Repair help please!!!

[femmefan]

A short while ago I posted a question about breakages on sculpted acrylic l&p nails. Well I thought I had this sorted and just called one of the clients to check everything was ok for her to come to my college on Monday night to do her infill and be assessed on it only to find disaster!

Over the last 3 days 3 more nails have broken corners off so she was thinking of having them soaked off. I've managed to persuade me to take a look at them to see what can be done and now I need some advice.

Here is the picture of the original thumb breakage:

I'm assuming that the same thing has happened to 3 other nails from her description.

There is some lifting to correct (I didn't refine enough around the cuticle area) - this I know where I went wrong and what to do with it, but with the breakages as well, I wasn't sure whether to soak off and start again or to thin everything down and treat as though it was a rebalance but thickening up the apex and the free edge.

Also, can an incorrect ratio mix cause the acrylic to be more brittle? Sometimes my acrylic starts to cure a little too fast and doesn't flow very well so I assumed my mix was too dry.

Can anyone give advice please? I really want to get this right so that I can be confident that my work will last through infills and rebalances:sad:

Please, please, please help me because my husband is expecting me to start earning my course fees back the minute I finish at the end of June and at the moment my confidence is getting way low!

Hazel

 

[Miss Pink23]

Is this a white tip or a natural with white acrylic on top?
I found that when using pre-blended white tips this was sometimes the case!!!

 

[Vetty]

As these are sculpted, they may be a little on the thin side. I know we strive to keep enhancements as thin as possible, but you need to make sure you're not comprimising on strength...... Also, if your mix ratio was dry that will indeed make the nail brittle.

Try thickening them up a little at the point where the sculpt meets the natural nail, that way you can still make them thin at the free edge. Does that make sense?

 

[femmefan]

As these are sculpted, they may be a little on the thin side. I know we strive to keep enhancements as thin as possible, but you need to make sure you're not comprimising on strength...... Also, if your mix ratio was dry that will indeed make the nail brittle.

Try thickening them up a little at the point where the sculpt meets the natural nail, that way you can still make them thin at the free edge. Does that make sense?

Thanks - I wasn't quite sure how thin I could safely go. My first attempt at sculpting produced quite thick and clumsy looking nails and I've tried to make them look more elegant since then. I thought I read somewhere that as long as the apex is strong enough the free edge can be made very thin but how thin is thin? I do think my apex could do with strengthening up and practice should improve my ratio mix.

Do you think I could rescue this set of nails, or would I be better off removing and starting fresh?

Hazel

 

[niks85]

hi ya. this same thing happined to me when i was first training. my problem was, that i was filing to much after i applied the L&P. i leaving my hot shot in d one place to for long.
hopefully this mite help.
good luck!!

 

[femmefan]

hi ya. this same thing happined to me when i was first training. my problem was, that i was filing to much after i applied the L&P. i leaving my hot shot in d one place to for long.
hopefully this mite help.
good luck!!

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean?

Hazel

 

[Angelaznailz]

Do you think I could rescue this set of nails, or would I be better off removing and starting fresh?

Hazel

You could rescue them by putting a form back under the tip and (after some etching & Scrubfresh prep work) fill in the white part that is missing slightly overlapping on the remaining edge. Then refine the shape. There may a slight change in colour with the new powder, but not usually too noticeable.
Alternative would be to file the rest of the remaining white down to the 'breakage line'. Then finish with topcoat.