“If I could turn back time I’d take better care of my skin.” Too often, we hear these words.

Unlike changing fashions or the latest devices, you are in your skin for life---no upgrades or outfit changes.

Read below as we share skin care healthy skin care practices to start now.

This is the biggie! Years of not taking the proper steps to ensure skin protection or opting to visit a tanning booth may have felt good at the time, but may have permanently wreaked havoc on the skin.

Over time, each glance in the mirror is coupled with visible wrinkles and hyperpigmentation.

Lesson learned: Protect yourself every day from head to toe.

Don’t wait for your first wrinkle to show up. Develop a proper skin care routine at an early age and stick to it.

Proper cleansing, toning, and hydrating should start in the early teens, with changes to daily skin care rituals conforming to your skin's needs over time.  

Just like brushing your teeth day and night, good skin care rituals need to be done every day, non-negotiable – it’s going to make the difference in whether or not you need to begin an “anti-aging” routine at 30 or 50.

Don’t let laziness get the best of you.

Remove your makeup to not only prevent breakouts and clogged pores, but to get in the habit of performing a proper skin care routine before bed – a necessary habit to carry with you if you want good skin throughout your life.

Even if you have oily skin you can develop fine lines – why? Because your skin is dehydrated.

You may not need a heavy moisturizer, but all skin types can benefit from an oil-free serum like our C-Serum Seaweed Filtrate that hydrates and contains skin essential vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids and anti-oxidants.

Although it’s so tempting to pop – don’t do it. Let it be or treat it with an overnight cream.

Learn your lesson from the first time you try popping – the aftermath each and every time is going to be scabbing, bleeding, and a risk for permanent scarring.

Beauty begins from the inside out.

Focus on making healthier choices to develop good habits.

Eat healthy, natural and non-processed foods, drink a lot of water, and exercise regularly.

New shoes last a season; your skin is FOREVER.

It’s more important to invest in good skin care products and professional facial treatments (read why to get a facial), more so than a fashion item or the next technological gadget.

Freckles?  Beauty marks?  A little bit of dark circles? Laugh lines?  These are all part of what makes you YOU. 

Don’t obsess or worry too hard about what yousee as imperfections. It’s the stress and worrying that will show on your skin.

Learn how to embrace these characteristics and love the skin you are in.

Do you have skin care advice that you would you give your younger self? Comment below!

 When choosing our "correct" gel polish, we must focus on many factors: the relevance of the shade, the density of the pigment, the structure and plasticity of the gel polish, the promise of durability, etc. When all the characteristics have coincided in a single and satisfactory picture, the gel polish moves to the line of its fellows on the master's table. However, in reality, the selection scheme is often different ... The cost factor becomes the first and most important point under which the other qualities of gel polishes are "pulled up". Choosing cheap analogs of professional gel polishes, the master easily motivates himself with the low cost of the material and with a composition or structure similar at first glance.

   Is this approach justified? Are these real savings? What unaccounted for factors and properties of gel varnishes directly affect their cost? Why does the initially favorable price for coverage sometimes turn into additional costs?

   When buying materials, a comparison of prices and a quick determination of the "profitability" of a gel polish is a common thing for every master ... We easily choose the lowest price, pleasant to the ear, putting bottles of similar volume in a row. And completely in vain. There is absolutely nothing similar between volumes of 10 and 13 ml, 8 and 12 ml. For a correct comparison of the cost of the material, not the price of the package is taken as a basis, but the cost price of each milliliter. Indeed, when covering nails, we are talking about the consumption of fractions of a milliliter. The price for 9 and 13 ml bottles of gel polish may differ significantly at first glance, however, when calculating the cost price, the picture will be different. Determining the prime cost of gel varnishes, we will be able to correctly judge the high or affordable price of quality material and the real "benefit" of cheaper analogs of gel varnishes.

 How to calculate the cost of a material?

   It is necessary to divide the price of gel polish by the number of milliliters indicated on the bottle. The cost of 1 milliliter will help you compare the prices of gel varnishes of various brands and volumes when buying. When determining the cost of gel polish for each coating, it is necessary to take into account the consumption rates proposed by the technologist of the manufacturer or selling company.   

So, the cost of the material is calculated in milliliters according to the volume of the entire bottle. What else? The smallest amount and the most advantageous cost are obvious. And yet, take into account the figures obtained in the work and lay them in the cost of the service, it is possible only being completely sure that the entire volume of gel polish will be used to the end ...

    It is no secret for most masters that with the beginning of work, some gel polishes thicken rather quickly and harden by half or a third of their volume right in the package, without "living" until the next season or a special occasion. In this case, we are not talking about the cost of each milliliter. The calculated benefit of coating bought at a relatively low price closer to the middle of the bottle turns out to be far from accurate and not at all a benefit.

   The thickened coating is not suitable for work, and its useful volume is reduced, for example, from 9 ml to 7 ml or from 12 ml to 9-10 ml, which means that 20-30% must be added to the initial price of the gel polish in case premature "failure" 2-3 ml, or even 5 ml. By ear, the loss of a few milliliters seems funny, but for a nail service master, working materials are presented in such small volumes that each gram and milliliter has its own value and cost. In addition to the unpleasantly unexpected fact of the absence of a working gel polish of a certain shade, the master is faced with the need for new acquisitions, investing not only additional funds, but also spending invaluable time choosing a new product.