Nails at Home
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I took the Creative Retention + L&P course a couple of months ago . Although I seem to be getting on OK now doing full sets after a few teething problems at the beginning I've not had much practice on rebalances (most of my clients are still gel clients).
On doing a rebalance which went wrong on my mum the other day I've seeked advice and been told contradicting advice from two people at Creative. I originally had a problem with the edges cracking on full sets and was told by a Creative representative that I should seal the edge with product (as I always do with my gels) but on doing my first proper infills for my mum the other day I realised this would not be possible as the free edge is filed back into a neat shape and then product is only applied into zone 3! Obviously I followed the procedure without the free edge having more product applied and hoped for the best but within 2 days of doing my mum's nails she was complaining of the edges cracking away (this was on her natural nails by the way not tips)!
I've called Creative again and was told that the edges do not actually need
sealing as long as the product is pressed onto the nail properly by proper use
of the brush. The lady did warn me that natural nails sometimes grow away from the product and therefore it is adviseable to remove the client's natural free edge from time to time (forgotten how long she said) and replace with tips to stop this happening. Surely the natural nail scenario wouldn't be the reason why they were flaking so quickly? Would it just be down to my not applying the product correctly? If so, wouldn't this have happened soon after applying the original sets even though I sealed the edges (these have been lasting very well recently so I'm really worried about the rebalance procedure).
In the end I've totally rebalanced all her nails again (within 3 days of the
previous one! :sad: ) and am now scared of doing any more maintenance treatments on L&P and yet I've got 2 to do in the next week on my friends! Aaaargghhh - scared!!! :cry:
Please can someone help? I feel like I hate L&P cos it's taking so long to
master - where do you think I'm going wrong?
Thanks very much - Michelle x
On doing a rebalance which went wrong on my mum the other day I've seeked advice and been told contradicting advice from two people at Creative. I originally had a problem with the edges cracking on full sets and was told by a Creative representative that I should seal the edge with product (as I always do with my gels) but on doing my first proper infills for my mum the other day I realised this would not be possible as the free edge is filed back into a neat shape and then product is only applied into zone 3! Obviously I followed the procedure without the free edge having more product applied and hoped for the best but within 2 days of doing my mum's nails she was complaining of the edges cracking away (this was on her natural nails by the way not tips)!
I've called Creative again and was told that the edges do not actually need
sealing as long as the product is pressed onto the nail properly by proper use
of the brush. The lady did warn me that natural nails sometimes grow away from the product and therefore it is adviseable to remove the client's natural free edge from time to time (forgotten how long she said) and replace with tips to stop this happening. Surely the natural nail scenario wouldn't be the reason why they were flaking so quickly? Would it just be down to my not applying the product correctly? If so, wouldn't this have happened soon after applying the original sets even though I sealed the edges (these have been lasting very well recently so I'm really worried about the rebalance procedure).
In the end I've totally rebalanced all her nails again (within 3 days of the
previous one! :sad: ) and am now scared of doing any more maintenance treatments on L&P and yet I've got 2 to do in the next week on my friends! Aaaargghhh - scared!!! :cry:
Please can someone help? I feel like I hate L&P cos it's taking so long to
master - where do you think I'm going wrong?
Thanks very much - Michelle x