Reverse application tips!

[Vicky Macca]

Hi
Hope someone can help! Just started experimenting with reverse application. Getting on ok,but I'm having problems ensuring that either end of my smile line is crisp, even and sharp!! Any tips as to how I can tuck the sides in without touching it too much? I know its lack of technique and a ton of practice.... just wanted a wee pointer in the right direction. Thanks guys xx

 

[shedunlop]

Have a look on Youtube or the Young Nails website at Greg Salo's training videos. There is one there on the reverse application which you will be able to play over and over again. Really clear to see what he does, makes it look so simple!

 

[Vicky Macca]

Thanks Sheila. It looks so simple when I watch it being done - but when I try!! Argh!! Ha. Lots of practice I think! x

 

[sachi]

I am getting better at it all the time. The YN video helped but I use CND and they don't do one bead for zone 3 like he does. So I still do zone 3 in 2 steps.

 

[lelaah]

I prefer doing very steep smile lines, so I just pat down the acrylic around the top of the nail, and round the bottom of the smile line and leave the sides steep and it always comes out very sharp.

I soo crap at explaing things lol so I hope you get whats im saying :lick:

 

[Vicky Macca]

Thanks guys! I'm just impatient and want perfection! lol I'm just about to thank fellow geek 'mely bely' on her members page......she posted a thread ages ago that I've just found. Suggesting to file around smile line to sharpen before applying your white!! Lovely lovely lovely ;-) what a difference!!

Thanks everyone for advice xxxxx Vic

 

[NatalesBeauty]

Hi hun
I`ve found that the young nails diamond hex file is fab for crisping up the smile lines. Bit more pricey obviously but lasts forever and you`ll only ever have to buy 1.
Young Nails - Throughout England and the UK

 

[Vicky Macca]

Thanks Sarah :hug:x just had another practice on my mum, and your right - my enhancement files are too broad to tuck in snug to the acrylic. It seems to be dragging acrylic as opposed to sharpening the line. Lots of pennies for a file! Think I have to invest if i want those killer smile lines though. Eek! Thanks again x

 

[lelaah]

are be possibly moving the product around too early? Ive never had to use a file to crisp the line up. when you lay the bead down, time you have patted around the top, the roundness of the bead should already be a good smile line as it levels out. and just use the body of your brush to smooth it round and make sure its quite high on the stress area.

 

[shedunlop]

I agree with Elaine but found when I first began that I needed to sharpen the smile line with a file but now I don't. Just practice and it is working the product too early. You could use a thin board for this and save for the file from Young Nails. Affiniti do some lovely thin wooden boards that are great for this and they last for ages and are nice and cheap!

 

[Vicky Macca]

To be honest,I think I am working product too quickly. Im having trouble working evenly with product on both side walls. Want them to be even either side, by which time I think "OH!"and have an impulse to play with the natural curve that is trying to establish. Its the side walls I'm having trouble making sharp. Im obviously just making the same mistake each time.My YN educator emigrated to Australia today, so feeling completely lost!! Thanks everyone for being so generous with time and tips. I'll go try and be patient with my placement and trust product..... xxxxx

 

[Ruthlm]

Hi, I trained with Tracey as well, a good tip she gave me when I was training was to pick a point at each side of the nail, where you want the end of the slile line to finnish, use the tip of your brush to begin the smile shape, at each side, ensuring that both sides started at the same point at each side, once you have done this and the product is starting to be happy enough to stay there, shape the rest of your smile line, I hope I described this understandably lol, good luck, you will get there!!!!