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Showing posts with label fingernail polish remover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fingernail polish remover. Show all posts

02 July 2010

Can I use FlexiNail with Nail Polish?

Hi Edith,
Couple things with nail polish as you probably know. The polish often contains ingredients that evaporate or "dry" leaving the color on your nail. The polish also covers your nail. When you take off polish you probably use a very harsh acetone type product. All of these things work to dry out your nail. Add this to daily exposure to the sun or cold or water and its tough on nails.

When you use a polish, FlexiNail can't penetrate through the dried on polish. It can however, get into the nail matrix (the part under your cuticle) and up the sides of your nails under the skin where there is no polish.

What many of our customers do is get their nails back to where they want them. They then apply nail polish, but cut down on the amount of times they change colors. When the color does come off, they take a "break" from polish for a few days and apply a thin coat of FlexiNail two or three times a day on these "breaks". If your nails stay strong - then polish and the number of changes can increase. If the nail is "drying" out again - then increase the time without polish and use FlexiNail on those days.

Hope this information helps. Derek

01 February 2010

Nail Polish Remover Concerns.

Nail polish remover is hard on your nails. Use it infrequently as possible, especially if you are using an acetone based remover. Nail polish removers can really dry the nail out and this leads to cracking and breaking.

One suggestion is to remove your nail polish only once a week or less. Go one step further and take a polish "break" between color changes. On this "break" apply FlexiNail two or three times a day if possible (each application only takes a few seconds). These days without polish and using FlexiNail regularly help restore the nail's natural balance.

Watch this YouTube video to see how a flexible nail works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUhRSaIqZo