Performing a manicure yourself is not difficult. Perhaps the most difficult thing in this procedure is the removal of the cuticle. There are many options for dealing with skin growing on the nail, but not all of them are universal. Therefore, the fastest way to process nails is to remove it with a special manicure tool - tweezers, or nippers for the skin.
How to trim the cuticle with nippers so as not to injure the delicate skin of the nail roller? There is a special technique for this. First, nippers work only on steamed skin. After the bath, the tissues expand, are saturated with moisture, soften. It becomes apparent the difference between dead cells - the skin in these places becomes white. Such sites are subject to removal. Secondly, the correct position of the tool during cutting is very important: along the side rollers, the blades are parallel with the nail, and in the corners they become vertical.
Nippers
The skin cut is made very shallow, the blades move parallel to the skin. All work to remove the cuticle is divided into two stages: right and left of the nail. How to do this is shown in the video.
The first movement of the blades begins at the edge of the side roller. The steamed skin is slightly captured and the tweezers begin to move along the side roller, removing the keratinized area. As you move towards the lateral (rear) roller, the tweezers take a vertical position. This is necessary so that the cutting parts capture little skin. Such a small step is very maneuverable, it is easy for them to make a turn and not injure the client.
If the lateral roller is moved away and the eponychium is cleaned with a scraper, the blades on it occupy a horizontal position and remove the ribbon of skin along the entire length of the blades. After that, they move to the opposite side roller and work with it.
Here's how to cut the cuticle with pliers.
Instrument position in hand
To control the movements of the instrument, it is important to hold it correctly. Good nippers lie comfortably in your hand, so the master only needs to squeeze his palm slightly to make a cut. If the tweezers are not sized, the hand gets tired. You have to strain your wrist or hold the tool with your fingers. All this affects the maneuverability and quality of the cut.
Over time, with constant overvoltage, inflammation of the nerve occurs in the carpal tunnel. This is the so-called tunnel syndrome. In addition to masters of manicure, computer gamers and embroiderers suffer from this manually. That is why in nail schools they teach how to use cuticle nippers. The slice is performed while holding the client’s finger from below.
Cuticle Nippers
In many respects, the success of a beautiful even cut does not depend on the master, but on the quality of the cutting tool. There is a large selection on sale - for every taste, size and wallet. And yet, how to determine which cuticle nippers are good and which are not? Masters advise how to choose a good tool:
- The blades should fit snugly against each other, there should not be the slightest gap between them.
- The ends of the blades should be sharp and should not differ.
- Blades should be well sharpened.
- There should be no rust on the tool.
- The stroke of the blades should be soft and light.
A professional tool should not be cheap. With constant work, it is sterilized in solutions, calcined in a dry oven, periodically sharpened. Cheap metal just crumbles from such a load.
Sharp tools - high speed
The new tool makes an even cut, after it there are no burrs and the skin on the back roller after the manicure is smooth and even. But if the blades begin to pull the skin, they do not cut it off the first time, if you have to press the blades hard, it means they have become dull and it is time to give the nippers to the workshop to sharpen them.
To extend the life of the nippers, watch for a limited time for soaking them in a disinfectant solution. Do not stand them in it for more than the prescribed period of time. The same principle applies to calcination in the sterilizer. This ruins the blades, and they have to be sharpened more often. It will take more time for a manicure, since it will not work to quickly cut the cuticle with nippers. After working with blunt blades, cuts are more likely, burrs remain on the roller, and the cut itself will be uneven.
Cuticle Cutting With Scissors
In pedicures, cuticle cutting is often used with scissors. They have much longer blades, and this is very convenient when processing toenails. Some ask - what is the best way to cut the cuticle: scissors or nippers? The answer to this question can only be given by the master. For some operations, he can use one tool, for others - two. It all depends on the task that confronts him.
Scissor blades are more difficult to place vertically in the corners of the nails where the rollers meet. It is more convenient to work with tweezers. And cut even areas better with scissors. It turns out smoother and faster. The scissors have straight blades, and the tweezers have an angle. Therefore, it is impossible to get deeply located skin with scissors.
In general, tweezers are considered a universal tool, and therefore are in great demand. Although in some operations they lose to scissors in speed, they do not have to be changed during the processing of nails.
Unedged cuticle removal method
Working with a cutting tool can cause a wound. Even experienced craftsmen can hurt a client. To avoid this, there is a method of unedged manicure, which can be manual or hardware. The manual method is a system of nail files that replace each other and cut dry skin areas. Almost like in a pedicure.
Hardware manicure is performed by an abrasive mill. The principle is the same as with manual processing, only without nail files. Too much to remove from the cuticle will not work. Therefore, many people like the trim method because the result of the processing is more explicit.
The master sometimes uses wire cutters after he completes the work with the machine. So he combines two techniques and achieves the speed and quality of manicure.
Expert Advice
For beginners, it is important to find their own convenient way to remove the cuticle with nippers. Since masters can do this with any tool, they advise you to try all the ways. No need to try to do everything perfectly. This can lead to cuts. The cuticle has uneven thickness throughout. If you remove the excess skin, you get an uneven cut. Therefore, regarding the amount of tissue removed, aesthetic principles should be followed.
A lot, if not all, depends on the quality preparation of the hands for manicure. This includes a hot soapy bath. He loosens keratin fibers and the master sees whitened areas on the fingers with hyperkeratosis. They are removed. A salt solution, on the contrary, will not allow the skin to absorb the right amount of water. But he bleaches his hands and nails.
The process of steaming in a soap solution can be successfully replaced by a cuticle remover. Often this method of loosening keratin of the skin is used before applying gel polish, when the nails should be dry. This composition is applied to the cuticle area, and after some time the roller is pushed back.
Common mistakes
There are subtleties to how to cut a cuticle into nippers. Very often, beginners forget to push the roller with a pusher. This is a manicure spatula. Where pterygium is not steamed enough, the roller will not move. A sinus should open between the nail and the roller - a pocket formed by a fold of skin. Then you can clean the pterygium with a scraper - a manicure hatchet.
And only after this preparatory stage is completed, you can begin to remove excess skin. If some part of the roller remains attached to the nail, and the master did not notice this, when cutting the skin with a ribbon, there will be a cut.
When working with wire cutters in the corners of the rollers, the main task is not to remove the entire cuticle, but to make a beautiful cut. It happens that in pursuit of perfect processing in this place a lot of snacks are formed with tweezers, which, due to the vertical position of the blades, go quite high on the lateral roller. As a result, the cuticle cut line becomes beautiful, and the roller remains without skin.
Features of the procedure
The cuticle is a very tender place. There are many blood capillaries; stopping the blood can be very difficult. But if, nevertheless, a cut occurs, it is treated with an applied cotton swab dipped in hydrogen peroxide. In order to stop the blood, a hand is raised up.
In coating “under the cuticle”, the first step is its removal. If you allow a wound in this area, no coating will hold. Therefore, the masters advise how to properly cut the cuticle with nippers:
- First, the lateral roller is pushed back and slightly raised.
- Then eponychia is separated from the nail plateau. And where he holds tightly to the nail, you can use the pusher and clean it. For the same purpose, the ceramic hoof tool is used.
- After complete cleansing of the nail, skin patches remain, which are cut with tweezers.
As you can see, preliminary preparation is extremely important and is an integral part of the work of the cutting tool.
Conclusion
In manicure, at first glance, there is nothing complicated. But even its simplest form requires special knowledge and experience. To know how to cut the cuticle properly with nippers, you will have to make many mistakes. The key is how to quickly become a manicurist - in practice. All people's nails are different, cuticle too. The condition of the skin depends on many factors. Sometimes it is not clear whether the skin is already steamed or not: its color does not change or, conversely, speaks of hyperkeratosis. The master takes off a little too much - and the cut is ready. It turns out that pressure and temperature affect skin color.
Who is not mistaken? One who does nothing. Try to cut the cuticle with nippers, feel them in your hand. Maybe you will find a new way to apply them. Go ahead and you will succeed.