Most of we girls take it for granted that we know how to polish nails … after all, we have been doing it since we were about 12 years old, right?

Why is it then that you can tell a professional polish job a mile away from the home done DIY variety? What makes the professional precision polish different?

1. For one, its glossy and shiny

2. It is much longer lasting

3. There are no brush marks, no streaks and no snags.

4. The perimeter lines are perfect and there is no polish on the skin

All the attributes of a professional precision polish are achieved by using certain techniques that the average woman really does not know about.

Let’s start at the beginning by using a top quality enamel that has a beautiful brush (very important), excellent coverage, never goes thick in the bottle and that dries quickly and is a professional brand of the highest quality and not one that your clients can buy in the high street; these are things a professional should be demanding from the polish line she uses.

There are several very good professional brands. I choose to work with Colours from Creative Nail Design, because they do everything I demand of them as a qualified specialist. I also find the shape of the Creative bottle very easy to hold in the palm of my hand, but first things first.

It is always necessary to loosen up the polish by rolling the bottle between the palms of your hands. Is this just an affectation? Can’t I just shake it up, you ask? If you shake up a bottle of polish, it will be full of thousands of bubbles that can come to the top and create little craters in the surface of your polish later … not the look your client desires, I think. So ‘roll’ the bottle of your chosen colour in the palms of your hands the professional way.

Believe it or not, most amateurs don’t even load the brush or remove it from the bottle correctly. This results in: tops that won’t come off the bottle unless you run them under boiling water to loosen them and sticky gunked-up caps. No one has time in the salon to deal with these problems so it is best to develop the correct methods in the first place and to avoid them.

I work from left to right starting with the little finger and working right accross the two hands, ending with the other little finger.

Take the little finger of the client’s right hand and hold it with the thumb, index and middle finger of your non-dominant hand (just as you would when applying product … see Brush Control Part 1). Hold the bottle in the palm of your hand and keep it secure using your ring and pinky finger.


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