It's easy to do your own manicure. Perhaps the most difficult part of this procedure is the removal of the cuticle. There are many options for dealing with the skin growing on the nail, but not all of them are universal. Therefore, the fastest way to treat nails is to remove it with a special manicure tool - tweezers, or skin nippers.
How to properly cut the cuticle with wire cutters so as not to injure the delicate skin of the nail fold? There is a special technique for this. Firstly, nippers work only on steamed skin. After the bath, the tissues expand, are saturated with moisture, and soften. The difference between dead cells becomes visible - the skin in these places becomes white. Such areas are to be removed. Secondly, the correct position of the tool during the cut is very important: along the side rollers the blades are parallel to the nail, and in the corners they become vertical.
Cutting technique
The skin is cut very shallow, the blades move parallel to the skin. All cuticle removal workis divided into two stages: right and left nail. How to do this is shown in the video.
The first movement of the blades starts from the edge of the side roller. The steamed skin is slightly captured and the tweezers begin to move along the lateral roller, removing the keratinized area. As you move towards the lateral (posterior) roller, the tweezers take a vertical position. This is necessary so that the cutting parts capture little skin. Such a small step is very maneuverable, it is easy for them to turn and not injure the client.
If the lateral roller is pushed back and the eponychium is cleaned with a scraper, the blades on it take a horizontal position and remove the skin ribbon with the entire length of the blades. After that, they go to the opposite side roller and work with it.
Here's how to properly cut the cuticle with wire cutters.
Instrument position in hand
To control the movements of the instrument, it is important to hold it correctly. Good cutters fit comfortably in the hand, so that the master only needs to slightly squeeze the palm of his hand to make a cut. If the tweezers are not the right size, the hand gets tired. You have to strain your wrist or hold the tool with your fingers. All this affects the maneuverability and quality of the cut.
Over time, with constant overvoltage, inflammation of the nerve that passes in the carpal tunnel occurs. This is the so-called tunnel syndrome. In addition to manicure masters, computer gamers and hand-embroiderers suffer from this. That's why nail schools teach you how to use cuticle nippers. The cut is made while holdingcustomer's finger from below.
Cuticle Nipper
In many ways, the success of a beautiful even cut does not depend on the master, but on the quality of the cutting tool. On sale a large selection - for every taste, size and wallet. And yet, how to determine which cuticle nippers are good and which are not? Masters advise how to choose a good tool:
- The blades should fit snugly together, there should not be the slightest gap between them.
- The ends of the blades must be sharp and must not differ.
- The blades must be well sharpened.
- The tool must be free of rust.
- The movement of the blades should be soft and light.
A professional tool doesn't have to be cheap. With constant work, it is subjected to sterilization in solutions, calcination in a dry-heat cabinet, and periodic sharpening. Cheap metal will simply crumble from such a load.
Sharp tools - fast work
The new tool makes an even cut, no burrs remain after it, and the skin on the back roller after the manicure is smooth and even. But if the blades begin to pull the skin, they don’t cut it off the first time, if you have to press hard on the blades, then they are dull and it’s time to take the cutters to the workshop to sharpen them.
To prolong the life of the wire cutters, watch for a limited time soaking them in the disinfectant solution. Do not keep them in it for more than the period prescribed by the instructions. The same principle applies to calcination in a sterilizer. This ruins the blades andhave to sharpen more often. It will take more time for a manicure, since it will not work to quickly cut the cuticle with pliers. After working with dull blades, cuts are more likely, burrs remain on the roller, and the cut itself will be uneven.
Cuticle cutting with scissors
Cuticle cutting with scissors is often used in pedicure. They have much longer blades, and this is very convenient when processing toenails. Some people ask - what is the best way to cut the cuticle: with scissors or nippers? The answer to this question can only be given by the master himself. For some operations, he can use one tool, for others - two. It all depends on the task he faces.
Scissor blades are more difficult to place vertically at the corners of the nails where the ridges meet. It is more convenient to work with tweezers here. And it is better to cut flat areas with scissors. It gets smoother and faster. Scissors have straight blades, while tweezers have angled blades. Therefore, it is impossible to reach deep skin with scissors.
In general, tweezers are considered a universal tool, and therefore are in great demand. Although in some operations they lose speed to scissors, they do not have to be changed during the nail processing.
Uncut cuticle removal
Working with a cutting tool can lead to a wound. Even experienced craftsmen sometimes hurt the client. To avoid this, there is a method of unedged manicure, which can be manual or hardware. The manual method is a system of files that replace each other andcut off dry areas of the skin. Almost like a pedicure.
Hardware manicure is performed with an abrasive cutter. The principle is the same as for manual processing, only without files. A lot of excess to remove from the cuticle will not work. Therefore, many people like the cut method because the processing result is more pronounced.
The master sometimes uses wire cutters after he has completed the work with the machine. So he combines two techniques and achieves speed and quality of manicure.
Expert Tips
For beginners, it is important to find your own convenient way to remove cuticles with wire cutters. Since the masters can do this with any tool, they advise trying all the ways. You don't have to try to make everything perfect. This can lead to cuts. The cuticle has an uneven thickness throughout. If you remove the excess skin, you get an uneven cut. Therefore, aesthetic principles should be followed in relation to the amount of tissue removed.
Very much, if not all, depends on the quality preparation of hands for manicure. This includes a hot bath of soapy water. It loosens the keratin fibers and the master sees whitened areas on the fingers with hyperkeratosis. They are removed. S alt solution, on the contrary, will not allow the skin to absorb the right amount of water. But it will whiten hands and nails.
The process of steaming in a soap solution can be successfully replaced with a cuticle remover. Often this method of loosening skin keratin is used before applying gel polish, when the nails should bedry. This composition is applied to the cuticle area, and after a while the roller is pushed back.
Common mistakes
There are subtleties in how to cut the cuticle with wire cutters. Very often, beginners forget to move the roller with a pusher. This is a nail spatula. Where the pterygium is not steamed enough, the roller will not move away. Between the nail and the roller, a sinus should open - a pocket formed by a fold of skin. Then you can clean the pterygium with a scraper - a manicure hatchet.
And only after this preparatory stage is completed, you can begin to remove the excess skin. If some part of the roller remained adherent to the nail, and the master did not notice this, when cutting the skin with a ribbon, there will be a cut here.
When working with wire cutters in the corners of the rollers, the main task is not to remove the entire cuticle, but to make a beautiful cut. It happens that in pursuit of perfect processing in this place a lot of bites are formed with tweezers, which, due to the vertical position of the blades, go quite high on the lateral roller. As a result, the cuticle cut line becomes beautiful, and the roller remains without skin.
Features of the procedure
The cuticle is a very delicate place. There are many blood capillaries here, it can be very difficult to stop the blood. But if a cut does occur, it is treated with an attached cotton swab dipped in hydrogen peroxide. In order to stop the blood, the hand is raised up.
In the application of coatings "under the cuticle" the first step is to remove it. If you allow a woundin this area, no coating will hold. Therefore, the masters advise how to properly cut the cuticle with wire cutters:
- First push back and slightly raise the lateral roller.
- Then the eponychium is separated from the nail plateau. And where it is tightly held on the nail, you can use the pusher and clean it off. For the same purposes, the “ceramic hoof” tool is used.
- After the complete cleansing of the nail, shreds of skin remain, which are cut off with tweezers.
As you can see, preparation is extremely important and an integral part of working with a cutting tool.
Conclusion
In manicure, at first glance, there is nothing complicated. But even its simplest form requires special knowledge and experience. To know how to properly trim the cuticle with wire cutters, you will have to make a lot of mistakes. The key is how to quickly become a manicurist - in practice. Everyone's nails are different, and so are cuticles. The condition of the skin depends on many factors. Sometimes it is not clear whether the skin is already steamed or not: its color does not change or, on the contrary, speaks of hyperkeratosis. The master removes a little extra - and the cut is ready. It turns out that skin color is affected by pressure and temperature.
Who doesn't make mistakes? The one who does nothing. Try cutting your cuticles with wire cutters, feel them in your hand. Maybe you will find a new way to use them. Keep up the good work and you will succeed.
