Guide To Use a Metal Nail File Properly

 

Metal Nail File

 

Women love to style their nails with beautiful shapes, elegant colors and most importantly with a smooth edge. Filing nails in a regular basis will help you to achieve smooth and shaped edges. Filing your nails is indeed an essential and very basic part of nail care.

 

Nail filers are available in different shapes and sizes, but the metal nail filers are at the top of commonly used nail filers. Using a nail file is very easy but, there are few basic things you need to know before using a metal file for your nail care. Because an improper use of nail file may cause painful situation like cracking or breaking of nails. The points mentioned below might be helpful to prevent such kind of harms:

 

Things to know before using a metal file for your nail care

 

 

  1. Before using a metal nail file you should give your nails beautiful shapes. After getting the desired shape of your nail, you should use the metal nail files to smoothen the rough nail edges.

  2. You should continue filing of your nails in one direction whether it is up or down. Change of direction often leads to a strong possibility of nail damage.

  3. Toe nails are comparatively stronger and thicker than that of the fingernails. You can easily use metal nail files to smooth out your toe nails. But, you need to be careful and should always file your nail in one direction. Change of direction while filing your nail can harm your toe nails.

  4. Metal files have pointed tips because of which you need to avoid using them in a hurry. You should try to be careful while filing your nails so that the pointed tips do not get an opportunity to harm you.

  5. You should never use someone else’s metal nail file. If the specific filer is not clean it might invite fungal infection to your nails.

  6. You should always wash your hands with soap and apply moisturizer before using a metal nail file. It will help your nails get rid of dust or other harmful elements.

 

Cleaning your nail file after you use them is one of the most essential parts of the entire activity. If you do not clean them properly it may carry high possibility of nail infections with it.