Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-13
NAILS BEAUTIFIED.
Cold Cream Strengthens Them and
Improves the Texture.

Next to substituting wood for steel II
treating the nails to improve the shape
| cold cream is the most important factor
In proper care. To say that it cannot be
| used too much or too often is no eXag-
geration and never should an application
| be omitted on going to bed At that time
| the crevice at the base of the nails should
| be filled with grease of some kind, thus
keeping the cuticle soft, improving the
texture and preventing hang-nails that
are both unsightly and painful.
After having soaked and cleared the
| nails OF superf1uOuS skim as stated in a
recent article on manicuring, cold cream
| should be rubbed on Immediately, each
finger tip being thus Amounted as soon as
| it is cleansed. The object of this instant
application is to neutralize the effect OF
| soaking, which will cause the skin to be-
come excessively dry.
When each nail has been manicured in
turn, the fingers should be washed in
warm water with soap, using a brush.
Each tip should be wiped separately.
pressing back the cuticle as the drying
| is done. This is a method which. if en-
ployed each time the hands are dried, will
be found an aid in training the skin to
grow back instead of up.
A pair of very fine pointed curved sciS-
sors will next be required, and these
should be of the best quality of STEEL the
these the cuticle about each nail should
be trimmed, but the utmost caution must
be exercised in doing this, or real harm
will be done.
Brushing and drying the nails after the
Scraping will cause certain little points
and bits of dried skin to stand erect To
clip these is imperative, or they develop
Immediately into hang-nails. but to do
more than get rid of them will be to cut
into quick flesh. and, by causing it to
hannn0a will ma
and coarse.
This work can be done properly only
with scissors made for the purpose. and,
though expensive to buy, one pair will
last for several years if they are used
only for cuticle. One snip of the nail
will ruin them.
AS soon as this trimming is done cold
cream should again be rubbed over lightly
and powder put on: Each nail is then
rubbed briSkly but lightly with a chamOiS
burnisher until a polish appears on the
surface.
Again the fingers are washed and
brushed, to remove all powder and grease,
and after this usually more loose bits of
skin will be found adhering to the rim or
nail. The stick of orange wood should
be dipped once more into water and the
spot rubbed until the ragged look is re-
moved. 1t is sometimes necessary to re-
sort to the scissors again, but it is much
better not to use them enough than to go
too deep and cause bleeding
There should be a final polishing with a
clean burnisher, and the finger tips will
| then present an even, trim and caredfor
aspect that is most improving to the
hands.
Manicuring of this kind should not be
done oftener than once week. If the
cutfcle is kept trimmed down too close
| there will be an ugly, thick. if not raw.
look about the nails. One should try to
have the skin where it joins the nail
appear thin and transparent, not heavy
Scissors should never be used for cut
ting the edges of nails, for they make the
texture thick and opaque. Nails in good
condition are pinkish. almost transparent,
| and almond in shape.
A serious mistake of amateurs who try
to improve the form is to cut the cuticle
at the side. This tends to make the flesh
fall away from the nails, where it should
stay to support and keep them rounded.
Otherwise they will be almost fiat.