waxcetera
Well-Known Member
I wonder if I could get some advice and confirmation on my own nails.
I'm newly qualified in UV Gel & Acrylics (as in 4 days qualified). I've currently got no enhancements on my nails, but the kids go back to school in a week and I'll be there newly qualified in the playground with all these potential clients, with my own nails looking like a nightmare.
On the course, she used white tips and a clear acrylic overlay, I'd been doing z1 in white myself, but thought, hey, that looks easier, so wanted to try those, maybe white tips with gel overlay.
Anyway, back to my own nails....... I used to be a nail biter, (honest, used to be, not anymore). None of my nail beds are what I'd call a uniform colour and are very flat. On one hand, I have 2 ski slope nails and one where the lateral side wall doesn't come all the way down, and getting a tip on that one, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
The other hand, I have a split growing out thats just reached the free edge, hence a split in the free edge that can't be filed out.
A lot of my free edges are uneven. My nails are very bendy and brittle, if I was to even scratch myself, they'd bend and usually split horizontally.
The options as I see them are:
1. Try and sculpt with no free edge, initial layer onto finger, pull back after curing and have a tiny free edge for the form (tried before, and sucked at it)
2. Blend in natural tips and use polish until they've grown enough for tips or sculpting.
3. Try with the white tips of a VERY reduced contact area and pray a lot.
4. Don't do anything for 6 days, put on a NNO overlay (gel or acrylic) in the meantime to try and strengthen them and pray I could do one of the above before the kids go back to school.
For the last 3 days I've been buffing gently and lathering in solar oil.
I know I should be able to figure this out for myself, if when I start getting clients in a few weeks, one walked in with nails like mine, I'd need to know, but not everything was covered in the course. So thought I'd ask for advice.
thanks in advance x
I'm newly qualified in UV Gel & Acrylics (as in 4 days qualified). I've currently got no enhancements on my nails, but the kids go back to school in a week and I'll be there newly qualified in the playground with all these potential clients, with my own nails looking like a nightmare.
On the course, she used white tips and a clear acrylic overlay, I'd been doing z1 in white myself, but thought, hey, that looks easier, so wanted to try those, maybe white tips with gel overlay.
Anyway, back to my own nails....... I used to be a nail biter, (honest, used to be, not anymore). None of my nail beds are what I'd call a uniform colour and are very flat. On one hand, I have 2 ski slope nails and one where the lateral side wall doesn't come all the way down, and getting a tip on that one, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.
The other hand, I have a split growing out thats just reached the free edge, hence a split in the free edge that can't be filed out.
A lot of my free edges are uneven. My nails are very bendy and brittle, if I was to even scratch myself, they'd bend and usually split horizontally.
The options as I see them are:
1. Try and sculpt with no free edge, initial layer onto finger, pull back after curing and have a tiny free edge for the form (tried before, and sucked at it)
2. Blend in natural tips and use polish until they've grown enough for tips or sculpting.
3. Try with the white tips of a VERY reduced contact area and pray a lot.
4. Don't do anything for 6 days, put on a NNO overlay (gel or acrylic) in the meantime to try and strengthen them and pray I could do one of the above before the kids go back to school.
For the last 3 days I've been buffing gently and lathering in solar oil.
I know I should be able to figure this out for myself, if when I start getting clients in a few weeks, one walked in with nails like mine, I'd need to know, but not everything was covered in the course. So thought I'd ask for advice.
thanks in advance x