Cutters for hardware manicure

All industries aimed at improving the quality of service in recent years have been developing rapidly. It is natural that new technical developments are increasingly being used in the beauty industry. In accordance with this trend, the traditional manicure has come to our life to replace the traditional trimmed manicure.

Hardware manicure, compared with the traditional edged, has made a significant step forward for both the masters and for those who use this service. This technical improvement allows the master to significantly improve the quality of his work. As for clients, the hardware manicure provides real comfort and safety for them: the fear of pain, cuts and long non-healing wounds is a thing of the past.

Compared with a cropped manicure, hardware has several advantages:

• long-term results with minimum time costs;
• exclusion of fungal diseases;
• guaranteed improvement in the quality of the nail plate due to the rapid adjustment of its shape and soft grinding;
• lack of microcracks and cuts;
• painless procedure and its safety;
• the ability to treat problematic nails.

Mastering the technique of hardware manicure - quite feasible task. It is especially relevant for those who can not often enough to do a manicure due to exfoliating, breaking or extended nails.

In order to master the technique of home hardware manicure, you need to thoroughly examine the appropriate equipment. First of all, you will have to purchase a specialized device called a mill, or a milling machine.

Currently, there is a large variety of milling cutters on sale, which differ in technical characteristics and, accordingly, in a set of specific functions.

When choosing a router, be sure to do the following:

• clearly define the functional purpose of the device (only for manicure or for manicure and pedicure);
• decide in advance on the range of its use (for personal use only or for salon);
• carefully review the technical characteristics of the router (special attention should be paid to such aspects as the warranty period, availability of protection against possible overheating, etc.);
• to evaluate the considered device from the point of view of convenience of working with it (router weight, wire length, etc.);
• check if the set of cutters allows carrying out the procedure of a hardware manicure in full.

Before mastering the technological skills of hardware manicure, you need to study the replacement accessories that are attached to the milling machine. These include various nozzles (in the form of cutters, drills). In this case, the nozzles can be included in the kit or sold separately.

In general, for pedicure and manicure performed with the help of a router, a variety of nozzles in large quantities are required. With the help of special nozzles that are inserted into the router, cuticle and side rollers, the free edge and the surface of the nail itself are processed. Special nozzles are also used to polish the hardened skin and remove the nail that has grown.

Processing and design of nails in all its diversity - including the care of acrylic, gel and false nails implies the ability to work competently using the necessary nozzles.

In practice, commonly used cutters 4 groups, differing on the basis of a specific form. In accordance with this, the following groups of cutters are distinguished:

• blunt-pointed;
• narrow-pointed;
• with a sphere-like end;
• with a "corn-like" end.

Blunt milling cutterresembling a cone or cylinder in appearance is used during stripping, when you need to raise the cuticle on the nail, clean the nail plate, and also remove the previous coating.

Narrow milling cutter with a sharp or rounded tip, it clears the lateral sinuses and the area under the cuticle, removing pterygia from them.

Sphere-like milling cutter has the shape of a ball and performs a particularly important function: it cleans the raised cuticle and carries out its subsequent polishing.

Mill with "corn-like" end, known as "corn", is capable of carefully removing even a thick layer of coating on artificial nails and makes it easy without causing the slightest damage.

Cutters can be divided into certain types, depending on the material used for their manufacture. On the basis of this differential feature, these types of cutters are distinguished, such as:

• corundum;
• diamond;
• ceramic;
• carbide;
• pomegranate;
• silicon carbide;
• silicone;
• steel.

Corundum milling cutters are resistant to high temperatures and various abrasive characteristics. In the process of polishing both nails and leather, use corundum tools with soft and medium hardness.

When performing a hardware manicure, diamond nozzles are traditionally used, which are distinguished by a large variety of shapes, sizes and functions performed. Such diamond nozzles as “flame” and “bullet” are especially popular: they can effectively treat the cuticle, coarse skin, the free edge of the nail plate, side bolsters, and, if necessary, calluses. These diamond tips work well with the correction of artificial nail coatings.

Along with the side rollers, the hardness-changing ceramic tips effectively treat the nail plates with cracks and polish the coarsened skin. Ceramic cutters are distinguished by structural simplicity and safety. They also heat up less compared to metal ones.

When performing hardware manicure procedures, carbide milling cutters are widely used, which differ in special versions of the notches. Nozzles of small diameter carefully process the cuticle, they are no less good in the process of adjusting the gel, gel-lacquer and acrylic coating.

Silicone manicure tips (also known as polishers) are primarily used when natural nails are processed. At the same time, they are widely used when working with soft artificial turf. In terms of abrasiveness silicone nozzles are divided into hard, medium hardness and finish.

There is also a special, combined version of the nozzles: the material for their manufacture is silicone-carbide. It was he who ensures the transformation of silicone polishers into tougher nozzles. At the same time, high-quality and fast nail polishing is achieved through a combination of combined and silicone polishes of different hardness.

Pomegranate cutters are of high quality and are intended for a variety of manicure operations. Such varieties of nozzles as “pomegranate flame”, “pomegranate ball”, “pomegranate drop” and others from this series are characterized by increased demand.

Common nozzles are silicon-carbide: nozzles of this type are disposable caps with a rubber base. They are also convenient to use when performing on the nails of a design work. Some nozzles perform narrow functions. In particular, a tungsten mill with titanium end coating is used when it is necessary to conduct upper or internal correction of an acrylic or gel coating.

In order to learn to understand the variety of cutters well, it is necessary to know that in practice masters rely on their classification, which is based on the functional purpose of the tool. This classification allows you to avoid errors directly when performing manicure procedures, and also serves as a reliable basis for orientation in a quickly updated assortment of nozzles.

An overview of the main functions of the tips shows that when relying on this criterion, they are divided into 5 types. These include cutters:

• steel (the purpose is to remove the cuticle and to treat the periungual zone);
• ceramic or corundum, as a more modern analogue of ceramics (narrow purpose - non-rigid removal of the cuticle, as well as shaping with a nail);
• carbide (high quality processed artificial nails);

• diamond (wide assignment - use in both manicure and pedicure procedures, and the traditional application is hardware correction of nails with gel or acrylic coating);
• polishers (narrow specialization - polishing of both natural and extended nails).

The difficulty of selecting the required attachments is explained not only by the variety of commercially available tools, but also by the difficulty of determining how high-quality samples are offered to you.

Selecting cutters and nozzles for hardware manicure, you need to proceed from the fact that high-quality manicure can be done only with the availability of high-quality tools. Therefore, it is better to buy a complete set from a reputable manufacturer.

If you decide to select components yourself, you should take into account a few professional tips, which is mandatory to follow. Briefly, they can be summarized as follows:

• begin to master hardware manicure using safer ceramic cutters;
• when processing nails with diamond cutters, removal of the cuticle should be carried out using small tips;
• to remove corns, use larger carbide milling cutters;
• use special polishers and grinders, starting polishing the hardest cutter and ending this operation the softest of the available.

Competent selection of cutters and their application in the correct sequence in compliance with all safety requirements should be considered as a necessary condition for achieving an optimal result of your work.

In order to effectively use the router, first of all you need to decide on a set of nozzles. Masters recommend purchasing attachments to solve specific current problems, and not to collect their collection. It is necessary to master technical skills step by step, starting with simpler and necessary procedures for you.

For those who are going to do their own hardware manicure, often the question arises, how to insert the nozzle into the machine correctly. Some of the difficulties that this simple, in fact, operation can cause, to some extent, are explained by the fact that there are 3 types of clamps:

• manual;
• semi-automatic;
• automatic.

The most common of these are manual and semi-automatic. As for the automatic clamping, it is used quite rarely, as a rule, in devices equipped with a built-in vacuum cleaner.

The most convenient clip is automatic. The cutter is fastened in the simplest way: it is inserted into the clamp, and its further fixation takes place in the automatic mode.

In the semi-automatic device for fixing or changing the nozzle, the handle should turn until it clicks, moving clockwise. This ensures the opening of the clamp, which allows you to change the nozzle. After replacing the nozzle, you need to perform the last operation - turn the section in the opposite direction.

As for the manual clamp, it is quite easy to open and close. The nozzle is usually inserted effortlessly if you press a button located on the body. After that, you need to unscrew the washer. At the same time you need to know that the part of the handle on which the nozzle is fixed, performs the function of clamping. To close the clamp, it is necessary to press the same button, wait for its drowning and tightly tighten the washer.

In order to do a hardware manicure at home, you need to know the relevant rules for its implementation, as well as the features of the device designed for home use. The fact is that home models of apparatuses differ from professional devices by a slower rotation speed of the nozzles.

It should also be borne in mind that in order to avoid overheating, home appliances should work intermittently, since they usually lack built-in vacuum cleaners and fans. The working period should not exceed 5-7 minutes.

At the initial stage of acquiring skills to perform a hardware manicure, it is recommended to use the minimum speed of rotation of the nozzles. In this case, you need to ensure that the nozzle is inserted strictly at an angle of 45, and the cutter moved from the center of the nail plate to its edges. You can work with one or two hands, the main thing is to ensure the clarity of movement of the nozzle.

A hardware manicure should be carried out in strict accordance with the established rules, necessarily step by step, which is determined by the instruction:

• thoroughly washed hands are disinfected;
• existing decorative coating is removed from the nails;

• the cuticle is moved away with a wooden stick towards the nail hole;
• lateral rollers and cuticle are processed with the help of drums having average rigidity;
• cuticle lifted with a diamond needle-shaped cutter;
• a conical cutter is used to remove the cuticle, and a bullet-shaped cutter is used to grind it;
• palms and fingers are cleaned from dead skin cells by abrasive soft spherical burs;
• nail plate is given the desired shape through the use of cylindrical or trapezoidal cutters;

• final cleaning of the nail plate is carried out, and after it - applying oil;
• after applying the oil, the nails are polished with a double-faced polisher;
• degreased nail surface is first covered with a base coat, and then finishing lacquer;
• upon completion of the procedure, a cream is applied to the hands and massage is done.

Despite the fact that the hardware manicure has obvious advantages over the trimmed, you need to understand that the quality of the manicure is still largely determined by the skill of the master: you need to know which tips to use at any particular stage of work, what time to change the cutters, carefully inspect the treated areas, follow the sequence of specific operations.

Apparatus manicure implies mandatory sterilization of cutters. At the same time, the instruments must be disinfected in stages. Disinfection usually goes through 3 mandatory stages:

• immersing the instruments in a special disinfectant solution with their subsequent thorough washing;
• cleaning cutters from all sorts of dirt;
• final sterilization of cutters by boiling them or by using concentrated disinfectants.

The one who tried to make a hardware manicure at least once, as a rule, does not refuse him later. The advantages of this procedure over the traditional are obvious: it completely eliminates the possibility of injury and is performed in conditions that are comfortable in all respects.

The undoubted advantage of the hardware manicure is also its wide functional range, which allows to provide high quality manicure even if there are some errors on the nails and the skin of the fingers.

Currently, hardware manicure is considered not as a trendy trend, but as a procedure demanded by modern life and determined by the priorities of the modern person. Today, well-groomed beautiful hands and nails are far from a luxury, but a tradition that indicates that maintaining a person’s own health and ensuring that their image meets aesthetic criteria adopted in modern society is important for a person.

More information about the choice of cutters for hardware manicure - in the next video.