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Found a close up Indeed terrifying! I imagine this is probably a single unit for them lol!

I Was relieved that she actually just had the removal and left. I wouldn't have been able to spend another 20 mins in her presence doing her gels. I would have lost my patience!

I feel so bad for laughing

I think 2 free fingers is too generous. I would do £2 for any two nails as an offer, then charge £1.50 for each nail after that Of course if its a simple stamping design or something charge 50p per nail even if its just two nails being stamped. At the end of the day Its your time and skill...

Oh right cause I overheard somebody say a salon wont employ you unless you have level 1 AND 2. Guess it was a mistake

Im just wondering what level 1 is because I skipped straight to nvq level 2 nails. Is it important that I have a level one? I mean my course covered all the basics

I remember we was very short staffed one day and i was with a client who booked a pedi-mani appointment and halfway through I had a walk in client who wanted just a removal and reapplication of gelish. I told her she would have to wait because we were short staffed and the other member of staff...

I do this all time. Still doesn't look like the pic :( did someone mention theres a gel they use? Im curious to try it on myself

Ive noticed russian nail technicians polishing looks much more neater. Then I noticed there is no tissue around the nail plate so it looks like the colour is literally growing out of the eponychium. I really love how neat this looks so I googled and found out there is a separate russian cuticle...

Jesus Christ......

For me, 1. File/cut into desired shape 2. Soak in a bowl for 5 mins 3. Cuticle work (push back and nip away any dead tissue) 4. White block GENTLY 5. Client washes hands 6. Prep with alcohol on a wipe and go over nail beds to remove all germs and grease 7. Use the primer of the base gel...

Gelish. Gelish. Gelish. Simply the best for me. Works perfectly with a lot of other brands too

Takes me 10 minutes to remove bluesky as long as I use a harsh grit to scratch up the surface good. I use it at home I've never had any problems

Love russian nail art, and I know gel paint is one of the main things they use. However the price is ridiculous (around £13 for 4ml in a little pot) and before investing I just wanted to know if theres any alternatives. Can you use regular hard gel for the painting? What about soft gel (I mean...

Will check what we use at the salon and will report back on this tomorrow :) clients love everything we use here

For me it has to be when client sat down and I grabbed my tools out of barbicide and gone and sat down in front of her ready to begin treatment Client: "*points to tools with dirty fingernails* make sure you've cleaned those" Me: "They've been soaking in steriliser for an hour...." Client...

My essential tools: Cuticle nipper/pusher (dennis williams do excellent ones) Kolinsky size 10 brush My nail art dotters/stripers (ebay) My seche vite topcoat My little alcohol spritzer for removing grease from the nails Some zebra files and white blocks are necessary if you'll be doing...

It would be a good idea to have both. Even better is if, for example you have 100 OPI regular polishes, select the 80 most popular colours from those and buy them in gel form (doesn't have to be opi) because a lot of clients do get a gel manicure but a reg polish pedicure in a matching colour to...

Thank you all for the responses! Gosh i didn't know it was so common. I was brainwashed at college to believe a small nip means the client will be angry and never come back to the salon. Thanks for the helpful responses

I use orly and opi and must say they're both just as good. But purely because of popularity with clients, OPI is better. Clients sometimes walk in and immediately know which colour they want especially if its OPI