Let’s be real for a minute—how are your hands looking right now?
I feel like we are all guilty of this. We spend so much time worrying about our face routine or our hair, but we treat our hands like tools. We wash them with harsh soap ten times a day, we use them to open boxes, we expose them to cold wind, and then we wonder why our manicures look ragged after three days.
The biggest complaint I hear isn’t even about the nails themselves; it’s the cuticles. You know the look—that peeling, white, ragged skin at the base of the nail. It hurts, it snags on clothes, and it ruins the look of even the most expensive polish.
The mistake most people make is grabbing the nippers. We see a piece of skin sticking up, and our instinct is to cut it. Don’t do that.
When you cut your cuticle, your body perceives it as an injury (because it is!). Your skin goes into defense mode and grows back thicker and harder to protect the area. It becomes a vicious cycle: you cut, it grows back harder, so you cut more, and suddenly you have hardened, calloused skin around your nails.
The problem isn’t that you have “too much” skin. The problem is that the skin you have is thirsty.
I want you to try something different. It’s called “The Bedside Dab.”
You need to stop treating cuticle care as a weekly event and start treating it like brushing your teeth. It needs to happen daily, but it only takes ten seconds.
Go grab your jar of V’LAROMA butter—I personally love the Jetsetter scent for this because it’s so clean and fresh. Put it right on your nightstand. Not in the bathroom drawer, not in your purse. On the nightstand.
Right before you go to sleep, after you’ve turned off the lights and you’re sitting in bed, take a tiny amount of butter. I’m talking about a pinpoint amount. Massage it into the base of each nail. Really work it in for about five seconds per finger.
Why does this work? Because nighttime is when your body repairs itself. By saturating that cuticle area with shea butter and oils right before you sleep, you are giving the root of the nail 8 hours of uninterrupted nutrition. You aren’t washing it off, and you aren’t using your hands.
“Healthy nails don’t grow from dry roots. Feed the cuticle every night, and the nail will grow out stronger and smoother.”
The V’LAROMA formula is perfect for this because it’s not a runny oil that will mess up your sheets. It absorbs, but it stays put. It softens that hard skin so it becomes pliable again. When your cuticles are soft, they don’t peel—they just sit flat and protect your nail like they are supposed to.
If you do this for one week, I promise you, you will stop getting hangnails. Your cuticles will essentially disappear because they are so hydrated they become transparent. And your next manicure? It’s going to last twice as long because the skin around the nail isn’t shrinking and pulling away from the polish.
So, leave the nippers in the drawer, okay? Just feed the skin. Catch you later!
