Non acid nail primer

[nailchic83]

I was just wondering if anyone has used a non acid nail primer? and was wonderinf if it is as good for adhesion as the acid kind? its just that i'm finding when i soak a clients nails off within a day or two they start to break, could this be a cause of the acid? xx

 

[Envy]

some acid free primers such as CND's actually bond better than acid based primers.
They form a covalent bond which is much stronger than the ionic bond that methacrylic acid creates.

If you are interested in finding out the chemical in's and out's I would suggest getting a copy of Doug Schoon's "natural nail anatomy & product chemistry (edition 2) it's the ultimate nail tech resource.

Nails breaking is not a result of primer - this is a result of product strength, which may be down to many things - using a low end product, product placement strength from application or even inappropriate length for the customer....

I would suggest doing a training day to get an educators opinion on where you might be going wrong...

Hth's

 

[marioned]

Even an acid primer doesn't "eat away" at the natural nail. You can put a clipping from a nail in acid prime and it will still be the same days later. The reason the client's nails are breaking (I'm not saying you are doing this :hug is becaue the technician has filed away nail layers when they have been prepping or removing the enhancement, or the client has become so used to the strength of the enhancement that she isn't as careful with her natural nails as she was previously. Perhaps they are also longer if she has grown them into an NNO an she is not used to the added length on a natural nail.

Why are you taking them off when the clients are returning to you? Are you putting them on to natural nail treaments?

 

[Gilly T]

I was just wondering if anyone has used a non acid nail primer? and was wonderinf if it is as good for adhesion as the acid kind? its just that i'm finding when i soak a clients nails off within a day or two they start to break, could this be a cause of the acid? xx

I think this is interesting. I don't think client realise just how delicate their natural nail can be. Some of my clients are very heavy handed to begin with and actually is part of the reason why they want enhancements in the first place, so they can grow their natural nail.

They then become used to the strength of the enhanced nail and expect the same kind of strength when the enhancement is removed without any additional care, just returning to treating their hands and nails as they would have before. They then wonder why their nails break or dry and split and then blame it on the fact they have had enhancements on.

It also makes me laugh when they say 'well, they weren't like this before' when infact, they couldn't grow their natural nails before BECAUSE they broke and were dry and splitting at the FE. Amazing...