crystaltash
Well-Known Member
Hi geeks. A while ago I posted that I was having a few teething problems with Shellac, in that it was chipping off clients nails only days after it was put on. It turns out that I was filing the free edges after the top coat had been cured, therefore breaking the seal. So I got it sorted. Well, with the colour anyway.
My problem is still with the French polish. I LOVE doing it cos the end result is beautiful and I love mixing the romantique and negligée,etc. However, mine never last on clients. My full time girl does them on people and they r getting the good two weeks out of them. But last week, I did 2 sets and one of the clients was back the next day cos the White had chipped off one nail!
Then another client- who is so hard to please called me and said that hers had chipped only days after too! Both of these clients were being re-shellacked by me as my full timer had other appointments, but she had done them previously.
She reckons I'm not putting it on thick enough, but I told her it's thin to win and she shouldn't be putting it on too thick. But hers last longer and they don't wrinkle or anything when they come out of the lamp so they can't be that thick.
I'm using scrubfresh and the proper lamp and when I'm starting from scratch, I do all the manicure work using cuticleaway. I've even tried doing a dry prep in case I'm not de-activating the cuticle remover properly.
So I do a base coat, romantique, cream puff, negligée, top coat, capping all edges inbetween and d:sperse followed by solar oil. The only suspect thing I notice is that when I put the White on, there are some darker patches in the White where it hasn't evened out on the nail, so I try to fill it in without making it too thick. Sometimes my whites wrinkle but the other coats smooth it out.
Could someone please point me in the right direction? Geeg u gave me some good advice last time- any thoughts?
Many many thanks
My problem is still with the French polish. I LOVE doing it cos the end result is beautiful and I love mixing the romantique and negligée,etc. However, mine never last on clients. My full time girl does them on people and they r getting the good two weeks out of them. But last week, I did 2 sets and one of the clients was back the next day cos the White had chipped off one nail!
Then another client- who is so hard to please called me and said that hers had chipped only days after too! Both of these clients were being re-shellacked by me as my full timer had other appointments, but she had done them previously.
She reckons I'm not putting it on thick enough, but I told her it's thin to win and she shouldn't be putting it on too thick. But hers last longer and they don't wrinkle or anything when they come out of the lamp so they can't be that thick.
I'm using scrubfresh and the proper lamp and when I'm starting from scratch, I do all the manicure work using cuticleaway. I've even tried doing a dry prep in case I'm not de-activating the cuticle remover properly.
So I do a base coat, romantique, cream puff, negligée, top coat, capping all edges inbetween and d:sperse followed by solar oil. The only suspect thing I notice is that when I put the White on, there are some darker patches in the White where it hasn't evened out on the nail, so I try to fill it in without making it too thick. Sometimes my whites wrinkle but the other coats smooth it out.
Could someone please point me in the right direction? Geeg u gave me some good advice last time- any thoughts?
Many many thanks