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By Laura Carson Miller

Hi there,

Did you know soap nails are the big trend for nails as we enter 2025?

CND The term ‘soap nails’ refers to squeaky clean nail looks, including light colors, extremely well moisturized cuticles and hands, and the shiniest top coat you can get your hands on. I love Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat or the CND Vinylux Weekly Long Wear Top Coat.

I’m a big fan of Essie’s Gel Couture polishes and they have an array of light shades I wear often including Gossamer Garments, Fairy Tailor and Pre Show Jitters.

I also like Manucurist Active Glow in Raspberry and Blueberry for a sheer polish that shows off healthy nail tips. For this type of polish to look its best you need well moisturized nail beds that are supple and smooth. Keeping nails free of polish for a few days while using products like La Roche Posay Cicaplast Balm B5, rubbing the balm into nail beds, cuticles and hands 2 to 3 times daily. I also use Sally Hansen’s cuticle oil. It is inexpensive and very effective. I have a bottle on the side table by my chair in the living room and I use it each night polish on or polish free.

Nothing makes your nails and hands look more beautiful than cuticles that are well moisturized. The worst thing you can do for your cuticles is cut them all off or let a ‘nail technician’ cut them all off. ONLY EVER cut loose pieces of cuticle. EVER. If you continually moisturize your cuticle area you will not experience dry, cracked, ragged skin and there will be no temptation to cut off all your cuticles.

Also please do realize cutting off all your cuticles is nothing but a trick used to rope you into more and more frequent visits to manicurists who are not doing you any favors. I was a licensed manicurist for 5 years and I never cut off all the cuticles of my clients even they begged me to do so! I explained it was not healthy and that with a bit of moisturization they would reap the rewards of their efforts with beautiful hands and nails.

You NEED your cuticles. You were born with them for a reason. They function very much like gums with your teeth. They help hold your nails in place. They help filter out bacteria. Cutting them all off leaves you vulnerable to infection. Do not do yourself this disservice! Keep your cuticles and treat them with loving care the way you do the skin on your face, neck and body. I promise you will be very pleased with results of your efforts.

Now get in the habit of continual cuticle care and go out and rocky your gorgeous soap nails!

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