Hannah91
New Member
Hi all!
Have been doing Gels for about 2 years now and first trained using Calgel and then Jessica Geleration. Have become self employed with a business partner and after weeks researching, we decided we would use Gelish in our salon. We found this to be a popular, reliable brand and we loved the colours range so we purchased a variety of colours.
I'm just a bit worried because we are both finding Gelish peels off very easily from the free edge and side walls. I had previously had a colour on for 4 days and they started lifting. They felt really soft and just peeled clean off which I've never experienced with GELeration. Just had a txt from a client saying 3 nails have chipped and 1 has lifted under a week! Also went in to a local Salon Services shop who said that we "hadn't picked the best gels to use" and they had a lot of people try to return the gels for the same reason.
These are my steps:
- Thoroughly remove excess cuticle with CND cuticle away
- Deactivate CND cuticle away
- lightly buff surface shine
- Wipe over with Gelish nail cleanser
- apply PH bond
- Thin layer of foundation making sure to almost scrub" into the nail plate
- cap free edge
- 2/3 thin layers of gelish colour capping free edge after every coat
- 1 layer of Gelish top it off
- cap free edge
- wipe over with nail cleanser
- Apply Gelish cuticle oil
Standard procedure? Making sure I'm not getting any gel near the skin or cuticle. Should also mention I use the Gelish 18G LED lamp.
Can anyone offer some advice? I've heard some brilliant things about Gelish but am starting to lose hope
Have been doing Gels for about 2 years now and first trained using Calgel and then Jessica Geleration. Have become self employed with a business partner and after weeks researching, we decided we would use Gelish in our salon. We found this to be a popular, reliable brand and we loved the colours range so we purchased a variety of colours.
I'm just a bit worried because we are both finding Gelish peels off very easily from the free edge and side walls. I had previously had a colour on for 4 days and they started lifting. They felt really soft and just peeled clean off which I've never experienced with GELeration. Just had a txt from a client saying 3 nails have chipped and 1 has lifted under a week! Also went in to a local Salon Services shop who said that we "hadn't picked the best gels to use" and they had a lot of people try to return the gels for the same reason.
These are my steps:
- Thoroughly remove excess cuticle with CND cuticle away
- Deactivate CND cuticle away
- lightly buff surface shine
- Wipe over with Gelish nail cleanser
- apply PH bond
- Thin layer of foundation making sure to almost scrub" into the nail plate
- cap free edge
- 2/3 thin layers of gelish colour capping free edge after every coat
- 1 layer of Gelish top it off
- cap free edge
- wipe over with nail cleanser
- Apply Gelish cuticle oil
Standard procedure? Making sure I'm not getting any gel near the skin or cuticle. Should also mention I use the Gelish 18G LED lamp.
Can anyone offer some advice? I've heard some brilliant things about Gelish but am starting to lose hope
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