5 pro tips to make your manicure last longer

• Use a remover
• Invest in a top coat
• The shorter the better
• Allow enough dry time
• Keep your nails healthy

Use a remover

Before applying nail polish, always go over your nails with nail polish remover, even if your nails are bare. This quick step is a great way to remove any sort of build-up or natural oils from the nails. This will ensure that the nail polish sticks to your nail and prevents quick chipping.

Invest in a top coat

Applying a top coat is a step that most people skip, but it plays a major role when it comes to increasing the staying power of your nail polish. By creating a barrier on top of your nail paint, it prevents chipping and even adds a shine making your manicure look fresh.

The shorter the better

If you want your nail polish to last longer, then it is best to keep your nails short and neat. This is because the longer the nails, the more your tips will be used (read: peeling off stickers, putting keys on key rings, opening lids, etc), or it could snag on something and make your polish chip. So keep your nails short, filed and out of the way!

Allow enough dry time

Somehow we end up smudging our nails a lot more when we are painting them at home because of all the impatience. But here's something that will help you ensure that your nails are completely dry before - light touch your pinky finger nails to each other and then pull them apart. If your nail colour budges, then it obviously needs some more dry time, otherwise you are good to go.

Keep your nails healthy

Despite following all the above steps, do you still feel like your nail paint chips off quickly? Then the problem could be your nails. If your nails are prone to nutritional defects like ridges, peeling or breakage, then it is time you fixed those problems first, as nothing helps your manicure last longer than healthy nails.