Rebalancing a sculpted nail?????

[heavenly]

I haven't learnt how to sculpt yet, it's something that a plan to learn very soon though. How do you rebalance a sculpted forever french nail? If it's a tip overlay then you file all the way down so there is no white left, what do you do with a sculpted nail?

 

[Jaffacake]

HI Heavenly, havent done any sculpting myself yet either but you dont need to file the whole of the white off for a normal rebalance anyway.... just thin it and move the smile line and stress area up the nail a bit, Geeg has done some great tutorials on rebalancing that are easy to understand, check them out under premium geek tutorials. I would imagine the sculpted rebalance works in the same way? hth x

 

[liz MASSAM]

Aspirations is correct. Just thin down the enhancement as you would on a tip and overlay enhancement, re - apply the smile line and proceed with zones 2 & 3 making sure your apex etc are back in the right place. hope this helps.

 

[Karen]

Hi Heavnly,

Just to add to the other posts. Once I've thinned out the overlay if there are chips in the free edge or if the free edge has become mis-shapen and needs evening out. I use a form again to even everything up and then finish in the usual way.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Karen

 

[heavenly]

Thanks everyone. Sometimes it's the simplest things that baffle us the most isn't it?