Nails are like hair: they are the reflects our overall health and our habits of life, good or bad. Their nature varies with you and their needs change accordingly. A natural nail care is much more than an aesthetic question: it is a welfare issues. With this ultimate nail care guide, discover the routine of care you really need and why.
To be noted:
- Your nails have a nature that is unique to them and their needs evolve over time.
- Identifying your type of nails (healthy, striated, soft, brittle, split, damaged) is the first step to choosing the right care.
- Our modular routines Basic, Starter or Ultimate adapt to every need.
- In daily life, hydration, mild manicure and good habits remain the keys to healthy nails.
Why know your type of nails is essential
Identifying and understanding the potential fragility of your nails helps you to better choose the targeted and effective care products that will strengthen them and restore their natural shine. So, what team of nails do you belong to?
Healthy nails: a capital to be preserved
Solid natural nailswithout apparent drought or other signs of distress, which regularly grow and without defects. If you are, you are very lucky! More reason to preserve this precious capital by following a moisturizing and nourishing routine that protects your nails from external aggression.
Stry nails: smooth and regenerate
Nails with surface marked by lines, vertical or horizontal, more or less visible. These striations are often due to age, they are nicknamed the "flying nail wrinkles". They may also be the result of a health problem, emotional shock or lack of nutrients. But don't panic, it's not a nail disease, just an aesthetic concern. There are various possible solutions to mask or blur the stries, from the application of smoothing bases to Nail sheathing.
We're telling you more about the stried nails in our dedicated article Here.
Soft nails: regain strength and density
Nails that easily distort or turn around. The causes of this lack of firmness range from excess moisture to nutritional deficiencies, pollution, too frequent use of semi-permanent varnishes or false nails. The result is: Keratin layers have been altered and the proper functioning of the nail matrix is disturbed. It's high time to act!
If you want to know more about soft nails, check out our dedicated article Here.
Knowing your type of nails is the key to understanding their fragility and adopting good care on a daily basis.
Breaking nails: moisturize and strengthen
Nails that tend to to break at the ends and who have lost their natural flexibility. A weakness linked to different factors: genetics, age, chemicals, heating in winter... anything that contributes to Dry nails and makes them lose their flexibility. A moisturizing cure is needed!
Split-gles: restructuring the plate
Nails including layers of keratin superimposed separate Kind of like a thousand leaves that would have lost his pastry cream. This often happens after overexposure to water or chemicals, or after aggressive manicures. Reactivate cell cement production to reweld the layers is urgently needed.
Nails damaged by aggressive manicures: repair in depth
As you know, permanently wearing beautiful nail polish is more than tempting for manicurers. But if the Semi-permanent varnishes or false nails are too frequent, without intermediate care to regenerate nails, if they impose aggressive withdrawal techniques (spinning, image or use of acetone), it is your hands that pay the price with fine and brittle nails. We are talking about damaged nails that must be fed and repaired in depth.
To learn more about damaged nails, our dedicated article awaits you Here.
If you still have uncertainties about the nature of your nails, our online diagnostic is there to enlighten you.
To sum up:
- Sound: a capital to preserve with a moisturizing routine.
- Stries: smooth and regenerate both in the surface and in depth.
- Mous : to be redensified to regain strength and firmness.
- Cassants: to moisturize to restore their flexibility.
- Split: to be restructured to rewelse the keratin layers.
- Damaged by manicures: to feed and repair in depth.
Routine Manucurist you need
Good news: no need to go to beauty institute to maintain your beautiful claws or repair your damaged nails. Solutions for take care of her nails at home The Commission has developed its activities widely.
Routine Basic, Starter or Ultimate: how to choose?
Manucurist offers a suitable response for each type of nails with a care kit modulable according to 3 levels of intervention:
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Basic: an approach that focuses on essentials with one or two reference products to treat a superficial and temporary flaw of nail.
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Starter: the ideal solution to effectively respond to signs of weakness that your nails can emit.
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Ultimate: a complete treatment device to end chronic nail dysfunction through a 2 week intensive, comprehensive cure, renewable if needed.
Routine Healthy nails
Keep your nails in good general condition and help them overcome the small aggressions of everyday life with the Healthy nails routines the following:
Basic
The Base 5.5 will be your best ally. This complex of 5 vitamins and 5 extracts of plants (aloe vera, lemon, ginseng, grenade and grapes) strengthens keratin and prevents the risk of breakage and other tearing. Apply this fortifying treatment every 2 days on clean nails for 2 weeks, without removing makeup between each application.
Starter
Opt for a trio of care winning with the Complete serum, a serum regenerated with ultra-fresh gel texture moisturizes and softens the plate and small skins all around. It revitalizes and stimulates nail growth. Apply one drop every daymassage on nails and nail contours. Combine with the Base 5.5 every 2 days as previously indicated.
After a week, remove makeup and apply a care varnish Active™ Glow. He nourishes the nails deeply and brings a delicately dyed transparent glow which instantly gives a good look to your natural nails. Raspberry, Cranberry, Blueberry or Grape, what fruity shade will you prefer?
Ultimate
Complete the previous routine with some essentials of the preparation of nail. The Commission has already taken a number of steps to improve the quality of the services provided by the Community. cuticle care, you improve the protection of the nail matrix and ensure the production of a better quality keratin. In addition to the Complete serum, massage daily your nails gently with a drop ofGreen oil, a nourishing oil for nails and cuticles super effective. Apply the Base 5.5 every 2 days as previously indicated.
After a week, using a little dEfficacy and a wooden rod, Repel your cuticles before applying the Active™ Glow Care varnish.
Tip : The best reflex to keep natural nails healthy? Moisture! Take a strong care pen everywhere with you Perfector concentrate for on-the-go hydration!
With healthy nails, preserve the natural strength of your nails.
Rutine Barnails
Clearing the streaks with a smoothing base is good, but making your strands disappear permanently by treating the nail in depth is much better. This is what these different rhymes Striae nails :
Basic
Apply one drop of Green Oil twice a day by massaging the nail and its contour. Complete with the application of a care varnish Active™ Smooth nails 3 times a week without making up. This varnish care effect CC Polish fills the streaks and strengthens the nail with a formula enriched with castor fiber, hexanal, AHAs and vitamin E. It is available in 4 shades (00 rosé, 01 beige, 02 gilded, 03 tanned) to fit all carnations.
Starter
For more strategic and continuous action, this routine adds mechanical action and night care. Apply Green Oil as previously indicated. Lightly depolute the plate with your nails preparation file and apply Active™ Smooth on nails 3 times a week without removing the previous layers.
3 nights a week, remove your layers of Active™ Smooth with a dissolvent without acetone and apply the SOS mask thick layer you let it dry in the open air. Remove it the next morning, peel-off or soapy water. This night mask moisturizes intensely and stimulates cell repair during sleep.
Ultimate
To end the scratched nails, opt for an intensive treatment that treats the nail both in the surface and in depth. In this respect, add the application to the previous device 2 times a day of a complete Serummassage on the nail and its contour.
Simple gestures, visible results: the Striae Rutine Nails brings comfort and shine.
Routine Soft nails
To reinvigorate tired nails, you have been prepared for a hardening routine Unstoppable, in 3 versions:
Basic
For a week, apply the Keratine Booster 3 times a day on bare nails, leaving it to dry until the substance is fully absorbed. This hardening care concentrate in vegetable keratin, silicon and biotin, boosts the production of keratin and redensifies the ungated plate. Complete with the application of a Green Oil drop 1 to 2 times a day. Repeat this routine another week.
Starter
Increase the effects of the Keratine Booster-Green Oil duo with the Fortifying base, a processing base enriched with AHAs and silicon, for a lasting result. A 2-step action as follows:
Week 1 : Apply the Basic routine as previously indicated.
Week 2 : place the Fortifying base on bare nails every 2 days up to 3 times a week, without removing the previous layers. At the same time, continue to implement theGreen oil 1 to 2 times a day massage on the nail and its contour.
Ultimate
Switch to intensive mode with the following protocol:
Week 1 : apply the Keratine Booster 3 times a day leaving it to dry until the substance is fully penetrated. Apply massage on nails and cuticles on the Complete serum 1 to 2 times a day and Green oil once a day. Finally, take the Perfector focus everywhere with you to put it on at any time to feed them all day long.
Week 2 : place the Fortifying base twice a week, superimposing the layers. Continue to apply Complete Serum and Green Oil at the same pace as the previous week. And always have your Perfector concentrate at hand to feed your nails throughout the day.
Tip : to go further, start a parallel treatment of Nail Boost food supplements, due to1 capsule per day for 2 months. Concentrated in vitamins and natural actives, they promote hardening and good nail growth.
Routine Soft nails: care, hydration, nutrition and reinforcement.
Rutin Nails, broken, broken or split
Basic
To effectively repair your brittle and damaged nailsyou can count on the benefits of Base N/A. This ideal treatment base acts as a bandage for fragile nails: it gently exfoliates, stimulates cell regeneration and strengthens keratin fibers. Apply the Base S.O.S. on nails naked every other day, up to 3 times a week, without removing the first layers (they can overlap).
In parallel, apply 1 drop of green oil 1 to 2 times a day by massaging the nail and its contour until oil has been absorbed. You do not have to rinse or wipe this treatment.
Starter
If Basic routine is not enough, you are advised to draw the care kit Duo Day & Night which combines the Keratine Booster and the SOS Mask. Apply it Keratine Booster 3 times a day on bare nails, allowing to dry well until fully penetrated. Massage your nails and cuticles with a drop ofGreen oil 1 to 2 times a day. And apply it SOS Mask 2 to 3 nights per week In a thick layer, let dry in the open air and remove in peel-off or soapy water the next morning.
Keratine Booster the day, SOS mask at night to repair your nails gently and thoroughly.
Ultimate
Switch to intensive care mode with a full 24-hour nail care. The following is the procedure:
Week 1 : apply the Keratine Booster 1 to 3 times a day on bare nails leaving it dry until fully penetrated. Massage your nails and cuticles with a drop ofGreen oil 1 to 2 times a day. Take your Perfector Concentrate everywhere to apply it at any time. Apply it Mask N/A 2 to 3 nights per week In a thick layer, allow to dry in the open air, remove it in peel-off or soapy water in the morning.
Week 2 : apply the Base S.O.S. on bare nails every 2 days (up to 3 times a week) without removing the first diapers. Apply 1 drop of green oil 1 to 2 times a day. Continue Perfector focus Anytime. At the end of the week, withdraw the S.O.S. Base. with a soft solvent, then apply the Mask N/A for one last night of care.
Rutine Damaged nails: a complete 24/7 cure to repair, strengthen and regenerate weakened nails.
Good practices for healthy nails
Daily hydration of hands and cuticles
You are told regularly: hydration is key to ensuring thebalance and well-being of your nails Throughout the year. And this concerns not only nails but also cuticles and up to the whole hand. Because a well hydrated skin ensures protection and regulation of the matrix. This goes through daily massages of nails and cuticles with a nourishing oil and the regular application of a moisturizing hand cream. Comfort, flexibility and softness, you have everything to gain!
Durable manicure
Switch to sustainable and reasonable mode in your manicure practice. Prefer to vegan and bio-based nail polish formulas which easily settle and withdraw without damaging nails. Alternate varnishing with paint care to allow your nails to regain their natural balance.
Discover the reason for manicure with the Starter kits Green™ and Green Flash™.
Good habits
It's about taking the right gestures, the right reflexes that keep your nails day after day. For example, from:
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protect your hands with gloves when they are exposed to water or chemicals in the household,
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avoid eating nails,
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Avoid using your nails to open, scratch, lift...
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balanced eating to ensure essential intakes of vitamins and minerals.
Whatever the nature of your nails, you now have all the tips and care products needed to pamper them, moisturize them, grow them... in short, take great care of them from the root to the tip of the nails. In Basic, Starter or Ultimate mode, Nail care forever
To sum up:
- Whatever your type of nails, there is a custom to pamper them and restore strength and shine.
- We have developed a full range to meet every need:
- Fortifying base, S.O.S. Base, Keratine Booster, S.O.S. Mask, Complete Serum and our best seller Green Oil.
- Manicure side, our varnishes Green™ and Green Flash™ vegan and bio-sourced allow to combine pleasure and respect for nail.
