Nail repairs

[samiejoe]

This will sound like a really silly question to all you experienced techs but please bare with me.
How would you repair a l&p tip if it has broken across the free edge? Do you soak and take the whole thing off and start again or is there a trade secret in what to?
I have tried a search and can't find an answer.

 

[louiser]

I've always soaked off and started again

 

[samiejoe]

So I maybe on the right track then. Thought I may have been doing something wrong.

 

[BABSann]

This will sound like a really silly question to all you experienced techs but please bare with me.
How would you repair a l&p tip if it has broken across the free edge? Do you soak and take the whole thing off and start again or is there a trade secret in what to?
I have tried a search and can't find an answer.

I personally would use a form and sculpt the tip on rather than soak off and start from scratch.Far easier.HTH

 

[samiejoe]

BABSann, how would you do that?

 

[BABSann]

BABSann, how would you do that?

I would file away the damage,place a form under the free edge and build up to the same length of the other enhancements (following usual routine of whatever system you're using)HTH

 

[*JOANNE*]

either sculpt or take 5 mins thinning the product down then re-apply the tip as apposed to soaking for 20 minutes.

 

[samiejoe]

So you can file down and re-apply the tip with out removing every last trace of product?

 

[*JOANNE*]

So you can file down and re-apply the tip with out removing every last trace of product?

as long as the product has no lifting or any other problems then yes you can

 

[BABSann]

So you can file down and re-apply the tip with out removing every last trace of product?

You dont need to remove every last trace of product.Think about when you do a rebalance,you dont need to remove all product.Just remove any lifting product and go from there.

 

[samiejoe]

Thanks fellow geeks!!! :hug: :hug: :hug:

 

[lotus blossom]

what i do is, if the well part of the tip is still there, so to speak and has snapped off lower down, i sculpt a new bit of tip, if it has snapped off completely, i will file down the product in zone 2 and bevel it towards the free edge and either reapply tip or sculpt competely
the only time i would ever soak off, would be if the breakage of the tip had created lifting etc and it was too much to file away