Rebalance/Infill/Backfill - Whats the difference?

[Sara Satchell]

What is the difference between a rebalance and a backfill/Infill?? I think alot of people have differing ideas and it's confusing the hell out of me......?

 

[naturalnails]

Hi Sara,

An infill is just filling in the new growth at the cuticle.
A backfill is a french rebalance - where you replace the white smile line
A rebalance is where you restructure the entire nail to make sure the stress area is in the correct place.

HTH

 

[crystal100]

I've not yet done a backfill only rebalances..so have a question....when you do a backfill to replace a white smile line do you then do an overlay of either clear or pink L&P over the whole nail? Also, what if the client has natural tips and you can see the shadow of the natural nail growing...do you just backfill with a natural powder? Must admit the CND natural powder seems more like clear to me, so how do you disguise the shadow of the growing nail underneath?

 

[naturalnails]

I very rarely use Natural on is own these days - I mix Soft white and Natural on a 2:3 ratio - and as you have said, you do a backfill the same way as you would do for perm french.