Teebster
Well-Known Member
Would someone please be able to give me some advice on Bio Sculpture infills.
I am taking by first Bio Sculpture assessment in November and today a lady who I have been practicing on (always toes before this set of finger nails) came up to me at the school gate and said she was unhappy with her nails. I painted her finger nails in a navy blue Bio Sculpture colour two and a half weeks ago and she was really pleased with them at the time (so was I). She is due for an infill but would not keep the last appointment I had made for her before the weekend, she said she would re-schedule for sometime this week.
When I looked at her nails, on her index finger the gel lifting along the cuticle, so hands up I have done some thing wrong although it was not attached to any cuticle and leaving a clean edge but lifting? Why? The rest of her nails where good and still shiny but in need of an infill (she had not touched them or re-applied top coat during this time).
The lady was very clearly not happy and said it was catching on everything which then made me feel really nervous in case it did catch accidentally and pulled causing damage to her natural nail underneath, so I asked if she would come round today and let me see to her nails but she said she did not have a lot of time today but would call round and I could repair that one lifting nail for now and she would re-book for later in the week.
The problem was, and not helped because I was nervous as she was v. unhappy with the lifting, that when I came to buff the gel down it just kept peeling away and by the time I could get the gel to stop coming away from the nail it was now almost half way down the nail.
I did infill this one nail, which made the rest look obviously odd and she has promised to come back on friday, but she said when she comes back she would like new nails put on not infills as if that much came off when buffing there is no point, its is too fiddly and time consuming, not smooth enough (oh no I really thought it was and thought I did a good job) and I caught her cuticle area with the buffer which she said really hurt. I did, I know I did, I said sorry but I am sure it did hurt, I am not saying it didn't.
What did I do wrong to make so much gel come off in the first place - it was just peeling back the more I buffed. I need to practice infills for my assessment and have not had this prob. before even in bright red on other people or on this clients toes. I have read (at least I thought I read somewhere) that infills aren't recommended for bio sculpture any more, but I have to do them for my assessment so I may be talking la la and just got that wrong.
What do you professionals do when that much gel comes away. Do you do infills or do you just soak off and re-apply. It takes me ages to soak off and ages to buff down so I can't win.
By the way I am obviously not charging anyone for there nails or treatments as I am asking them if I can practice and not yet qualified, but I do know that is no excuse at all for bad workmanship.
Any advice any one can give me would be really appreciated.:cry:
I am taking by first Bio Sculpture assessment in November and today a lady who I have been practicing on (always toes before this set of finger nails) came up to me at the school gate and said she was unhappy with her nails. I painted her finger nails in a navy blue Bio Sculpture colour two and a half weeks ago and she was really pleased with them at the time (so was I). She is due for an infill but would not keep the last appointment I had made for her before the weekend, she said she would re-schedule for sometime this week.
When I looked at her nails, on her index finger the gel lifting along the cuticle, so hands up I have done some thing wrong although it was not attached to any cuticle and leaving a clean edge but lifting? Why? The rest of her nails where good and still shiny but in need of an infill (she had not touched them or re-applied top coat during this time).
The lady was very clearly not happy and said it was catching on everything which then made me feel really nervous in case it did catch accidentally and pulled causing damage to her natural nail underneath, so I asked if she would come round today and let me see to her nails but she said she did not have a lot of time today but would call round and I could repair that one lifting nail for now and she would re-book for later in the week.
The problem was, and not helped because I was nervous as she was v. unhappy with the lifting, that when I came to buff the gel down it just kept peeling away and by the time I could get the gel to stop coming away from the nail it was now almost half way down the nail.
I did infill this one nail, which made the rest look obviously odd and she has promised to come back on friday, but she said when she comes back she would like new nails put on not infills as if that much came off when buffing there is no point, its is too fiddly and time consuming, not smooth enough (oh no I really thought it was and thought I did a good job) and I caught her cuticle area with the buffer which she said really hurt. I did, I know I did, I said sorry but I am sure it did hurt, I am not saying it didn't.
What did I do wrong to make so much gel come off in the first place - it was just peeling back the more I buffed. I need to practice infills for my assessment and have not had this prob. before even in bright red on other people or on this clients toes. I have read (at least I thought I read somewhere) that infills aren't recommended for bio sculpture any more, but I have to do them for my assessment so I may be talking la la and just got that wrong.
What do you professionals do when that much gel comes away. Do you do infills or do you just soak off and re-apply. It takes me ages to soak off and ages to buff down so I can't win.
By the way I am obviously not charging anyone for there nails or treatments as I am asking them if I can practice and not yet qualified, but I do know that is no excuse at all for bad workmanship.
Any advice any one can give me would be really appreciated.:cry:
