Artificial nails are currently more popular than ever. Minimal maintenance, daily beauty and only a few hours of time spent to get rid of the headache
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for the entire month. But what's popular is always cluttered with lots of questions to be answered - so there are myths and facts about artificial nails like any other fashion trends.
Myth: The artificial nails can damage the natural nails
Fact: alone artificial nails to natural nails harmless; the thing is the human factor. Appeal to the good expert will save you from the problems that are usually associated with nails.
Substances used for build-up is applied only to the surface of the nail - they do not penetrate the nail plate and especially in the skin, and does not affect the matrix - the root of the nail itself.
Since the nails are constantly growing, and fully updated for 3-6 months, capacity can not lead "a permanent damage to the nail," which can be heard quite often. It is also often said that the artificial nail gradually thins and breaks down underneath the natural nail. This theory can be easily refuted. Dip the cut tip of the nail in the monomer used to create acrylic nails, or any other product for the building. None of them will not damage the nail, including the adhesives used for securing the nail.
Primers based on methacrylic acid and do not destroy the natural nails when in contact with skin can cause a slight burning sensation.
Temporary nail damage, the cause of which is also called artificial acrylic or gel nails, are often the result of:
- Untimely correction of the nails grow back;
- The habit of biting nails and pick (the habit is so strong that people will not stop a thick, solid layer of acrylic or gel);
- Rough filing of artificial nails
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- Various irregularities nail technician - such problems are not to blame technology capacity, and a very specific people. Two of the most common errors - over-polishing the surface of the nail and cuticle removal - and then, and more can damage the nail plate. As a result, the nail may become thin, overly sensitive, it starts to flake and break. However, note again that if the capacity to do it right, none of this will happen.
Myth: acrylic nails are particularly dangerous to health because of the strong smell, dust and toxins that causes the body undergoes during the treatment capacity
Fact: firstly odor. Distributed by the idea that substances with strong odors should be dangerous. This is not true. Bad smell - it's just a subjective assessment smell your brain, which in any case does not mean the threat to health. Many organic and harmless substances also have an unpleasant odor, but they usually do not see the danger.
Second, dust. It really is in the air salons, where they make acrylic build-up, but the customers are contacted her infrequent and short-lived, and for a healthy person is not dangerous (exceptions may be people with asthma and some other diseases, but they tend to know themselves what they should be avoided). This dust is much more harmful to nail technicians, because they breathe it all day - for this reason many of them are working in masks. It is also very important that the cabin has good ventilation.
Finally, the toxin. It has been suggested that some of the substances contained in the products for acrylic capacity, can enter the bloodstream and cause serious harm to human health. However, these products polymerize and harden for about three minutes, so they do not have time to enter the bloodstream.
Myth: The gel capacity safest polish
Fact: The basic ingredients of products used for gel and acrylic extension, are very similar - they all belong to the acrylic. Sami building techniques may be different, but this does not acrylics are no longer acrylics - and they are, as we have said, normally quite safe for nails. There is no natural or organic methods increase (although sometimes unscrupulous advertisers try to convince us otherwise). Gel capacity can be even a little more dangerous than acrylic because this technology uses ultraviolet light stimulates the process of polymerization. However, exposure to ultraviolet light is too short-lived to cause serious damage to health.
Myth: The weight of the artificial nail causes the nail plate that thins and weakens
Fact: the thickness depends on the characteristics of the nail matrix, which is determined by genetics. Nail plate itself does not produce keratin (a protein that makes up the nail), so pressure on it will not affect its thickness. A matrix to feel the pressure and somehow it reacted to the nails need to attach much more "cargo" than artificial nails.
Myth: Because of the layer of acrylic nails can not breathe, causing them to become weak and brittle
Fact: The nails do not breathe. Nail plate is approximately 100 layers of dead cells of keratin. Oxygen and other necessary for nail growth substances through the blood vessels coming in is located at the base of the nail matrix - it produces keratin. Acryl covering nails, can not interfere with this process. Many experts believe that artificial nails can be worn for many months in a row, and the natural nails will still remain healthy.
Myth: The artificial nails can cause fungal and bacterial infections
Fact: pathogens can get on artificial and on natural nails. The risk of infection is increased if the artificial nail exfoliate - in this case under it, really, can start to breed pathogens. If you have damaged your nails, as soon as possible go to the salon to make a correction. In addition, the infection can be brought directly during the procedure increase, but it will only happen in the event that the cabin staff are not well monitored the cleanliness of the equipment used. Such salons, of course, should be avoided.
Myth: those who bites his nails, you can not do capacity
Fact: many people who stop biting his nails was no less difficult than heavy smokers - give up smoking
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, Namely nail helped to get rid of this habit. First, beautiful and quite expensive artificial nail nibble just a pity, and secondly, because of the strength of acrylic it becomes quite difficult.
Myth: artificial nails are contraindicated for pregnant women
Fact: There is no real reason to believe that artificial nails (like nail polish) can harm a pregnant woman. As already mentioned, the substance used to increase rapidly polymerize and can not penetrate into the body. Exposure to potentially harmful substances while you are in the cabin, the minimum - this is nothing more dangerous than a walk through the main streets of the city, where the air is saturated with exhaust fumes.
Myth: The consumption of calcium and gelatin will get strong nails without extension
Fact: so far failed to find scientific evidence that the eating of certain foods can strengthen nails
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. However, it is undeniable that a poor diet that causes a deficiency of vitamins, make nails weak and brittle. So eat right, of course, necessary, but do not expect that you will make you stronger nails - especially if they are weak by nature.
