Paraffin Wax Manicure, anyone had one?

[Monadami]

Since I had my LO, my hands seem to be permanantly in water, always washing up and I tend not to bother with gloves. My hands are now quite dry and my knuckles leathery. My nails are all different lengths many with rough edges and I have horrible cuticles.

I've been considering having a Paraffin manicure and wondered if it's as amazing as they say? Has anyone had one and how please with the results were you?

I had one - they cover your hands in liquid wax then you wait while it sets hard then get it off as far as i can remember. I don't recall spectacular results...for really dry hands I recommend cracked heel repair foot cream at night - i use a honey one from boots and it really does the trick!

Oh and get some nail oil or almond oil to rub into your cuticles each day too.

any kind of treatment will be a waste of money unless you protect your hands in water with rubber gloves. They cost £1 a pair...think how many pairs you could get for the price of one manicure!

I had one once and my hands felt soft for the next hour or so, but then I washed them and they were back to normal.

You could get the same effect by putting loads of hand cream on and going to bed with gloves on.

Or just put pots of hand cream (say neutrogena) by each sink and be religious about putting hand cream on every time you wash your hands and every time you do the washing up (even with gloves on).

Yes it's true, I need to get into the habit of wearing gloves, which I have under the sink and I actually have some Neutrogena by the sink, but tend to either forget to use it or if I've just made up a bottle, don't want the fragrance to transfer. Need to find a good fragrance free product.

Neutrogena have fragrance free hand cream.

I had one and the wax was way too hot and it burnt me. Felt horrific. Beautician didn't even apologise, saying that the wax was fine for her!