Nails, a tiresome chaw ?

I love having nicely painted nails, so I try and do them as often as possibly but as much as I like having nice nails, I hate painting them, literally loath doing it! It is so time consuming and irritating. But over the last few days I have had little to do, as on Sunday Monday and Tuesday I was ill, I thought I would do my nails and was pleased when I finished them. I enjoyed having nice nails that much that I did a new design. But I still loath this time consuming chaw and love little tips and tricks for making it easier, so here are a few I know-
1. Don't use old nail varnishes as they tend to be more gloupy and will dry tacky and smudge much easier, use fresher bottles and only apply little amounts.
2. When a colour isn't dark enough on first coat, apply another but only when the fist has dried! Don't pile it on.
3. Everyone makes little mistakes, but don't let them ruin your nails, use a cotton bud with nail varnish remover on to remover polish from skin or small mistakes.
4. If you are doing a tricky pattern and are finding it hard, do it on just the thumb nails and paint the rest in a colour that's in the design it still looks good but doesn't take as much effort! I tend to only do the designs on the thumb nails as I really can never be bothered and it is always harder on smaller nails.
5. If you are in a rush but your nails are just refusing to fully dry then when they have dried enough to touch but still not dry enough to go out with run freezing cold water over your hand and it makes it dry.

6. When you have a bottle of nail varnish and it may wont open go and run it under a warm tap, I never thought it would work but after reading it on the Internet I tried it and it opened almost straight away. So no more wasted nail varnish.

These are just a few little tips I have found from doing my nails, but I would love to know some of yours.

Rhiannon x