spreston79
New Member
well i qualifed last year for manicure/gel/acrylic nails......and surprise our tutor was crap....to cut a long story short we all thought we knew what we was doing.....tutor became pregnant and had to leave 2 weeks before we due to end.....we spent sep to jan learning about manicures and then started to learn about gel/acrylics after this...was not long enough !
i had the products we used from college but they are crap...(gel/high shine uv cracks etc etc)
when the tutor left it became very apparaent that we really hadn't learnt that much at all....well maybe i'm being abit unfair...but our stand in tutor couldn't believe what we were doing and it was too late for us to leran as we werepreparing our portfolios...the latter tutor was watching me doing a nail and i could get the egding right and she was trying to teach me in haste (about the blending and holding a file the correct way etc etc....she was lovely and i soon realised with the other people in the class that we had been duped.....i'm finding this a common problem just when i briefly looked on here...i was very disappointed and quite honestly haven't done much since..just messed about with the products i had left over and that was that...spent alot of money on a course..but now not sure what to do.
on speck last week i got my nails done from a lady that was setup in our local shopping centre as i was going away for the weekend,and my nails look fantastic !!
it has inspired me to go back and practise my nails etc
now the lady put white tips on as my nails as they were quite short and then a pink acrylic over the top....up to this point i understood exactly what she was doing and then she filed off what she needed with the electric drill ( we learnt to do this manually in college and i've yet to get one and can't wait cause it so much better/quicker!)
what i am not sure about is she then but a clear liquid on top ..let it dry for a few seconds....completed the nail art i choose....and then put another clear layer on top (i presume some sort of fixer/high shine...not sure)
..now what was the 1st clear liquid she used and what was the second.....no UV light was used and she put my hands under a dryer and presto then were done in half an hour and i paid £21.
we learnt nothing of this at college...all i had was some very poor 'high shine uv liquid to put on top and then set with the uv..but this always cracks..poor cheap quailty
i would like to buy the correct things but i have no idea what they are called and unfortunaly i couldn't see anything on the bottles she used as it had come off....and felt abit cheeky asking.
feel really stupid for asking but i really do not have any idea.
please can someone help, what do you use/what is it called etc
Sylvina :irked::sad:
i had the products we used from college but they are crap...(gel/high shine uv cracks etc etc)
when the tutor left it became very apparaent that we really hadn't learnt that much at all....well maybe i'm being abit unfair...but our stand in tutor couldn't believe what we were doing and it was too late for us to leran as we werepreparing our portfolios...the latter tutor was watching me doing a nail and i could get the egding right and she was trying to teach me in haste (about the blending and holding a file the correct way etc etc....she was lovely and i soon realised with the other people in the class that we had been duped.....i'm finding this a common problem just when i briefly looked on here...i was very disappointed and quite honestly haven't done much since..just messed about with the products i had left over and that was that...spent alot of money on a course..but now not sure what to do.
on speck last week i got my nails done from a lady that was setup in our local shopping centre as i was going away for the weekend,and my nails look fantastic !!
it has inspired me to go back and practise my nails etc
now the lady put white tips on as my nails as they were quite short and then a pink acrylic over the top....up to this point i understood exactly what she was doing and then she filed off what she needed with the electric drill ( we learnt to do this manually in college and i've yet to get one and can't wait cause it so much better/quicker!)
what i am not sure about is she then but a clear liquid on top ..let it dry for a few seconds....completed the nail art i choose....and then put another clear layer on top (i presume some sort of fixer/high shine...not sure)
..now what was the 1st clear liquid she used and what was the second.....no UV light was used and she put my hands under a dryer and presto then were done in half an hour and i paid £21.
we learnt nothing of this at college...all i had was some very poor 'high shine uv liquid to put on top and then set with the uv..but this always cracks..poor cheap quailty
i would like to buy the correct things but i have no idea what they are called and unfortunaly i couldn't see anything on the bottles she used as it had come off....and felt abit cheeky asking.
feel really stupid for asking but i really do not have any idea.
please can someone help, what do you use/what is it called etc
Sylvina :irked::sad: