If you hate the way your nails look, you may have decided to have a professional manicure.

If your nails are short, bitten or ripped, however, even a professional manicure is not going to make them look particularly pretty. This is where acrylic nail sets come in.

After all, if you buy an acrylic nail set, not only can you learn how to make your nails look beautiful yourself, you can make them look long and strong with acrylic as well.

What is an acrylic nail set? — These are kits  that come with all the material and equipment you need to be able to apply your own acrylic fake nails.

These sets can be purchased from nail salons and nail supply stores and, once you learn how to use them correctly, you will be able to do your nails just like any professional nail manicurist.

Where to buy acrylic nail sets? — Nail salons and nail supply stores sell them. You can also find them online at kit uñas acrilicas España.

If you buy them offline, however, you will pay top price. That is why most people nowadays now buy the acrylic nail sets they use on the Internet. Prices are lower, and the selection of acrylic nail sets is much better.

Getting acrylic nail sets at affordable prices — Just like anything, acrylic nail sets come in all kinds of price ranges, which is why you will want to spend some time to find the most affordable.

This can be done by doing price comparisons at various online nail supply stores, and at nail salons with an online presence.

When you compare prices, though, do be sure you also know how much each supplier charges to ship the acrylic nail sets to you as this can impact your total cost quite drastically.

Do not overlook overseas salons — While your first thought may be to just look at American nail supply stores online, if you do you will be missing out on many of the lower cost places.

International nail supply stores are all over the Internet, and often offer acrylic nail sets at 50 percent or less than what you would pay from an American company.

Some of them also offer free online nail courses via video, which you can access as soon as you have bought a specific number of acrylic nail sets from them.

Learning how to apply your acrylic nails — Once you have ordered the number of acrylic nail sets you wish to buy, you will still need to learn how to use them.

The easiest way is via one of the many nail courses available on sites like Daily Motion and YouTube. Just be sure the videos you are watching have been put together by a professional nail manicurist so you are not learning someone else’s mistakes.

You can also watch the online nail courses available from nail salons overseas if you have purchased your acrylic nail sets from one of them.

Practice a few times before you do your nails for a specific occasion, and you should be able to eventually apply them just like a professional manicurist.