Practising L&P and Gel

[bellabeautie]

Hi everyone,

I just wondered what you use to practise on when you dont have a real person to use? I did see a thread on here a while ago and remember seeing some really good ideas using different "things" whilst your at home, but I cant find the thread!!
Thanks xx

 

[fifitrix]

A nail trainer is fantastic to practice on, also someone else suggested blue tack, rolled into the shape of a finger and put your tip on the end.

hth

 

[Zondrae]

some people fill a latex glove with sand & stick tips on that. It is easy to see if you file to roughly because the sand leaks out. You might have to put 2 gloves together so it isn't too thin?

 

[min11]

I have a trainer hand from Essential Nails although its the same, I think, as the CND one. Wonderful thing. I have also blue tacked tips to the end of my brush handle and stuck forms to polish bottle lids when I ran out of tips. When I'm practicing on tips I snip the occasional few in different places when I am finished to see the thickness of the product etc. I also had practice sheets which I laminated from my school which I did find helpful in practicing smile lines. :hug:

I'm enjoying my own I'm natural nails just now but I have put soooooooooo many sets on my own nails, lived with them, got bored and thinned them down and changed the free edge colour or just redone the white, just because I could.

:hug:

 

[mely-bely]

Practice fingers work great - you just stick a tip in the slot of the finger and have a go. If you can't find one of those, another quick fix is to attach a tip to an orangewood stick and poke it into a block buffer. Its really easy to hold that way.