Cured gel grips the top layer of your nail, so picking it off takes that layer with it. The twenty-five boring minutes that remove it without damage, and an honest answer about the lamp.
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I Clean Houses For A Living. You Cannot Smell Your Own House.
Your nose switches off a smell it lives in, which is why the plug-in loop never ends. Where the smell actually is — soft surfaces, the washer, the drains, under the bag, and the filter you are about to seal the house up with.
I Did Nails For Twelve Years. Your Nails Aren’t Weak, They’re Waterlogged.
Splitting nails and cracked hands are a wet-dry cycle problem, not a vitamin problem. What twelve years as a nail tech and a cleaning company taught me about hands that live in water.
I Clean Showers For A Living. You Cannot Scrub Hard Water Off Glass.
Hard water is a mineral deposit, not dirt — and half the cloudy shower doors I see are already etched, which no product on earth will fix. The thirty-second test that tells you which one you have.
I Wrote This Post In 2019 Promising You A Baby Who Sleeps Through The Night. I Was Wrong.
I had one easy sleeper and thought it was because of something I did. I have a newborn again now, and I owe this post a correction.
I Did Nails For Twelve Years. You Cannot Moisturize A Callus Away.
The most common thing people get wrong about their own feet, and the order of operations that actually fixes it.
I Clean Houses For A Living. Most Of What I Buy Is Boring.
Ninety percent of the job is four unglamorous products. The other ten percent is the stuff that will burn you or wreck a surface if you use it wrong.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: Embracing a Counterintuitive Approach to Life Book Review
In a world filled with self-help books promoting the power of positivity and relentless pursuit of happiness, Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” is a refreshing and unconventional take on personal development. Released in 2016, this book quickly gained popularity for its straightforward and no-nonsense approach to life, offering readers aContinueContinue reading “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: Embracing a Counterintuitive Approach to Life Book Review”
Saving Money: Make Your Own DIY Baby Swaddle Blankets
Swaddling your baby is a great way to make him or her feel snug and secure, helping them sleep better and longer. After I read the benefits of swaddling my baby, I was excited for him to arrive so I could test out some of the swaddles that I got from the baby shower. IContinueContinue reading “Saving Money: Make Your Own DIY Baby Swaddle Blankets”
Self-Care Isn’t Selfish & Other Self-Care Truths
“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout orContinueContinue reading “Self-Care Isn’t Selfish & Other Self-Care Truths”
