were you using the products in the essential nail home learn course on your friend?

as i think the products supplied are only for the use on the nail trainer hand, i e the adhesive is not recommended for use on people etc
not sure about the gel, but when i did the acrylic course the primer for example in the kit was half strength, due to it only being needed for a plastic nail, and not a real person,

im sure they also say that you should use the products supplied in the kit only on the nail trainer, and AFTER completeing the course can you then purchase products that are suitable for humans
hth

Hun, just a thought, but you said your doing a home course... is there any chance you can take a course where you go to a class and your SHOWN how to do things? I mean its all good and well trying to work it out via the net, and by watching traning DVDs etc.. but in all honesty it really doesnt click until you have someone in front of you explaining every step in detail and showing you exactly what you should and should not be doing.... no offence intended but i honestly think if you really Love what your doing (being in the nails industry) if you can, if its avalible (I know its not everywhere) then try and find a course

Read this chick. It is an excerpt from my book on enhancement techniques ... I'm sure it should help you and it describes how to 'scrub' that first layer of gel onto the plate.

'nailclass' by Gigi Rouse - available from Mundo Products

The advice you've been given is really good.

Unfortunately, this is one of the problems of distance learning of a practical skill and on a plastic hand. If you had applied these in a class with a trainer (as every learner should) you would have had help the whole way through. Nail biters have a different and very specific application method.

Is it true, as another post on this thread said, that products are different when you learn on a plastic hand and you progress to 'real' products when you qualify?

The products that Essential are selling are the Dream range that Jacqui Jefford's promoting but as quite rightly said the glue, primer and gel prep (all Essential Nails branded) are for the nail trainer only.

Good grief! I've never agreed with all learning done on a plastic hand (practice as part of a 'real' training course, yes, absolutely). But this is the first time I realised that the products are different too!

So, why don't hairdressers learn colouring on a plastic head with nylon hair using different colouring products than used in a salon; why don't beauty therapists learn waxing on a plastic leg with something that isn't wax; why don't dentists learn how to fill teeth on a plastic jaw with plastic teeth and 'fillings' that are different from those used on real teeth?

Crazy isn't it?

im learning hair at the moment, and i am using a plastic head, with synthethic hair and colouring it with products that arent used in a salon,
when my tutor thinks im competant in certain areas im allowed to progress to a live one!!!

i re did the nails had to file off al the gel as a few were broke off at the tip the other were perfect so i made them shorter and put another thicker coat of gel on them!!
However we went out last night all she did was play pick and put them in her mouth!! So im thinking maybe it wasn't all my fault after all !
the after math she phoned today she has a crack in one of her nails the one she was chewing on all night , im thinking im not doining them again am i right to think that ??

If as you said, yours are fine, then i would be inclined to blame her 'said' care of these enhancements.
I mean after all, you witnessed with your own eyes, how this client treated her enhancements, did you not??
I would not recommend home learn, but am totally going by what you have posted.

I also have the Essential home learning course, i then went on a CND L&P course, and my good there is a diffrent, honestly i don´t think that you can learn very much from this courses, you need to see it i realy life, learning from an expert who can guide you through ever single steep of the proces, but that is just my opinion

If its the Essential Nails course you are doing I know the primer that came in the courses I had was not to be used on real nails, only the trainer hand as a few Geeks have already said. The kit at the time had that printed on the bottles and in the course litterature. The only bit of those courses I used in the end was the trainer hand.

Now that's a good progression, especially with hair. Trouble with the topic being discussed here is that there is no progression to 'a live one'!!

i think what im trying to get at here, is that the poster is using products on her nails and clients nails that are only meant for use on the nail trainer hand,

she is then complaining about the products

it clearly states in these kits that they are for the nail trainer only, and does not advise anywhere that you should practice on your own or anyone else during the training or using the products,

it also states that you are not competant until you have submitted your work, and have passed the course, not until then are you meant to go anywhere near a live one!!

once the course has been passed then you are free to gain insurance and do live clients

sorry but this topic riles me!! lol ( can you tell)

no i used a proper glue for the tips and a new pink gel !!