3 Steps to Have Healthy Hands and Nails

When it comes to taking care of our hands and nails, they can need a little love. We use our hands every day, so they can understandably get a little tired and worn out. Our hands can become quite dry, and our nails can get a little worse for wear. Our hands are one of the things that show if we are ageing. So we don’t want them to look worse than they should. So what are some ways that we can take care of them? Here are a few tips, that you could apply into your daily routine to improve the look and quality of your hands and nails.

Keep Them Clean

Keeping your nails clean is so important. First of all, there is the hygiene side of things. If you nails are kept clean and dry, they are less likely to have bacteria kept underneath them. If bacteria gets under there, it could lead to infection. It could also lead to sickness if you bite or chew an area that is infected. So just avoid it. Keeping your nails dry is important too. Hands and nails that are constantly wet or in water can damage them. Nails can become weaker, and skin can become wrinkled. So clean and dry is the way to go!

Good Nail Routine

Having a healthy nail routine is a great idea to keep your nails looking their best. So this includes regularly clipping your fingernails. This will help to strengthen your nails as they grow. Weak nails will chip off. This can lead to snags and uneven looking nails, which is never a good look! If anything like that does happen, then use a nail file to level out the nails and keep them smooth. Using a nail polish is a great way to strengthen your nails too. As well as looking good, they do help to build strength. You might not always use color, but there are protective or clear polishes that you could use. A site like www.pinkgellac.com/ will show you a variety of polishes that you could try out.

Moisturize

Using a moisturizer is great for both hands and nails. A specific hand moisturizer is great to use, as they are usually stronger. They can help to deal with all of the day to day wear and tear that our hands encounter. Having one in your bag is a good idea, as you can use it as and when you need to. In winter months, it may need to be used even more often. Cold weather can dry and damage our skin more than normal. Especially if we are going in and out of warm buildings into colder temperatures outdoors. Rubbing a moisturizer into our nails and cuticles is important too. It helps to keep them hydrated which means they are much less likely to get chipped or flake. Like the rest of our body, hydration means that they can look their best. Moisturizing just helps to hydrate from the outside to the inside. Read this article at www.totalbeauty.com/content/gallery/12-best-nail-products for some top products to use on your nails.

Angie

Angie is a coffee-fueled writer, artist-wanna-be, and over-worker who currently resides in a tiny fixer-upper near Salt Lake City with her boyfriend and 70lb rescue pittie. She works full time in Customer Service/Computers, part-time in retail and fashion, goes to school part-time on and off, maintains this and another couple of blogs, as well as volunteers with rescue dogs. In her free time, what little of it there is, she likes to read, play nerd games, craft and create art, and spend time with all of the awesome people in her life.

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