Who is using PopIts regularly?

[Nail Perfection]

Hello all.

I just wondered how many of you are fully confident with poppits and are using them on clients regularly?

I personally have never managed to master them without the odd air bubble so I would not want to offer this service to paying clients because of this. I do however use them on my own nails. I have some on just now and 4 out of 10 nails have bubbles!

So I just wondered if I should persevere and then be able to offer them to clients. Do any of you just use them on your own nails and not on paying clients?

 

[liza2009]

Hiya Sharon yes i now use popits on paying clients it only took me a week to get them right ( how i done it this quick i dont know ) i would say one in every 30 now has a very small bubble ! i find it easier to do on others than myself and i have to say my clients love them as thy are so quick and they love the shape !
My advice would be to watch gigi,s video oh and nailzoo,s !!! and dont push to hard !
hope this helps honey xxx

 

[Nail Perfection]

Thanks Liza

One question though, when you do get the odd air bubble, what do you do? Do you just leave it or try to buff it off and start again?

 

[julesgems]

Hi

It takes a bit of practice to master them. Don't give up, keep trying!

I offer the poppits service to my "one-off" clients ie the ones who are only having them done for a special occassion and don't wish to maintain them.

I have just taken a set off myself that had been on for 4 and half weeks, so they do last and often only need a quick buff over to make them look like new again.

 

[liza2009]

Hi! i just buff out the bubbles and fill in the gap with my brush ! i only ever get tiny bubbles near the cuticle area so its really easy ! keep trying honey as they are great and save soooo much time x

 

[Alibarr]

I am a Creative Newbie but am keen to learn poppits. I cant get my head round how they can fit every size and shape of nail exactly. Can you only use them with certain clients?

 

[geeg]

I am a Creative Newbie but am keen to learn PopIts. I cant get my head round how they can fit every size and shape of nail exactly. Can you only use them with certain clients?

You can use them for any client and I always think it is a shame when some only use them for 'weekend' nails. They last as long as a hand made application and are by no means a short term option.

PopIt nails are strong and durable and you will sort out any bubble problems by just waiting a second or two longer than you are doing before applying them.

Give the product time to get the polymerisation going or take a class and learn how to really use them.

PopIts are going to save some people's businesses so take 'ownership' of them and use them as much as you can so you get really good at them. Many have and many are reaping the benefits while others have clients cancelling appointments.

Listen to me peeps ... what I'm telling you could MAKE your business grow in this time of recession. Others are going to be left in the dust.

 

[Deena]

I have only used them on myself so far. A fellow geek showed me how to use them, I practised for a while until I mastered the 'Letting them rest' a little and not pushing the product around strategies and then I was home and dry. I no longer get air bubbles and I think they're fantastic.

Really try to master them because it is sooo worth it for the results and time savings.

 

[geeg]

PopIts are actually easier to apply to others than they are to yourself.

Get going and use them in your business. THINK of the opportunities they will open up for you. Clients need a bit of excitement and there is nothing that excites them more than a beautiful set of nails done in 30 minutes!!

I know a technician here in Spain who uses PopIts for every full set and the business she is raking in is phenomenal. I can't believe anyone can be missing the boat with these around. And at the moment you can get 100 for free when you buy a 300 box for the same price as the 200 box used to be.

 

[Wee Fee]

I'm using Popits on about a quarter of my regular clients now, mostly those who wear nail enamel all the time.
Now I'm able to perform the rebalance more quickly I can fit in nail art and still have them out of the chair in an hour - I can charge a premium without taking longer than the time required for a standard maintenance appointment, awesome!

 

[Deena]

The only time delaying factor I can forsee could be when you get a new client who hasn't got well worked eponychiums to push the popIts underneath, as I can't see them working anything like as well if you can't achieve this with them?

Anyone had problems with this, please?

 

[becki x]

The only time delaying factor I can forsee could be when you get a new client who hasn't got well worked eponychiums to push the popIts underneath, as I can't see them working anything like as well if you can't achieve this with them?

Anyone had problems with this, please?

No

You simply solve this by applying as closley as possible,i never ever go as close as you describe and have never had any probs hth's

 

[Deena]

Ok, thanks. Sorry to be picking your brains, but that's all I've ever done with them. Just a few questions ...

Do you trim the 'Skirt' off the popIts as, if so, I could imagine them oozing a bit and if you don't, there would be a ridge a bit of a way down the cuticle?

Not trying to create problems where there aren't any with my queries, just want to understand what other geeks do if they don't have an eponychium to place them under? Thanks.

 

[nailzoo]

I like them .... BUT, i have never had one grow out as smooth as a filed in acrylic (which my clients are used to), so there is no way I could/can convert a current client....., although they are quite amazed at the procedure.....

New clients don't know the difference though and are quite happy with the results.

 

[LindaC]

I decided I wanted to try popits after reading about them here and as I didnt want to wait lol (impatient me) i booked in for a one to one with Fee from the Fingertips Center. What an amazing product and no question i had was too silly. I found the tutorial from Fee fabby and am using them regularly. i did worry they would be less strong so applied them to my worse client, my daughter. she is over the moon with them and as she is a hairdresser, her hands are always in and out of water. Over a week later they look as good as they did when I first applied them, and she likes them lots

LindaC

 

[nailzoo]

just to add, although they don't grow out as neat, I think they adhere quite well, I put this down to the pressure you can apply to the acrylic, compared to the pressure you can apply with your brush.

There are positives and there are negatives, (they are not for everyone) all round though, they are a great product and deserve a fair go.

 

[min11]

Ok, thanks. Sorry to be picking your brains, but that's all I've ever done with them. Just a few questions ...

Do you trim the 'Skirt' off the popIts as, if so, I could imagine them oozing a bit and if you don't, there would be a ridge a bit of a way down the cuticle?

Not trying to create problems where there aren't any with my queries, just want to understand what other geeks do if they don't have an eponychium to place them under? Thanks.

I have only used them on myself but when you get the right amount of product to the right amount of pressure you dont ooze or so so very little. As for the ridge if you leave the shirt on, it is there but I found its noticable only to me. Stand back at least a foot and look in a mirror and see yourself as others do and you really dont see it. As it grows down its a quick file and tidy up and the ridge is gone and blended away until its time to rebalance :hug:

 

[geeg]

Trimming the skirt off the PopIt does NOT cause it to ooze out if you apply it correctly.
I have never had product ooze out at the eponychium and I always trim it off.
There is no need to push anything under the eponychium either. Just apply as close to the skin as you can.