Your daughter - just recently a cute little one - has grown imperceptibly and will soon become a real young lady. She is already watching with interest how you paint your nails, and clumsily tries to repeat after you. It might be worth taking her to a beauty salon and getting a baby manicure. It differs from an adult, but pursues approximately the same goals - to make handles well-groomed and beautiful.
Features of children's manicure
Experts recommend starting to do manicure for children at preschool age. Naturally, this means a hygienic manicure, not a decorative one. And this procedure is important for both girls and boys. Today salons offer their clients European children's manicure. Its main feature is the refusal to remove the cuticle. This procedure is done exclusively with wooden objects, which does not harm the skin and nail phalanx, and prevents infection.
When doing a manicure for a child, the following should be considered:
- children's manicure is limited to the age of 13-15 years. It is before this period that the formation of the nail plate takes place;
- children's nails are more plastic and flexible than the nails of an adult. But at the same time, they cannot be called fragile;
- the nails of children contain much more water than the nails of adults;
- nails in children grow more slowly than in adults, but there are exceptions to the rule;
- children have very delicate cuticle skin and it is easy to damage it.
How to do a child's manicure
First of all, make your nails and hand skin softer with a water bath. The procedure takes 5-10 minutes. Children love water with relaxing foam and vitamin balls. After the bath, do a light hand massage and treat your nails with an antiseptic.
Next, start processing the edges of the nail plate. Trim the nail with nail scissors and file with a fine nail file. Choose the softest file, because many children find it difficult to tolerate this not very pleasant procedure.
Then proceed with the cuticle treatment. Children's manicure does not involve cutting the cuticle due to its delicate skin. Therefore, it should simply be moved slightly with a wooden apricot stick. If there are any hangnails, carefully remove and treat the cuticles with an antiseptic.
When performing children's manicure, do not grind the nail plate, but walk 2-3 times over it with a polishing file. Then apply a nourishing oil or a rich baby cream to your nails.
You can stop at this, or you can continue and create a decorative children's manicure. After all, for a girl, applying varnish on her nails is a big and joyful event. Therefore, do not ignore such requests from your children. Use a protective varnish from any children's cosmetic line you like as a basis for the decorative coating of the nail. Then apply decorative colored varnish, stamping or applique.
