There's a surprising connection between your sun cream and your manicure - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Beauty There’ s a surprising connection between your sun cream and your manicure By You Magazine - July 19, 2018 Whether you paint your nails at home or get them seen to by a professional, there are few things quite as heartbreaking as ruining your new manicure prematurely. You’ve probably tried all of the usual tricks – filing carefully, using oils, thinly layering your colour between a base and top coat – but if you’re still finding dents and chips appearing almost as soon as your nails have set, there could be another factor at play – particular when the temperatures are soaring. Getty Images Speaking to beauty website Get The Gloss, expert Juanita Huber-Millet, the founder of London nail salon Townhouse, explained that there’s a surprising reason you may find your nails chipping more often during the summer months. ‘Many sun creams contain products that can weaken or even remove nail polish,’ she said. ‘So if (when!) you get it on your nails, wipe it off straightaway and wash your nails with soap and water.’ Getty Images According to SELF magazine, some of the ingredients used to dissolve sunscreen are also in acetone free nail polish removers – hence the dulling and even damaging of a freshly-painted talon. So while you may have blamed the sun, sea and sand on your ruined holiday polish, it could actually have been your sun cream that’s been causing the trouble all along! Juanita’s solution to the problem is already fairly simple, but if you really want to take care of your nails when applying that all-important SPF, you can wear a mitt or self-tanning glove to keep them in pristine condition. And if the worst does happen? ‘If a chip appears, touch up the chip and then apply a full coat of top coat across the whole nail,’ Juanita advises. To take it one step further, she suggests making lemonade out of lemons and turning a chip into a chic French tip – genius! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR You could get paid to test Liberty’ s Beauty Advent Calendar People are obsessed with this Revlon hair drying tool A new drop of Boots Star Gifts has landed for Christmas 2022 Popular in Beauty People are seriously impressed with Primark’ s £8 skinny curling tongs December 16, 2019 Boots is giving away free lipsticks to celebrate the launch of January 23, 2020 This long-lasting eyebrow product is getting rave reviews and is just June 21, 2021 These Liz Earle gift sets are on sale just in time March 5, 2020 WIN A Kiehl’ s skincare heroes bundle worth £104 July 24, 2020 Cult skincare brand Sunday Riley is branching out into hair products April 24, 2020 Superdrug is holding a huge BOGOF sale on all cosmetics for May 28, 2020 Your salon could charge you extra for overgrown roots and bad June 25, 2020 Facial steamers Why searches for this beauty gadget were up 400 July 10, 2020 Lush subscription boxes have arrived and they contain exclusive new products August 3, 2020 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved