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For some people, their nails do not grow as fast as they wanted it to be.  This problem often occur when you lack certain vitamins in you diets.  If you want faster growing nails, be sure that your diet is rich in Vitamins A, B-Complex, C, D, E and iron, calcium, zinc, sulfur, and the essential fatty acids.

* For Vitamin A, look for fruits that are yellow and orange or veggies that are dark green.
* For Vitamin C, chop up some green and red peppers and offer them to your family as a snack.
* For Vitamin D, look to your dairy products.
* For Vitamin E, a supplement is your best option.
* For zinc, options include kidney beans, rice, chicken or cheese

We hope this short list help you with growing your beautiful nails. You may express you opinion on this topic in our community forum http://my.coolnailsart.com/forum/topics/growing-your-real-nails.

Hands and feet treatments are a fad nowadays. A lot of salons offer a variety of these treatments each designed to make your hands and feet soft, healthy, beautiful and younger looking.  Our hands are our best friends simply because they help us in everything we do. This is the reason why they age quicker than our face or necks. And once they aged, its difficult to turn back.

Feet are our second best buddies. They literally walk us to our destinations. And though our feet are often covered by shoes, you can’t assume they’re safe from anything. Actually, they are more prone to bacteria. Fungi loves inhabiting warm and moist environments and shoes are the best example of that.

Some foot wear tend to harden heels and can cause small callouses.  However, salons can charge seriously high prices for these treatments. Its not practical especially with the crisis. Don’t fret. You can have soft and beautiful hands without draining your pockets.

Strawberry Exfoliating Cream

A delicious treat for your feet! Did you know strawberries are effective exfoliators? Remove dead skin cells lusciously with this recipe.  Pick 8 strawberries and crush them lightly in a bowl or any container. Drop 2 tablespoons of olive oil(or safflower oil) and dash a teaspoon of kosher salt.

Make a paste and remember as earlier said, crush the strawberries lightly to prevent them from excreting too much juice. Rub the cream on your feet and massage it thouroughly. For a variety, you could add grinded almonds.

Soothing Foot Lotion
The ingredients are:

1 tablespoon almond oil
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon wheat germ oil
12 drops eucalyptus essential/fragrance oil

Combine all of these step by step in a bottle and shake. Shake it well and thoroughly to marry the wonderous effects of these oils. Then, like any other lotion, apply a genereous amount to your feet especially to your heels and soles.

Being infected with diabetis can have so many complications and restrictions. Aside from limitations in food and beverages, diabetics are also not allowed to get injured.  This ailment, if not taken care of, can lead to a weaken immune system. This means wounds heal slower and longer, Or worse, sometimes, they just don’t.  Manicures and pedicures are a common concern for women patients. Of course, you do not want to look sick and sick right? You want to look sickly beautiful in spite of your condition.

However, the process of cuticle removal can lead to some serious damage especially for the toes. If you’re used to having an in-depth cleaning, you might tear off some sensitive skins and thus you bleed.

Here in the Philippines, women opt to in-depth cleaning making sure all cuticles, ingrown and all the hard stuff surrounding the nail are removed. And there are reported cases of toe wounds not healing for the diabetics.

Some say sugar levels start off with the toes. Perhaps, this is the reason why some patients have their legs amputated in hopes to stop its continuum rise. And since we all know beauty and hygiene is a must, experts have developed some tips on feet care that will keep your feet healthy and beautiful at the same time.

First always wash your feet with luke warm water and a mild soap. Of course you don’t want to grow fungi or any other bacteria that will make your toes itchy. You can also apply lotion after drying the feet but leave the in-betweens alone.

Check your feet for boils, cracks or anything out of the ordinary. You’ll never know when you’ll have a serious foot injury. Diabetics are prone to cracked nails since they have an altered feet sensation. Monitor this nail and see if it can cause other injuries or whatsoever.

Trim your nails neatly. If you crave for a salon do-over for your nails, you can. You can choose not to go under cuticle removing. Nail arts are not prohibited. Just as long as the process doesn’t injure your feet then I guess its ok.  If you want to do a little cuticle removing, better consult you family doctor to assure safety. He’ll probably check your sugar levels and see if you are ready to avail that pedicure.

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Having a new set of nails put on is very nice and sexy; you have to know how to take care of them in order for them to continues to stay good. After getting your new nails done you should be extra careful on what you do in your daily chores.

Be caution when you carry heavy bags and open or closing doors; paying extra attention to these minor details will save you from a lot pain if your nails happen to break. Numerous people have crazy accidents with their fake nails breaking off and pulling their real nails with it. You would not want this to happen to you, so just be careful on what you do.

After having your acrylic nails for a several days observe for any “lifting” on your nails. Lifting is when your acrylic nails peel off a little on the edges. The degree of lifting is based on what you do with your nails. If you do a lot of chores with your nails, you will see more lifting than usual. Exposing your nails to excessive usage of water will lead to lifting.

You can fix the little lifting at home by using some super glue to seal them up, and use a buffer to smooth out any rugged edges. If the lifting space is big, it is recommend for you to go and get a fill. A fill is required after you get your nails for 1 and a 1/2 to 2 weeks of time. If you wait any longer than this recommended time, you will find yourself in a lot more troubles.

Having your nails done is always fun and exciting just be attentive on the things that you will do after you get your nails done.

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