Posts filed under: ‘Technical Tips‘
Acrylic Nail crack repair
We talked about how to make Acrylic nails last week. We will mention acrylic repair today, acrylic nails are not easy to be damaged, but they still need to rebuild after few weeks. Acrylic crack repair is the addition of extra acrylic to fill the crack in an acrylic nail and reinforce the rest of the nail. The procedure is similar to make an acrylic nail.
Use the following steps for crack repairs.
- Remove old polish.
- File cracked acrylic. File a V shape into the crack of file flush to remove crack.
- Clean nails.
- Apply nail antiseptic. Apply nail antiseptic to nails using cotton-tipped orangewood stick, cotton, or spray.
- Apply primer: Apply a dot primer to the cracked area.
- Apply nail form: If the crack is large, apply a nail form for added support.
- Prepare acrylic liquid and powder: Pour acrylic liquid and powder into separate small jars.
- Place balls of acrylic: Pick up one or more small balls of acrylic and apply them to the cracked area with a paint brush.
- Shape balls of acrylic: Dab and press the acrylic to fill crack. Be careful not to let acrylic seep under form or under existing nail.
- Remove form and reshape nail.
- Buff nail until smooth and clean nail.
- Apply cuticle oil and polish or topcoat.
Add a comment December 15, 2008
Nail Repair
You may notice that your nail polish tips are easy to get damaged whether by catching it on something, or not allowing coats to dry enough, specially the edge of nail. How do you keep your nails a fresh and nice look? Here, we share some repairing methods of the cracks or damages.
For the damage of smear nails:
Dip a cotton bud in nail polish-remover, so that is moist, but not soaking wet. Gently smooth over the smear. If the damages are very great, apply the colored polish once to cover the whole nail.
For other damages:
Like the image shows, nail efforts always be damaged on the edge of nail, but other parts still look good. In this case, you don’t need to remover all the efforts to build up the new one. There is a easy way to fix it.
Find a sparkle polish to apply on the free edge, it will cover all the damages. Then 2 coat of top coat applied makes sure your nail get a fresh look. Or you can choose other colored polish like white, we can do some new efforts for your nails. Remember last week we talked about the French Nail, apply the white polish on your free edges, your nails will have a new design intantly.
Add a comment November 13, 2008
Do you know how to apply polish?
Maybe you don’t even think about this is a question. Applying polish looks like an easy job that everyone can do, but it isn’t that easy. Do you know how does the nail salon normally do? Do you know how to do it by yourself that will give your nails a shinny and glossy look. If you want to make a difference, there are some tips you may need to know.
Tip 1: Base coat and Top coat
The base coat and the top coat are both colorless polish. The base coat is applied to the natural nail before the application of colored polish. It contains more resin than colored polish to maintain a tacky surface so the colored polish will adhere better. The top coat is applied over colored polish to prevent chipping and add a shine to the finished nail.
Tip 2: the step of applying polish
Forget what you do before, please remember that polish is applied in four or five coats. The first, the base coat, is followed by two coats of color not only once. This is important and makes the nail more brightly. Finally, one or two applications of top coat. Here is another tip that applying the colored polish on the free edge once before you apply it on the surface because the free edge is easy to get damage.
The way of apply polish; please follow the steps that show on the picture.
Give a try and you will see how shinny your nails are!
Add a comment October 30, 2008
Say something about the Nail Art.
Of course, beauty is human nature. Today, more and more people concern about the nail art even men. It is easy to find some nail beauty salons around you. Why does the nail art so absorb people’s eyes？ Let’s find out together! 
Beauty Nail is not only a personal adornment, but also is a kind of art. It becomes popular all over the world in the past 10 years. The Nail Art involves nail care, such as manicure and pedicure, and nail design. Now, French nail is still a classic style of nail design, in addition, Gel nail and 3D nail are acceptable by women as the new fashion. A few years ago, I had a opportunity to learn about the nail art and after that I am very interested in it, so that is why I choose this topic for my blog. I hope this blog will become a platform to share, learn, and communicate.
We will take more about it in next week.
Add a comment October 21, 2008
