Friday foot fact

Week 19

One of the questions I get often is why your toenails are yellow, it's a fact that once you take off the remains of the old polish, there's a yellowish tint to your nails.  One of the reasons for this is because your nail is porous and will absorb some of the pigments in the nail polish. The other reason is the color of the nail polish, the darker the color, the more pronounced the discoloration of the nail will be. Red polishes leave the toenail stained at it's worst as I've seen throughout the years.

You can prevent this problem by applying a base coat before the colored polish. This clear base shields your nail and protects it from having the pigment seeping into your nail.

You see, a professional polish application has 4 steps involved.

1. Base coat

2. First coat of the nail polish.

3. Second coat of nail polish

4. Top coat

If you are an avid polish wearer that can't seem to go without any, you might want to give your nails a break once in a while to let them breath or switching it up with a French styled polish. To get rid of the stain all together is going to be covered later on since it involves different procedures.

Hope you've enjoyed this Friday foot fact, I wish you all a great Mother's Day weekend and remember to put your best foot forward!