Try over-the-counter pain relievers, including NSAIDs like ibuprofen, Motrin, and Naproxen, if your healthcare provider approves them for your use. If these do not relieve your pain, your healthcare provider may prescribe a stronger pain reliever or refer you to a pain clinic. If you don't experience any pain, then you do not need to take pain relievers. Always discuss any medications you are taking or plan to take with your healthcare provider and pharmacist to ensure that they are appropriate for you and will not interact with your other medications. Medications that are normally used to treat epilepsy can also be used to treat nerve pain brought on by neuropathy. These medications include Gralise, Neurontin, and Lyrica. Your healthcare provider can determine if they are right for you. These medications can cause drowsiness and dizziness. Try pain relievers before turning to an anti-seizure medication. Topical treatments that can help with nerve pain include capsaicin cream and Lidocaine patches. Capsaicin cream contains a substance found in hot peppers that can help relieve symptoms of neuropathy when it's absorbed through the skin. Lidocaine patches offer pain relief but require a prescription from your healthcare provider or a pain clinic. Only use these medications under your healthcare provider's supervision. Capsaicin cream can cause skin burning and irritation at the application site, which usually goes away after 2 to 4 weeks of continued use. If it does not, you may want to consider a different treatment. Lidocaine patches can also cause side effects, including drowsiness, dizziness, and numbness in the area around the patch. Some antidepressants reduce how much pain you feel by altering the chemical processes in your brain. Your healthcare provider can help you decide if this option may work for you. If you use an antidepressant, you may experience side effects, such as dry mouth, nausea, drowsiness, dizziness, decreased appetite, and constipation. Only use antidepressants under the supervision of your healthcare provider. TENS stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. A healthcare provider or nurse will place electrodes on your skin. During the therapy, a gentle electric current at varying frequencies will travel through the electrodes and into your body, stimulating the nerves. This stimulation should reduce the amount of pain caused by your nerves. TENS therapy is usually given daily, with treatments lasting for 30 minutes. Your healthcare provider or therapist can provide you with a portable machine and teach you how to use it at home. Your healthcare provider should monitor your usage of a TENS machine. This treatment can help lower your immune response, which will reduce inflammation in your body that is causing your symptoms. While it sounds complicated, you will just need to allow a healthcare provider to draw your blood and remove the antibodies and proteins. They will then inject the clean blood back into your body. If you've experienced muscle weakness or are recovering from walking issues, a physical therapist can help you retrain your muscles. You may be able to maintain your mobility or correct issues with your walking. They can also help you adjust to your adaptive devices, such as hand or foot braces, a cane, a walker, or a wheelchair. If your neuropathy is localized to 1 area, a tumor could be putting pressure on your nerves. While the tumor may be benign, it should be looked at by your physician, and biopsied and removed by a surgeon if necessary.

Summary: Take pain relievers if your pain is serious. Ask for an anti-seizure medication if pain relievers don't help. Use topical treatments to help relieve symptoms without oral medication. Take an antidepressant if your nerves are over-stimulated. Try TENS therapy to help relieve pain. Use plasma exchange therapy if inflammation is the cause. Complete physical therapy if your muscles have become weak. Consider surgery if the neuropathy is caused by pressure.

Acetone will dry out your skin if it is left on, so remove it with warm water and natural soap. A natural soap will help to leave the natural oils in your skin. Use regular soap if that's all you have at home. If you wear false nails a lot, your natural nails will benefit from taking a break between applications. After you remove the false nails, give your real nails a few days to a week to recover before adding any new false nails or paint. Try taking a week-long break every 8 weeks between manicures. Consider applying fake nails without glue next time, to see whether this works better for you than having to deal with nail glue removal.

Summary: Wash your hands in warm, soapy water. Give your nails a breather between manicures.

The first step towards improving your voice is to get a good sense of what your voice is like now. There are six main categories that make up someone's vocal profile: Volume: How loud do you speak? Articulation: Do you slur your words or mumble? Voice quality: Is your voice nasally, breathy, or raspy? Overall pitch: Do you speak in a shrill, high tone or a deep, low pitch? Pitch variation: Do you speak in a monotone voice? Speed: Do you speak too quickly or slowly? To get a better sense of what your current voice is like, you need to record it and listen to it. This may not be fun, as a lot of people don't like the sound of their recorded voice, but this is much closer to what people actually hear when they listen to you. Record your voice using audio software like Garageband, and then play it back and listen for the details that make up your vocal profile, your volume, articulation, quality, pitch, variation, and speed. Recording and listening back to your voice will allow you to get an enlightening, objective look at what your really sound like to others. Take note of the flaws in your speaking voice, from mumbling, to filler words, to a nasally quality, and more. Write down everything you notice. Look at your notes about your voice and its weak spots. Then think about how you want your voice to be in comparison. Not everyone is going to have the same goal voice. For example, women with particularly low and raspy voices might want to raise their overall pitch and achieve a smoother vocal quality, while men with high, fast voices might want to slow down and deepen their speech.

Summary: Understand the different factors that make up a voice. Record your voice. Decide how you want your voice to be.

If you notice your foundation turns an unpleasant shade of orange whenever you use it, you may want to try going one to two shades lighter than your normal shade. Sometimes, using a lighter shade can make your foundation appear less dark and make any oxidation less noticeable on your skin. The lighter shade will help to counteract the appearance of an orange tinge on your skin, even if oxidation does occur. You may try using a foundation that is one shade lighter than your normal shade in the same brand or switch to a brand that has a wider variety of shades. Make sure you test the foundation properly on your face to ensure the shade is not too light and will still blend well into your skin. Foundation with SPF is made of ingredients like zinc and titanium. These ingredients can then interact with the color products in the foundation, leading to a change in the shade color. You may opt for a foundation that does not contain SPF so you can avoid a reaction on your face that can lead to an orange tinge. Instead, you may invest in a setting powder that contains SPF so your skin is still protected from the sun but it is not at risk of turning orange. You should always test makeup on your skin before you commit to using it full time. You may try wearing a small patch of the foundation on the side of your face for a few hours to make sure it does not react with your skin and create an orange tinge. Or you may apply a full face of foundation and test it out at home for a few hours to ensure the shade does not change color. You should test out all of your makeup products, from foundation to primer to eyeshadow, before you commit to using them on a day to day basis. This will ensure your skin does not have a negative reaction to any of the products.
Summary: Try a lighter foundation shade. Avoid foundations that contain SPF. Test the foundation before you use it.