If your nails are "naked," they are exposed to everything you DO to them- and when you don't have ANYTHING on your nails, you are more likely to do things you KNOW you shouldn't- ie: scrubbing bathrooms, floors, doing dishes, all without gloves. And the nails natural oils are being stripped completely by harsh cleaning mixtures and WATER- with no protection in the form of base coat, 2 coats of color, and a good strong top coat.
Think of wood, and how it's treated to repel water and other elements with a good oil and a varnish of some sort. Your nails are alot like wood, the way keratin sits, and how natural oils leech out easily- also in how absorbant they actually are. If you have a solid wood table, you treat it with oil to keep it conditioned and supple right? Do the same to your nails. They don't breathe or sweat, and need protection from everyday elements like handwashing.
Solar Oil is meant to be used daily, the best time to use it is right before bed; your nails absorb emollients better while you sleep. I like to put it on and then rub a good moisturizer in (my fave is grapefruit scentsations). It kind of "seals" the Solar Oil in
CND base coats are meant to "anchor" the polish to your nail, and CND Polishes are truly 3 free (DBP, Formaldehyde, and toulene). Not to mention the fun you can have with the new Color and Effects line, 50 cream colors that apply super smooth, dry 50% faster, and are meant to be layered with any of the 15 different "Effects" enamels (that also dry super fast and go on super smooth)to give more than 800 color combinations in 75 bottles!
That sounds like a really fun way to protect your nails to me
