Outclass the Competition
by Harold Almon baesoe.com
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Maintain your nails. Take the nail test; hold each nail against a mirror, one at a time. Look through the mirror at each cuticle, each nail underline, and at each nail tip. What you see is what other people get to look at all the time.
Get your nails chlorine clean, unless you are allergic to it; soak your nails in bleach for four to five minutes. It will become warm and start to foam. Your finger nail will begin to feel slimy, (no other way to say it.) Now rinse them with cold water until they feel like tile that was just cleaned.
Next buff each nail with a terry cloth towel; take a look and enjoy the shine. Take the mirror test again, now flash: fling your nails forward at that same mirror. Damn, that shine looks good on you. Avoid doing this often, unless there is a need to show off. Be easy on ’em. Avoid any shine provided by nail polish. Be easy on yourself. It has been said to whiten your nail tips, soak them in distilled vinegar, before or after buffing.
Learn the art of doing your nails. Take your thumb and/or index finger and pull the topsides of each of your nails down. What you see is what affects your shadow line. There is to be a u-shaped line around each cuticle that is smooth and catches a shadow. This may take some filing….
Filing Your Fingernails
File your fingernails. Use an emery board when you can. This is to be done when nails are dry. Fold your fingers toward you.
File away any overgrowth exposed on your nail sides. File sides in to meet the natural line of the cuticle beds. Remove and smooth rough skin along the sides of the nails. Look for the C curve, tomorrow.
Next, you can use the finishing side of your emery board to file down any imperfections, stains, and ridges on each nail. Then, place the shaping side of an emery board under the nail edge at a slant. Start one-eighth inch in and file each nail in from side to center down until each is even with the tips of your fingers. Each nail is to compliment the shape of each well maintained cuticle.
Ensure each nail is the same length or in visual sync with each other. Then file behind the tip of each nail so that a clear separation between skin and nail is evident. Wet your nails. File each nail again, if any back nail membrane becomes evident, file it off.
You may shape the under skin, to duplicate the nail tip. Use a nail file, or a cuticle cutter tip. Place the item under the nail and gently move it (no lower than one eighth inch) down and to the left or right. Outline the shape of the under skin to mirror the tip of the nail.
Male Cuticle Care
You could take a corner of a wet terry cloth and rub your cuticles back, down, and to the right and left to get all but the most difficult dead skin off each of them. This will create a shadow line around the bed of each nail. (Ensure your cuticles are moistened to affect this process.) Should your cuticle tear, nip it with a cuticle cutter. This is the only real function for this tool. You may allow it to dry overnight, and to be rubbed away tomorrow.
You can push back your cuticles. You may do this after a bath, or a shower. You may just wet your nails with cold water. Then use a tip of an emery board to push your cuticle tips back off your nail surface. The first time you lift your cuticles back they may be sensitive: hurt for a day or two. (Moisturize them.) Maintaining your cuticles takes a little practice: rub, moisturize, oil, file, and/or at last resort, nip them. Once tried, it only takes a little time for correction later. You might omit doing this or have it done by a professional, who promises only to nip at but not cut them.
Moisturize your cuticles daily. Lotion them over oiling them.
You can apply Hoofmaker cream®, Cornhuskers Lotion®), or a cuticle care cream, to each nail bed with your thumbs. Each substance will assist in the care of your nails, and help to identify nail overgrowth that was overlooked; corrections can be made now or the next time. It may be done with a lotion to allow a groomed shadow line to “Pop.” Go ahead a flash. Omit adding a moisturizer to your hands at times when "clean hands only" are a condition of your employment.
Repairing Male Nails
Wet and rub your cuticles and nails with a wet terry cloth over filing them. The process is called “Rolling.” File them over cutting them. Cut only the part of a nail or cuticle that is torn.
Make repairs to your nails. When two or more nails are chipped or broken on the same hand, all nails on that hand are to be filed to the length of the shortest nail. You can add a gelatin product in your diet. Eat vegetables. Own a nail clipper if only for the file. When cleaning behind your nails in a rush it beats a brush. A man may rarely take care of his nails the way he could. He could be talked into letting someone else do it for him. Get a manicure. Avoid letting your cuticles be cut, or your nails says bad things about you.
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Be alerted that white-spots on your fingernails may be a sign that you have a protein processing deficiency: too much dairy, or that you have bruised a nail. Do not worry. A sign of a vitamin deficiency could be ridges on your fingernails. So could the peeling of skin at the sides of your nails. You might take a RDA minimum multiple-vitamin, say every other day, until the peeling goes away.
Buff your nails. This can be done by using a piece of terry cloth, or with a rubber buffer. Avoid adding polish to this shine. O.K, now look at the last pictures that includes your nails. Know that each nail will look that much better the next time.
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