Almost every woman wants her hands to look beautiful and well-groomed. This largely depends on how the manicure is done. But in order to achieve a good result, it is necessary that the nails were initially strong. And even if by nature or due to constant stress they are brittle, thin and slowly grow, you can still change a lot and strengthen your nails.
Nail structure
To understand how to cope with such a problem, you need to consider in more detail how the nails look. The plate itself is a solid keratinized formation. Its base consists of a cuticle, which protects the nail from getting not only dust, but also dirt, as well as all kinds of bacteria.
After all, with their ingestion, nail inflammation can occur, and the risk of fungal diseases, which are quite difficult to cope with, increases.
Causes
If you look closely at the nails of people, then some are just perfect, while others, on the contrary, are very thin and brittle. Most often, the state of the nail plate depends on genetics, but sometimes the person is to blame for such problems.
- One of them is malnutrition. If few useful nutrients such as calcium and iodine enter the body, or there is a lack of vitamins, then they become very soft and brittle.
- Another reason is incorrect care. Do not make a manicure with a metal nail file: it often leads to the fact that the nails become brittle. It is best to buy products made of glass for this. It is also necessary to file the nail plate correctly. You need to do this in one direction.
- It is very important to cut the cuticle correctly, this should be done no more than once every three weeks. Otherwise, the nails will delaminate and break.
- Frequent contact with chemicals, and the use of nail polish remover with acetone may cause the plate to dry.
- With bruises small cracks may appear, which will subsequently lead to delamination of the nail.
- When using low-quality varnishes nails almost immediately become loose. In addition, they can also exfoliate from a regular hand cream. To determine this, you need to stop using it for a while.
- If there is constant contact with water, then the nails will simply break, since as a result of this, carotene is gradually excreted from the body.
- After taking antibiotics for a long time microflora in the human body suffers, which also affects the state of the nail plate.
- After smoking nails also weaken and turn yellow.
How to make strong?
The key to a beautiful manicure is healthy nails. If there are small problems with this, then you can cope with them even at home. If the problems are more complex, for example, a broken nail or just a small crack, then you need to contact a specialist who can easily fix everything.
For starters, you can consider some folk remedies. To make long and thick nails on the hands will help different means.
- You can use the bath with any vegetable oil. To do this, you will need 120 grams of the selected oil, which must be slightly warmed up in a water bath. To it, you can add a few drops of iodine and a few drops of liquid glycerin. Fingers should be completely immersed in this mixture and sit for 25–35 minutes. After the procedure, do not immediately wash your hands, they just need to get wet with napkins. Such a bath will help strengthen your nails.
- You can also use paraffin therapy. To do this, melt a special paraffin and apply it on the nails, as well as on the cuticle. Such a tool must be held for 5-7 hours, and then carefully removed. After it, the nails grow faster and look healthy and strong.
- Sea salt is considered an excellent tool for strengthening the nail plate. It is necessary to pour 80 grams of sea salt into warm water, and also add a couple of drops of iodine. Dip your fingers into the liquid. The duration of this procedure should be up to 25 minutes. Do it once a week.
- A mix of lemon juice and olive oil strengthens the plate well. For this, it is necessary to warm up 1 tbsp. l oil in a water bath and mix it with half a teaspoon of lemon juice. After this, this mixture should be applied to the nail plate and immediately put on fabric gloves. The product can be left overnight, and then rinse with warm water.
- In addition, do not forget about proper nutrition. The diet should include dairy products, as well as fish and meat. Also, a mandatory addition to the diet should be fresh vegetables and fruits.
If they break
It often happens that the nails break at the wrong time. If the nail is slightly broken off along the finger, it can be saved. This can only be done by a specialist with the help of an acrylic coating that fills the crack and the nail becomes full.
In addition, to prevent the nail from breaking, you can also apply a decorative gel. It also will not allow the nails to exfoliate. Many also use a procedure such as wax sealing. To do this, completely clean the top of the nail plate, and then rub the mixture made on the basis of beeswax.
In addition, it must be remembered that insufficient water consumption also affects the strength of nails, so you need to drink at least 2 liters of water per day. Also, do not forget about the consumption of foods such as carrots and parsley, as well as tomatoes.
In addition to all this, you can apply some remedies at home.This will not help to cope with an already broken nail, but can prevent its fragility.
A clay mask is perfect. For this procedure, you need to dilute the acquired blue clay powder in heated olive oil, and also add a few drops of iodine. This mixture should be applied for 30 minutes, and then rinse with warm water. It is necessary to do this procedure every day, two weeks in a row.
In addition, you can make a bath of gelatin. To do this, dilute 20 grams of gelatin in 200 ml of boiled water and wait until everything has cooled to the required temperature. After that, you can immerse your fingers in this mixture for 25 minutes, and then rinse it off with warm water. This procedure is done every other day, 1 week.
If stratified
Of course, for any girl or woman it is completely unacceptable when the nails begin to delaminate. After all, then it would not be possible not only to grow long and beautiful nails, but also to do regular manicure. If this still happened, you must immediately take action. Very often this happens in the spring, when there are not enough vitamins and the body is very weak after winter. Therefore, at this time you need to take vitamins, as well as make your diet more diverse. You must enter products such as eggs, butter, figs, fresh or sauerkraut on the menu. Also, do not forget about legumes.
In addition, some folk remedies will help, for example, masks with the use of various essential oils.
Mask with olive oil
Necessary components:
- 5 gr. olive oil;
- 2-3 drops of any essential oil (you can use sandalwood or rose).
Step by step recipe:
- first you need to mix the oil, and then apply to the nails;
- after that you need to wear gloves and do not remove them for 1 hour;
- further, everything needs to be washed off with warm water.
Cranberry mask
To use it, just apply freshly squeezed cranberry juice on the nails. After which it must be rubbed well into the nail plate. If you couldn’t get such juice, you can use ordinary lemon, which can be easily found in any store.
Green Tea Remedy
To prepare such a product, you need to add 10 grams of olive oil to half a glass of tea. Fingers should be placed in this mixture and held for 25 minutes. After that, they need to be pulled out and gently patted with a paper towel.
In addition, you can smear the very plate of the nail with ordinary iodine at night. Do not be afraid that your nails will be yellow in the morning, because iodine is very quickly absorbed. In addition, doing this procedure regularly, you can achieve the fact that the nails completely cease to exfoliate.
Prevention
To make your nails look healthy simple guidelines should always be followed.
- Be sure to take care of products rich in vitamins and nutrients. There should be fish in the diet (it is best to choose red), protein foods, such as legumes or eggs. So, it is necessary that daily not less than 15 grams of protein per 10 kilograms of weight enter the human body. Sour-milk products, for example, yogurt, cottage cheese or kefir must be present.
- Do not remove varnish with an acetone-based product.
- Every day you need to smear not only your hands, but also your nails with a moisturizer.
- If there are still problems with the nails, then you must definitely give up any varnishes for a while.
- Starting to wash the dishes, it is necessary to wear rubber gloves. In addition, the water should not be too cold or hot.
- It is mandatory to do at least 1 time per month any strengthening baths.
If you adhere to at least part of these recommendations, then the nails will almost always look beautiful, moreover, they will be strong and healthy.
You can learn how to make nails strong from the video below.