Ski-jump nails - technical help plz

[alialy]

I have a new client, who came on recommendation.
She's an ex-nailbiter, has short nailbeds - which are wide and flat...... not easy to work on anyway.

having not seen her nails with any length on them I did my usual.
Full prep, eclipse tips with most of the well removed, kept them short,all curves in all the right places - they looked great.
No probs initially, infilled at 2 weeks.

Aagh! 2weeks on and they lifted at the sides/corners, so I removed loose product and did another infil/rebal.

Next infil-DISASTER. All nails either lifting, or broken or off altogether! This revealed her own natural nailgrowth. The free edge just curves up...... not 'in the nail-plate', only where the free-edge starts.

The nailgrowth is definately 'pushing' upwards and is pushing the acrylic off. (at the sides where the free-edge emerges from the nailbed).

So I've done a new fullset, and used nail fresh AND primer! she's coming back for a 2 week infil.

Any advice appreciated.

Do I have to conceed that this is a customer who isn't going to be able to grow out her tips and have nno?

Cheers guys.:lol:

 

[angel fingers]

i do think that from time to time on ski jump nails we need to remove and replace them. they grow against the acrylic and force it upwards.

i find that i replace about every 2-3 months with mine.

i would suggest you build the stress area a bit more for this client, then maybe they will stand more chance of resisting the upwards force.

 

[mdskora]

Sounds like a difficult client. BUT what she has to understand is that she made her nails this way from all the nail bitting she did... Try and get her to have a new set every 4 or 5 apt and see how that goes...