How to keep the hands and cuticles soft and moist

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How to keep the hands and cuticles soft and moist

Over the years I have been struggling with dry hands, cuticles and hangnails. Hangnails are the worst, because I pick them if I get them. And picking hangnails leads to very painful cuticles for me because I pick until they bleed. So I have to stay on top of it and keep my cuticles soft and moist.

I have tried a ton of different hand creams. Lots of them didn’t do much of a difference on the cuticles. I have also tried nail oils but that doesn’t really fit my temper because it takes so long before it’s no longer greasy on the hands.

The best cuticle cream I’ve tried was from Sally Hansen but it’s been years since they stopped producing it. But this has turned out to be a life saver – or a cuticle saver, if you will.

Let me introduce you to O’Keeffe’s Skin Repair Bodylotion.

O’Keeffe’s Skin Repair Bodylotion

They advertise “Dry skin relief in 1 use”. And I agree! If your cuticles are dry, it takes one application to make them feel much better.

O’Keeffe’s Skin Repair Bodylotion

O’Keeffe has also made a hand cream. I have tried it but I don’t think it’s any better than the body lotion. And you get much more product for your money by buying the body lotion.

The formula is nice too. Not runny and it’s super easy to rub into your hands. It doesn’t leave a stickiness or greasiness on your hands.

What do you do to keep your hands and cuticles moist?

OPI DS Original

OPI DS Original (Designer Series)

Light plum linear holographic

Sunshine! That calls for holographic nailpolish! I’ve got quite a few in swaps recently, so I actually had a hard time deciding which one to try on first!! I went for OPI DS Original from their Designer Series. I’ve read so much about it, so I was dying to try it on. I had read that no special base coat was necessary, so I just slapped on my Miss Sporty base coat.

Application was easy, the polish just glided on. It was on the sheer side, so I kind of regretted that I hadn’t used some kind of coloured underwear for it. But I thought that this way I could see what this polish was really about. I ended up applying three coats. I didn’t have any problems with pulling on already applied polish or bald spots or anything. Easy peasy!! I didn’t apply a topcoat, because I’ve read that it dulls the holo effect, and that’s the last thing I wanted.

And look at how is makes little rainbows in the sunshine! 

I took about a million pictures to make sure that some of them would actually show the beauty of this polish:

Let me show you another reason why I regretted not having used this as a layering polish:

It’s so dull when it’s out of the sunshine, and too pale to look good with my skin tone.

Something weird happened later! I was applying some oil on my hands, and rubbed it in around my cuticles, like I do every evening. But the polish obviously didn’t like that, because the polish went all tacky and weird, and it dulled the holo effect more than any top coat could possibly have done! So I think that I’ll apply a top coat next time, in order to be able to rub oil into my hands :)

Have any of you experienced that holographic (or any other) nail polish didn’t work very well with subsequent use of hand creams/oils/lotions? I’m really curious to hear if I’m the first one experiencing this.

The verdict:

Opacity: 5/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: N/A/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 7.6/10
Buy again: Yes

Dry hands and cuticles ~ Balm

Winter and polish remover is hard on the hands. I use a lot of hand lotion, but it's not always enough. 

I bought this balm, that should be great for very dry skin and for what the sales dude called "problem areas". It can be used on irritated skin and is apparently also good if you have little wounds and stuff on your fingers.

Here's what it looks like: 

"Kisses aren't just felt on the lips" - is what it says. 

It looks a bit like vaseline, but it doesn't feel like that at all. I rub it in around my cuticles in the evening, and let it work its wonders. I've used it for about a week now, and I really think it did magic to my cuticles and fingertips. 

The balm contains lanolin, carthamus, tinctorius oil, olea europaea oil and lots of other oils and butters I've never heard of before. But thumbs up for this product! ♥

Next thing up has got nothing to do with hands and fingers, but winter is rough on the lips too, so my boyfriend bought me these two: 

They're both from H & M, and here's what they look like if you open them: 

Lip balms! A little bit greasy, but they definitely work. And I just love the containers. :) 

What do you do to keep your hands and fingers in good shape?