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Judge Gigi-Honorary Geek
Is everyone else as tired as I am of reading a hundred threads that all have the same title and only the name of the product changes? A Few examples:
My Orly GelFX is peeling, chipping, not lasting etc. (feel free to change the name to gelicure, gelish, geleration, Chroma Gel,Artistic gel, Just Gel Polish, Bio Sculpture, CaLGEL, Icon gel, ASP, Pronto, Gelux, Gelax ................. crumbs every company has bought into a coloured gel and now you can buy into it too and have your own private lable (which a huge proportion of these UV soak off gels are anyway even if it is a brand that has private labeled it!)
Even Shellac, although not a gel, gets some of the same kind of posts.
The reason that so many people are having problems is really simple.
1. They are very new to manicuring and nails so have little or no experience
2. They don't really know how to polish
3. They don't really understand gel
4. They choose the wrong types of nails and clients to apply the gel polish to
5. They are applying what is a natural nail manicure product to damaged nails
6. They are giving clients unrealistic expectations
Stop blaming the product you are using people and stop expecting products to work on nails for which they they are unsuitable !!
Give clients the correct Aftercare advice and learn how to prep and polish correctly. Train with the product you are using.
I would make an educated guess that more than 50% of people using gel polish have never had a product class with it, are not using the whole system or messing about with different systems and/or are not using the correct lamp for the system.
I'm sure one of the 'caps' if not more, will fit most if not all of the people who complain, if they were honest.
Here is a novel idea :idea:... why not do a class and then use the WHOLE recommended system from prep to finish and see if there is a difference in performance? if not, then maybe doing manicures is just not for you.
I would welcome your comments on this.
My Orly GelFX is peeling, chipping, not lasting etc. (feel free to change the name to gelicure, gelish, geleration, Chroma Gel,Artistic gel, Just Gel Polish, Bio Sculpture, CaLGEL, Icon gel, ASP, Pronto, Gelux, Gelax ................. crumbs every company has bought into a coloured gel and now you can buy into it too and have your own private lable (which a huge proportion of these UV soak off gels are anyway even if it is a brand that has private labeled it!)
Even Shellac, although not a gel, gets some of the same kind of posts.
The reason that so many people are having problems is really simple.
1. They are very new to manicuring and nails so have little or no experience
2. They don't really know how to polish
3. They don't really understand gel
4. They choose the wrong types of nails and clients to apply the gel polish to
5. They are applying what is a natural nail manicure product to damaged nails
6. They are giving clients unrealistic expectations
Stop blaming the product you are using people and stop expecting products to work on nails for which they they are unsuitable !!
Give clients the correct Aftercare advice and learn how to prep and polish correctly. Train with the product you are using.
I would make an educated guess that more than 50% of people using gel polish have never had a product class with it, are not using the whole system or messing about with different systems and/or are not using the correct lamp for the system.
I'm sure one of the 'caps' if not more, will fit most if not all of the people who complain, if they were honest.
Here is a novel idea :idea:... why not do a class and then use the WHOLE recommended system from prep to finish and see if there is a difference in performance? if not, then maybe doing manicures is just not for you.
I would welcome your comments on this.
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