The need for change!

[Deena]

Inspired by a few posts I've been reading lately, I'd like to ask how often you completely change the appearance of a client's nails? If they have glitter tips/fades etc, I'm starting to feel as though it's a major undertaking to get a completely different look. :irked:

Do you soak them off, file them nearly down to the natural nail, clip the tips off/sculpt new ones or what? For myself, I find each of these options a major undertaking in terms of time and effort. A complete overhaul takes ages <for me> and can be very offputting to the point where I was relieved when someone asked me if they could just have an overlay which they could paint as they wished.

I know that I don't want to keep rebalancing/maintaining the same glitters/colours/Frenches on myself. I get bored and want a change. I do everything that's suggested for soaking off, have one of those new fangled easy soak thingies, file down first and it 'Still' takes a long time. I find it just as bad clipping the tips off and sculpting something new. :irked:

I love all the glitters/colours that are available, but I'm now starting to think it's 'Too' permanent? Any help would be much appreciated or do you tend to have people who seem happy with the same thing time after time? What do you do if someone sits in front of you and wants something totally different, thus biting a much bigger chunk out of your day? Or doesn't it?

 

[shedunlop]

You either have to be using nail polish for the glitter etc or build the nail with a thin layer of clear first and then place a thin layer of your glitter or whatever colour acrylic you are using and then cover again with clear and finish. You then only have to remove the glitter and this will leave your clear base nail. This does take extra time and I think everyone feels the same that this takes longer than the usual stuff. Because of this you need to charge more for this service both new sets and infills. I have done this and it works out fine, it sorts the real fans of glitter and the one's who only have it because they can.

 

[pamper yourself]

In case you're talking about gels. I have one client who wants to change colour and nail art every time she gets a refill. What I do is place the nail art under the top shine so it's just sealed in. Luckily she doesn't want full glitter tips and I think your post is about this. In that case I'd suggest build a clear base layer and keep your top layers thin so you can file these down with less effort without having to rebuild from scratch.

I think everyone finds that refills with change take longer than they wish they would than just a simple refill. HTH

 

[Deena]

Thank you both. I guess it's down to getting your layers as thin as possible, otherwise you're going to wind up with nails that could double up as door wedges! :irked: :hug: x

I have to perfect this, as it's so time consuming and restricting otherwise. As a matter of interest, do you apply the same principle when doing forever French, in order to effect change? I am an l&p user, btw.