Unless you work at 'Lifting nails 4 U salon and Amway club' you will be a bit of a fan of nail preparation.

That’s because the sole purpose of prepping the nail plate is to remove oil, moisture and contamination that could otherwise guarantee your clients nails flip off.Click here to read the entire tutorial

Hiya ...the koala buffer is to remove the shine from the nail...and the scrub fresh is to temporarily dehydrate the nail and leave pathogen fighters to help prevent the risk of a bacterial infection..(greenies)....it also helps to prevent lifting. HTH xx

hi bagpuss thank you very much, helped loads.

xx

hi, this is my first post, i have just read your tutorial, and i'm gonna give it another go. i did an NSI course feb 2005 , i practiced and practised, they all looked fab but other than 2 mates never got anyone back for infills, that tells me they kept coming off, kept trying but have now lost all confidence , i'm not sure if you do it on this forum, but i also belong to a face painting forum, where, we meet for coffee and go over new designs with each other, and those that have been doing for years help the newbies, with any problems, any one do this, or can any one offer any much needed advise. i dont want to be just ok, i want to be fantastic. i need help, bigtime.!!!!!!
thanks
wendy

i would like to know a few things......
where to buy scrubfresh from
how do i know if a product(acrylic) need primer? i use nsi and i always use primer
can i use a 180 file to remove the shine off the natural nail?
kind regards
Lizete

Scrubfresh can be purchased from Sweet Squared the UK distributors for Creative Nail Design.

You need to use primer with most all Liquid & Powder brands apart form Creative Nail Design. You need it with NSI

180 grit files are too harsh to use on the natural nail. 240 or higher and always use in the dierection of nail growth never side to side or more than once in the same place.

First of all - thank you for a superb tutorial. I've tried it on my last set of nails - and it worked
Just one question - what is NailFresh? I know the other products, but that one I haven't heard of.

PS. Just for info - the ScrubFresh can get too old, then it looses its 'power'. I haven't been doing that many nails for the past year and a half, so I ended up buying a new one, and that also helped...

cool blue and scrub fresh rock i love the freshness of cool blue it makes me feel all invigorated lol Thanks mr geek for the refresher xx

Dear Geeg,
I have read almost all the tutorials tonight.... is this "step by step" the same for an infill?.... Scrub fresh is made by creative right?.... Ok i will admit I use the "spray and wipe" but everytime I buy something that says lint free! it leaves crap on my nail!....
Also I have had my nails done by a tech that used to work where i do and she does not even use any anti bac!.. her nails are perfect every time!... what is the go there

When you say the cuticle do you mean Pterygium, the eponiquio is protected by the cuticle, what should be removed is the pterygium which grows up the nail plate and causes lifting if any product is applied to the nail plate without being removed first!

Pterygium is the wrong term for what is in fact cuticle.

Quoted by Geeg......"Cuticle is made up of exfoliated skin cells from the folds of skin surrounding the nail unit. Cuticle is non-living. Cuticle is NOT pterygium (which is an over growth of skin cells). Cuticle is not the eponychium (which is living skin surrounding the base of the nail unit). Cuticle is not ‘true cuticle’ as opposed to false cuticle, it IS cuticle."

Cuticle: The eponychium will shed a thin, colorless layer of skin that rides on the nail plate and appears to grow from under the proximal nail fold. It is this transparent skin, which is called the 'true cuticle
Pterygium: a thin layer of tissue that grows on the top surface of the nail plate from under the cuticle area.
Eponychium is the visible part of the proximal nail fold that appears to end at the base of the nail under the cuticle, it is a water tight seal that prevents Matrix from getting infeccted.

Hi lou - Pterygium is a nail disorder. Well, really it is a skin disorder that literally means 'abnormal wing like growth of living tissue'. It can happen on the surface of the nail (dorsal), essentially extruding from the eponychium as well as under the nail (inverse), essentially extruding from the hyponychium.

It does not grow from under the cuticle or eponychium.

HTHs!

Sorry i'm getting very confussed i'm being told by a EzFlow International Master Artist that Ptrygium is the dead cells that grow up the nail plate from the Eponichium and that its not a nail disorder and that everybody has Pterygium on the Natural nail plate, i don't want to be a pain i just don't understand why evrybody is taught differently, Thanks

Nail Diseases and Disorders

There's a fab picture of it on the above link, scroll down to Pterygium.

hth's

Thanck that a good site to bookmark