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Summary: Learn all about sanitation and safety for acrylic nails with artificial tips in this free expert grooming video on nail grooming and beauty.
Kimberly Bornstein has been performing her creative expert nail techniques since 1997. In 2005 she moved to Los Angeles California to pursue her career as a licensed manicurist. Now...read more
"The next step we are going to go over is sanitation, this is a very important step. You want to make sure that you always wash your hands with a antibacterial soap. The one like we have here. Any time you are doing the nails this is the first procedure that you want to do, you want to wash your hands with antibacterial soap. If you are working with a client you want to make sure they also use the antibacterial soap. Another item that is good is blensacide this is great for sanitizing your implements which are your nippers, clippers, or pushers to push your cuticles back. You want to make sure that you soak all of your items well and then you would take them out and put them in a sanitize container. Whenever you are sanitizing your hands you want to make sure you use a brush a scrub brush when washing your hands. You want to scrub under your nails. This is great for getting all of the bacterial out from underneath your nails. So after all of this is complete we are ready to move to the next step. Safety, this is a very important step. You want to make sure should you or your client get cut first you want to make sure you wash your hands with a antibacterial soap, you and your client. Then you want to take one of these gloves, go ahead and get your glove on. You have washed your hands, go ahead and take the neosporin and apply it directly on the cut. After you do this you are going to want to make sure that you have a band aid handy, you are going to take the bandage, you are going to apply it directly on the cut and make sure that it is covered completely because you don't want to pass any type of blood from person to person cause the is not good and then after that just be very careful whenever you are preforming any type of procedure like this thank you. "
eHow Article: Sanitation & Safety for Acrylic Nails