Hey awesome ones let's have a bit of a pamper party. Hey we all deserve to
take care of ourselves and I thought that in this video what I would do is I would sort of
show you some at-home spa care especially for kind of doing up our nails in a very
natural look. I guess first of all I'll have to set the mood.
Okay now you need a real spa-like atmosphere. I would suggest that maybe you have a long
shower or a long bath just before you put on your housecoat and get ready for the spa time.
I would also suggest that you...well cue the spa like music and also I've got right
here my diffuser, my essential oil diffuser. I've got all these essential oils here
and today I picked the lemongrass because I find that a lot of spas they have the lemongrass going
and also you might like to have some fresh fruit or maybe some cucumber water and for me
well I've got my fruit smoothie going on. I think there's banana and strawberries and blueberries in
this one so I'm going to be sipping on this every once in a while while I'm doing this video.
I think now we've created the right kind of spa-like atmosphere so let's get right into
our diy manicure. I'm going to show you how to have healthy looking natural nails and also
a french manicure for you as well, but first of all we have to take all of our nail polish off
and then what we have to do is we have to soak our hands in some warm water and I would suggest
maybe about five minutes in the warm water and I wouldn't suggest soaking your hands in palmolive
dish soap. Who remembers that commercial? Put it in the comments if you remember the name
of the manicurist. We're going way back on this one. So first of all let me tell you my nail story.
Since I've been out of modeling for a while I haven't been going to the salon and having you
know those fake nails put on. And of course like you for the past few years well at least couple of
years right I've been doing my own nails at home and I thought to myself you know what I'm just
going to share with you all my steps. So through the magic of video the five minutes is up for
my soaking so let's get into the next steps. The next steps are pushing back the cuticles. Now
here I'm using a cuticle product from Sally Hansen. It has vitamin E and it's actually a cuticle oil.
I just brush it around my cuticles and let it sit for about three minutes.
Did you know that if you keep up with you know really oiling your
cuticles and keeping them pushed back you have less of a chance of a hangnail.
It's good to know all right. Oh and by the way a lot of the items that I'm showing here for my
nails and even the diffuser and the essential oils they're going to be below the video description
and also in the comments for you. Okay so I kind of feel like I'm doing a cooking show. Fast forward on
the time lapse of three minutes and it's time to push those cuticles back. Now you could use
a metal cuticle product like this one or a wooden one works well too. Gently push back each cuticle
and then wipe off the excess. Just take your time it's pamper day after all and be careful not to tear
any skin. Now all you have to do is clean off the excess oil and on with the show. All right so the
next step I've got to do a light buffing on each nail. These buffers have a rough and a smooth end
so first the rough for each nail and then after I've done that I go over with the smooth.
It's really a way of buffing your your nails to make them shine and look how it looks like.
I've already applied a clear nail polish. Okay now for filing. I like the glass filers and I
always go in one direction never back and forth or what will happen is your nails will get jagged.
So let's hear that ding again as we've now buffed and we filed all our nails. What you're going
to see in just a second is that the nails look... they almost look like you already have a nail
polish like a clear nail polish on them but we can go one step further and make them even better
with this handy dandy nail pencil. Just clean the inside of your nails first and then just
slightly wet the end of the pencil and then you just go inside your nails to give you a bit of a
french manicured look. This is really a no-fuss way to make your nails look clean and fabulous.
But what if you want a little bit more of a french manicured look? Well I've got an answer for you
and the tip is this Sally Hansen...what is it called?... french manicure pen. Let's take a look.
So all you do is press down on the tip until you see like the white ink starting to flow
and then you very carefully paint on a natural nail look onto each nail. Make sure you take your
time and wipe off any over spill. You can even go inside of the nail. The final result is amazing.
So once you've painted all your nails and they're dry, what you're going to need to put
on now is a top coat like this one from Sally Hansen and of course you need one in clear.
Well let me just show you how I put on the top coat and make sure things are secure.
Now you want to make sure you cover the entire white strip and even go under the nail a bit.
Now after the first top coat is dry it's really highly recommended that you put on a second coat
for extra staying power. Now if a French manicure is not your thing I'm going to show you in just
a second a couple of nail polishes that I really really like that have more of a natural look to
them. And by the way this video was a suggestion from a lovely woman who joins me in the chats
in the live events every Wednesday at 8pm. I have them at amazon.com/shop/awesomeover50
where we kind of browse through fashions and pampering items even household items
and makeup. I really hope that you can join me there and by the way here on Youtube we have put
a subscribe button, just I think it's over here somewhere and if you're not a subscriber I would
love for you to come on down and join us. All right so let's talk about those two nail polishes
and they're from Sally Hansen and this is a product called insta-dry and it really does
dry instantly. What I have in the shiny sparkly one that's called Petal to the Metal and you
see me wearing that a lot in my videos and the other pink one is called...what is it called again?...
'Make it Snappy' Anyway I'm just going to show you a real quick look on how I apply the pink one. So all
I do is wipe off the excess nail polish and then I do a stroke in the middle and then down the sides
and then I just go in the middle again. I let it dry and then I just do a second coat and I
usually don't put on a top coat if i'm in a rush but you could if you want to. Oh and don't forget
the hand cream as you can see here I really love the lavender L'Occitane one right here
but also this one from Aveeno I use that one as well and it's called skin relief hand cream.
They're both pretty good so let's take a look at the hands before and after. It really does
look like we went to a salon and since we show our hands so much it's nice to have them looking
this way. You can also do the same steps with a pedicure and what I like to use for my pedicure I
like to use a foot cream this is a really nice one by O'keeffe's and it's called Healthy Feet.
What I do is I just lather it on my feet and then I put on an old sock on both feet of course
and I just kind of sit back and watch a movie. It's also good you know if you have those
cracked heels it's also good for that and then I just wash it off and I'm ready for my pedicure.
Talking about tips and tricks you know I absolutely love doing these videos for you and
you know I was thinking that another video that I could do about pampering is on skin
care and maybe even hair care. I'm going to make sure that I've got those coming up for you
and also I've got a huge shipment of new fashions coming so I can't wait to show you my new styles.
And just like I said earlier it's such a joy for me to do these videos for you and I just
want to take this opportunity to thank you. You know you're out there you're supporting me by
clicking on my links and going into the comments and also you're just here in spirit.
I just want to thank you for being absolutely amazing and also keeping it awesome.