1. Smoothing your curls over (lightly) with jojoba oil should tame the flyaways and make your hair shine. I use jojoba on my hair after straightening and have used it on my curl attempts, and it leaves everything very sleek and nice.
2. Here's what I do: I start at the base of the nail and press the tip down lightly at an angle to make it fan out, then spread it down toward the tip. I do three strokes like this- one on each side and then one down the center to smooth any lines. If you have slightly bulky fingers, maybe try holding the edge down on the side that you're painting to avoid getting polish on the skin. My middle fingers' nails are slightly inset and slanted (anemia), so I have to hold one side down on each of them to get it right.
2. I don't have any tips to add to what the other commenter said but painting nails is waayyy easier for me when my nails are long. Maybe you're having issues because yours are short? (if they are)
3. I have henna'd my hair and yes it was very permanent, also with henna in your hair you cant get any sort of highlights and this never wears off, have to wait for more to grow if you want highlights or just to bleach/dye your hair at all with non-henna.
2. Zoya color lock system, uv dryer, CAREFULLY and i still get it everywhere so I rub aquaphor or vaseline on them and around the cuticles and then shower/use a nailbrush under the running tap.
3. nope, i change my color too much to want anything that chemically reacts with bleach badly on it.
2. Nobody I know actually gets it 'all nice'. I paint them at night and in the morning, I scrape off the polish that has gone all over the edges in the shower.
When I do manicures on clients we use 3 strokes with each stroke starting at the base of the nail. The first stroke, lightly press the brush down at the base of the nail in the centre and brush down to the tip. Then repeat this process either side of the first central stroke. You may need 4 strokes for the thumb nail, but all other nails only need 3 x
i do this, too, but i have personally found (i'm not a professional) that it depends on the brush of the polish, as when i'm using something like sally hansen, even with the 3 stroke method, polish gets everywhere. when i use better polishes (opi, zoya) i have no mess.
If the polish comes with a wide brush or a fan shaped brush which I know some Rimmel & OPI polishes have, the 3 stroke method may not work. I would still stick to the same method, but instead use 2 strokes x
Oh as you said previously, a Q-tip or an orange stick tipped with cotton wool and dipped in nail polish remover is a great way of clearing up mistakes x
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2. Here's what I do: I start at the base of the nail and press the tip down lightly at an angle to make it fan out, then spread it down toward the tip. I do three strokes like this- one on each side and then one down the center to smooth any lines. If you have slightly bulky fingers, maybe try holding the edge down on the side that you're painting to avoid getting polish on the skin. My middle fingers' nails are slightly inset and slanted (anemia), so I have to hold one side down on each of them to get it right.
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3. I have henna'd my hair and yes it was very permanent, also with henna in your hair you cant get any sort of highlights and this never wears off, have to wait for more to grow if you want highlights or just to bleach/dye your hair at all with non-henna.
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2. Zoya color lock system, uv dryer, CAREFULLY and i still get it everywhere so I rub aquaphor or vaseline on them and around the cuticles and then shower/use a nailbrush under the running tap.
3. nope, i change my color too much to want anything that chemically reacts with bleach badly on it.
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Oh as you said previously, a Q-tip or an orange stick tipped with cotton wool and dipped in nail polish remover is a great way of clearing up mistakes x
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