How To Buffer Your Finger Nails At Home DIY?

Shiny and shapely nails come only with proper maintenance. One of the essentials tools for maintaining the nails is nail buffer. Nail buffers are used for polishing and shining the surface of the nails. There are electric and manual buffers. The electric buffer uses electricity and the manual buffers use force of the hand to polish the nails and give a glossy finish instantly.

How to use nail buffer block kit?

Before using nail buffers then nails should be cleaned, dried and without polish. Long, forward and back wards movements in one direction would polish the nails. Buffing should not be done more than a month as there is danger of nail surface wearing off. Buffing should be done gently and softly and stopped when the fingers feel warm. Buffering of finger nails as per rules would produce shiny nails which would seem as though they have got clear coat polish on them. But the wrong way would wear off the nails surface.

Before buying a buffer, its best to analyze the pros and cons of each of type buffer and narrow on the one that suits all the needs.

Types Of Nail Buffers:

Manual nail buffer

       Manual nail buffers resembling thick nail files used on real and fake nails.

• Soft and friction free padded buffers: These are two sided buffers which are used for smoothing, removing scratch and oil buffing. For best results with oil buffing, drop Solar oil should be massaged on the nails and buffed with the fine surface of nail buffer.

• Extra thick buffer: This is meant for reducing the thickness of the nails and smoothen it. The rough side should be used only on artificial or acrylic nails. The medium side should be for re-balancing the artificial nails. The finer end is used for smoothing and giving the shaping.
• Thick rectangular block like buffer used on real and artificial nails: This is a clean white buffer embedded on a foam block. Its gives good control for refinement of nails. The white portion is for removing surface scratches and smoothen the nails. The other side is black and has grit which ranges from 360 to 1200. The black portion is to remove the roughness and the gray side is for giving shine.
• Three-way buffer: These are similar to padded buffers. The coarsest side should be used first and the finest one at the end. This would make the nails gleam without oil or buffing powder. The extra thick buffers will give a longer lasting shine. It has different parts for rough, smooth and shining purposes.
• Four-way buffer: To use this your nails should be very clean, dry without nail polish any traces of nail polish should be properly cleaned with the help of nail paint remover and nails are supposed to be trimmed properly to desired length.

1. side one-File: This side is used to shape nail surface by rubbing filer in horizontal direction, work in short and sharp strokes. Do not work in back and forth direction as it can weaken or split the nails.
2. side two-Buff: This side is used to smoothen the nail surface and buff away ridges or dips. Ridges can be caused due ageing or some other medical problems. In case they occur often consult a dermatologist.
3. side three-Polish: This is just like the buffing step, but taking it up a notch. It gets rid of those little imperfections that buffing may have missed out, and really smoothens the nails out. The finer the grit, the glossier the finish would to be.
4. side four-shining nails: Buff in small circular or back and forth motions, and don’t press too hard. Seriously, you’ll be amazed by your shining nails.

Electric nails buffers

These are a expensive alternative for buffering of finger nail than manual one but lasts longer. These are normally for the use of professionals. They move faster than manual ones and nails can be buffed quickly. Otherwise both the buffers serve the same purpose. They have detachable buffers with varying degree of rough and fine surfaces. A good quality electric nails buffers can stimulate blood circulation at the base and make the nails healthy. Also they smooth the nail ridges and polish the nail surface and make them shiny and pinky.

1. Metal grinding head: It give shape to nails and remove the dead skin on the nail surface and edges.
2. Grinding head: It removes cuticles and cleans corners.
3. Grinding Cone: Smoothens thick nails and ripped surfaces.
4. Felt Cone: It is used to Polish and buff the nail surface
5. Emery Head: It is used to shape the nails as desired, sculpt and trim nails.

Some points you should remember while selecting an electric nail buffer for you

• Drill bits must of standard file size.
• Drill bits should not vibrate very much.
• when using electric nail buffer, it should be performed in the presence of someone who done this earlier.
• Make sure you properly clean your bits after every use.