A manicure is a cosmetic beauty treatment for the fingernails and hands enjoyed by both sexes. A manicure can treat just the hands, just the nails, or both.

 How to Do Manicure At Home

Use a cotton ball with non-acetone nail polish to remove old nail polish. Next, use a nail file to file your nails so that they are all one length covering just the tips of your fingers.

 Soak your hands with body wash to soften your skin and cuticles. Use a buffing block to gently buff away dead skin and make your nails shine. Use the cuticle scissors to snip away any hang nails with out cutting your cuticles.

While your hands are moist with water, apply a moisturing lotion or cream for a few minutes. Then wipe off with a wet wash cloth.

Use a cotton ball with nail polish remover to remove any residue from nails, so that you have clean nails when you apply polish. Next, apply a base coat. Then apply a nail polish. Finally, apply a top coat.

Some mistakes commonly committed when manicure is carried out at home.

1. Don’t cut the nails back and forth using an emery board and deeply cut the nail from the left and right corner. Thus the nails are most likely to get split and worn out.
2. Do not neglect the cuticular part of the nail as it can cause the problem of hangnails.
3. Do not nip away at the cuticles; Push the cuticles with a cloth gently as it can cause nail infection.
4. Before you apply a polish to your nail you should first lace it with a base coat. 
5. Replace the nail polish after every five days because too many coats will dehydrate the nails and therefore remove the top layer of the nail

  How to Do Pedicure At Home

First, fill a basin with a gallon of warm water and commercial foot soaking tablets or liquids.  Soak feet twenty minutes to soften calluses and corns. Discard water. Pat feet dry with a towel.

Using a skin file, remove dead skin cells. Primary areas of concern are often heels and balls of feet. A pumice stone also works well to remove rough calluses and dry spots.

Next clean under nail tips and clip. Be sure to file splits or rough edges.

Base coat polish is generally used to fortify and protect the nail itself. Select a color for the second coat that you feel matches your skin tone. The third coat can be a clear polish designed to protect the color from chipping.

Application of polish should be the last step in the home pedicure. Cover nails with a thin coat.
Next, apply the polish color of your choice. Dry for the time recommended on the nail polish label.
Finish with a clear protective coat. Allow this to dry thoroughly. Be careful to not touch polish until it is completely dry as this causes smudges and takes away from the glossy texture. Reapply a clear coat every two or three days to shield pedicure and refresh shine. For best results use cosmetics or beauty products of herbal brand.

Now you are ready to sport your new pedicure by wearing your favorite pair of sandals

Doing manicure at home saves money and one need not be an artist for doing it.

The things required for manicure include file clip or emary board, orange slpi, mail clipper, nail buffer, nail polisher, cuticle oil, colored nail polish, transparent treatment nail polish, protective or strengthening polish, exfoliation lotion, moisturizing hand cream and nail polish remover.
There are steps for manicuring. At first any old nail polish shold be removed using nail polish removar or acetone. This can be done by taking a cotton ball wetting it with acetine or nail paint removar and then wiping the nails with the cotton ball. Then nails should be shaped using a file to a desitred length and shape. The length of all the nails should be same as far as possible. While giving shape to the nails it is important to use the file only in one direction to prevent nails from breaking and maintaining their strength. if the file is very sharp then it can be used bith way.

Then the hands should be immersed in warm water fir 5 to 10 minutes. Sime liquid soap can be added to that. Care should be taken that the water is not too hot which may cause drying of hands. Then cuticle cream can be applied to the base of the nails to make any rough spots softer.

Then the cuticles should be pushed back of the nail bed with the help of a cuticle stick so that they do not disturb the polishing. If cuticle stick is not available then popstick can be used. If ine is used ti self manicure and wants to have great hands then the cuticles can be cut back. Then the hands should be cleaned using a scrub or a homade made scrub.

After scrubbing the hands should be dried. Then the application of moisturizer and nail polish are the last steps. The two thin coats of nail polish should be applied. The second coat should be applied only after drying the first. If there is no time to polish the nails then the manicured nails also look good. Another tip os light nail polish is better to maintain than the drak one therefore isung a lighter shade is better.

Nails can be painted while watching TV or listening to music so that to allow them dry properly. Most of the manicure steps can be followed for the feet also. Cleaning the nails before application of nail polish is necessary so that the nail polish sticks to the nail properly. If the manicure is done after every two months then the hands especially the cuticles need to be cared less. When cuticles act up then application of oil is recommended to soften them.

Hand are one of the things contribute to personal image. They should be cared properly and adequately.