Hi guys, I really need some advice.
I'm not a trained professional, I was looking into doing a short course, but due to the following, I've decided to take a longer course using Creative products. I've had my nails done hundreds of times and therefore know what goes on, etc (once had my nails done in a place that drilled my poor cuticles. Now I am VERY picky about where I get my enhancements done).
Anyway, my sister in law saw my nails one day and decided she'd like to be a tech. I encouraged her, and she went to a 2 day course near Manchester. That was about 3 weeks ago and she's practiced on 3 family members since. She did mine yesterday (I'd left them natural for the last few months).
I know she is only a beginner but the way she has done them and how they are now are really worrying me. Firstly her working technique is slow (understandable) but she had to be reminded twice to remove my (nude) nail polish before priming my nails (she is excellent with matters of hygiene however). The white tip application is all over the place - the tips seem very far down my nails (and I have good, long nail beds and a decent amount of nail, I'm not a biter etc). In some cases they are halfway down my natural nail! They are all lengths, and I asked for them squared off, she seems to have been taught that squared off is oval, as some are squarer and some are perfectly oval. Anyway, she used a powder & acrylic gel which set under a UV lamp - she told me it was perfectly normal to tingle, but it felt very tight and momentarily painful (for a few seconds).
The finished nails look ok-ish from far off but really are a bit of a mess close up - the acrylic wasn't applied over my whole nail bed (leaving tiny bits of bare nail, which is dull as she buffed/primed it, and tiny bits of bare white plastic tip). They aren't as smooth as they should be and look thicker around the edges which make me think she was working too wet. After the acrylic was set under the lamp she buffed the top and then stuck a bit of topcoat on which in places looks to have been 'absorbed' and gone dull, not shiny.
My main worry is that some of the nails seem to arch upwards (hard to describe), as if side on, the acrylic itself is flat but the end of the tip is higher than the cuticle. I think she had the tip cutter the wrong way around which has caused them to buckle??
Secondly when I look down the nail barrel I can see my natural nails and a clear space between the tip and my natural nail, obviously I am very worried about water/makeup/food getting up there and damaging my nails and I feel I should take them off? I already have lifting on my thumbnail.
She told me not to get my hands wet at all - I was so worried about nail damage my poor hubby had to wash my hair for me last night!
I've had a quiet word with him about it all and he isn't too happy (not at me, at the training as it seems to be rubbish) and will pass on my concerns - most of which I only noticed after she left. I don't want to hurt her feelings but there is no way I'd pay £25 for these nails, and this is in central Leeds where I've paid £50.
What should I do - I can't find a tech to take me on at such short notice, plus I'm in work until 16.30. Am I ok to soak them off myself, and what should I do after that - they tend to be very dry afterward, should I apply cuticle oil/protective topcoat?
I'm not a trained professional, I was looking into doing a short course, but due to the following, I've decided to take a longer course using Creative products. I've had my nails done hundreds of times and therefore know what goes on, etc (once had my nails done in a place that drilled my poor cuticles. Now I am VERY picky about where I get my enhancements done).
Anyway, my sister in law saw my nails one day and decided she'd like to be a tech. I encouraged her, and she went to a 2 day course near Manchester. That was about 3 weeks ago and she's practiced on 3 family members since. She did mine yesterday (I'd left them natural for the last few months).
I know she is only a beginner but the way she has done them and how they are now are really worrying me. Firstly her working technique is slow (understandable) but she had to be reminded twice to remove my (nude) nail polish before priming my nails (she is excellent with matters of hygiene however). The white tip application is all over the place - the tips seem very far down my nails (and I have good, long nail beds and a decent amount of nail, I'm not a biter etc). In some cases they are halfway down my natural nail! They are all lengths, and I asked for them squared off, she seems to have been taught that squared off is oval, as some are squarer and some are perfectly oval. Anyway, she used a powder & acrylic gel which set under a UV lamp - she told me it was perfectly normal to tingle, but it felt very tight and momentarily painful (for a few seconds).
The finished nails look ok-ish from far off but really are a bit of a mess close up - the acrylic wasn't applied over my whole nail bed (leaving tiny bits of bare nail, which is dull as she buffed/primed it, and tiny bits of bare white plastic tip). They aren't as smooth as they should be and look thicker around the edges which make me think she was working too wet. After the acrylic was set under the lamp she buffed the top and then stuck a bit of topcoat on which in places looks to have been 'absorbed' and gone dull, not shiny.
My main worry is that some of the nails seem to arch upwards (hard to describe), as if side on, the acrylic itself is flat but the end of the tip is higher than the cuticle. I think she had the tip cutter the wrong way around which has caused them to buckle??
Secondly when I look down the nail barrel I can see my natural nails and a clear space between the tip and my natural nail, obviously I am very worried about water/makeup/food getting up there and damaging my nails and I feel I should take them off? I already have lifting on my thumbnail.
She told me not to get my hands wet at all - I was so worried about nail damage my poor hubby had to wash my hair for me last night!
I've had a quiet word with him about it all and he isn't too happy (not at me, at the training as it seems to be rubbish) and will pass on my concerns - most of which I only noticed after she left. I don't want to hurt her feelings but there is no way I'd pay £25 for these nails, and this is in central Leeds where I've paid £50.
What should I do - I can't find a tech to take me on at such short notice, plus I'm in work until 16.30. Am I ok to soak them off myself, and what should I do after that - they tend to be very dry afterward, should I apply cuticle oil/protective topcoat?
