nail angel 67
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Right, starting to want to hit my head against a brick wall at the moment! :grr:
Been practising with Gelish for months now and even did my translation course a couple of weeks ago which gave me a few tips but I was generally doing everything I should. Now so far I've been practising on friends and family for free and very recently started to do a couple more girls for a small charge who I work with in my part time office job.
Mostly everyone's getting at least 7 days wear out of their gelish but then from, say, around day 9-10 most of them are starting to have problems except one of them. Her nails are always 100% perfect and she admits to using her oil regularly and also ALWAYS using gloves to wash up. However, the others have generally admitted to not always (or never in some cases) wearing gloves when washing or cleaning. My sister especially has admitted to never wearing them (although she says she uses her oil regularly) and she's also admitted to being a picker! She's a full time nanny too and seems to be quite heavy handed. Another thing is she used to always bite her nails until a couple of years ago so not sure if maybe her nails are just not meant to be very long.
I'd say nearly every time someone has a problem it's on their index finger or thumb which I know are the most heavily used fingers. I've started using a layer of structure gel on them recently and it definitely seems to last a bit longer but mostly they still have at least 1 or 2 nails chip by around day 10. If only everyone could get to day 14 I'd feel a lot happier. I've had discussions with a local hairdresser lately who I've now made an agreement with to do gelish nails in his shop but this makes me lose a lot of confidence and I don't want full paying customers to constantly keep coming back saying they've got problems, it would be embarrassing :o
Just been to my mum's again who has thumb and index finger on one hand chipped and middle finger on the other. She did say the thumb was down to trying to get the back of her phone cover off so I suppose I can count that out but will use structure gel on her again next time I do her nails.
I want everyone to be like my friend at work who lasts perfectly for 2 weeks - do you think it's down to me or could it just be my clients? Also, starting to wonder if I should put structure gel on everyone's thumbs and index fingers from now on - what do you think?
Please help I'm getting so fed up now.
By the way, my own nails seem to last to around 10-11 days too most of the time but I'm the worst for not looking after them (terrible I know), I often forget the oil and I never wear gloves either for washing although I don't do much as I have a dishwasher. The thing is I also help my partner run a bouncy castle, soft play business so my nails are treated roughly by cleaning products and lifting heavy items often so personally I think mine last just great considering ...
Been practising with Gelish for months now and even did my translation course a couple of weeks ago which gave me a few tips but I was generally doing everything I should. Now so far I've been practising on friends and family for free and very recently started to do a couple more girls for a small charge who I work with in my part time office job.
Mostly everyone's getting at least 7 days wear out of their gelish but then from, say, around day 9-10 most of them are starting to have problems except one of them. Her nails are always 100% perfect and she admits to using her oil regularly and also ALWAYS using gloves to wash up. However, the others have generally admitted to not always (or never in some cases) wearing gloves when washing or cleaning. My sister especially has admitted to never wearing them (although she says she uses her oil regularly) and she's also admitted to being a picker! She's a full time nanny too and seems to be quite heavy handed. Another thing is she used to always bite her nails until a couple of years ago so not sure if maybe her nails are just not meant to be very long.
I'd say nearly every time someone has a problem it's on their index finger or thumb which I know are the most heavily used fingers. I've started using a layer of structure gel on them recently and it definitely seems to last a bit longer but mostly they still have at least 1 or 2 nails chip by around day 10. If only everyone could get to day 14 I'd feel a lot happier. I've had discussions with a local hairdresser lately who I've now made an agreement with to do gelish nails in his shop but this makes me lose a lot of confidence and I don't want full paying customers to constantly keep coming back saying they've got problems, it would be embarrassing :o
Just been to my mum's again who has thumb and index finger on one hand chipped and middle finger on the other. She did say the thumb was down to trying to get the back of her phone cover off so I suppose I can count that out but will use structure gel on her again next time I do her nails.
I want everyone to be like my friend at work who lasts perfectly for 2 weeks - do you think it's down to me or could it just be my clients? Also, starting to wonder if I should put structure gel on everyone's thumbs and index fingers from now on - what do you think?
Please help I'm getting so fed up now.
By the way, my own nails seem to last to around 10-11 days too most of the time but I'm the worst for not looking after them (terrible I know), I often forget the oil and I never wear gloves either for washing although I don't do much as I have a dishwasher. The thing is I also help my partner run a bouncy castle, soft play business so my nails are treated roughly by cleaning products and lifting heavy items often so personally I think mine last just great considering ...