I am a married, mom of 2 who loves having her nails done. My nails are never naked. I have been back and forth from salon to DIY, but the past 5 or so years, I was dedicated to the salon. Then, COVID happened, and back to DIYing and never looking back! Dip powder is my favorite and I would love for you to join! Subscribe for tips and tricks along my journey!
I spend so much time prepping, all my builders have lifted within days, actually has ruined my nails. I’m trying this as my last resort then I give up. I pray it works!
What if I want to add color on top of the builder? Do I still have to go step by step like I do with regular „no chip” manicure? Base coat on the builder then color and then top coat?
I have been using the modelones builder gel in jar for 1 month now which has been 2 sets and I honestly love the consistency (it’s thick and self levels like a dream) and it’s super clear!! I love how I have control of how much I put on the brush. My only issue I’ve been having is premature lifting by the cuticle. NOW I’m gonna test this combo and I’m so excited! The Orly gets here tomorrow and the YN gets here Friday! So excited for this weekend and your video was super informative
I found that it was lifting a lot, like almost immediately. I think it's because I also used the YN protein bond rather than Orly's primer. I wonder how this worked for you and not me?
I purchased the 30+5 . received today. It was on thick side ; but thinned out some after allowing them to reach room temp and shaking. (new england weather) It is nicely packaged . I love that they are upright and not on its side. Didn't received brushes but got this at a extremely reasonable price via Amazon
What do you advise for ppl with nails that have ridges? I have a few nails with deep ridges and they split along a ridge line. I has acrylics followed by dip but once covid hit I was on my own. I decided to let my nails grow out and rehab them. They were so terrible, paper thin, couldn't even be filed because they would just bend and crack. I rehabbed for several months and they are much stronger, will grow nicely but I have two nails that seem to grow with deep grooves and once they get to a certain point they split. Split nails as I'm sure you know are super annoying. They catch and snag. I decided to use dip base powder as an overlay just on my 'bad nails' but since the dip is rigid eventually the dip would crack where my nail was split. A friend suggested gel...I went to salon to have it done, just on my bad nails but the tech suggested doing them all so they grew at the same rate. She said to use builder gel. So far I'm not loving it because my splits aren't completely filled in and I read that the builder gel is nearly impossible to remove... I enjoy polishing my nails and have quite the collection of vegan, nontoxic, good for your nails polishes so I polished right over the gel with ease. Thanks for the terrific videos!
Nice video! I have a quick question, when you repeated the process a second time for thickness, did you buff your nails in between applications? I don't mean in between the flash cure, but rather when you said after the initial application you expected more thickness so you repeated the process.
I love Orly fx! It's very strong and forgiving, and so easy to apply versus pot hard gels, I've only broke one nail and it was my fault for pushing my nails to the limit I love the self leveling so easy to get a good apex! And looks great without polish! I don't know why Nail salons don't use it more!!!!!
This is everything I was looking for! I totally did this wrong the first time and my polish came off like a sticker. Cant wait to try it again! Thanks!
Also you can just make it like a transfer polish by just adding a topcoat or if you don’t have taco you can use a base coat and put over the design make sure it’s nothing but make sure it’s not overly thick and then peel it off and place it on your nail and top it with a topcoat
I forget the brand of dip acrylic which some dip acrylics you can use like your Ragley sculpting acrylic nails I’m sure there’s some out there that you can’t do that wet but I accidentally bought the powder and I love building my nails with acrylic so I wasn’t even paying attention and built my nails like I would with acrylic and it worked it took me a while to realize that they were dip powders because I was like I wonder if they have these bigger sizes and I actually looked at the label and at what it was and I was like these are dip powders and I had no clue The entire time I’ve had them it was when I wanted to get a bigger bottle and looked at the label when I realized they were dip powders true story and then I need to get up off my butt and go up to see what the name of them are so I can put it in this comment hold on a second
yes, but 100% acetone would be better. non-acetone nail polish remover has some ingredients to reduce drying of the nails and skin, which can interfere with adhesion of extensions/overlays. if you can get 90% or greater alcohol, it's better. for the same reasons, 70% alcohol has other ingredients.
