Lifting Acrylic!!

[blondey010]

Hi Everyone

I'm new to this site, so by way of history, I'm a part time Mobile Nail Tech (I work full time in an office)...qualified 18 months ago in Creative Acrylic night school, work one or two evenings a week doing nails.

I would love to do it full time, but my day job pays too much for me to walk away, I mainly do this as I enjoy it, and hope that one day I'll have my own salon.

However, the main thing about being mobile is that I've never had the salon experience that I think it so crucial to a college leaver and I'm having problems with lifting. I've read loads of stuff on this website, but I wonder if someone could give me some tips please?

I make sure the nail plate is bone dry, I apply primer (and line out when necessary), and wait for it to dry, but still get some lifting.... I try so hard to not let the product touch the cuticle, and mostly I do ok.....I wonder if my brush is too wet, as I find the product sometimes runs away from me...? Could that be the cause?

Thanks for any help you can give

 

[redsadie]

Hi Everyone

I'm new to this site, so by way of history, I'm a part time Mobile Nail Tech (I work full time in an office)...qualified 18 months ago in Creative Acrylic night school, work one or two evenings a week doing nails.

I would love to do it full time, but my day job pays too much for me to walk away, I mainly do this as I enjoy it, and hope that one day I'll have my own salon.

However, the main thing about being mobile is that I've never had the salon experience that I think it so crucial to a college leaver and I'm having problems with lifting. I've read loads of stuff on this website, but I wonder if someone could give me some tips please?

I make sure the nail plate is bone dry Do you apply cuticle remover and make sure you have got rid of all the cuticle?, I apply primer (and line out when necessary), and wait for it to dry, but still get some lifting.... I try so hard to not let the product touch the cuticle, and mostly I do ok.....I wonder if my brush is too wet, as I find the product sometimes runs away from me...? Could that be the cause? It could be hun, you need to work on your mix ratio, it needs to be medium, by which I mean white acrylic needs to have an 'orange peel' look and the pink or clear needs to have a 'frosted' appearance.

Thanks for any help you can give

I don't know if you've seen the tutorials part of the site? It's under the 'navigation' button at the top of each page. This is one particularly about lifting http://www.salongeek.com/nail-application/3007-perfect-preparation.html

HTH's and good luck :hug:

 

[blondey010]

Thanks Redsadie!

I do apply the cuticle cream and remove the cuticles....but with the pink it doesn't look frosted...so I guess I'm too wet ....I will practice using less liquid Thanks so much for your advice!!

 

[Tclement11]

are you applying the cuticle cream before you aply the acrylic????
If so STOP NOW!! PUT the cuticle cream down.....this is most likely your problem. When you are prep your nail the main focus is to dehydrate the nail and remove shine and oil you have just applied the oil with the cream. Also try to prime 2times do all 10 and go back and do again. You should see a big diff. next time.
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I hope that this works for you. You could also look into getting some Protein Bond from Young Nails this is a non acid (primer) works like a double sided sticky tape.
Works really great under natural nail polish as well.
Good Luck
Tracy

 

[grafxgal]

What product system are you using?

 

[Barbiekc84]

are you applying the cuticle cream before you aply the acrylic????
If so STOP NOW!! PUT the cuticle cream down.....this is most likely your problem. When you are prep your nail the main focus is to dehydrate the nail and remove shine and oil you have just applied the oil with the cream. Also try to prime 2times do all 10 and go back and do again. You should see a big diff. next time.
:|
I hope that this works for you. You could also look into getting some Protein Bond from Young Nails this is a non acid (primer) works like a double sided sticky tape.
Works really great under natural nail polish as well.
Good Luck
Tracy

I had the same problem, turned out to be not removing the cuticle cream efficiently enough. The oils were causing the lifting. I always now finish with scrub fresh thoroughly before starting any l&p work. Is this the best method? Or am I also missing out on a trick here to minimise lifting?

Kelly x

 

[blossom]

Hiya

You mention that your product sometimes seems to run away from you, I think that's a fair indication that mix you are working with is far too wet, and this could cause lifting. I should add that I'm not Creative, but I think its fair to say none of the systems should be "runny" to work with. Hope this helps, good luck.

Is the lifting on all your clients or just some of them btw?

 

[geeg]

Hi Everyone

I'm new to this site, so by way of history, I'm a part time Mobile Nail Tech (I work full time in an office)...qualified 18 months ago in Creative Acrylic night school, work one or two evenings a week doing nails.

I would love to do it full time, but my day job pays too much for me to walk away, I mainly do this as I enjoy it, and hope that one day I'll have my own salon.

However, the main thing about being mobile is that I've never had the salon experience that I think it so crucial to a college leaver and I'm having problems with lifting. I've read loads of stuff on this website, but I wonder if someone could give me some tips please?

I make sure the nail plate is bone dry, I apply primer (and line out when necessary), and wait for it to dry, but still get some lifting.... I try so hard to not let the product touch the cuticle, and mostly I do ok.....I wonder if my brush is too wet, as I find the product sometimes runs away from me...? Could that be the cause?

Thanks for any help you can give

You don't say if you are using CND now or not but using cuticle cream (and you don't mention which one ?) is not part of CND preparation in any case so this could be a contributing factor to lifting if you are not removing every trace of it from the plate.

I never use any primer with CND but if you feel you must then the Acid Free CND primer is the one you should use and not to start mixing products from different systems if possible.

Your mix ratio is indeed too wet if your product is 'running away from you' and hard to control and will lead to lifting if you don't get it right. The bead should be creamy and easy to work with, with no residue left in your brush. When making smaller beads you must use less liquid monomer.

Also making sure you press the bead onto the dry nail plate in zone 3 as well as the other zones is important. A good solid contact must be made between the product and the nail plate and for this pressing is important .. don't forget to press along those side walls too!

Avoid using products like 'line out' by fixing the problems which are causing the lifting in the first place. You will get more problems down the line from using the above mentioned product than you ever will if you just stick to your CND system. Problems like yellowing, cracking and lifting can all stem from using quick fix products like 'line out'. If you needed to use products like that with CND then CND would provide them for you in the system. The fact that CND have no such products means that when you use CND correctly you do not need them.

It has been PROVEN that working with your CND system of products immeasurably improves the adhesion and the durability of the product to the plate and the longevity of the enhancements.