Fear of applying dark nail varnish Help!

[Lavander Rose]

Hi Everyone

Can anyone advise me how I can overcome the fear of applying dark nail varnish.

I did a beauty course 2 yrs ago and loved every minute of it exept for doing manicures.

I always try and avoid doing manicures with dark polish and I need to overcome this ASAP as instead of going mobile I am going to be renting a room eeekkkk and I need to overcome this fear of DARK nail varnish.

Please help as I know I will after do this sooner that later

 

[cups1974]

What about It scares you?

 

[hippy-chick]

I have a fear of ALL nail polish application!!!

 

[andi]

I dread French manicures!

 

[ValencianNails]

Is it more a case that you don't want to go making a mess of your clients skin by doing a messy application?
You could use a product like NailFresh (by Creative), it's fab for tidying up little mistakes, even with darker enamel.

Gigi did a fab tutorial for polishing, here's the link... http://www.salongeek.com/nail-finishing-maintenance/11972-precision-polishing.html

hth's a bit

 

[kellym]

Practice a lot!!!
Do it first on yourself a dozen times, and then start using everyone in your house as a guinea pig!
IMO practice is the only way to overcome such kind of fears...

Oh, and take your time doing it! Fast doesn't always mean good or professional!

 

[Lavander Rose]

It actually terrifies me cups LOL

 

['chelle]

Geeg's tutorial on here is invaluable, it really helped me with my application. Oh, and Geeg did actually show me the trick with the nailfresh, get a thin brush (she actually recommended an old product brush), dip it in the nailfresh, let it rest on the bit you want to get rid of, then "sweep" the brush away. It gives a lovely precise finish and doesnt interfere with the rest of the enamel that you want to stay put.

 

[Noodle]

Take a look at this thread I posted back in 2005.

http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/11389-advice-needed-deep-colour-varnishes.html

I now have absolutely no fear of dark colours (any colours actually) ... I cannot recommend highly enough Geeg's tutorial on Precision Polishing, as it helped me loads!

 

[Bagpuss]

I have a piece of advise that helped me with this....dont think about too much...just do it.

To be honest the more hesitant and careful i am the worse it is....but when i just go for it they turn out much better.

 

[UKRed]

Practice, Practice, Practice. I used to dread doing dark enamel, and now I love them, I hate doing french if its traditional. I love doing dark tips.

If you need a guinea pig, and you live nearby I am willing to be your victim

 

[hippy-chick]

well, last night I was all fired up to practise, practise, practise.

I have some mini OPI's in orangey red.

First go, flooded nail bed, raggedy finish at cuticle.
Second go, marked improvement, but near cuticle not straight.
Third go, def improvement, although now not flooding nail bed, the finish at the bottom of the nail is still awful.

Gave up after that as my hub was looking at me like I was an alien!!!

 

[estherlou]

it's definately a practice thing. and i agree with bagpuss you do have to just go for it, if you take to long messing about your enamel can partly dry and then you get in a mess (i speak from experience) it comes in time and before you know it you're chatting away and not in the slightest bit bothered by it.
until a client says " gosh you must have to have really staedy hands to do this" thats the point where i always get the shakes:lol:

 

[hippy-chick]

Ok. read the past threads as kindly submitted, and went for it again today.
I did it twice, and found the push down then pull up action worked a lot better.
I also sometimes went horizontally across the base and then did the 3 lines up to the free edge.
I didn't have to use anything to clean the edges, but I left too much of a gap around the sides.

 

[UKRed]

Ok. read the past threads as kindly submitted, and went for it again today.
I did it twice, and found the push down then pull up action worked a lot better.
I also sometimes went horizontally across the base and then did the 3 lines up to the free edge.
I didn't have to use anything to clean the edges, but I left too much of a gap around the sides.

They look fine to me

 

[Nail Perfection]

Make sure the polish has a decent brush, not too wide. You can even trim the brush to suit your application technique. Although this is normally done to perfect the white polish of a french manicure.

I have found Creative and Opi polish brushes a good shape, plenty length.
If you are practising with a minature opi polish, the brush is sometimes a bit smaller and dumpy (if you know what I mean) and this may hinder you.

Hope this helps

 

[mum]

This is one of the aspects of being a professional nail technician that so often lets the profession down!

So many manicurists and technicians can't provide a good 'paint job'! This is what the client takes away with them and looks at for several days.

We need to be specialists. Therefore we need to have the skills that are better than our clients.

Not many consumers can do a fantastic paint job on themselves. If we set ourselves up as manicurists or technicians we MUST have the skills to provide a perfect paint that will look fabulous for more than 7 days. Your clients should leave you with "I LOVE my nails" attitude.

If this isn't on offer, why should they pay you to be a specialist??

 

[stampy]

When applying reds and darks I sometimes apply the polish horizontally across the base then sweep straight up the right side in same stroke, then do a stroke for the middle and a stroke for the left. Hope that makes sense. Oh, and try not to be too slow. It turns out neater for me! x

 

[becki x]

This is one of the aspects of being a professional nail technician that so often lets the profession down!

So many manicurists and technicians can't provide a good 'paint job'! This is what the client takes away with them and looks at for several days.

We need to be specialists. Therefore we need to have the skills that are better than our clients.

Not many consumers can do a fantastic paint job on themselves. If we set ourselves up as manicurists or technicians we MUST have the skills to provide a perfect paint that will look fabulous for more than 7 days. Your clients should leave you with "I LOVE my nails" attitude.

If this isn't on offer, why should they pay you to be a specialist??

I agree !

Maybe an hours 121 would help Hippy Chick ? Oh and lot's and lot's of practise with a very dark enamel

 

[hippy-chick]

See I just think that the manicure and pedicure, the painting is a bonus rather than the most important part of the treatment.

I regularly have pedicures, and I really enjoy the whole treatment, and love the cuticle work. to get my nails painted is a nice bonus, but if they didn't offer painting, I wouldn't be bothered.

If I had a manicure, I would only ask for natural or french anyway.

btw, got 2 mini manicures booked in, so need to get my skates on and order some stuff.