Nails at Home
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Hi everyone
Now I might have passed my exam last week on my course with Creative but I'm now having problems with the Retention + :sad:
I've not done many nails cos I usually use Bio Sculpture gel but last week Wednesday I did a set on 2 friends and my daughter. Now they all had their own nails apart from the odd tips on their short nails. One friend doesn't seem to be having too much problems except I did notice that I was obviously working too wet (which is what my tutor had been pointing out to me from the start) as the white wasn't very white - if you know what I mean! Anyway, she was the first of the three so I tried to make sure I wasn't so wet with my ratios on the other 2. I was quite pleased with the end result and thought hey I've got it at last until ...
The next day and not even 24 hours later my second friend told me (and I witnessed myself) that hers had started chipping at the free edges quite a bit and by the next couple of days she had at least 5 chipping! She had no tips at all and all were her natural nails. Now, last night my daughter came home apologising that she had been picking at some of hers because they'd been chipping! However, the one tip on her thumb still looked perfect as well as a few others which were her real nails but 2 of these included her little finger which always seems to stay longer anyway!
What am I doing wrong please? I just can't seem to get my ratios right at all! Beginning to hate L&P and wish everyone was suited to gel :sad: :cry:
Don't know what to do - have another client booked in for tomorrow who usually has gel but she's very heavy handed so I advised her to go for the L&P instead, now I'm scared I'm going to mess up!!
And one other thing could I ask you - the first friend had a couple of nails which had split at the edges and I was told on the course to just put L&P on top of these and they should hold and grow out - now I've been trying to do it really thin to make it look as natural as possible but my friend keeps saying shouldn't they be thicker so as to hold better? I didn't want to do it thicker cos too many people already have the perception that L&P is thicker and not so natural looking because of "certain salons" who use it - I wanted to prove that it can look as natural as any other system. So, help on this would be much appreciated too - oh, don't I go on???? :sad:
Thanks girls - Love Michelle x
Now I might have passed my exam last week on my course with Creative but I'm now having problems with the Retention + :sad:
I've not done many nails cos I usually use Bio Sculpture gel but last week Wednesday I did a set on 2 friends and my daughter. Now they all had their own nails apart from the odd tips on their short nails. One friend doesn't seem to be having too much problems except I did notice that I was obviously working too wet (which is what my tutor had been pointing out to me from the start) as the white wasn't very white - if you know what I mean! Anyway, she was the first of the three so I tried to make sure I wasn't so wet with my ratios on the other 2. I was quite pleased with the end result and thought hey I've got it at last until ...
The next day and not even 24 hours later my second friend told me (and I witnessed myself) that hers had started chipping at the free edges quite a bit and by the next couple of days she had at least 5 chipping! She had no tips at all and all were her natural nails. Now, last night my daughter came home apologising that she had been picking at some of hers because they'd been chipping! However, the one tip on her thumb still looked perfect as well as a few others which were her real nails but 2 of these included her little finger which always seems to stay longer anyway!
What am I doing wrong please? I just can't seem to get my ratios right at all! Beginning to hate L&P and wish everyone was suited to gel :sad: :cry:
Don't know what to do - have another client booked in for tomorrow who usually has gel but she's very heavy handed so I advised her to go for the L&P instead, now I'm scared I'm going to mess up!!
And one other thing could I ask you - the first friend had a couple of nails which had split at the edges and I was told on the course to just put L&P on top of these and they should hold and grow out - now I've been trying to do it really thin to make it look as natural as possible but my friend keeps saying shouldn't they be thicker so as to hold better? I didn't want to do it thicker cos too many people already have the perception that L&P is thicker and not so natural looking because of "certain salons" who use it - I wanted to prove that it can look as natural as any other system. So, help on this would be much appreciated too - oh, don't I go on???? :sad:
Thanks girls - Love Michelle x