How to refresh a manicure with gel polish without going to a beauty salon: the recipe of a beauty blogger

Manicure with gel polish is good in all respects. Nevertheless, after 2-3 weeks after the procedure, we all start to quietly hate it. Nails no longer look neat. And if you have a powerful, fast-growing cuticle, the neat look of a manicure disappears even faster.

It’s one thing when you know that very soon you will be going to the salon and refreshing the coating. And it’s completely different when there is no window for your nail master in the near future, or you yourself are away. You have to accept the imperfect appearance of the nails – and close your eyes to the fact that the free edge of the nail has become stronger than usual.

Take a look at these two photos. The difference between them is only 20 minutes. Not an hour and a half needed for removal, combined manicure and new coating. 20 minutes, during which the cuticle is treated, and a layer of ordinary nail polish is applied to the nails.

Life hack found in telegram channel “Governing the Ball”. Beauty blogger Ksenia says that she regularly resorts to this method when she does not have time to go to the nail studio.

The main secret of the “effect of visiting a nail master” is the high-quality removal of the cuticle.

“You can also walk along the cuticle with a regular finely abrasive file to grind it down even better. Now that I’ve learned how to do this, I see no reason to go to the salon if there isn’t cover, “says the girl.

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But when there is gel polish on the nails, refreshing the manicure becomes a little more difficult, because you have to choose a varnish that matches the existing coating. But if you regularly do nudes or do not change the same color, there will be no problem. The main thing is to apply more varnish to the free edge of the nail. It is in this case that the difference between professional coverage and home correction will be invisible.