Get a Perfect At-Home Manicure in 7 Easy Steps
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Tip: Not ambidextrous? Join the club. To minimize slipups, paint your dominant hand first (it's even trickier to use your nondominant hand when the nails are wet with polish) and always move from your pinkie to your thumb (which tends to rotate inward as you go and could get smudged).
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From the September 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine