Karen
Well-Known Member
Having a bad day today - really feel like giving up!
Went to my mum's on Saturday to do both her and my sister's nails. First the odourless acrylic I was using just wouldn't adhere to the nail tips and I had to kinda patch it up. My mum was pleased with the result - nice natural looking nails, but I was mortified that it happened.
Then I done a set of gel nails on my sister. I wanted to give her medium length nails and explained that she isn't used to having long nails and would more likely catch and break them if they are too long, but she insisted she wanted them longer as she liked filing them and would file them down shorter.
Well, she started filing them down, but it looked like the gel was coming away from the tip leaving an opaque kinda shadow on the tip. I didn't know what to do, so I left her filing them. She was only filing the sides and not the length although she promised she would make them shorter.
Anyway, I went away Sunday night and got back home late yesterday to find four messages from my sister saying that she'd caught her thumb nail and ripped it off and her nail had been bleeding! I don't know what she's done with it as she went on holiday last night before I got home and listened to the messages. I'm really cross with myself that I didn't insist on cutting her nails shorter.
I'm having really big doubts about my abilities now!!!
Hope you don't mind me posting, just wanted to whinge. My boyfriend doesn't know what all the fuss is about!
Guess I probably should have posted this in 'chat' too...
Kx
Went to my mum's on Saturday to do both her and my sister's nails. First the odourless acrylic I was using just wouldn't adhere to the nail tips and I had to kinda patch it up. My mum was pleased with the result - nice natural looking nails, but I was mortified that it happened.
Then I done a set of gel nails on my sister. I wanted to give her medium length nails and explained that she isn't used to having long nails and would more likely catch and break them if they are too long, but she insisted she wanted them longer as she liked filing them and would file them down shorter.
Well, she started filing them down, but it looked like the gel was coming away from the tip leaving an opaque kinda shadow on the tip. I didn't know what to do, so I left her filing them. She was only filing the sides and not the length although she promised she would make them shorter.
Anyway, I went away Sunday night and got back home late yesterday to find four messages from my sister saying that she'd caught her thumb nail and ripped it off and her nail had been bleeding! I don't know what she's done with it as she went on holiday last night before I got home and listened to the messages. I'm really cross with myself that I didn't insist on cutting her nails shorter.
I'm having really big doubts about my abilities now!!!
Hope you don't mind me posting, just wanted to whinge. My boyfriend doesn't know what all the fuss is about!
Guess I probably should have posted this in 'chat' too...
Kx