Fingernails

Natural Ways to Fill Ridges in Nails

Nail ridges aren't any lady's cup of tea. They can ruin a perfectly good manicure and take a polish job that would otherwise be flawless from perfectly polished to uneven and jagged. If you don't want to deal with chemically concocted ridge-filler...

Cute Black & White Nail Styles

If you're tired of pale pink nails, go for a bold black-and-white style. The notice-me color combo is sure to turn heads, whether you wear it to an elegant affair or a casual get-together. Savvy girls know that you don't need to be a pro to...

Ideas for Gold & Silver Metallic Nail Art

Parties, holidays and other special occasions call for glitter and glitz in your outfit. Go all out and add the same touch to your nails. Metallic gold and silver nail designs add a touch of glamor to otherwise plain patterns such as geometric...

How to Clear Up Severe Cracks Around the Fingernails

Severe cracks around your fingernails can be painful -- and even if they aren’t, they look bad and can make you feel embarrassed. There are a lot of ways to treat those Sahara-like cracks, and in most cases, they will go away soon. So...

Nail Ointment for Fingernails

If you're all about looking effortlessly put together and fresh from head to toe, do not neglect your nail health. Your hands reveal a lot about you, from your age to your everyday grooming habits. Keep frustrating nail ridges, peels and overall...

The Best Fingernail Protectant

Sometimes it seems like all sorts of things -- the laptop keyboard or your teeth among them -- are trying to crack your nails and chip your nail color. If your nails are brittle, it can be a battle to stop them from breaking. Keep your nails...

What Is a Silk Wrap for Fingernails?

Long, strong fingernails are the result of a genetic lottery -- the same one that gives boys eyelashes to die for. So you if your nails are less than beautiful, your gene pool may be to blame. Acrylics and gels aren’t for everyone, but silk...

How to Fix Broken Fingernails

Broken fingernails are not only unpleasing to the eye, but they hurt. They can cause you to become self conscious about anyone seeing your hands and force you to trim the rest of your nails down so that they match the other ones. But before you...

Remedy for Fingernail Ridges

Not many things can make a girl feel more confident and sexy than strong, healthy fingernails. Not only do they make an excellent base for nail polish, but they also make your hands look youthful and attractive. Vertical lines across your...

How to Do Fingernail Wraps

Growing weak nails that are prone to breaking is a tricky business. Fortunately, you can bolster the strength of your feeble tips by putting them under wraps. Made of linen, silk, paper or fiberglass, nail wraps give your nails a stylish flair...

Short Fingernail Styles

You probably had a "nail art" sleepover with your girlfriends when you were younger. The party likely ended in sponge-painted, dual-tone nails and a very unhappy mother trying to scrub nail polish out of the carpet. Well, girls, you're all grown...

Liquid Gelatin for Fingernails

So you want hard, healthy nails capable of carving the facets in diamonds. Liquid gelatin may seem like the quick and dirty solution if you don't favor food that wobbles, shivers and tries to escape the spoon. Gelatin has received a lot of love...

Solutions for Dry Fingernails

There's only so much a good mani can do. While a nice layer of hot pink can hide ugly, dry nails for a day or two, nails that aren't healthy and strong crack and break with even the most lovingly applied polish jobs. Instead of playing cover-up...

What to Do for Dull & Yellow Fingernails

Painted yellow fingernails are a hallmark of punk princesses looking to make a statement, but dull, yellowed fingernails are a totally different story. Your yellow fingernails might be a casualty of a stubborn dark polish that didn't quite come...

Fingernail Gifts

Fingernails offer a fun way for a friend to express herself, so give her a gift that lets her play up her talons. No matter what your budget, you can find a present that puts a smile on her face and some color on her well-manicured hands.

How to Keep Your Fingernails From Growing Crooked

Most fashionable ladies don't give a lot of thought to their fingernails other than choosing just the right shade of polish. After all, nails are just kind of there, right? You forget about them -- until they start growing crooked. Crooked, curled...

How to Improve Fingernails

Bubble gum pink, Tiffany blue, gun metal grey, French tips -- nails have all the fun. Ever feel like you're missing out on all the sparkle and glitz? If your nails are brittle, chipping, peeling or simply don't grow fast to pop polish on them, you...

How to Get a Natural Shine on Fingernails

Dull, lifeless nails can send your hands into hiding faster than you can say "manicure." If you think the only way to have rockin' nails is to keep them lacquered and shellacked, then think again. There's no big secret to keeping your naked nails...

How to Repair a Dent in the Center of a Fingernail

Ugh! You have just removed your artificial nails and low and behold, a few of your nails have dents. While dents or ridges in the nail can develop with certain illnesses, they are also an all-too-common occurrence with the application and upkeep...

Top Layer of Fingernails Peeling

People notice your hands. That's why everyone tells you to be well-groomed and not wear crazy garish manicure colors when you go to job interviews. And what better way to show off a big fat rock than on a set of nicely tended hands? Sometimes,...