Charlie276
Well-Known Member
Please can I get some advice, I’m still a newbie and seem to get lifting in the same place and I’m not sure why!
So I feel like I’m extra through with prep, I do sidewalls as well as cuticles and make sure I get out all dust etc. I use a cuticle pusher, flat end tool and a efile.
The lifting is once the nail has grown out a bit. It’s always at the side, close to where the hyponichium is but not at the free edge end of that makes sense! It’s a couple of mm above the hyponichium line and down a few mm below it. No lifting at free edge. Never get any lifting at the cuticle either.
I am thinking that perhaps I am filing my gel to thin at the sides so as it grows it doesn’t have proper support or this has something to do with when the nail grows out somewhat and the natural nail is exposed at the side (tapered square shape). My sister in law who’s nails I was doing prior to lockdown usually has this issue but she has admitted to having her fingers in her mouth and nibbling her natural nail as it grows down on the side so I put it down to that but I am thinking this is a me issue as it’s always in the same place and has also happened on my MIL. Strangely this happens more on infills than a new set.
If anyone can offer any advice and pointers why this might be happening I would really appreciate it.
I also think maybe my tapered square is too tapered and so the nail grows out and you can see little bits of natural nail either side at the free edge (not tip) That probably makes no sense , however MILs nails are always round shape and she had this lifting a few times, mils nails have such a tight c curve I assumed it was that.
So I feel like I’m extra through with prep, I do sidewalls as well as cuticles and make sure I get out all dust etc. I use a cuticle pusher, flat end tool and a efile.
The lifting is once the nail has grown out a bit. It’s always at the side, close to where the hyponichium is but not at the free edge end of that makes sense! It’s a couple of mm above the hyponichium line and down a few mm below it. No lifting at free edge. Never get any lifting at the cuticle either.
I am thinking that perhaps I am filing my gel to thin at the sides so as it grows it doesn’t have proper support or this has something to do with when the nail grows out somewhat and the natural nail is exposed at the side (tapered square shape). My sister in law who’s nails I was doing prior to lockdown usually has this issue but she has admitted to having her fingers in her mouth and nibbling her natural nail as it grows down on the side so I put it down to that but I am thinking this is a me issue as it’s always in the same place and has also happened on my MIL. Strangely this happens more on infills than a new set.
If anyone can offer any advice and pointers why this might be happening I would really appreciate it.
I also think maybe my tapered square is too tapered and so the nail grows out and you can see little bits of natural nail either side at the free edge (not tip) That probably makes no sense , however MILs nails are always round shape and she had this lifting a few times, mils nails have such a tight c curve I assumed it was that.