bimbogeri
Well-Known Member
Actually, all joking aside folks.... I've done my first 1/2 set on myself (half a set because for some unknown reason I couldn't get any bl**dy tips to stick on my right hand yesterday... tipped 'em before, so I guess I was just having a bad day - I hope!) and it's made clear to me how I have very stupid ski-jump fingers!
And I do mean to say fingers, not just nails!
I guess I'd kinda noticed before but not paid much attention till I started doing nails: now, when I've gone to work on and look at my enhancements from the side view, I see how awful they are!
My nail itself seems to be growing absolutely fine in terms of attatchement to the nail bed, it's just that it follows the shape of my stupid fingers (I blame years of typing from an age where my fingers were still young and maleable... note to self: do not give own children computer from the age of 5...).
As such I've found building a shape into my nails in terms of apex really hard. The c-curve and top view seem OK but from the side they are flat and sloped.
I'm sure I read in one of my books or catalogues about using tips with an extreme curve to them will help this, and a brand of tips that boasted the same, but I can't work out for the life of me where. I've gone through my literature but must be being blind....
Can some of the geeky gurus please give me a hint as to how to try and recify this, like i said, from top and front nails look ok, but from the side I look like a witch!!
PS - just before anyone think my dad was awful for letting me use a PC at the age of 5, it's because I was, and always have been, writing stories and articles, not PC games... Not that that probably makes my eyes any less square!!!
And I do mean to say fingers, not just nails!
I guess I'd kinda noticed before but not paid much attention till I started doing nails: now, when I've gone to work on and look at my enhancements from the side view, I see how awful they are!
My nail itself seems to be growing absolutely fine in terms of attatchement to the nail bed, it's just that it follows the shape of my stupid fingers (I blame years of typing from an age where my fingers were still young and maleable... note to self: do not give own children computer from the age of 5...).
As such I've found building a shape into my nails in terms of apex really hard. The c-curve and top view seem OK but from the side they are flat and sloped.
I'm sure I read in one of my books or catalogues about using tips with an extreme curve to them will help this, and a brand of tips that boasted the same, but I can't work out for the life of me where. I've gone through my literature but must be being blind....
Can some of the geeky gurus please give me a hint as to how to try and recify this, like i said, from top and front nails look ok, but from the side I look like a witch!!
PS - just before anyone think my dad was awful for letting me use a PC at the age of 5, it's because I was, and always have been, writing stories and articles, not PC games... Not that that probably makes my eyes any less square!!!