What makes some things popular was not originally conceived by their creators as the main quality of development. For example, the world-famous Viagra was a banal heart drug with an unbanal side effect, but who remembers this today? And how could two girlfriends Janice and Don imagine what fate awaits their idea - minx (manicure)?
How it all began
Initially, this technology was conceived to protect the nail plate. Realizing that the variations in the design of the coating are truly limitless, the friends made a real revolution in nail art. Minx is a manicure that quickly gained popularity and became considered elite. The masters of haute couture picked up the baton, beating him in their collections, as well as world-famous magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan. A special admirer and the first lady who released metallic claws on public display is the scandalously outrageous Lady Gaga. Today minx is a manicure that has become available to us,mere mortals.
What is this
The variety of designs of these thermal stickers is amazing and can satisfy even the most sophisticated and demanding taste. Abstraction, imitation of the skin of snakes and reptiles, floral and geometric patterns in any color will successfully emphasize the image and become its highlight. However, the most popular to this day are gold, silver and metallic.
Nail art masters present minx (manicure) as an exclusively salon procedure, however, having shown a truly national quality - ingenuity, our women replaced special equipment for heat treatment of templates with an ordinary hairdryer or incandescent lamps and refuted (albeit behind the scenes) is a statement.
Salon at home
In principle, there is nothing prohibitively difficult to do minx (manicure) at home. After selecting the stickers with the desired design, prepare your nails by giving them the desired shape and length. It would probably be superfluous to mention the cleanliness and dryness of their surface, this is a well-known moment that precedes any action with the nail plate. You will also need to remove the natural fat layer from the claws with alcohol.
For better adhesion of the material to the surface, you can slightly loosen the top layer of the nail by walking over it with a soft buff, but this is not at all necessary. Then you need to remove from the base and heat the sticker until it becomes elastic and pliable. Now we put it in place and level it. We bend the excess from the side of the free edge down and heat it again, now on the finger. All. The coating perfectly took its place, adapting to the natural shape of the nail. It remains to remove the excess (preferably using a glass file) with perpendicular up and down movements.
Only 20 minutes and a delicious minx (manicure) is ready. How to do it will become even clearer after the first procedure, so before a responsible event it is worth practicing to get used to the stickers. Although officially it is believed that such a coating will decorate your hands for up to 8 days, in practice this period often increases to 10 or even up to 14 days (depending on the growth rate of nails). Minx is a manicure that is not afraid of damage from homework. But from thermal exposure, for example, visiting a steam room, it is better to refrain. Removing the thermal stickers is very simple: they should be heated and, picked up from the side roller, removed.
