Manicure for girls 12 years old

How to do a manicure for children?

The mother of girls is painfully familiar with the situation: you are painting your nails, and the baby comes up, looks with interest, extends her little fingers to you or asks you to paint at least one nail. Mom begins to have doubts.

On the one hand, I want to satisfy the baby’s cognitive interest and her desire to be beautiful. On the other hand, three-year-old girls with painted nails look ridiculous. And, most likely, the varnish coating is harmful to their health. So, when can you give your daughter a manicure?

A manicure is called a children's manicure if it is performed on a child under 15 years of age.

IMPORTANT: Children's manicure is a manicure done on girls and boys under 15 years of age.

There are two types of children's manicure:

Hygienic. It comes down to treating the child’s nails and the skin around them, giving the baby’s nail plate and fingers an aesthetic appearance. The procedure for preschool children boils down to carefully trimming the free edge of the nail and removing hangnails. School-age children can already treat their cuticles. Trimmed hygienic manicures are not given to children
Nail design. This procedure is carried out after a hygienic manicure and consists of artistic decoration of the girl’s nail plates. It cannot be called particularly necessary and useful; it can be postponed. But if the baby wants to be even more like her mother or emphasize her own individuality, she can make her first drawing on her nails at the age of 5

IMPORTANT: Not only girls, but also boys should be accustomed to hygienic children's manicure. A man’s ability to take care of his nails and fingers is his positive quality

Manicure scissors for newborns.

To understand why and how children need a manicure, it is necessary to consider the structural features of their nails. As you know, the tips of a newborn’s fingers are covered with thin nail plates that formed during his prenatal development. As a rule, they only cover the nail bed and do not protrude beyond its edge.
But babies born a little later than their due date may already have “claws.” Therefore, the mother gives the baby the first manicure while still in the maternity hospital or a week or two after his birth.
To trim the free edges of a newborn's nails, she uses special scissors with safety ends. Immediately the mother notices that the baby’s nail plate is much softer and more elastic than that of an adult. She will be like this for the first 12-15 years of his life.

A child's nails are thinner and more elastic than those of an adult.

A child’s nails differ from an adult’s nails in the following ways:

They are more elastic. The fact is that a child's nail contains a large amount of water.
They are more porous and thinner, since the child’s matrix is still short. They grow faster. The ideal interval between hygienic manicure procedures for children is 5-7 days.
The skin around a child's nails is very delicate and thin. Because of this, hangnails often appear on the nail folds.
Often white spots appear on children's nail plates - false leukonychea

There are several compelling arguments in favor of giving your child a manicure, and girls over 5 years old periodically pampering them with original and bright nail designs:

If the free edges of a child’s nail plates are neatly trimmed, firstly, it is more convenient for him. Secondly, dirt will not accumulate under the nails
The child learns to take care of himself, this important quality will remain with him for life
Children's manicure - prevention of such problems as nail biting
Nail design for girls is a way to show yourself as an individual, show your creativity, and increase self-esteem
If a mother and child do a manicure together in a salon or at home, this procedure brings them closer together and contributes to the formation of a trusting relationship between them

Manicure disciplines a child and teaches him to take care of himself.

There are also some disadvantages and risks of children's manicure:

If the procedure is carried out incorrectly, for example, using polishers or abrasives, there is a risk of injuring the thin and porous children's nail plate.
Careless handling of the cuticle and skin of the nail folds, which are extremely thin and delicate in a child, can lead to infection.
Low-quality nail design products can harm a child’s nails
A girl’s beautiful nail design can become a reason for excessive pride and boasting and distract her from her studies.
Decorative manicure is often not welcomed at school and, especially, in kindergarten

Children's manicure. Techniques for performing and decorating children's manicure.

Without a doubt, it remains that children's manicure has recently gained unusual popularity. Many beauty salons have included manicures for growing fashionistas in their price list. And especially prudent nail art masters even offered a 50 percent discount on children's manicures. Today this is your child, and tomorrow a regular client who will certainly come to you, but now with his child.

Children's manicure - spider.

Children's manicure will teach your child to take care of his appearance from an early age. Children's manicure is especially useful for those children who like to bite their nails - a sense of pride will not allow them to spoil a beautiful design that they can show off to their friends.

Of course, you can take your growing princess to a beauty salon, where professional nail art masters will turn her fingers into a fairy tale. What about the boy? After all, his hands also require care. Of course, painting is not needed here. But dirt under the nails, as well as stumped nails, do not adorn the future man. In this case, we recommend that you learn how to do a children's manicure at home.

For girls, we recommend creating a festive atmosphere, as if you had come to a beauty salon. This is necessary so that manicure for a child turns from an unpleasant chore into a pleasure. You can even buy your child his own manicure set, which includes a nail file, scissors and tweezers. And please never use it yourself, a child should know from childhood that everyone should have their own hygiene products.

Technique for performing children's manicure

Remember - children from 8-10 years old can only have a European manicure. You should never cut a child's cuticle! But from the age of 12-14 you can already do a classic edged manicure.

As usual, before performing a manicure, you need to wipe the tools with an antiseptic, as well as the master’s hands - that is, here they are yours and the hands of your child - the client. First, clean the surface under your nails. Then you should slightly push back the cuticle with an orange stick, and if there are hangnails, cut them off with round scissors. Use a file 220-240 units to file the nails. If your baby does not like the discomfort of a file, you can remove the overgrown tip of the nail with tweezers. But not to the ground!

Be sure to apply oil to the cuticle and rub it in with massage movements. You can also use a special oil to remove cuticles. After this whole procedure, be sure to lubricate the child’s nails and hands with a nourishing cream, maybe baby cream, but preferably a special one, and massage the fingers and hands. All children, without exception, enjoy massage.

After all this, degrease the nails and cover them with clear, medicated or colored varnish. To degrease and remove cream residues, you can use a 70% alcohol solution. But it’s better to use children’s varnishes.

Decoration of children's manicure

If you have a holiday ahead, for example or a name day, you can decorate your nails by gluing glitter, multi-colored stones, or feathers. The easiest way to decorate a children's manicure is to use decals. There are a huge number of pictures for children's manicure on sale now. If you have a nail art kit, you can apply various children's designs, such as hearts, flowers, etc. But more on this in the next article.

And most importantly, do not forget that you need to do a manicure first of all for yourself, it is the image of a mother with beautiful well-groomed hands that will become an example for life for a prophetic child.

How to properly perform a children's manicure on short nails at home

If a mother regularly visits a nail salon, she can take her child with her, and then the question of how to do a manicure for children will not arise. The procedure will be carried out by experienced professionals. But, as mentioned above, children's nails grow faster than adults'.

And a children's manicure, as a rule, costs even more than an adult's. Therefore, not every family has the opportunity to care for their baby’s nails only in a salon.

Girls not only love to have their nails taken care of, but also give their dolls a manicure.

Most likely, the girl will not have to be persuaded to take care of her nails at home, because she watches her mother and wants to imitate her. The girl will be happy to prepare the place for the procedure herself, lay out the tools from the manicure set, choose products for nail design and offer her ideas. Little ones also enjoy playing manicurist, caring for the dolls' fingers.

But boys often need to be tuned up. It is advisable to do this in a playful way. At home, the child is given a dry, unedged, or European manicure. This method is bloodless and painless, and the risk of injury to the child during the procedure is minimal.

To do this, you need to acquire special tools and means that must be intended for children.

The procedure is carried out as follows:

Tools, the hands of an adult and the hands of a child are treated with liquid or spray antiseptic
Using a slightly abrasive file, the free edges of the child’s nail plates are filed so that they protrude beyond the nail bed by about 2 mm. If you trim or file them further, your child will end up with a short nail.
The child's cuticle is not cut. It is only carefully lubricated with a special softening cream or oil, and if it is too long, it is carefully pushed aside
If a child has hangnails, they are carefully removed with nippers
The keratinized layer of skin on the nail fold is removed with a special soft file.
Give the child a hand massage. If there is a need to strengthen the baby’s nails, massage is given to him with special fortified oil
At the end of a girl's manicure, she gets a nail design.

Advice from experienced manicurists

Of course, not every beauty salon has the opportunity to provide services for young clients, because a professional may simply not specialize in teenagers. However, if the manicurist really has extensive experience in this field, he will not only be able to give the girl a flawless manicure, but will also give her some very useful tips on how to apply it, preserve it for a long time and take the most effective nail care, in particular:

Not every beauty salon has the opportunity to provide services for young clients

First of all, if a young client wants to see a child’s manicure with gel polish on her nails, and she is not yet 16 years old, the master will most likely convince her of this procedure by offering an acrylic coating.
Before taking a child for a manicure, responsible parents should show him or her to an allergist or dermatologist, since the girl may have an individual intolerance to certain components of the varnish, as well as an allergic reaction, which will be confirmed by tests.
In addition, this procedure should not be repeated periodically for the child, since constant exposure to the nails will clearly worsen their condition.
You should choose exactly the master who has dealt with children, because the same specialist who does a manicure for a mother is unlikely to be suitable for a child. So, even if he takes on delicate children’s nails, he is unlikely to be able to choose a design according to age and, most likely, will offer the teenager too mature options that are not suitable for her.
Moreover, this procedure should not be done at home if the mother does not have the proper qualifications, since the risk of injury to the fingers increases many times over. The maximum that relatives should do when arranging a manicure for a teenager at home is to apply light shades to the nails for one evening, without any mechanical influences.
When applying a manicure for girls, you should differentiate the shades by season, choosing light colors in spring and summer, or darker ones in autumn and winter.

Important! Of course, the main advice that a specialist who cares primarily about the girl’s health can give is to wait until she is at least 16 years old, since by this age, as a rule, the strengthening of the nail plate has completely taken place, and gel polish can already hide everything defects of the natural nail. If a girl begins to think about the beauty of her nails from an early age, her parents, first of all, must understand that polymer coatings will never allow the nail to develop with the required intensity, which the girl will greatly regret in the future.

To summarize, it should be said that children’s manicure, as a rule, is done for some significant events in the lives of teenagers, and for these purposes you can turn to the services of a master 1… 2 times a year. For everyday life, no matter how much a girl wants to stand out among her peers, parents should insist on other ways of emphasizing individuality. It should also be mentioned that children at school are not always neat, they attend physical education lessons, which will almost certainly lead to the fact that all the painstaking work will quickly lose its aesthetic appearance, and the money parents spent on manicures for 12-year-old girls will not be justified.

Manicure set for children

Basic set for children's hygienic manicure.

For home manicure, the set can be purchased ready-made. As a rule, it includes tools for caring for the nail plate, cuticle, and nail folds. This:

scissors
wire cutters
tweezers
metal or orange wood cuticle sticks

Children's manicure set.

Separately, you should purchase products for the care of nails and fingers. They must be selected from the children's line:

antiseptic
Massage Oil
cuticle cream or oil

If the girl is older, she is having a nail design done; you should also stock up on supplies for it. Need to buy:

varnishes, possibly water-based
acrylic paints
brushes, sticks, stencils for creating a picture
stickers for nails
stones, rhinestones, sparkles
foil
other accessories

Accessories for manicure on the theme of the cartoon “Frozen”.

Accessories for manicure on the theme of the cartoon “My Little Ponies”.

Set for children's manicure "Mini Mouse".

At what age should you get a manicure?

Unedged manicure

There is no age limit for manicure. This procedure is one of the elements of general nail care hygiene. A child should be taught this from early childhood. At a very young age, the procedure only includes a very careful trimming of the nails; starting from 5-6 years old, you can move on to a more serious manicure, including the first nail art.

Interesting. Manicure is an effective method of combating the bad habit of biting nails. Also, preliminary care actions in the form of removing burrs will prevent infection from entering the body. If a mother doubts that she can give her child a high-quality manicure, she can turn to professionals for help.

Is it possible to paint a child’s nails with varnish?

It is highly undesirable to paint your child’s nails with varnish. The fact is that the cosmetic product contains substances that:

dry out and weaken the nail plate
slow down its growth
may cause allergies if in contact with skin or inhalation of vapors
prevent sufficient breathing of the nail plate

Children's nail polishes.

Therefore, decorative manicures for girls from 5 to 15 years old should be done infrequently, leave the coating on the nails for no more than three days, remove it with products without acetone, and after removing the coating, carry out restorative therapy with vitamins.

IMPORTANT: For children's manicure, it is better to use special children's varnishes with a lightweight composition.

How to do a children's manicure

Considering this manicure option, we will assume that the girl is already a teenager. Until the age of 12, nippers are not used when creating a manicure for children's hands. In our version, the child is older. Pay attention to the choice of nail file; for older teenagers, a mother’s nail file is suitable (it is advisable that each beauty in the family has her own tool). For younger people, the nail file should be age appropriate. Be soft, with fine abrasiveness. Children's manicure is similar in technique to non-edged (European) manicure.

Children's manicure begins with treating the hands with a special antiseptic solution. Its absence will perfectly replace antibacterial soap (do not use liquid soap, it does not contain substances that can 100% cope with bacteria and microbes). Follow this rule strictly.
Dry your hands with a towel. Now it’s the turn to decorate the free edge of the plate. In this matter, manicure for children and teenagers has certain differences. For kindergarteners, their nails are trimmed with pliers along the line of the fingertip. Process with a nail file, leaving 1 mm of free edge. Note that men's manicure is performed according to a similar principle. If the baby does not get much pleasure from the process of filing, then do not subject him to such torment. Trim off the excess free edge of the nail. Limit yourself to this. Girls aged 10-13 can start experimenting with the length and shape of the nail. But moderation is important here. The free edge should not be longer than 3 mm.
Children's manicure will turn out beautiful, just like in the picture, pay attention to the cuticle. Apply an emollient to the skin around the plate. This type of manicure includes a relaxing bath. This procedure is optional. Not mandatory. But girls at a young age really like such procedures.
Next, push the peel to the edge of the plate. Use a wooden stick to clean it up a little. It is important for a child to use disposable instruments. Children's skin is very thin and there is a high risk of infection.
Important! Children's cuticle cannot be removed with scissors. In this case, cutting off the burrs on the side rollers is allowed.
The end of the procedure is a light massage using baby cream. For older girls, clear varnish (base coat) is allowed. Marigolds using it look neat. For younger girls, use baby polishes.

The main rule when performing a children's manicure is to take into account the child's age. For a young fashionista, do the first children's manicure when she is consciously able to sit through the entire session. On average it takes 15-20 minutes. The age of 10-13 years is considered the best to start this procedure. Young ladies at this age pay special attention to their appearance; they begin to look after her, following the example of their older relatives. Stylish outfits and beautiful nails shape the image of modern teenagers. When the little princess is no more than 5 years old from birth, children's manicure should be performed with great care. Marigolds are thin at such a young age. They are easily damaged.

Beautiful children's manicure - drawings

Usually, it is not enough for girls who are fashionistas to simply cover their nails with a single-color varnish. They want beautiful and interesting designs on the following topics:

flowers
animals
butterflies
fruits and sweets
"girly" symbols, such as bows or hearts
cartoon characters
other

Girls also really love various versions of French manicure and lace designs. They ask to decorate their nails with rhinestones, stones, and sparkles.

The first rule is that children’s manicure should be neat and discreet:

Give preference to nude colors, pearlescent light shades;
Choose colors for coatings in calm, discreet tones;
Prohibited shades are scarlet, violet, smolny, dark sky;
Do not overload your nail art with all kinds of designs. Maximum - a jacket in light colors, using silver, gold as an unobtrusive accent, covering one finger;
Children's manicure does not involve the use of stones or rhinestones. The exception is the New Year's school party, where you can afford to make your nails a little brighter and shinier.

During the summer holidays, your teachers missed you very much. In this regard, they will consider your appearance with particular scrupulousness. Don't give them any more reasons to worry. In addition, the calm shades of the coatings allow you to create a neat, beautiful manicure for the first day of school. When choosing nail art for school, the first thing that comes to mind is French. But this option is not the only successful one for school life. Yes, this manicure is correct, natural, relevant. But modern nail art allows you to leave the French jacket for school everyday life. For special school days, you can choose a more interesting option. We invite you to get acquainted with several interesting ideas for school manicure.

False nails for children - stylish manicure for children 12 years old

Nail design kits for girls, designed for ages 5+ or 6+, often contain plastic tips with ready-made designs or for designs. But it is not recommended to glue them to such babies.

In extreme cases, false nails can help out a fashionista over 12 years old if, for example, she wants to show off her beauty at a birthday party or other special event.

Set with tips for girls.