Today nail enhancements are common place. They are an inexpensive way to make your hands look prettier. With many moms taking their young daughters with them while they are getting their weekly manicure/pedicure or fills there will come a time when that daughter will ask for her first set of acrylics. The question becomes when is too young to get acrylics?
Many teens get acrylics done either at a salon by a professional or at home by themselves. They either feel confident enough to do them at home or will make a trip to the salon for a professional job. There is nothing wrong with these choices. Many teens love looking their best and going to an expert with their nails is just a great idea. The problem comes with when teens start looking like nails and not kids.
Many teens get acrylics done while they are still students. This is not the right time for them to be working through their teenage years getting their nails done. Nail enhancements can look great on a teen’s hand. They will feel confident and look it. Yet if that teen gets serious about her hand, gets intoplaying sports or starts smoking I do believe she will lose those healthy looking nails.
How can you tell if your daughter should wait until she is old enough to get acrylics?Teens love to play with their fingers. It may be fun at first but when the teens start playing with their nails at age 13 it can look very broken. If this is not happening and your daughter is biting her nails, you may want to try to break it off.
If biting her nails is not happening, and your daughter is biting her nails, take her to a professional manicurist. The manicurist will be able to remove the acrylic nails, and if they are in a Bentonite clay type disposition will make them shiny again.
Do not try to save a few pennies on the nail extension price. Think about the cost of daily care for her natural nails and food over time. If you are going to read online about nail extension methods, do not choose the cheap one. Spend some time to learn about all the involved options and then do your price comparison.
In the end, while it is not always easy to afford special treatments for your daughter’s nails, it is a lot better to try and do right by her natural nails. Look for a happy foundation for her growing nails.
Take your concerns about her nails to your doctor for further evaluation and to get recommendations about specialist nail treatments for your daughter.
While you may not be able to save up to get her nails done all the time, you can always take into consideration the long term financial implications of breaking her natural nail habits. There may be situations where alternative methods of strengthening of her nails will not be deemed safe or appropriate, and where a more traditional method of enhancement by acrylic nails will be recommended. Please take into consideration your daughter’s natural nail development when deciding whether or not she will benefit from acrylic nails.
take care of your daughter’s nails. She will thank you for it by working hard to learn to keep her nails healthy and by coming home with a shining and healthy hand and foot.
Acrylic nails, though not always waterproof, are a good choice, if she is capable of applying them with even the smallest,vious mistakes, and if she is willing to learn to take care of them (repairing, filing, buffing) on her own.
Ensure that she has regular manicures/pedicures and/or hair cuts, and check her toenails are shaped and trimmed, and if she plays sports or swims on the beach or at the park, she is going to need to wear sandals of appropriate size.
Never pick her up by her hair. This is true for a mother who is surprised by a 6 pack of abs or a 6 pack of curls. Just like you, your daughter will attract plenty ofuffy petulant attention if she stands around naked. The alternative to this is to tie her to the shower with ‘aids’ so she will ‘cleanse’ herself. Get to know her. Her personality, thoughts and feelings. By the time she is 20 she will have her own shoots for her nails, so the pressure should be lessened if she is already a nail girl or teen.
Most parents feel naked without their bikini or swim suit swimwear on. But is it always true?
Did you know that in the 50’s fewer than 10% of women wore bikinis? Even back then, people did not think it was sexy. nowadays it is part of the deal. More and more women feel naked without their suit, but still many women feel naked without their swim suit swimwear.
