CAKE OF FINGER-NAILS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 11

CAKE OF FINGER-NAILS

Excessively manicured nails are not attractive. Most women shudder a little when they see long nails, pointed towards the tips, and varnished a bright colour, states a London writer. They look unnatural and ugly. Yet some woI men, accounted well dressed, always have these high-polished, pointed nails, and there is now a new varnish polish on the market almost blood red in colour. This attracts attention to the nails at once, and should never, never be used unless the nails are perfectly shaped, and even then it is not in the best of taste. Varnish should never be used on brittle nails; a paste polish is much better for all nails. If nails are very pale a deep red paste can be used, which will give a slight tinge to them. Brittle nails should he smeared with a little vaseline, mixed with an equal quantity of olive oil, every night and morning. Brittle nails are generally due to gout in the system, and all acidproducing foods should be avoided. To Cut the Nails. Brittle nails should always be kept quite short, and it is always better to file them than to cut them. When the fingers are too short and broad for beauty they can be made to appear longer and slimmer if the nails are allowed to grow rather longer than usual, and are trimmed slightly pointed, but avoid excessive points. The woman who does not manicure her nails nowadays would be hard to find, but there are still a good many who do not realise that the cuticle at the base of the nails should never be I cut. Cutting causes hang nails, which ; are not only painful and unsightly, but | very hard to cure. Use a good cuticle j i remover regularly, and there will never 1 ' be any trouble with hang nails,. Should any have appeared through cutting the cuticle or any other injury to the skin around the nails, apply some cuticle cream twice daily till a cure has been ! effected. Stains on the Nails. Stains on the nails from nicotine or other causes can generally be removed by rubbing with a little lemon juice, and should there be stains beneath them, soak the tips of the fingers in a mixture of warm water and cloudy ammonia, a few drops of the ammonia to a saucer of warm water. This is a better plan than scrubbing with the nail brush, which is apt to ! widen the space between the finger and I the nail and make it liable to soil quickly.