How long does should it take to do backfill?

[kajay]

I'm coming to the end of my course with Young Nails. I am still getting lifting on some people after two weeks. I realise now that I have been applying it too thick at the edges, and not feathering, and have started doing this now.

I did my own nails, and realised that I had feathered after backfilling, and I have had sculptures on for over five weeks now, and have done back fill and rebalance on them. I have noticed that with feathering, I can hardly see the join between my natural nail and the acrylic, and no lifting. The last 3 girls I backfilled on, had a lot of lifting, and I had to e-file most of the acrylic off, before applying new acrylic, one took 1 1/2 hour to back fill, and one young girl had bitten some of her acrylics off, because they had lifted so much after two weeks, instead of contacting me to take them off, the ones she had left on I managed to keep the sculpted tips on, and just applied new acrylic to them after filing off the lifted, and then applied tips and did pink and white reverse on the others, this took me over 2 1/2 hours to do with e-filing off of old acrylic. I am still not charging at the moment, as I am not good enough to yet.

The nails I do on people always look lovely, and I have got my smiles sorted now, with reverse app, but the lifting has been a problem. I hope that the feathering of the edges I have since been doing, is going to solve the problem. I am prepping before hand, but wonder if my mix ratio is wrong. How do I know if it is right or not?

 

[mdskora]

Hi there,
I think really u are best contacting yur Young Nails teacher. YN are very good with their back up support. I think your prob either are not preping prob.. i know that in australia YN only use their E file with a soft bit to remove the dead cuticle.. if u are still learning u might not be getting all the cuticle and this is a sure lifting prob..
I would not be worried about your times.. u are still learning.
good luck and i am sure that your teacher will sort it out before u finish your education
x mel

 

[geeg]

Mel is right, timing is the last thing you should be worried about at the moment ... getting it right and using the correct techniques to solve your problems is the most important thing.

If clients are willing to spend the time and work with you, then if your nails are pleasing to the eye, start charging now!! You certainly should not be working on anyone for free.

Why say you are not good enough if the end result is pleasing and pretty? If they are then you are.

Timing will come down with experience and without paying clients you will not get the experience, so start charging and getting what you need to move on ... otherwise you won't.

 

[kajay]

Hi, I haven't been charging as I wanted to get as many people to allow me to practice on their nails. Some of the students have struggled to get anyone to let them practice on them. I have over 30 "practice client" details on file now. So when I start to charge, when I hopefully obtain my certificate, I can contact them to let them know, I have done so, and give them my price list.

I have applied over 50 sets since starting the course. I ask friends and family for me to let me apply a set, backfill, and rebalance for free, but once I have completed this procedure on them, I will be charging if they want me to do it again for them.

I did a rebalance on a friend today, I decided to take off all the product with e-file as I had put it on too thick before hand and it had lifted. Her natural nails had grown underneath to the length she was happy with, so I didn't need to apply any extensions. I found that I had shadowing on a few of her free edges, and I had to apply more white to cover this at the end of me applying new pink and white reverse. The whole procedure took me nearly three hours. She had really long nail beds, and instead of applying one bead of pink to the nail bed as taught by young nails, I had to add more. I think I made it too thick just before the free edge application, and then filed too thin at the free edge, revealing her natural nail edge underneath. I am feeling a bit fed up at the moment, and find I am struggling timewise with the backfills and rebalances.

Although her nails looked really nice, and she was pleased with the fact that there were no extensions needed to make them that way. I just hope there is no lifting, as I feathered the edges instead at the cuticle area, as it seemed to have worked on my own nails.

 

[kajay]

Oh, and by the way, if it hadn't been for this forum, I don't think I would be any good at all, as one day every two weeks with tutor for me is not enough. So thank you everyone on this forum for the advice I have had.