading cause of damage of the keratin coats, natural protector of the fingernails, leaving them without defenses in front of alterations and external aggressions.

Nail Illness

Traumatisms: Frequent traumatisms in the toenails, due to blows, inadequate narrow shoes  or sports activities among others.

Tricotiodistrofia: Deficit in the cuticle contents in cisteina and metionina

Trichinosis: Is  associated to hemorrhages in splinter

Atrophic Fingernails: Minor development of the fingernails and decrease of thickness and texture. For endocrine alterations, for traumatic or infectious causes

The guitarist’s fingernails: Due to micro traumatisms produced by the guitar’s strings, they turn their fingernails much more vulnerable to deformations and breakings.

Ectopic Fingernail: Fingernail that grows in the adjacent tissues plate’s of the nail.

Ingrown nails: The ingrown nail is the consequence of a fragment of fingernail that penetrates in the flesh and that provokes inflammation and pain.

Fingernails in glass of clock: Convex black or gray fingernails with hippocratic finger in drumstick.

Nail Problems

The large enemies of the Nails are :

- The water
- The aggressive manicures
- The detergent  products.
- Bad  cosmetics.
- Bad formulared and abrasive nail polish remover.
- Allergic substances.
- Blows.
- Fungus infections.
- Bacteria.
- Systemic illnesses.

The most common problems that we detect in an insane fingernail are :
THE ABC OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE Fingernails

Acrodisostosis: Fingernails of the short  hands made oval or broad.

Acrosteólisis: It refers to the destruction of part of the distal  phalanx .

Allergies: allergies can become manifest through the fingernails after having applied on supersensitive skin, some products that contain allergic substances.

Alopecia areata: The plate of the nail is rough with embossed aspect.

Anoniquia: Absence of a part or the totality of one or several fingernails.

Braquioniquia: The width of the bed of the nail is bigger than its length.

Coiloniquia: Inversion in the curvature of the axes of the nail

Cromoniquia: Alteration of color in the nail that appears as the result of the combination between  the shine of the nail and the  pink of the bed of the skin.

Ectodermal Displasia: Group of hereditary alterations.

Cupuliformes  Depressions: Point shaped erosions of the plate of the nail.

Ungueal Unfasten: Complete  loss of the nail plate.

Darier’s Illness: Dystrophy or Traquioniquia is an inflammatory benign illness acquired in the root of the nail

Longitudinal striations: If they are regular and  not very pronounced, they are not important alterations.
Transverse striations: Furrows or transverse depressions of the plate of the nail, also called Beau’s lines. They are given after an alteration growth of the nail.

Fotoonicólisis: The plate of the nail is sensitive to the Ultra violet radiation.            

Frailty: It becomes manifest for the tendency to break, breaking or fracturing oneself. The traumatic processes or the utilization of chemical products like alkaline detergents, solvents or bad formulated and aggressive nail polish removers are, among others, the principal causes.

Anular Granuloma: Atypical  causes of paroniquia at the level of extremities.

Hemorrhages in splinter: Longitudinal hemorrhages of the ungueal bed.

Hiperoniquia: Fingernails that show an ample surface

Hypertrophy: More frequent in toenails. They become thicker  and  stretch . Many times it is due to tight shoes.

Hiperqueratosis: Infectious etiology of the ungueal bed and hiponiquio.

Fungus: The mycosis that more frequently  affect the fingernails and toenails are  provoked by yeasts.

Chemical lesion of the nail: The artificial nails fixed to the fingernails harm chemically the plate of the nail

Leuconiquia: More frequent alteration of color. Generally they show white transverse stains provoked for little blows in the root.  

The flat lichen: The flat lichen is an illness that affects the skin and the mucous. It can last among some months and a year and even more if it only affects the fingernails.

Red lunule: Erythema of all or part of the half-moon
Melanoniquia: Increase in melanism production  in the ungueal matrix.
Onicauxia: The ungueal plate appears thickened due to a hiperqueratosis

Onicofagia: Compulsive habit to eat or to bite oneself’s fingernails the nervous persons are more predisposed. The free border disappears and the fingernail sinks in the bed.

Onicoclasia: Broken of the fingernails

Onicocriptosis: Also so-called ingrown nail

Onicogrifosis: It consists in the curvature and exaggerated enlargement of the fingernail.

Onicolisis: Lateral detachment of the fingernail from its bed and for the border of growth

Onicomadesis: Separation of the area of the nail plate at the root’s zone.

Onicomalacia: Softening of the nail or fingernails

Onicomicosis: The mycosis that more  frequently affect the fingernails and  toenails are caused by yeasts.
Onicorrexsis: Fissure or longitudinal breaking of the fingernails. We find it in nutritional alterations due to the lack of minerals.

 Nutritionals: The lack of minerals is found   in these alterations.

Onicoquicia: Peeling or splitting in plates of the fingernails provoking a separation of its coats.

Onicosquisis: Peeling  or splitting  in plates of the fingernails

Onicotilomania: Compulsive tearing of the fingernails

Whitlow: Infection of soft parts of the space of the fingertip.

Paroniquia: It is  characterized for the chronic or intense inflammation of the perioniquio.

Congenital Paquioniquia: The congenital Paquioniquia is a hereditary upset.

The ungueal psoriasis: The psoriasis can also affect the fingernails.

The ungueal pointing: Point shaped depressions of the ungueal plate

Retinoides: Alteration in the queratization of the fingernails

Sarcoidosis: Atrophic  fingernails, fragile, weak, brittle, sunfold in coats.

Syndrome of the yellow fingernails: Association with illnesses of respiratory track , detention of ungueal growth, hard fingernails.