MAKE YOUR NAILS FLATTER YOUR HANDS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 11

MAKE YOUR NAILS FLATTER YOUR HANDS

Nails are korny in nature, so they are hard and brittle when dry ancl strong and resilient when rich in oils and moisture. If your nails tend to break and split, you can do mnck to eorrect -this by using a cutiele oil ov J nail Creain generously and regixlarly. These' come in both liquid and soMd form. You work them into the nail and the eutiele around and under the nail. They do wonders for thin, brittle nails. * Nails have a grain like wo'd. If you file with back-and-forth strokes you work against that grain and leave a rough edge to the nail that will catcb silk fibres in stockings. File from the sides of each nail toward the ti^. Foi strong, thick nails, a steel file worfcs faster. For thin nails, an emery boacd is usually preferred by manicurists. Do not file too close at the sides of vhev nail, wherj It begins to grOw fcee o.f the flesh. If you do, the friction will make the skin. grow thick and korny liere and spoil the skape and appearance of your fingeriips. Nails filed to sharp poinls make the fingers look stubby. An , egg-shaped nail, -rounded to a smooth oval tip, is ' smartest,. because it is most iiatlering to the hands . . . it makes tho fingers look long and tapering. Your hands are most "graceful if all v:he nails are the same length and shuped to the same oval patterh, so the fingers have symmetry. • Long nails are fashionabie, but only if they are all beautifully shaped and alwa'ys well groomed. For the average woman, therefore, • the nicest' effect is accomplished by keeping each nail only very slightly longer than" the finger itself, and keeping this length uniformly shaped and pollsked.