Clean Up: How To Do A Home Manicure

Video Transcript

"I’m Lillian and we’re ready for cleanup. The things that you’re going to want to throw away are of course, your old cotton. You could unravel the cotton from your orange wood stick and dispose of that. Of course you’re going to want to wait till your nails are completely dried to do that. Using the nail spray, I still waited about 5 minutes before touching everything freely. The orange wood stick, the cuticle nippers, the clippers, the cuticle pusher could all be, if you’re using for your own personal care, your own personal use, you still might want to use alcohol just to disinfect. You definitely want to use with alcohol and wash with warm soapy water before the alcohol if you’re sharing with any other family member. You just want to keep your finger bowel, throw away the water. The excess nail polish remover; you never want to put it back into the nail polish, so you’re just going to put a cap on that and save that for next time. You close your cuticle softener and use that, this will last you a very long time as well as your nail polishes and cuticle cream. Now, your nail files and your nail buffers can actually be cleaned just by tapping on a towel. These types of emery boards, the thicker better grade, emery boards and nail buffers can actually be run underwater and cleaned that way. Then also, your decals can also be saved for the next time and just wash your towel and clean your surface."