ChristinaTz
New Member
Hello everyone! Let me start by saying I am not a nail professional, although I've been flirting with the idea because I am obsessed with nails! I have a bit of a problem I was hoping you could help me with.
Last summer I got my first Shellac manicure and I absolutely fell in love! It was really hard to beileve that what looked lyour typical yet amazing frech manicure would go on looking as awesome for another two weeks! So I started getting manicures every 3-4 weeks. I had been getting manicures for about 4 months before I started having an allergic reaction. Shellac was not even in the list of things that could have caused it because I had done my research and felt confident that it was hypoallergenic. However, given that I am the sort of person who likes to know what is going on, I looked into it only to realise tham my manicurist wasn't using the appropriate lamp. Instead she was using the typical 36W UV lamp. So according to my research, I had an allergic reaction to uncured photoinitiators. To cut a long story short, I stopped getting manicures there and I quit shellac, although I was confident that it was the wrong procedure that had caused the problem.
A week ago I visited a salon where they do Shellac the proper way (I downloaded all the tutorials from CND :biggrin: ) and I asked to have just one nail done, to put my not-cured-photoinitiator theory to the test. So I got my nail done and waited! Three days in everything was fine, and I was making plans to buy the full monty and start shellac-ing myself. Then bam, the same allergic reaction. Milder this time, but it was the same thing.
My question is if anyone has had the same problem with a client. So far my theory had been that I had an allergic reaction because the manicurist hadn't bother to use the appropriate equipment. Now however when everything was done by the books, I shouldn't have a problem. Which means that shellac isn't hypoallergenic? Don;t get me wrong, I absolutely love shellac and I'm trying to make sure I have looked into everything so that I don't have to give it up!
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for the long message!
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Last summer I got my first Shellac manicure and I absolutely fell in love! It was really hard to beileve that what looked lyour typical yet amazing frech manicure would go on looking as awesome for another two weeks! So I started getting manicures every 3-4 weeks. I had been getting manicures for about 4 months before I started having an allergic reaction. Shellac was not even in the list of things that could have caused it because I had done my research and felt confident that it was hypoallergenic. However, given that I am the sort of person who likes to know what is going on, I looked into it only to realise tham my manicurist wasn't using the appropriate lamp. Instead she was using the typical 36W UV lamp. So according to my research, I had an allergic reaction to uncured photoinitiators. To cut a long story short, I stopped getting manicures there and I quit shellac, although I was confident that it was the wrong procedure that had caused the problem.
A week ago I visited a salon where they do Shellac the proper way (I downloaded all the tutorials from CND :biggrin: ) and I asked to have just one nail done, to put my not-cured-photoinitiator theory to the test. So I got my nail done and waited! Three days in everything was fine, and I was making plans to buy the full monty and start shellac-ing myself. Then bam, the same allergic reaction. Milder this time, but it was the same thing.
My question is if anyone has had the same problem with a client. So far my theory had been that I had an allergic reaction because the manicurist hadn't bother to use the appropriate equipment. Now however when everything was done by the books, I shouldn't have a problem. Which means that shellac isn't hypoallergenic? Don;t get me wrong, I absolutely love shellac and I'm trying to make sure I have looked into everything so that I don't have to give it up!
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for the long message!
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