Nightmare with backfills

[kajay]

Have just finished doing a backfill. My friend had had her sculptures on for three weeks, and they had started to discolour around the edges, where they needed back filling. I filed them and was careful to file just above the line of discolouration, so it would take it off. After applying pink backfills, I could still see a line, where I had filed up to, and there seemed to be a few with discolouration, even though I was certain, I had filed it away. It happened with another friend yesterday. What am I doing wrong? :cry:

 

[AllThumbs]

i think you have to be more specific with what the discoloration was.. was it yellow? chipping? lifting? you may not have filed far enough? were you using the same product to fill as you did for the full set? Does she lay in the tanning bed?
Give more info so maybe we can figure this out.

edit: wait you said they were pink? what kind of acrylic were you using? I know sometimes the solid pinks like the CND Soldis pinks, will sometimes discolor because the mix ratios are different...

 

[kajay]

Hi the discolouration was a yellowish brownish colour, and it seemed to stay even though I was filing it away, maybe I hadn't filed the lifted part far enough down. And yes the client mentioned going on tanning bed. I used same acrylic that I used on original application, which was young nails xxx core pink acrylic.

 

[Susie H]

Are you sure this was not a greenie? If the colour was still there after you filed then it's on the nail and that sounds like a bactirial (sp) infection. (greenie)
If it was just the line with a cloudy sort of darker look after you finished then it's lifting that you didn't file out.
When you file away lifting you should do that last.
1 debulk the nail
2 shape your sidewalls and free edge
3 remove any lifting.

When you are doing 3 you want to be filing above the lifted nail not on it. If you file above it you will find the lifted product crumbles away and leaves a flush finish.
If you file on the lifting, as you file you will actually cause the nail to lift further down and then you get the result of a line and clouding when you put new product on.
Also when you prep the nail make sure that your dehydrator only comes into contact with the natural nail and not the old product.
I hope this helps:hug:

 

[kajay]

It was definitely not a greenie. But it sounds like it was definitely lifting I had not filed out properly. I had filed above the lifting as you said, but must have accidently filed on top of it, for the darker cloudy line left behind. I will try debulking the nail first next time as you said, and remove lifting last. Thanks for your advice

 

[Susie H]

It was definitely not a greenie. But it sounds like it was definitely lifting I had not filed out properly. I had filed above the lifting as you said, but must have accidently filed on top of it, for the darker cloudy line left behind. I will try debulking the nail first next time as you said, and remove lifting last. Thanks for your advice

I'd love to take the credit for that but have to admit it came from Gigi (Geeg)
You will find it's a much quicker way to do a rebalance too. She says it's clearing the way to do the real work, ie new product. With the minimum traumer to the natural nail. Good luck hun :hug: