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Hi, I’m Lillian with Salon de Scottsdale and on behalf of expertvillage.com we will
now continue on with the next step on giving yourself a French manicure. We’ve already
removed the polish and filed the nails the way we wanted them, which I talked about before
square is preferable for French manicure. I didn’t need this tool which is the nail
clipper because my nails were relatively short already and this is the length that I wanted
them. So all I needed to do was file them, so I can just either leave this in here or
just set it aside. So the next thing I’m going to do is I’m going to use some cuticle
softener. I didn’t talk about this before when we talked about the supplies needed because
you don’t always need to soften the cuticles with a softener, soaking will do just fine.
I prefer to use the softener because I live in a very dried climate and my skin is very
dry, so my cuticles around the skin of my fingernails are very dried as well. So what
you do is you just put some cuticle softener on there and just kind of rub into each nail
and you could buy the cuticle softener at a beauty supply store that sales to the public.
It’s just kind a gooey kind of lotion that softens the cuticles. Now I’m ready to soak
my nails, I’ll soak my nails in the soapy water for approximately 5 to 7 minutes before
I do the next step.