Trying to get my head around all the different types of extensions and techniques. Trying to work out why some things take longer etc.
I've been taught to put tips on, halve contact area by filing and blend before sticking on. Please clarify why it's necessary to blend on nail if it is going to be covered in white and pink? for instance, if the contact area of the tip is only on a small part of the free edge then surely if you don't blend and put white and pink on it wouldn't show? I've seen Leighton Denny do this on his CD, but he actually cuts the contact area (but my husband says by doing this the contact area will remain just as thick), doesn't blend and then applies white and pink.
I can understand if there is a bigger contact area for a shorter nail plate blending would be necessary as I assume it would show through pinK? Same applies if you were to just apply pink?
I was chatting to another nail tech who was taught by a different company, she doesn't apply white on the tip, just pink all over and she says when her clients see the tip through the pink they are happy with that. Don't want a french after all.
Just curious
Deb379
I've been taught to put tips on, halve contact area by filing and blend before sticking on. Please clarify why it's necessary to blend on nail if it is going to be covered in white and pink? for instance, if the contact area of the tip is only on a small part of the free edge then surely if you don't blend and put white and pink on it wouldn't show? I've seen Leighton Denny do this on his CD, but he actually cuts the contact area (but my husband says by doing this the contact area will remain just as thick), doesn't blend and then applies white and pink.
I can understand if there is a bigger contact area for a shorter nail plate blending would be necessary as I assume it would show through pinK? Same applies if you were to just apply pink?
I was chatting to another nail tech who was taught by a different company, she doesn't apply white on the tip, just pink all over and she says when her clients see the tip through the pink they are happy with that. Don't want a french after all.
Just curious
Deb379