Shellac French Mani tomorrow...

[cerries]

Hi all

I have a client in tomorrow for a Shellac French Manicure. I have seen her nails today, and she has some free edge on a few of them, and on a couple she has very little free edge at all. I was just wondering how you guys would go about getting the most out of this situation?

I have actually advised her to have a colour, but she is determined on a French look! I wondered whether to take some of the length off the ones with a free edge, and then just put Cream Puff on a little 'wider' on the ones with no free edge, ifkwim?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thank you!

C x

 

[verity royle]

If i was doing that client i would either file all the nails to the same length (but 9 times out of 10 the client wouldnt want to lose the length off the longer ones) or do what you said, put the line of cream puff on the very start of the free edge on the longer nails and then on the shorter nails put the line of cream puff slightly above the start of the free edge so they look more even, good luck

 

[mizzy_dizzy]

Could you use dashing diva with the shellac?
Other options file them down explain to you client because of the nature of shellac she will have nicer more even nails by her 14 day appointment for her re-shellac, take them to a bearable length for her and id be tempted to do do a couple of layers of negligee over the cream puff to tone it down, even on very short nails French look can give the illusion of lengh so by the time you have filed them down and applied the shellac she will be happy I'm sure

 

[verity royle]

Yes you can use dashing diva with shellac ive got it on at mo its brill!!

 

[cerries]

Hey Mizzy

Funnily enough I have just had my DD+ kit today, and have just been experimenting using it with Shellac. I have just posted about this in the Shellac Lovers group.

I did Shellac Base Coat, 1 x Negligee, removed inhibition layer after Negligee cure, then I applied the DD as per instructions, removed the shine off DD, added another coat of Negligee, then Shellac Top Coat.

I had a couple of problems - biggest one was that the DD didn't adhere very well at all to the nail. However....I was practising over an L&P nail I had done on the Nail Trainer, so am not sure now whether DD is suitable for use over enhancements?

x

PS. I have just done a DD on my husband's nail - looks quite cute (although he disagrees lol)

 

[mizzy_dizzy]

Here is some Dashing Diva that I did with shellac on a very short nailed client just yesterday

 

[cerries]

OMG hunni that looks amazing!

If you don't mind me asking....how did you achieve such fab results? What order did you apply things in? I think this would look fab on my client tomorrow :0)

 

[mizzy_dizzy]

I'm not sure how they are over enhancements , but I would have thought they would stay on , attaching them wouldn't really be much different to applying a gem stone or something , wear you attaching them to a really glossy surface? Gel or something ? Maybe give the area your putting the DD a quick buff first? And use enough adhesive on the sides, and a little across the free edge of the nail to ,
I applied the ones in the photo straight to the nail (after pep ) then I buffed the shine off the DD'S (not the nail) and applied the shellac base , cured , then negligee , cured more negligee cured, and top coat....

 

[cerries]

Thank you for that :0)

Yes I was trying to adhere the DD on to a cured coat of Negligee with the inhibition layer having been taken off.

I'm going to try your way on my own nails now and see how I get on. I have left my Scrubfresh at the salon, so hopefully my experiment will last a couple of days lol

 

[mizzy_dizzy]

No prob hun , hope that I helped
post some pics of your experiment !

 

[scrumpyjo44]

I'm not sure how they are over enhancements , but I would have thought they would stay on , attaching them wouldn't really be much different to applying a gem stone or something , wear you attaching them to a really glossy surface? Gel or something ? Maybe give the area your putting the DD a quick buff first? And use enough adhesive on the sides, and a little across the free edge of the nail to ,
I applied the ones in the photo straight to the nail (after pep ) then I buffed the shine off the DD'S (not the nail) and applied the shellac base , cured , then negligee , cured more negligee cured, and top coat....

Hi

Can I just clarify - you are not using either of the base or top coats of Dashing Diva?

 

[deanosnana]

Here is some Dashing Diva that I did with shellac on a very short nailed client just yesterday

Those are BEAUTIFUL!

 

[mizzy_dizzy]

No my ingredients wear : DDFW+ , shellac base, shellac top and negligee, and some of the gellife brush on adhesive, (not in that order though lol)

I think I read on the shellac lovers group that some one used the Dashing Diva base and top ...

 

[scrumpyjo44]

Thanks very much

Yes you're right and thats what I have been doing but will try your way - they look lovely by the way

 

[cerries]

Hi Mizzy - I have done my nails and taken a pic - how did you get yours to appear in the thread?

Thanks!

 

[cerries]

In meantime I have put a photo in my album - be really grateful of opinions for my first attempt (please bear in my mind my nails were really bitten - I don't normally bite my nails but ironically the stress of opening the salon has made me bite them lol!)

 

[cerries]

Well I have just got home from doing the French Shellac Mani I started this thread about. I found it quite difficult, as her free edges were all over the place, and plenty of ridges to contend with. Really weird - 2 out of the 10 nails the DD just wouldn't adhere. Hope they will be ok now...

Anyway I have put a before and after photo in my album called 'HeulwenBefore&After' if anyone wants a nosy as to how they turned out...

 

[mizzy_dizzy]

Yuo did a really good job hun , I bet she was pleased ?

 

[cerries]

Yeah she was really pleased - so much so she tipped me £4!

I wasn't pleased though - I really think I've got to be less critical of my own work. They weren't perfect - I noticed a few tiny tiny bubbles in the Shellac (even though I put it on really thinly), the DD wouldn't adhere to those 2 nails, so I had to reapply them. I think I'm just being paranoid, as I know she was really pleased. She had really pronounced, yellow smile lines, so that was difficult to completely cover with the DD. You can't notice it from a distance, but I could see it when I was painting it :0(