Nightmare at infills

[showson]

Hi Geeks

I am after help or advice please.

I have not been doing nails long and i am getting better and quicker but i just can not master infills, they are a night mare.

I went to do a set last night on a lady and all i had to do was infill with clear. Some of the nails had started to lift so i went in with a 100 grit file and started to file down the bulk of the product moving back towards zone 3, but when filing the lifted bits didn't seem to want to come off, the line at the end of the acrylic when i tried to file that all the acrylic seemed to do was disappear up the nail so what was left on the nail got smaller and smaller.

After i had finished filing which seemed to take me about hour i then went and applied the clear acrylic but you could still see the old dull acrylic underneath, so i ended up taking them all off and putting a new set on.

Can any one help where i am going wrong (also on a few of the nails where the acrylic had lifted the lady had got make up underneath so they were brown).

:cry:

 

[Bagpuss]

Sometimes using a file of that harsh a grit (100) will make the lifting worse...it unsettles the acrylic and rattles it all about....try using a 240 to make the lift line dissapear...this will also lessen the risk of natural nail damage. You also need to file behind the lifted area...not on top of it....look at the nail...look at the lifted area and look to see where the lifting starts and finishes...now file on the part that isn't lifted yet.....this will seal thats part of the acrylic and the lifted part will just fall off. Never file on top of lifted acrylic....it just makes it spread like a ladder in tights.

Hope this helps xx