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champagne

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I have a regular lady who has NNO's, I have been re-balancing for months but i ve noticed that every couple of rebalances the same 2 nails are comig off days before her appointment.

It is the same 2 nails every time, the nail looks clean so i dont think shes picking/biting.

I cant understand it, i have started to prime those 2 nails only, even that hasnt worked.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

Thx guys xx
 
These are probably the two that she uses as tools hun hth
 
Hmmm I wondered that.... Its really strange how all the others are fine x
 
what does she do for a living....?

I had a client like this once and it drove us mad trying to work it out...turns out she was using a finger rubber thing for counting money for 6 hours a day....as soon as she swapped that for a rubber band the problem stopped.
 
Shes office based working a couple of hours a day, I asked the general what have you been doing to them question.

Ill speak to her when she comes back.

I have noticed that these 2 nails are a lot flatter than the others but not sure that would be the cause of the loss...
 
If it is the same two fingers it is deffinately due to the fact that she uses them for some task regularly, you need to find out what she does as a job etc.

I had a couple of people with similar problem when i have used tips, but i have sculpt those missing nails during the repair and they were fine.

Here is a little story I had to deal with :

I had a client once, in fact she is still a client, but a better behaved one now))) I would put a full set on, she would go away and come back in 3 days after with no nails on and the natural nail would be shiny! I have tried to find out what she was doing in these 3 days and she would say - nothing out of the ordinary! I would reapply the set (free of charge of course) and the same will happen 3 days later.

I have done a number of free sets on a number of occasions, dehydrating the nail more, using nail fresh and more primer, sculpting instead of tipping, tried it all and she was still coming back with no nails and het natural nails were shiny like there was no enhancements on at all.

To put a long story short - one time during a service she told me betwen the lines that she was using AMMONIA to clean her house every day with NO gloves. Obviously ammonia was eating away the natural nail slowly hence the shine.

Now I make sure I let them to be aware that they follow the recommendations to avoid service breakdown, clients tend to think they know better and they will almost never admit they have done something wrong.

hope this helps)))
 
Shes office based working a couple of hours a day, I asked the general what have you been doing to them question.

Ill speak to her when she comes back.

I have noticed that these 2 nails are a lot flatter than the others but not sure that would be the cause of the loss...


There could be a variety of reasons why those 2 nails are flatter, could be due to the damage to them at some point (caught in the door).

Flatter nails need you to build up a strong apex for strength, have a look next time whe you are putting nails on if you are building enough of the apex, if enhancement is flat as well as the natural nail they are more likely to break in short time.

Find out if she uses thise fingers to deal with paper as paper is very dehydrating and advise her to use solar oil or cuticle oil that you use to maintain the moisture in the nail. Cuticle oil makes enhancements stronger.

hope this helps:)
 
Ive had the same thing happen to a client of mine. I would do a great set of extensions then when I went back for her infills she said they were rubbish and came off!! I was quite hurt! I found out from her new husband, (she had been planning her wedding and not told me) that she sits down at night and picks at them, and cleans the swimming pool without gloves when she puts the chlorine in the basket etc. etc. etc. That was the reason. I got her a lovely pair of working rubber gloves, and after her wedding too her nerves settled down. So no more picking. Instead she has taken to decorating!! Now I just create them a bit shorter and build the appex up more for strength. Much better. They always say "I havent done anything out of the norm". Well it takes all kinds to make the world go round!
 
Ive had the same thing happen to a client of mine. I would do a great set of extensions then when I went back for her infills she said they were rubbish and came off!! I was quite hurt! I found out from her new husband, (she had been planning her wedding and not told me) that she sits down at night and picks at them, and cleans the swimming pool without gloves when she puts the chlorine in the basket etc. etc. etc. That was the reason. I got her a lovely pair of working rubber gloves, and after her wedding too her nerves settled down. So no more picking. Instead she has taken to decorating!! Now I just create them a bit shorter and build the appex up more for strength. Much better. They always say "I havent done anything out of the norm". Well it takes all kinds to make the world go round!


Great idea with the gloves))) I should stock up some as wee gift))))

Picking the nails - reminds me a friend of my collegues that deliberately picks her nails off after 5-6 days in order to get fresh ones for free! Thats cheeky:irked:

Thats like buying bread from Tesco, eating the half and bringing it back the next day, saying to them -" oh, it seems that my bread was already bitten when I bought it"!!! or "I bought the bread yesterday, i ate it but it was not up to the standard, so you need to give me a fresh one for free"!!!!
 
i have this problem with myself... no clients, but just myself lol! they dont quite come off but my middle finger nails ALWAYS lift, i wondered for the longest time what the problem was and finally i noticed that when i type, i type with my nail on those fingers only and my acutal finger tips on the rest of my fingers! this is the only thing ive been able to come up with to justify the lifting, so just goes to show how even the smallest thing your clients may never consider damaging could possibly be the problem!
 
I thought of you today Champagne as one of my regulars came in with her usual two index overlays gone!!

She had rang yesterday to let me know and when she came in today she told me that she knew what it was. She had got some of those invisable braces which you have to remove each time you eat and as she was doing this she realised that as she was flicking out the brace she was using those two nails and she knew herself that this is what was lifting the gel... so there you go.. i'd have never thought of that!!
 
Thanks all.....I know its not me, shes not in for 2-3 weeks now so ill let you all know x
 

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