3 Budget Friendly Ways to Improve a Manicure and Pedicure

Are Salon Visits Hurting Your Weekly Budget ?

Nanette Haz
Perfectly manicured hands and feet shows a great deal of self love. Conducting business or simply shaking hands when meeting someone causes for the hands to be viewed. Keeping up the hands and feet is can become an inexpensive indulgence. Here are some budget friendly ways to improve a medicure and pedicure.

The best home manicure and pedicures start by paying special attention to the nail beds. There are many different techniques help to soften the skin to push back the cuticles. Soaking the nails in warm soap water is a good strategy.

Cuticle Remover

Using a gel based cuticle remover helps to dissolve excess skin in the nail beds on both the front and back of the nail. Sometimes there is a thin layer of skin that accumulates on the back of the nail. After a few minutes the layers of dead cuticle will dissolve. Use an orange stick or wooden cuticle stick to help scrape the skin off. Wash the hands and

Changing the type of service at the local salon can save a great deal of money. A french Manicure or polish change for the both the hands and feet is inexpensive. Local prices may range in price from five dollars per hand and foot to ten, versus twenty five to fourty dollars for a manicure and pedicure.

Home Manicure

Doing the manicure at home and having polish changes at the salon is one strategy to save money. A manicure can be done in the salon less often as a splurge. This can free up money for better quality nail bases, nail strengtheners, nail polishes, and top coats to use at home. Look in Sunday newspapers for make up coupons for nail polish. Rimmel and Revlon regularly offer coupons that apply for nail polish and manicure tools.

If the budget is slim or to experiment with new colors visit the local Dollar Tree or One Dollar Store. These stores regularly have name brand nail sold alone or in multiple packs. Look for french manicure kits which consists of a base clear coat, pink polish, and white polish. Nail art pens are sold in a variety of colors. Select a color to use exclusively on the tips or in a nail art design. Inexpensive polishes and nail polish pens are great to practice perfecting the perfect manicure.

Switching up the way beauty services are performed can save a great deal of money each month. Use these tips to splurge on nail care no matter what the budget is.

Published by Nanette Haz

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  • Babblin' Brook8/22/2010

    Great advice about manicures and pedicures!

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