Every girl loves her nail polish, but it can be discouraging if your perfect nails that you spent an hour on, chip after one day. In this post, you will learn hot to prevent chipped nails for about at week!
1. Use a Top Coat and a Base Coat
| Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat |
Using a Top and and Base Coat before and after painting your nails is crucial if you want longer lasting nails. A base coat provides something for the nail polish to stick to and also keeps your nails from getting those unattractive yellow stains. A top coat seals in your nail polish and will add a beautiful shine. The topcoat will also keep your nail polish from rubbing off and getting all over the place. Some top coats are eye fast dry and will cut down on annoying drying time. If you don't want to buy a top and base coat, you can use just a clear nail polish, although it will not work as well it will work well enough.
Try (Top Coats): Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat, Sally Hansen No Chip Acrylic Top Coat
Try (Base Coats): Sally Hansen Insta-Grip Fast Dry Base Coat
2. Prep Your Nails
You need to remember to properly prep your nails before apply polish if you want them to stay chip free.
Step 1: Remove Nail Polish
DON'T PICK OF YOUR NAIL POLISH! Doing this can weaken your nails and make them more prone to breakage.
To remove your nail polish, you can either you are pure acetone nail polish remove or not. Pure acetone removers work faster, but acetone is bad for you. Up&Up has a nail polish remover that is only $0.97! It may not be the best in the world, but it gets the got done well.
| There are many different kinds of this nail polish remover. |
Step Two: Fix Peeling Nail Layers
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| Nail Layers that are Peeling |
If the tips of your nails look like the middle finger in the picture above, they you have peeling nail layers. These blemishes on your nails make for uneven nail polish application and therefore chipping, so you need to smooth them out. Thankfully, this is very easy to do. Just take a nail file and buff the ridge until it is smoothed off.
Also, trim your nails to your desired length.
Step Three: Buff Nails
| Block Nail Buffer |
Many brands make block nail buffers that have different levels of abrasion on the different sizes to insure a prefect buff on your nails. However, if you do not feel like investing the dollar to get one, you can just lightly use a nail file. With either of the options, just buff your nails lightly to make them slightly rough.
Step Four: Remover Again!
It is important to use nail polish remover on your nails again right before you apply the nail polish to make sure that they are clean and ready for polish!
3. Thin Coats!
When painting your nails, remember that lots of thin coats of nail polish chip less than a few thick ones.
4. Seal the Tip
To completely seal in your nail polish and prevent chips, make sure to paint nail polish on the ends of your nails, because chipping takes place right at the tip. I usually cap my nails for the base coat, first coat of polish, not for the second coat, and then for the top coat. This can also be called "capping" your nail polish.
Gel Nails:
If you do not want any chance of chipping, you can try to use gel nails. Gel nails last about two week without any chips. You can get gel nails done at a nail salon or you can do them at home. Gel nails apply like a regular nail polish, but dry under a UV lamp so that they do not chip and do not having any drying time other than the time under the lamp. Gel nails are very expensive at a nail salon, and are cost a lot to get started at home, but after that you start saving money. There are lots of videos on YouTube about doing gel nails at home that you can watch if you are interested in learning more about them. For a starter kit with everything you need (even the UV lamp!) try at starter kit by SensatioNail.
| The SensatioNail starter kit has enough products for 10 manicures, $60 at CVS |
You can also buy individual gel nail polishes. Another gel nail polish brand (that does not have a starter kit that I know of) is Gelish.
If you are not interested in buying all of the different colors of nail polish to have gel nails, you can use Seche Ultra-V.
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