Making a new little toe nail with acrylic

[Hands_Only]

Hi all

Has anyone ever made a new little toe nail from acrylic? I have a client next week and she is missing this toe nail.

I would be most grateful for all comments and if there is a tutorial on this I would be over the moon

many thanks
Angela

 

[g5m_sh]

If she has no toe nail there at all, the acrylic wont stick to her skin!!

hth

 

[Hands_Only]

Do you have any ideas how I could make her a toe nail??

thanks

 

[g5m_sh]

A whole toe or just the nail??

No for both... sorry!

 

[Hands_Only]

can anyone else help please

 

[Helen Keating]

hi
most people who lose this nail do not lose it all.. they have what i have a nail that spoons upwards and the new nail that grows pushs the old nail off..... so when this happens to me or a clients i sculpt a new nail but not with a form( liquid & powder),i let it dry a little then just tease it out...i think if you client is the same as me then this will be an ongoing prob but if she is happy with what you do she will be a client for life..
HTH..Hx

 

[cute nails]

can anyone else help please

one of my clients has no big toe nail, I created a false nail using acrylic and she stuck it to her skin using a prosthetic glue (not sure if spelling right) she now wears sandals again no longer ashamed of her feet and when she does loose it i just make another one for her.

 

[lotus blossom]

yep i would just make her one, then have her apply it herself with adhesive

aply the liquid and powde onto a cleansed skin area( where her nail would have been)
drop a tiny dropof oil onto the area, and the place the bead of product, smooth and shape etc, when set remove voila!!!
she can keep using it as much as she likes,maybe do a french one, and a natural one that she can polish as she see fits!!!

hth xx

 

[Cathie!]

I build up a new toe nail using gel and silk, following a thread Minkus did donkeys ago....it's fab and works really well....

Prep
Bonder layer of gel
Apply silk to make the faux nail plate
Gel to build some structure.....cure
File nice for a nice smooth finish....apply more gel if any low spots
Polish and voila...fab toe!

 

[Hands_Only]

thanks all really appreciate all your help I will let you all know how it goes

Angela

 

[blossom]

I have several clients for whom I make toenails . . . fortunately for me, they each have a little bit of toenail to start with, one lady just has a 5mm strip of nail up the middle, following an op for ingrown toenail, but it's enough to build on. Does your lady have any toenail on which you could build?

 

[becki x]

I have several clients for whom I make toenails . . . fortunately for me, they each have a little bit of toenail to start with, one lady just has a 5mm strip of nail up the middle, following an op for ingrown toenail, but it's enough to build on. Does your lady have any toenail on which you could build?

Poppits are superb for this if there is a little bit of nail plate to adhere to,however please remeber if this is the case don't make it too lomg :idea: hth's

 

[~Emmsybabes~]

Hello hun,
I had to do this for myself for quite a while when I lost my toenail too.
The way I did it is this.....

Took a sculpting form...using the squares on the form, I estimated how wide and how long I would need the nail to be,

Then I checked out the curve on my nail bed to see how curved I would need the toenail to be, to ensure maximum contact with my nail bed.

I then found the correct c curve stick (well as near as I could guess to match the curve on my toenail)
If the nail is a little one though I imagine you could use a pencil or something for this bit.

I wrapped the form around the c-curve stick, and just sculpted a nail on there, following the squares I had estimated earlier.
I did this in clear and just kept all of my toenails painted,

I popped the nail off the form when it was cured, The best thing to do though is to keep the application as smooth as possible, then you will only need to buff over the surface of the acrylic.

Make a few at the same time this way you can hand them to the client to use as replacements if she does lose one.

Then I just applied it to my nail bed with resin.

Mine did stay in place for a long time..I was pleasantly surprised.

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I have found links to my toenail and the acrylic one I made....this was once the nail had started to grow back, but same thing with no nail
BEFORE
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b268/emmsybabes/STA40719.jpg
AFTER
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b268/emmsybabes/DSC00366.jpg

Your client will love you hun, I was over the moon when I applied my acrylic toenail, I felt "normal" again x

 

[Hands_Only]

I will see her at school today so I will get a quick look to see what her nail is like and then will make an appointment to get a measurement for her toenail and then make her some for her appointment to get them all done

thank you so much for all the help you have made this much easier for me
angela