What brand of product is best for artificial nails?

[TWINKLE TIPS]

Hi!
I'm new to this so was just wondering if anyone could give me a bit of help?
I would just like to know what brand of product everyone uses for acrylic, fibreglass and uv gel nails?
At the moment i'm using The Edge. Has anyone used The Edge? What is your opinion of it? Is there a better brand that i can use?

Would be grateful for any replies.
Thanks

 

[~Emmsybabes~]

I would 500% recommend CND hun,
I know I am totally biast now after attending the event weekend,
But I have used Millnium, NSI, and Ezflow....and in my opinion none of those other products workability compare with cnd...

I have been so excited using my products over the last couple of days,
Its like they are working with you the whole time, your not fighting to get a smile, or an apex....filing is a dream...

I just can't say enough how much I LOVE this brand right now :green:

(Forgot to ask....Who did you do your training with hun ? this will also help people to point you in the right direction xxxx)

 

[ValencianNails]

Hi and welcome to the site

You're going to get a mixed bag of replies re which products to use as there are a lot of brands available, however, it all depends as to the kind of quality you want as to which brand to choose.

I use, what in my opinion is, the highest quality line for both enhancements as well as manicure and pedicure products.
Creative Nail Design all the way for me
Retention+ monomer with Perfect Colour powders for L+P
Brisa (which is hypo-allergenic) for gel

I don't do fibreglass very often and use Millennium for that.
Never used The Edge but I know that it's been discussed on here quite a bit, click on the search button at the top of the page and I'm sure you'll be reading for hours :wink2:

hth's a bit

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

oh great! Thanks very much for your answers and thanks, for giving me directions with the site. i'm still trying to figure it out.

Thanks

 

[naturalnails]

Where did you train? Was it with the Edge products.

What you need to do is get really experienced with the product you use and then analyse any problem areas.

When we first start out, we do our training and then we think, armed with our knowledge that we could choose any product we like and get it to work for us - I know I did LOL.

But because we are new and inexperienced, we dont know whether the problems we are experiencing are due to us as technicians or the product.

What issues if any are you having?

Please fill out your profile with a bit more information - you say you are new but are you new as in finished training this month or are you new as in no training but just dabbling, or something else.

Check out the articles and tutorials on here and try and practise some of those techniques.

The issue with different products is that they all work differently so it would not be good for you to buy a recommended product and start working with it without doing the conversion course as you would end up with lots of problems.

Search around on here for companies like Creative, EZ Flow, NSI etc. and read previous posts about what people think.

I personally use Creative L&P and also Brisa Gel (when I use gel) but I dont use a fibreglass system.

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

I don't really know if i can call it an issue yet. I did a set of acrylics and within 2 days 1 came off, i replaced it and 4 days later another 3 came off. she says she is heavy handed but she was also very tipsy and fell on a night out which is when she lost 3, i was there. Now i'm unsure how good my brand of product is.
A issue i am having is that after a few days of putting on a set of nails i get a bit of a white curve around the nail by my cuticle area and it doesn't look like it would if they were done at a salon. You can actually see where the nail begins. Does anyone understand what i'm talking about? sorry i'm finding it hard to explain.

 

[naturalnails]

It is called lifting. This is due to incomplete prep. Check the perfect prep article it should help.

I hope you charged her for the repairs to the drunk nails LOL.

You must charge for these as it was not your fault and if you dont value your work then how can you expect the client to.

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

As far as i know i'm doing everthing right when it comes to prep. Guess it's just practice.
Thanks very much for your help

 

[naturalnails]

As far as i know i'm doing everthing right when it comes to prep. Guess it's just practice.
Thanks very much for your help

Sorry but if you are getting lifting that soon it is more than likely down to incomplete prep - or possibly the nails were too long and constant pressure to the free edge has caused this but, I would say prep!

Practice only makes perfect if you are practising perfect techniques - if you are practising flawed techniques then this is all you will ever have - hope that makes sense.

What do you use for your prep routine?

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

Not quite sure if i'm answering this right, i lightly file over the nail and then dehydrate with acetone. I then place the tip and use a primer pen before applying acrylic, gel or fibreglass.
Is this what you are asking?

 

[naturalnails]

So you dont use a product to remove the non living tissue around the cuticle area.

My advice to you would be to buy CND's Cuticle Away (there are similar, but not the same alternatives) and use it as part of your prep and you will be amazed at what comes Away!

 

[1999judy]

Not quite sure if i'm answering this right, i lightly file over the nail and then dehydrate with acetone. I then place the tip and use a primer pen before applying acrylic, gel or fibreglass.
Is this what you are asking?

I notice you did a 2 day course covering gel, acrylic and fibreglass a while ago hun.
Have you given a thought to doing some more "in depth" training? xx

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

I was only told to push the cuticle back and then carry on with the rest of the prep as i explained above.
Thanks very much for your time and help

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

Yeah i have, the only problem is with being back at uni and doing a full time course finding the time at the moment is a bit tricky. I am hoping to do some more training though as soon as i can.

 

[1999judy]

Yeah i have, the only problem is with being back at uni and doing a full time course finding the time at the moment is a bit tricky. I am hoping to do some more training though as soon as i can.

Checkout all the tutorials for nails on the site hun..you'll find loads of help x

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

Yeah i will.
Thanks for your post.

 

[Cathie!]

When you're new to the trade,there are many things that can affect the nails that you are doing. As already discussed is prep, which from your reply, isn't as thorough as it could be, you need to actually remove the non-living tissue from the nail plate, not simply dehydrate the nail plate. If you don't remove the non-living tissue from the nail plate, it will create a barrier between the natural nail and the product, so the bond isn't complete between nail plate and product = lifting.

Another could be that your product is touching the sidewalls and eponychium and possibly isn't buffed in flush with the natural nail, this will make your clients experience lifting very early on too. As the nail plate grows, the product that is attached to the living tissue of the side walls and eponychium pulls away from the nail plate and causes lifting.

There's much much more information that will help you to create nails that last....I've been exactly where you are now :hug:

HTH

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

How do i go about removing the tissue?
Thank goodness for that, i was starting to think i am completly useless.

 

[Cathie!]

This should help you babe.

http://www.salongeek.com/nail-application/3007-perfect-preparation.html

In most trades it's about prep, same goes with nails xxx

 

[TWINKLE TIPS]

Thankyou!!!!