The True Reasons You Should Get Your Manicures and Pedicures Professionally Done

 

Most of us can clip, buff, and even paint our nails at home. However, without the skills and equipment of nail care professionals, it can be pretty hard to make your nails look truly great.

A fresh and perfectly applied coat of polish is best done by a separate set of hands other than yours, and that’s just one of the many reasons you should favor a professional manicure and pedicure over a DIY session. 

Keep reading to find out more reasons why you should get your nails done at a professional beauty spa.

Training and Experience

The truth is self-evident: a professionally trained individual will do their job better than the average person will. Professional manicurists are paid to look after your nails. As such, unless you have the same equipment and have trained the same way, you can rest assured that your local spa can give you more beautifully manicured fingernails and toenails than what you can do on your own. 

Without the proper training and equipment, it isn’t uncommon for people to overpolish their nails or cut them with blunted instruments, resulting in misshapen or damaged nails. In fact, you may end up having to call a professional anyway just to fix your own amateur mistakes. At-home treatments gone wrong can cost you more time and money in the long run. 

Extra Treatments and Pampering

Surely, you don’t just get a manicure or pedicure for the sake of making your nails look good. There are a lot of extra beneficial pampering services involved with a professional session that you might not think to re-enact at home. 

These services can include hand cleansing, moisturizing, and some gentle hand massage. Your manicurist will also trim, buff, and shape your nail beds to perfection.

Many spas also offer special treatments that you simply can’t do by yourself. One example is the paraffin wax treatment, a manicure that layers paraffin wax -- derived from beeswax and petroleum -- onto your hands, encasing them in a soft wax glove that is eventually peeled off. Paraffin treatments do a fantastic job of soothing and smoothing dry and cracked skin, as well as opening up your pores and removing dead skin cells.

Paraffin treatments are just one example of the special treatments you can enjoy at a professional spa, along with your manicure and pedicure. Other pampering treatments can include gel manicures, dip powder manicures, and hot stone manicures, among others. 

Even the atmosphere of most beauty spas is tailored to make you feel at ease and promote overall wellness. You should be leaving your mani-pedi session in a state of great relaxation, which can be hard to achieve in your own home. After all, it’s hard to feel pampered and relax when you are working hard to give yourself an at-home manicure, as you can spend so much time concentrating on the task that you forget to just enjoy, like you would at a spa.

Variety of Products 

When you’re working on your nails at home, you probably have a limited amount of products to choose from. While this may not be an issue if you like to reuse the same colors, it does make it difficult for you to experiment or find new nail polish colors and patterns you might like.

A professional spa will have a wide variety of manicure and pedicure products that you can choose from. Many technicians can include shellac as a finish and jeweled accents and patterned polish if you want to be adventurous. You can also opt for artificial or acrylic nails, which can be difficult to do yourself without prior experience. 

Treat Yourself to a Professional Mani-Pedi Today

When it comes to making your nails look immaculate while keeping yourself relaxed and feeling pampered, you don’t have to do it all yourself. Instead, you can simply sit back and relax while professionals take care of you and your nails.

For the perfect combination of manicure, pedicure, and other relaxing spa treatments, pop into the Balsam Spa in Newmarket, Ontario, where our trained nail care professionals will be pleased to take care of you. For more information about our services, you can call our beauty professionals at 1-905-895-7777 or use our online contact form to book an appointment.