Hardware manicure

Well-groomed hands with neatly treated beautiful nails are an indispensable attribute of a successful modern woman. In any beauty salon, as well as on sites that promote offers of such services, you can find a manicure master and visit him monthly. The most widely used cropped manicure with moceration, but in recent years, so-called hardware manicure has become more and more common. How does it differ from edging, what are its advantages and disadvantages and whether it is possible to make it yourself - we will try to tell about all this in our article.

As it becomes clear from the name, hardware manicure (and also pedicure) is a procedure for removing the cuticle and processing the periungual nails, performed using a special apparatus with interchangeable cutters, each of which has a certain shape and size and is intended for processing a particular area. Outwardly, it is a bit like a medical device used by dentists for drilling teeth. However, its functions are completely different. The cutters with which the machine is equipped have a diamond cut of varying degrees of abrasiveness. Revolving, they remove particles of dead skin, nail scales, cut off the cuticle and polish the areas around the nails.

The most important feature of the hardware manicure is dry treatment of the skin and nails. That is why it is recommended to do those who have problematic nails:

• Layered;
• With uneven surface;
• With a rapidly growing cuticle;
• With a very thick cuticle;
• When peeling the skin of the hands.

Any beauty procedure has supporters and opponents. Not avoided this fate and hardware manicure. Satisfied customers who have made a choice in his favor, note the following advantages:

• The absence of cuts and trauma of the skin;
• This is a safe procedure in terms of hygiene. Infection, like a fungus, during its implementation is impossible to bring;
• With regular treatment of the cuticle and periungual areas with a milling cutter, the skin begins to grow more slowly, the cuticle becomes thinner and is not so strongly striking. It is enough to perform the correction once in 1-1,5 months;
• The device does not injure the nail, prevents the appearance of tuberosity and delamination;
• When performing a pedicure, the frezer copes well with calluses, corns, removes dead skin particles and polishes it.

The disadvantages of hardware manicure are:

• It is not suitable for processing too neglected nails - with a thick cuticle, hard and coarsened periungual rollers. Such problems can be solved only by moceration and the subsequent cutting of the skin with tweezers or scissors;
• If the nail plate is naturally thin, hardware manicure is contraindicated.

So now let's talk about what, in fact, you should expect from the procedure and how to prepare for it. Firstly, since skin treatment is performed only “on dry”, you should not be in the pool, bath or sauna first; do not do laundry, wet cleaning or washing dishes. It is advisable not to contact with water at all.

Secondly, do not be surprised at the variety of cutters and the fact that the master will change them repeatedly as well as adjust the rotation speed. During the procedure, a good specialist uses 3 or more tips.Each of them has its own function: one copes well with the removal of the cuticle, the other - fights with burrs for the smoothness of the periungual zone; the third removes artificial material from the surface of the nail, etc.

Very often during the first procedure they offer to perform a combined manicure. This is due to the fact that some areas of the skin are too coarse to be treated with a milling cutter and better cut with scissors. In this case, everything is done only "on dry". Most of the work goes to the typewriter. After 2-3 sessions of the combined manicure, it will be possible to stop only at the hardware one, since the skin will no longer grow so intense.

By the way male manicure is often combined. The cuticles and the periungual regions are hard, with hard, coarsened skin, there are corns on the fingers, especially for those men who do manual labor. Therefore, they need preliminary softening with water or a special remuver. If water is used for these purposes, the treatment with the device is contraindicated, if the remuver is used, it is possible to cut off very rough skin with scissors, and then polish the nails with a machine. The same applies to the performance of the combined pedicure.

Cutters can not always cope with large areas of hardened skin, then special pedicure files with a large working surface, as well as sharply sharpened tweezers and scissors come to the rescue. But now no other device can process the area between the fingers better than the milling cutter.

In order not to get confused in the variety of offered devices and to make the best choice in the price / quality ratio, you should clarify a few nuances:

• Do you need a manicure machine only, or are you going to do a pedicure with it? The apparatus intended for both procedures has more functions and is more powerful, but its cost is much higher than a regular manicure machine. If you are not going to do a pedicure, choose the option only for handling hands;
• In what conditions you will operate a milling cutter: at home or in the salon. For a home, it is better to purchase a less powerful device, at around 5000 rpm. The same advice is relevant for beginners as well. These machines are not able to injure the skin, even if you are not too cleverly able to handle them. They are lightweight and compact. Among such devices we can recommend to purchase products of companies. Vitek and Avon - inexpensive and easy-to-use kits for home use.

Professional equipment produced by companies such as Marathon, RuNail, Planet Nails, Nail Master. However, before acquiring one of these devices, you should hone your professionalism as a master, since These milling machines have a very high rotational speed and, in inept hands, can harm a client:

• Will you also do a pedicure and work with artificial nails. Very important question. If you want to provide clients with a complete list of nail services, then you will need a multifunctional machine, especially powerful, with a large number of different cutters and a pedal for foot control. One of the best of these machines - "Orbita 50" from Planet nails.
• Will you leave the house. If you are not going to work permanently, renting a place in the salon, and intend to provide your services at home with a client, you need to think that the manicure machine should be light and compact so that it can be easily carried in a suitcase.It also makes sense to look for a machine with a battery that can work not from a power outlet, but offline.
• How long do you intend to operate the device. Of course, no one wants to spend money on a device that breaks down in a month. Therefore, buy it only in trusted stores that provide warranty (at least 12 months) and after sales service. A good bonus would be the availability of complete brushes for cleaning the engine and protection against excessive heat.
• Convenience of operation. It is advisable to check whether the machine is suitable for you personally before you start working on it. Enable, feel its weight, hold in your hands. When you purchase over the Internet, you miss this opportunity. So do not be lazy and visit 2-3 stores with this technique. You may pay a little more, but you will be sure that you have not acquired a beautiful and functional, but inconvenient device.

In principle, there is nothing difficult in mastering the hardware manicure technique. Now there are many training courses and video tutorials. Also, for a fairly reasonable fee, you can go to any school of nail art and for a couple of lessons learn how to wield a router. It all depends on what level you will apply your knowledge - home or professional.

Technology implementation of hardware manicure step by step:

• Process hands spray antiseptic. If there is nail polish on the nails, remove it with a remuver without acetone;
• Then you can do the following: pusher or orange stick gently push the dry cuticle on all fingers and begin processing. And you can put on it a special tool for softening, it is still often used when performing a European manicure. Wait a few minutes and also begin processing. Both that and other method are correct. You just have to choose which one you like best;
• Take the manicure machine in your working hand and hold it as you normally would when holding a pen while writing. Start working at a speed not higher than 1500 revolutions per minute, as you gain professionalism, increase the speed of rotation. Do not push the device too hard, do not press it against your finger to avoid the risk of injury;
• Install the needle shaped cutter. Treat the cuticle on the sides; then with the tip of the cutter gently lift it without touching the surface of the nail;

• Change the cone-type milling cutter. Remove cuticle. Act carefully. Do not forget - if suddenly the cuticle cannot be cut off with a machine, scissors and tweezers can always come to the rescue;
• Next, take a bullet-shaped nozzle. Sand the cuticle and periungual ridges. If there are heavily hardened areas, try to process them with the largest cutter at moderate speed;
• When the skin around the nails is ready, proceed to polish the nails. Use the cutter in the form of a hard washcloth. Polish gently, touch the very tip of the cutter;
• Processing is complete. Apply special nourishing oil to the skin and nailit will well moisturize the skin and saturate the nail plate with useful microelements;
• If you want to varnish nails, degrease them and apply a transparent baseto align them. Then paint them with colored varnish in 2 layers;
• The final stage will be hand treatment moisturizer.

Never disregard the advice of masters who have long and successfully performed hardware manicure to their clients.The beauty industry is not in place, there are new cosmetics that facilitate the work and the latest devices with improved functionality. Improved and processing technology marigold. For more successful work follow these simple rules:

• If you, in addition to manicure, also do a pedicure, use cutters with higher abrasiveness;
• Size cutters pick up according to size the area you are going to process;
• Beginner better start with minimum speedsgradually increasing them. Otherwise you can injure the client;
• Interrupt work every 5-7 minutes in order to avoid overheating and damage to the device;
• Move the cutter from center to edge marigold, do it smoothly, do not linger long in one place;
• Do not take water procedures before a manicure session;
• When you start polishing the surface of the nail plate, don't push her, only slightly spend on it the softest milling cutter;
• When handling the cuticle and near-nail areas, hold the cutter at an angle of 45 degrees; To grind a nail it is necessary, holding the device parallel to it;
• Move your hand opposite to the milling cutter. Then you will get the best result.

A hardware manicure has many adherents. This is not surprising: performing it with a milling cutter has many advantages and advantages over a trimmer. First of all, no risk of cuts. For clients with blood vessels located close to the skin surface, this has a special meaning - after all, any scratch is fraught with sufficiently heavy bleeding for them. Anyway, no one is pleased, having come to a pleasant cosmetic procedure to get at least a small, but trauma.

The second advantage flows smoothly from the first: if there is no open cut, then there is no risk of infection or fungus. Of course, this does not mean that the master can process everyone without changing or disinfecting the cutters, not at all! For each client, an individual set of nozzles is necessarily used, which after the procedure is sent to a dry-heat cabinet. However, with a cut manicure, any germ in the air or on the working surface can get into the wound; with hardware, this possibility is excluded.

Another advantage of this manicure is its appearance. What can I say, sometimes an inexperienced master is able to shred the cuticle with scissors so that the fingers begin to resemble some bits with droplets of dried blood. When processing the skin with a router, even if the master is not too experienced, the worst that can happen is that he simply does not completely cut off the cuticle, but it doesn’t disfigure your hands. If you are lucky and you find a good master, get ready to show off your nails from the pages of a fashionable glossy magazine. It is also important that the implementation of the hardware manicure takes less time than on the cut with moceration. In the rhythm of the big city it can not but rejoice. For every woman, be she a business woman or a simple housewife, any free moment is worth its weight in gold, because it allows you to spend time with your family or make another lucrative contract.

Of course, not without a spoon of tar. Opponents of the hardware manicure, too, have and they have strong arguments. First, let's not forget that a machine is an electric device and, in inept hands, is capable of causing harm. For example, cut through the nail plate. Such cases were and most often they occurred when cutting artificial nails, when the master was too "carried away". Holders of sensitive plates may feel pain when sanding, as if they were burning a nail.Well, and finally, it is simply unpleasant for some to listen to the buzz of a typewriter and feel its vibration for an hour.

In general, whatever type of manicure you prefer, remember that the most important thing is that the end result suits you. Any feedback and advice is purely subjective.

To learn how to properly perform hardware manicure, see the following video.