Chapter 25 Manicuring Vocabulary

Fine-grit abrasives

240-grit and higher abrasives designed for buffing, polishing, and removing very fine scratches.

Acetone

A colorless, inflammable liquid; miscible with water, alcohol, and ether;and has a sweetish odor or burning taste. it is used as a solvent.

Protein hardener

A combination of clear polish and protein, such a collagen.

Manicure

A cosmetic treatment of the hands involving cutting, shaping, and often painting of the nails, removal of the cuticles, and softening of the skin.

Dimethyl urea hardeners

A hardener that adds cross-links to the natural nail plate. Unlike others containing formaldehyde, DMU does not cause adverse skin reactions.

Metal pusher

A multi-use implement, made of stainless steel; use to push back the eponychium but can also used to gently scrape cuticle tissue from the natural nail plate.

Nail Clippers

A multiuse implement used to shorten the nail plate quickly and efficiently.

Square nail

A nail shape completely straight across the free edge with no rounding at the outside edges.

Round nail

A slightly tapered nail shape; it usually extends just a bit past the fingertip.

Nail nipper

A stainless-steel implement used to carefully trim away dead skin around the nails.

Marbleizing

A swirled nail art effect when you combine two or more colors while wet and then mix them on the nail with a stylus tool.

Stylus

A tool with a solid handle with a rounded ball tip on each end that can range in size, used to create nail art.

Wooden pusher

A wooden stick used to remove cuticle tissue from the nail plate(by gently pushing), to clean under the free edge of the nail, or to apply products.

Nail creams

Barrier product that contain ingredients designed to deal the surface and hold sub dermal moisture in the skin.

Medium-grit abrasives

Boards and buffers 150-180 grit that are used to smooth an refine surfaces and shorten natural nails.

Friction

Incorporates various strokes that manipulate or press one layer of tissue over another.

Color Blocking

Nail art technique that blocks or sections off color on the nail.

Pointed nail

Nail shape suited to thin hands with long fingers and narrow nail beds. The nail is tapered and longer than usual to emphasize and enhance the slender appearance of the hand.

Essential Oils

Oils extracted using various forms of distillation from the seeds, bark, roots, leaves, wood, and/or resin of plants.

Service sets

Sets of all the tools that will be used in a service.

Microtrauma

The act of causing tiny unseen openings in the skin that can allow entry by pathogenic microbes.

Smile line

The curved line where the pink and the white meet each other on a french manicured nail.

Scope of practice

The list of services that you are legally allowed to perform in your specialty in your state.

Massage

The manipulation of the soft tissue of the body

Implements

Tools used to perform your services. implements can be multi use or single-use.

French Manicure

When the nail bed is one color, such as pink, peach, or beige (depending upon the client's skin tone), and the free edge of the nail is another color, such as white.

oval nail

a conservative nail shape that is thought to be attractive on most womens hands. it is similar to a squoval nail with even more rounded corners.

Squoval nail

a nail shape with a square free edge that is rounded off at the corner edges.

Paraffin

a petroleum by product that has excellent sealing properties (barrier qualities) to hold moisture in the skin.

Lower-grit abrasives

boards and buffers less than 180 grit that quickly reduce the thickness of any surface.

Nail oils

products designed to adsorb into the nail plate to increase flexibility and into the surrounding skin to soften.

Single-use implements

Aka Disposable implement; implement that cannot be reused and must be thrown away after single use.

Multiuse implements

Aka reuseable implements; implements that are generally stainless steel because they must be properly cleaned and disinfected between clients.

Color fading

Also known as color graduation, this nail art technique is when one color fades into the other, and the meeting point is a combination of the two.