THE DAILY MANICURE

Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 12

THE DAILY MANICURE

The amount of time necessary each day to keep the nails looking perfectly manicured need not be more than two minutes. You must, of course, do your nails thoroughly once a week, taking about half an hour to their beautifying. If you do that your daily treatment is as follows: .When you wash your hands at bedtime rub a little bit of ordinary cold cream round the edges of each nail and push the cuticle back with an orangewood stick. If you make a habit of this, no matter how tired you are at night, i you will never have dry, ugly cuticle around the nails, and you will have smoother, healthier, younger finger nails. You will probably do away with rigidness as well. _ The daily manicure then consists of giving the pails a fresh edge by going over them with the fine side of an ; emery board, of pushing back the cuticle again with the blunt end of an orangewood stick, and of giving them a quick polish with a little bit of polishing powder on a buffer, and that’s all there is to it. If tlm nails seem to be_ stained or dirty, dig them into a thick slice of Jemon or go over them with cotton wool dipped in a bottle of lemon juice. Keep your cuticle solvent, which is also a bleach, for the weekly manicure. If you are very busy—so busy that every minute of your time counts—and manicuring is neglected, use a pink-tinted varnish of the best quality you can buy, cleaning it off the nails with specially prepared solvent and applying it fresh every week. You need never polish your nails in this case, and your daily treatment is only reshaping them and keeping the cuticle pushed back.