Ridges and Dehydration marks?

[Karen Minx]

I had a regular lady booked in today and she's just found out she will soon be going into hospital for surgury so i have soaked off her acrylic enhancements so she's all ready.
She has had acrylic nails for many years and has got ridged nails, her thumb nails being the worse. She also suffers with the acrylic 'popping' in zone 2 on her thumbs, so the thumbs have more soak offs than i would prefere. Whenever she has soak off's, she gets really bad dehydration marks on her nails, more on the thumbs. Normally the scrubfresh/fresh acrylic sorts them out and you can't see them under the overlay, so today, just for a temporary fix, i Shallaced her in Negligee and sent her home with some finger wraps and acetone incase she has to go into hospital sooner. But the Shellac hasn't covered/disguised the nail beds!
What can i do to help this problem? I have told her it is dehydration and to use lots of SolarOil to replace the lost moisture. I was thinking of a gentle oil buff before i shellaced her nails, but then decided against it has i would be only sqeeking her nail plate dry before the application of shellac so would be defeating the object really. Would a hot oil soak help after i have shellaced her nails or before the Shellac?

 

[Envy]

I have told her it is dehydration and to use lots of SolarOil to replace the lost moisture. I was thinking of a gentle oil buff before i shellaced her nails, but then decided against it has i would be only sqeeking her nail plate dry before the application of shellac so would be defeating the object really. Would a hot oil soak help after i have shellaced her nails or before the Shellac?

You have answered your own question, Solar oil is the most likely to help this client

A hot oil soak would also be a really nice treat,
most definitely AFTER nail application, if you do it before the nail will be swollen and saturated which will most likely lead to service breakdown.

hth's

 

[Karen Minx]

Thanks Envy, so a good rub with SolarOil before Shellacing is fine?

 

[Envy]

After application, not before

with all nail products you need a clean dry surface for the product to bond, wether it be nail polish or L&P ...

Solar Oil will penetrate right through Shellac so it will continue to help with hydration

hope that helps