Drying Nails: How to Do a Home Manicure

Video Transcript

" I’m Lillian with expertvillage.com, and now I am going to show you how to clean the excess nail polish that’s gotten on your skin. What you’re going to want to do is get your nail polish remover and pour just a little bit, not much, into the lid of the nail polish cap. You’re going to get just a tiny piece of cotton. You’re going to wrap it around your orange wood stick like this. Just a lot less than you would a q-tip. If you would use a q-tip, it’s too much cotton. If you wrap it smooth just a thin thin layer of cotton and dip it into the nail polish remover. Kind of tap the excess off. This nail right here I got polish on the skin, so you’re just going to run it along the edges and it comes right off onto that cotton. You will continue on to any of the nails that you feel you’ve gotten polish on the skin. The rest of them look pretty good. Right here just a little bit. That removes it completely, just being careful of course this takes a little bit of practice. You don’t want to touch the actual nail where you don’t want the polish to come off from. Just kind of rub back and forth, and it’s completely come off the skin. If you’ve purchased the nail polish dryer, now would be the time that would apply it. You shake the can and about 10 inches away from the nail, you spray about that much. Shake the can one again and you spray. This will quicken the drying time of the nail polish."