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First of all, happy holidays everyone :) I'm very embarrassed to admit this, but I damaged my pinky nail by ripping my enhancement off a while back. I left it alone for about a month and decided to wear buff off gel enhancements for the holidays. I noticed that a day after I applied the...

My professor slammed his finger shut with his car door about a month ago. His entire nail was black Today I saw that the nail plate that had detached had started to break and he asked me what he could do about it. Honestly, I've never seen such a badly bruised nail before so I really don't...

It's kind of a dumb question, but I'm concerned as to whether I'm really allowed to just say "no more" to a client. I had this client last week for the second time, and I just can't take it anymore. I keep my smile and stay professional and polite, but it's been 3 days and I still can't shake...

At my salon, I am a gel nail technician, so I only work with gel and shellac clients. The salon I work at is short on manicurists so on Saturday/Sunday I'm on my own. It sounds bad, but I hardly ever get clients that want a natural mani/pedi so it's not a real big problem. However, sometimes...

My boss's partner sometimes has gels done by me, but she complains about them every time because they somehow lift. She says that because her nails grow out slightly curving down, the gels lift from the cuticle area after a while. I can kinda see that happening, but her nails are constantly...

I have a girl across the street from me who does bio/calgel. I've seen her work, and she does beautiful nail art. My only complaint is that she does them for such a dirt cheap price, it's starting to hurt my business :( Even what I'm charging slightly hurts me a bit, but her prices are so...

I had my first set that I absolutely hated yesterday. It was a very tricky design to do, but I was also pressed on time because one of the girls didn't schedule my clients properly. I'm looking at the set right now and it looks awful... She's a very nice client too. Should I call her and...

I'm newly trained with Lavish Lashes, and I'm currently ordering products to start off at my salon. I know I'm supposed to always have an eye cleanser with me at all times just incase the clients eyes are irritated or something happens. The company I trained with sells it, but I feel like I...

Ack! I broke my piggy nail when I was putting my shoes on. I have very tiny nails to begin with so I was growing them out but I guess it got too long even with gel on. Do you geeks think it's possible to sculpt my piggy with hard gel? Or would it just break off?

So last week, I had this client who came in to remove a set of gels that she had done at another salon, and have a new set applied. I checked to see if it was a soak off, and it was, so I went ahead and did the tin foil method to soak off. However, when I started filing, there was this really...

I'm currently playing with IBD's gel kit to use on myself. I just did a very thin layer of sculpts with it last night. I didn't build an apex or anything because I was planning on finishing it later today, so I didn't expect it to last, but I noticed that on 2 fingers it started lifting from...

Has this happened to any other geeks? Everytime I find a new main brush to use, I use my old one as a smile line cleaner, but after a while it always goes really soft and sticky... like it's just soaked with gel. I can't even use it to apply gel anymore once this happens. When I try to...

I've been dealing with a lot of problems at my current salon, and one of the big problems is the decor of the place. You can see the 180 degree tour here: http://www.salongeek.com/members/honeycure-albums-salon+needs+improvement!.html It doesn't invite clients at all!! It looks like a...

I got my first unhappy Shellac client yesterday! I did her Shellac last Saturday. Last month we gave out a one week guarantee for it because we were all still practicing, but our clients came back and none of them had any problems with it so we stopped that from June. Unfortunately, she said...

I had this this client for the first time as a gel client. She had come in before for pedicures with another girl, and I remember talking to her a bit (just a bit, it took me a while to recognize her!). She came in for her gel appointment, and she seemed really concerned about the gel prices...

I know they keep calling it a "polish hybrid"... but I'm having trouble understanding the difference between Shellac and other soak off gels. What makes it a hybrid? I already offer Bio and polish to my clients, what will I tell them if I were to introduce Shellac to them?

Shellac has really caught my attention, and I really want to offer it at my salon, but I'm wondering how I would separate that service from Bio? I haven't heard much about it in the US yet so I don't even know how much it's supposed to cost, but it seems like Shellac would be perfect as an...

I just recently got my certification in lashing, and so did my co worker. We both went to different schools. At mine, I was taught to do the basic lash prep, and then isolate the lash and start attaching But my coworker was taught to tape some of the lashes back so there's only a thin layer...

So I always give a 1 week guarantee on my Bio sets. If the gel lifts or they lose a rhine stone or whatever within a week, I fix it free of charge. This guarantee worked fine in my last salon, but in this salon it's a complete disaster! So far, I've had 2 people come in with completely...

Besides Calgel's 20 second curing time, is there a clear soak off gel that cures just as quickly? I saw that Bella Forma is a minute... is that the quickest available at the moment? I know Presto is 5 seconds, but they require their LED light to cure, and I don't want to crowd my table with...