Do I need to soak off l & p before putting Shellac on?

[abicrunch]

I have a lady who has l & p with polish over. She had them done 2 weeks ago and is waiting for my shellac to come in so she can try it. The l & p was not done by myself.

What would I do, do i need to soak off the acrylic and start a fresh with the shellac or can I just file the acrylic flush with her nails to the point where no lifting occurs and then go ahead and put the shellac on. I wondered if I can do this until the l & p grows out. This lady has lovely long nails that are natural so feel that she would only need shellac on rather than l & p. Once the l & p has grown out she could then have the shallac on.

your help would be really appreciated. thanks.

Your advice would be appreciated

 

[naturalnails]

In theory yes I suppose you could, but when she comes back in in two weeks time to have a re-shellac - how are you going to get it off - soak it in acetone for 10 minutes? This will then cause issues with her l&p overlay.

If her nails are good underneath then I would say better to take off the overlay and then just Shellac, but she will need to be aware that the Shellac is not as thick or hard as the l&p and she would need to be more careful, certainly initially.

 

[abicrunch]

In theory yes I suppose you could, but when she comes back in in two weeks time to have a re-shellac - how are you going to get it off - soak it in acetone for 10 minutes? This will then cause issues with her l&p overlay.

If her nails are good underneath then I would say better to take off the overlay and then just Shellac, but she will need to be aware that the Shellac is not as thick or hard as the l&p and she would need to be more careful, certainly initially.

ok thank you, if you were putting shellac on would you charge her for the removal. She is a mum from my sons school and could become a regular client but dont want to scare her by charging her £22 for manicure and shellac plus soak off as at the moment she has regular infills for £18.50.

The other thing is last time she went to a decent nail tech who uses cnd acrylic, but before this she went to a nss nail bar, so there might be a llittle of the acrylic left on her nails from the nss bar so how long will this take to soak off. Soak offs seems to take me about 45 mins which is far too long. How can i speed this up.

I normally use the ball of cotton wool soaked in acetone and foils method.
I have one of the rice bags that you put in the microwave, can i put the foil on, and then put the warm rice bag on her hands. will this soak them off quicker. thanks.

 

[naturalnails]

What would you normally charge for a soak off? You need to make the business decisions yourself - if you think that she would be a regular client, then you need to weight up the possibility of her being out off by your charges. However you are running a business and you could possibly do her an all in type of price.

As to the soak off, it is possible that if you use the foil method then incorporate the rice bag, the acetone will evaporate - I tried this with Shellac removal and the pad became very dry LOL - maybe I did it wrong LOL.

You could put some acetone in a glass bowl which then sits in a bigger bowl of warm water, this will help to speed up the removal or get one of the handi soak bowls if you do lots of soak offs.