I'd like some advice please as I have a problem with breakages on sculpted l&p nails. I'm very new to this (just a few weeks into my part-time evening course) but would love to learn to sculpt well. Pictures of the breakage is on the link below and I would like to know if there is something I could do to prevent this happening - I have had exactly the same type of breakage on two separate clients. The first client admitted to catching her nail on a door but after the second client needed exactly the same type of repair, I wondered if there was something I could do to strengthen them without making them much thicker at the free edge.

Picture of damaged nail:


Picture of repaired nail:


Please let me know your thoughts,
Best Regards,
Hazel

Hun, where the breakage is on the first pic,
Is the break point where the natural nail is ?
It looks like natural nail there, I could be mistaken though x

I thought this too when I first saw it, but on closer inspection it wasn't. I also checked underneath to see if I hadn't fitted the form correctly caused a weak spot, but this wasn't the case either.

Could it just be that you have applied it too thinly so it doesn't have enough strength. The product does look very thin to me. Looking at the finger behind the thumb in the second picture I think I can see the natural nail shadowing through, I can see it faintly on the chipped nail too. I used to have a similar issue and found when the nail chipped the product past the natural nail free edge was much thicker than what was still on the nail plate. In shaping the product while sculpting it had gone between the form and my nail where either the form had moved or I didn't have it fitted quite right. Once I filed and refined the nail it left a thicker free edge and weak point where it went over the nail plate. Hope that made sense

why cant I see the pics...???

they look pretty good to me, they look thich enough (yet thin enough also), thumbs do take a bashing, peeps use them to pick off labels, scrape things etc.

Just as an example to see how much thumbs are used pick up something without using your thumbs.

Thumbs are what separate us from the apes.

Only some of us though !!!!
~~speaking about humans in general~~