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Thank you so much for your compliment. I'm blushing.🥰 I'm grateful for your answer. I was starting to go crazy, thinking that I was being unreasonable and doubting myself. You always give good answers (and critque) with your honest words of wisdom, knowledge and experience (whether some of us...

Hello. thanks for your reply. I am trying to figure out why I'm so irked with this. I read your reply and I thought real hard. Do I not want to share with her?... But I am always sharing with everyone at work? I see one of my other colleague struggle with airbrushing so I took her to one...

Colleague at work, every so often would ask me to do something on her nails. Its usually a design she doesn't know how to do or wants to find out how its done . One time she asked me to do gel extensions done with tips on her but she normally wears hard gel. She doesnt use tips when doing...

Hello, nice nail design. White patches on your nail underneath the acrylic could be plastic tip wasn't blended enough so it will show through the acrylic, or when you picked up the ball of acrylic it was a bit dry. (product ratio is everything) also if nail is not prepped properly after you've...

Hi, all i can say is practice,practice,practice. Stick with one system until you get it right. One day the penny will drop, everything will click into place, and you will get it. I promise. I've been there. Tip: use blue tack rolled into a 1 inch sausage same thickness as a finger, insert...

it could be that because she had them on for 4 weeks without maintenance the weight of the nail is not balanced and she may have knocked it without realising, causing the acrylic to force the top layer of nail off, hence why you'll see that fracture/tear across the nail.

Its best to put a gel polish (clear or colour) so that if you do make a mistake with your art, then you can wipe off without removing the base coat

like Trinity said they will have to grow out but in the mean time to protect them a bit. I don't know if you've heard of a brand called semi lac, but they do a product called hardi gel. It applies like gel polish, strong enough to extend nail tips (but not really long nails) so you get that...

Hi there, For a quick file, buff and application (no cuticle work, they're just pushed back) with removal should be around 30 mins, and with a full manicure should be around 45 mins. You don't necessarily have to do in that time, but these times are just based on salons around my area and the...

Home salon for me is a no no as I live in a flat on a council estate. Booth rental sounds good and so does the being in charge of myself bit. I'm going to look into it, Thanks

I don't think it's a whim or at least I hope it's not. I've been thinking about it years ago before I had my 3 year break. I'm currently employed on a part time basis. Client base, I don't have even though there are customers who have requested for me to do their nails out of salon but I...

hi everyone. i have been pondering for quite some time now whether to open my own nail or not. I'm currently working in a salon part-time since August last year after 3 years off and am enjoying it very much. Nervous and slow at first but now I think I can safely say that my nails are of a...

Just wanted to say thankyou for all your suggestions. They've all been really helpful and have made me view my options a bit more clearly. I look forward to more suggestions if any.

If I were to do at home, it would be when the children are away at the fathers (which would be Tue, Thur and Sat - 2.30pm to 7.30pm ) as I'm worried about fumes and nail dust. My home is very small so the smell gets everywhere. I don't have seperate room for my nail setup. It's just a corner of...

Hi there. I haven't been on here for quite some time -I'm talking years. Went straight into work after my training and worked in salon for 2 and a half to 3 years. Took a break of 3 years to have family. Have 2 new little ones now. Have decided to go back to work and am at the moment...

Even though the picture is small, I can straight away see that your smile line is too far up the nail. you need a little more work on crisping your smile line.

I'm qualified VTCT level 2 in nail extensions and nail services. I look to see some time in the near future to open nail salon and offer other services such as waxing, eye lash extensions/perming and spray tanning etc which I'm intending to train for, and when complete, will receive...

Hi there. Sounds like you are working yourself into a wee flap. My best advice for you is that when you are practising your nails and you are at the point where you think your brain is may explode...stop,rest a while or even better sleep on it and let everything sink in and be absorbed. Next...

The courser one is the one you would need to take acrylic down.