Lifting at free edge (sorry I imagine this has been asked)

[Olivia Dawn]

yes as I said sorry if this has been asked a billion times but I seem to be more and more troubled with lifting/separating at the free edge. I use gel, Aksentz and Brisa to be exact... but I am not sure what I am doing wrong, I do get a bit of lifting around cuticle area off and on too but find the separation at free edge is what is making nails come off and stuff.. i try to put gel over the tip, like wrap it over.. but any tips?? THANKS!!!

 

[ValencianNails]

The lifting you're getting in zone 3 could be from soft tissue contact with the gel, lack of prep and/or the gel being too thick. The lifting at the free edge is more than likely caused by you not capping the edges of the enhancements enough, either that or you're buffing it off when you're doing your finishing buffing.

hth's a bit

 

[Prionace]

Does it lift on all free edge or just the corners? Does this happens for most of your customers or one in particular.
If it is all free edge it must be lack of capping, if its mostly the corners and specificly on one or few clients it can be the lack of moisture that makes the nails curl and back away from the enhancement, tell them to use cuticle oil under the nails too.

 

[Olivia Dawn]

it is mostlt at the corners of the free edge now that I think about it. And no not all clients or all fingers but usually a finger or two... I never thought about the oil, thanks.

 

[Jessicles]

I have clients that no matter how much oil they use, will have some tip separation. Sometimes, it is the clients that keep their nails the shortest too. I get it with gel and l&p. I think some people just have curly nails. The only real way to cure it is to file the length down more than they want and build out a new free edge with a form. That's not really productive in the salon setting, so I normally get the worst offenders to go with a backfill (american "french rebalance") every other fill if they want french or make sure I expose the natural nail all around the free edge and sides to apply fresh product to it if it's just a clear NNO. If required (on longer nails), you may have to schedule a soak off/new set every other month or so, where you trim the natural nail as short as possible so you don't get separation for a few fills.