I don't know about you, but my nails seem to bear the brunt of January's wrath: there aren't any fun holiday parties to paint them for, they get super dry and cracked with the weather and all of that hand sanitizer, and I use them to scratch the price tags off all of those great new Christmas gifts. Nails aren't exactly something that make the cut into New Year's Resolutions either.
Well, I think we should change all that. I'm teaming up with Julep to share How To Winterize Your Nails. To me, the first step in winterizing is all about keeping my nails (and hands - can't forget those cuticles) strong and smooth. To do this, I use my perfect honey lemon nail and hand scrub made from simple ingredients. It's the perfect start before all that clipping, shaping, nudging, and polishing.
Here's what you'll need: 1 tablespoon honey, 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons lemon, and 1 cup granulated sugar
To make it, just whisk together the honey and EVOO, then add the lemon and whisk again. Finally, mix in the sugar and pour it into a jar with a lid.
There are so many hand and nail benefits to each of the ingredients, especially to winterize:
- Olive oil: effective dry skin relief, diminishes the appearance of scars, reduces skin redness, and hydrates nails
- Honey: naturally antibacterial
- Lemon juice: removes dead skin and strengthens nails
- Sugar: natural humectant (helps keep in moisture) and exfoliates, giving hands a glowing and soft feel
Now, after you've scrubbed, you can continue on with Julep to winterize your nails:
Once nails and hands are winterized, you won't want to hide them in gloves anymore, so show them off with a fresh coat of polish. Here are some of Julep's favorite winter colors.
Check out all of Julep's colors on their new nail polish color page, where you can see my winter favorites: Beverly and Misti! Last, but not least, don't forget to check out Julep's blog for health and beauty tips, fun DIYs, and fantastic nail art ideas.
I hope you liked this collaboration with Julep. Now I want to know: Do you winterize your nails? What is your favorite winter nail polish color?
11 comments:
ohh i bet this smells amazing! xo jillian - cornflake dreams
Joanne and Shari look so pretty! I love that this is a DIY method, I actually got some lemon butter cuticle cream for Christmas, otherwise I would probably give this a try because this cold weather is not doing my hands/nails any good!
You don't know how bad I need this. I wash my hands like 100 times a day with my germaphobe so my nails are so dry, its scary.
My hands need this so bad. They are taking a beating in this New England weather.
I love Essie Cashmere Bathrobe.
I try to treat my nails well all year with hand oils and cuticle oils!
I'm such a germophobe I wash my hands ALL THE TIME. My skin is dry and cracked open. It hurts so band! I've tried everything to no avail but I've started using coconut oil and it seems to helping a bit. I don't paint my nails much because nothing seems to stay on my nails well. If I do anything I use the Sally Hansen stickers that stay on for a week.
Love those julep nail colors....I just painted mine similar to the baby pink Shari color. I've heard lots about Julep but yet to try it.
Yep, I need to try this scrub! I love that you can make with basically everything you already have!
Okay, this is seriously perfect!! Since I live in AZ, this is applicable year-round... it's so dry here!
This is awesome!!! My cracked hands totally need this 😛
I seriously want to rub this all over my body and then drink wine and fall asleep smelling like a key lime pie haha. Too weird? ;)
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