Nail service technologies have been strongly developed over the past 10 years - materials for building artificial nails, paints for artistic painting, preparations for growth and strengthening, Shellac varnishes for long-term manicure.
As soon as gel polishes appeared, leading beauty salons began to actively use them, explaining this with various reasons, encouraging the fair sex to agree to their use. But if you look at it, the use of gel polishes is more commercially motivated than real concern for the beauty and he alth of women's nails. Not every woman knows how to remove shellac, how it is applied and what it is fraught with.
Shellac gel polishes have their advantages and disadvantages. If every woman who decides to use this material to cover her nails knows about them, it will be easier for her to decide on the use of shellac.
The advantages of Shellac are considered to benext:
- The duration of a neat manicure is 2-3 weeks.
- Strengthening nails.
- Composition safety.
The main disadvantage of gel polish manicure is that it is almost impossible to do it at home. Every time you need to contact the manicure master, and these are fixed cash costs. Although the color palette of shellac is constantly expanding by manufacturers, gel polishes are far from the color palette of ordinary nail polish.
The most unpleasant drawback - applying Shellac requires preliminary preparation of the nail plate. And this process, as well as the way shellac is removed, negates all its advantage in strengthening nails. Preparation of the nail consists in raising the scales of the nail plate with the help of a buff - a special nail file of light abrasiveness. Then a degreaser is applied, which removes moisture from the nail plate. The result is a dry nail with a damaged top layer. A base is applied to it and the nails are placed under an ultraviolet lamp to polymerize the base. The nail is again exposed to overdrying.
But the way shellac is removed damages the nail even more. Manufacturers of gel polishes produce a special liquid. According to the declared characteristics of this drug, it is enough to make a 15-minute application with a cotton pad soaked in it, and then wipe it off like regular nail polish. In fact, after such a procedure, the master takes a nail file of medium abrasiveness and removes the remnants of the gel polish. In this case, again, the nail plate suffers.
Many people have a question about how to remove shellac from nails on their own. In this case, there are two ways. Which one to use, each woman decides for herself. How to remove shellac with a special liquid is described above. But we must be prepared for the high cost of buying this drug. The second way is to use acetone or nail polish remover. The application of a cotton pad soaked in them is applied to the nail for 20-30 minutes. After that, the softened shellac is removed with a pusher, and the remnants are removed with a nail file. This is an even more harmful method, since you can also get a chemical burn on the skin. Therefore, knowing how shellac is removed, it is better to use this coating on artificial nails.
