Manicure Madness

Are you concerned about skin cancer risk from UV exposure during gel manicures?  I recently removed my gel nails and although it's a bit more maintainance, I have been enjoying having natural nails for the first time in over 10 years. 

Initially, my nails were very weak and split which made it impossible to keep nail polish on for more than 5 seconds however, after two weeks of using Nail Tek II Intensive Therapy my nails are stronger and can hold polish for about 4 days with zero chipping.  I have also discovered that my nails hold polish longer now that I am following Tom Bachik, Chanel's manicurist's advice to only do dry manicures.

He has great tips on getting the perfect manicure at home which you can see here:

Do you have any great manicure tips?