Fibreglass/Silk Lifting Queries

[Claire83]

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm nearly through with my C&G NVQ II and I'm looking to do my fibreglass/silk full set assessment next week. I have had no problems with the full set, except for the whitish area in a previous post, but this has since been rectified.

Last week I had a fibreglass set put on by an NVQ III technician to pass her assessment and I also used it as an opportunity to watch and see how she did. This was on the Wednesday and by the Saturday I was starting to get lifting around the eponychium which I could just pick away.

Is there a way to stop this? I used cuticle oil and moisturiser, but dred to think my clients at college go through exactly the same thing with the lifting. Do you have to buff with a fine grit file to smooth out the resin at the cuticle as someone mentioned this at college.

She did use NSI Nail Pure Plus when prepping the nail, is this a good dehydrator to help avoid lifting?

I would show you a picture but I forgot to take one and have since removed them due to a lot of lifting from me playing with them, and now I'm dealing with the after effects of enthusiastic shine removal!

All help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[geeg]

One thing is a certainty ... Product that lifts so soon after application was never bonded to the nail in the first place.Once lifting gets started, there is nothing you can do to stop it other than to gently blend the lifted material away.

Resins only bond to the surface of the nail with a hydrogen bond (very weak bond... the weakest in nature). However you still should not pick them off and this will have caused damage in itself Not just over enthusiastic shine removal ... you have to take some of the responsibility yourself for the damage r nails is you picked at the product.

Probably the person who did your nails touched the skin with the resin which is why it never bonded to the surface of the nail in that area.

You finish a wrap just the same as any other type of enhancement which includes blending the product at the eponychium so that it has a seamless transition with the nail plate.

The best dehydrator is the one that goes with your wrap system.

 

[Claire83]

I know that I created some of the damage myself, but I'm also aware that she damaged the nail quite a bit during shine removal and overblending on the tips. I have two quite big pink dips in my nails but luckily they aren't sensitive, think I stopped her in the nick of time.

Unfortunately with our college kit we not provided with a dehydrator to go with this system but I'll have a search and see what is advised.

Is the resin with the wrap system not to touch the natural nail then and this is what causes the lifting? I'm a bit confused now. :o

Thanks for your help geeg.

 

[geeg]

I know that I created some of the damage myself, but I'm also aware that she damaged the nail quite a bit during shine removal and overblending on the tips. I have two quite big pink dips in my nails but luckily they aren't sensitive, think I stopped her in the nick of time.

Unfortunately with our college kit we not provided with a dehydrator to go with this system but I'll have a search and see what is advised.

Is the resin with the wrap system not to touch the natural nail then and this is what causes the lifting? I'm a bit confused now. :o

Thanks for your help geeg.

Hunni, I said she must have touched the skin surrounding your nails for it to have lifted ... of course the resin has to touch your natural nails just not the skin. :hug:

 

[Claire83]

Oh, lol Sorry I just didn't catch that bit and think my brain automatically thought it said nail. Oops. :o

Come to think of it, the resin was up around the cuticle quite a bit and on the side walls.

I will watch this when I do my assessments.

Thank you!

 

[geeg]

Oh, lol Sorry I just didn't catch that bit and think my brain automatically thought it said nail. Oops. :o

Come to think of it, the resin was up around the cuticle quite a bit and on the side walls.

I will watch this when I do my assessments.

Thank you!

You must leave a small free margin around around the skin with any enhancement material. ALWAys.