Weekend Beauty Hack: Nail Polish Tricks for a Next Level Manicure

We live for the weekends, and what better time than Sunday to relax, rejuvenate and get your beauty game on point? These are the best easy beauty hacks to help you look—and feel—your best in the week to come.
            
Sunday afternoons were made for manicures. And if you’re anything like us, your love of nail polish borders on the fanatical—hoarding the bottles like a jealous dragon, agonizing over your weekly manicure color choice, obsessing over the newest shades. Yep, we feel you in a very real way. And because our love is real, we happen to have picked up some really amazing nail polish tips over the years to help us make the most of our lacquer obsession.
Here are our best nail polish tricks to inspire your weekend manicure game. Get ready to take your nails to the next level!

1. Remove nail stains with denture cleaner.

Anyone who’s ever fallen in love with an intense red polish knows that the pink and yellow stains it leaves behind on your nails are no joke. Instead of shelling out big bucks for nail cleaning kits, all you need are a package of effervescent denture cleaning tablets. Drop one into a bowl of cool water, soak your nails for 10 minutes and watch the stains magically disappear.

2. Strengthen weak nails with a matte top coat.

If you have weak, break-prone or peely nails, you know how important a good strengthening base coat is. And the best base coat to give your fingernails insane strength? It’s not even a base coat at all. OPI’s Matte Top Coat ($9.50, opi.com) worn underneath your polish makes even the most fragile nails unbelievably strong; it’s almost impossible to break a nail when you have this as your secret manicure weapon.