Summary: Orange sticks are used to push back cuticles, which is an important step in manicures. Learn how to push back cuticles with an orange stick in this free nail care video about how give yourself a manicure.
Theresa Fuentes lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She has been doing hair for sixteen years.read more
"Hi, I am Theresa and I am here with Reyna and we are going on to the next step of a perfect manicure, which is orange wood stick. This does have a lot of uses but the first one we are going to use it for is for cuticles. Being that we have cuticle remover on her cuticles and her cuticles aren't even that bad we can go ahead and use the orange wood stick. Again I like to just get everything wet. And you want to gently push these back. Not trying really push them back. They should be nice and soft by now since you've soaked them in the water and have put the cuticle remover on there. Get the orange wood stick and start from the corner. And don't go up and down, just gently push them back. Push, push, push, go to this side all the way up and push, push, push. Go to the next one and push, down and push down. Reyna keeps her nails nice and manicured. And that's great because in between you won't have so many, so much cuticles to push back and take off. If Reyna did get manicures occasionally often and they were really bad cuticles, you would have to go onto the metal pusher. And this one like I said is a lot stronger than the orange wood stick. It could really push those cuticles back if they're, you have somebody that hasn't had a manicure a long time. And they simply come off. They simply just come off; just push down and go around. And this is the best tool to have I think. Being that you have the orange wood stick, wet it. Get a little bit of cotton. This is your time to clean up underneath the nails. Get a little bit of water and just gently go underneath the nail. And get all that dirt that the water loosened up for you and take it off."
eHow Article: Using Orange Stick on Nail Cuticles