newatnails
Well-Known Member
Hi guys :lol:
Well it's been a while but after quite a while of deliberating, I have just purchased my 1st shellac kit for Sweetquared. I have a spa manicure and pedicure certificate with CND albeit was a few years ago when I trained with them. I've just done my NVQ level 2 beauty and refresed on manicure and pedicure techniques, am doing my NVQ level 3 and loving it. Anyway, I've decided to get back into nails and start offering Shellac as a service from April onwards to try and earn some extra pennies - I've had it on my nails and to be fair it has chipped :-( but then, I am quite heavy handed with my nails although I do wear gloves and solar oil every day (maybe not twice daily)
Anyway., with everything I've learned regarding the perfect prep (I've refreshed watching 100's of video's re: Shellac) and I finally did my 1st set of shellac on myself on Friday. I was very particular when it came to scrubbing my nails and under the free edge with scrubfresh., also was very careful to use a thin layer of base coat and to seal the free edge, then did my layers of Fedora (think I was abit obsessed about the 'thin to win' as 1st 2 layers were still opaque and very thin, so went with 3 layers in the end to get full coverage, sealing the free edge each time, did the same with the top coat (noticed this is quite thick) although did shake each bottle for approx 30 secs before using any of them!
My problem is., I noticed when using D-Sperse to remove the inhibition layer after top coat, some of the colour came off with it ??? They don't appear as shiny as they do when I've had them done on myself in the past professionally by someone else that is. And even though the ends were all covered and sealed still after curing, they've all shrunk abit already and bit's of white free edge are appearing already. They don't look as good as when someone else has done them to me, and I know it's only my 1st set, and I've got time to iron all the problems out before I start charging clients for my services but I'm feeling abit peeved about it. Was feeling so confident at the beginning and being so careful.
I did a dry prep and got rid of any cuticle
cleaned with scrubfresh really well all over nail, side walls, and under free edge
then base coat (sealed)
3 x colour coats 'Fedora' (sealed)
1 x top coat (sealed)
removed inhibition layer with D-Sperse (not D-Solve or Acetone) :lol:
It's a brand new lamp so no probs there!
Could any of you experienced Shellac geeks give any advice (I've read as many threads as I can) but still not sure what I've done
I do wonder wether I've gone too close to the sidewalls etc and not left big enough gap., I have left a v.tiny gap though. Wonder wether product has been applied too thin ? Or my fingers were too far up the lamp - which I really don't think I did as I've tried again today on 1 finger on each hand to see if anything different happens and just used two coats today.
Help/Advice please guys xxx
Well it's been a while but after quite a while of deliberating, I have just purchased my 1st shellac kit for Sweetquared. I have a spa manicure and pedicure certificate with CND albeit was a few years ago when I trained with them. I've just done my NVQ level 2 beauty and refresed on manicure and pedicure techniques, am doing my NVQ level 3 and loving it. Anyway, I've decided to get back into nails and start offering Shellac as a service from April onwards to try and earn some extra pennies - I've had it on my nails and to be fair it has chipped :-( but then, I am quite heavy handed with my nails although I do wear gloves and solar oil every day (maybe not twice daily)
Anyway., with everything I've learned regarding the perfect prep (I've refreshed watching 100's of video's re: Shellac) and I finally did my 1st set of shellac on myself on Friday. I was very particular when it came to scrubbing my nails and under the free edge with scrubfresh., also was very careful to use a thin layer of base coat and to seal the free edge, then did my layers of Fedora (think I was abit obsessed about the 'thin to win' as 1st 2 layers were still opaque and very thin, so went with 3 layers in the end to get full coverage, sealing the free edge each time, did the same with the top coat (noticed this is quite thick) although did shake each bottle for approx 30 secs before using any of them!
My problem is., I noticed when using D-Sperse to remove the inhibition layer after top coat, some of the colour came off with it ??? They don't appear as shiny as they do when I've had them done on myself in the past professionally by someone else that is. And even though the ends were all covered and sealed still after curing, they've all shrunk abit already and bit's of white free edge are appearing already. They don't look as good as when someone else has done them to me, and I know it's only my 1st set, and I've got time to iron all the problems out before I start charging clients for my services but I'm feeling abit peeved about it. Was feeling so confident at the beginning and being so careful.
I did a dry prep and got rid of any cuticle
cleaned with scrubfresh really well all over nail, side walls, and under free edge
then base coat (sealed)
3 x colour coats 'Fedora' (sealed)
1 x top coat (sealed)
removed inhibition layer with D-Sperse (not D-Solve or Acetone) :lol:
It's a brand new lamp so no probs there!
Could any of you experienced Shellac geeks give any advice (I've read as many threads as I can) but still not sure what I've done
I do wonder wether I've gone too close to the sidewalls etc and not left big enough gap., I have left a v.tiny gap though. Wonder wether product has been applied too thin ? Or my fingers were too far up the lamp - which I really don't think I did as I've tried again today on 1 finger on each hand to see if anything different happens and just used two coats today.
Help/Advice please guys xxx