DIY Manicure at home~~

It's December already, and although here in Indonesia we don't have winter season, it's certainly raining hard almost everyday, and it's colder in the night. So i thought to post a DIY manicure for treating your hands, and this post is dedicated for my friend who currently studying at America *miss you so much*. She has dry skin and this winter must be really torturing her skin, plus she's majoring in engineer so i don't think she has much time to go to salon and get a manicure. So, without further anymore, here it is!

You will need:

• a bowl of warm water
• Opi Manicure : Efferscent soak (optional)
• large towel
• nail buffer and nail clipper
• cuticle pusher
• OPI cuticle oil (or other cuticle oil that you have)
• hand lotion

OPI Efferscent Soak

It's in powder shape

OPI nail & cuticle repleneshing oil

Start!

1. Spread the large towel on the table to prevent water splatter around
2. Put a tablespoon of OPI efferscent soak on a bowl of warm water (i'm using medium bowl which used for eating noodles), stir.
3. Soak both your hands 10-15 minutes or until the water cooled down.
4. Using the same towel, pat dry your hands.
5. Buffer your nails and clip it(optional). buffering your nails is the same as exfoliating your skin. If you have yellowish nails from using too much nail polish, buffering it will exfoliate your yellowish nail and your nail will back to normal color again after buffering it.
6. Push down some cuticles if you have cuticle problem, if not, skip this step
7. Apply a drop of OPI cuticle oil on each nail and rub it around your nails and fingers. 
8. Finally, use your hand lotion, and paint your nail if you want

NB:

•  Cuticle oils is much more moisturizing than hand cream/lotion. So if you have a really rough cuticles and skin around your nails, i really recommend using one. Just use it once or twice a week, and if makes a difference to your finger. My fingernails is always look rough, but after i use cuticle oil from OPI, I never have such problem again
• OPI Efferscent Soak is just a luxury on your manicure routine, plus it brightening your nails. if you don't have to use it if you don't want
• If you have a rough cuticles but you don't want to spend money on OPI cuticle oil, on the step which use cuticle oil, you can mix 3 tablespoon of olive oil with 2 tablespoon of sugar and rub it around your hands and cuticles, wrap it with plastic wrap for about 10 minutes, and rinse it with warm water, but don't use soap, as this will be waste your effort, because the olive oil is suppose to remain and absorped into your skin. After that, continue with the rest step.

Disclaimer: all the photos above is taken from google, because as always, my camera is really suck catching image and i dont really want to wait until noon to take a picture (which i usually do if i want to post some make-up and nail polish color). Besides, it's not a post majoring in color-theme article, so i just saving time by googling it. Sorry for the laziness in me -_-;;