This is for reference when I go back to this video: Base color Matte - 30 sec cure Pigment Buff free edge Cure for remainder 30 sec 2nd coats of matte - 30 sec cure More pigment Buff free edge Cure 30 sec Float top coat and cap free edge Clean with alcohol
For anyone who is interested you can also make your own powder with nail chalk pigments (sometimes called acrylic pigments to mix with acrylic powders) which tend to be much cheaper than ready made powders. Grind them with an efile slowly to make sure it is finely ground, store in little jars and follow her steps. This is exactly how this need to be done.
Great Content! I’m still in Nail school and really struggled with gel ombré. This make so much sense and looks easy to follow. Your tutorials have really help boost my nail art skills...Thanx so much!
I have been trying to do ombre using gel polish with no success (not happy with the way they look). I will definitely try this method as a lot of my clients are asking for ombre. thank you for the tutorial, very helpful :)
I have played and I find the under cured matte top coat to work the best but the similar colour and gloss top coat is good too but like you said can be grainy 🙂. I need to get the Magpie white pigment, there are none as white I find 😒.
Hi if I were to use Akzentz Luxio delicate for the baby boomer using the magpie baby pigment would you recommend using the velvet magpie top coat steps? If I don't have the Diamond top coat could the Luxio gloss be used or the Don't be tacky?
Hey, I know this is a pretty old video, but I just got interested in nail powders of all types, especially, lately, these neon pigments. I tried out your technique above just yesterday, and you're right, with the purple and blue, it's kind of a mess (haven't tried green yet), but with hot neon pink on a pinkish base, it's absolutely OUTSTANDING! And neon orange on a light peach base also works just great! I might even keep adapting that one for Halloween, doing peach base/neon orange/black -- I have some black chrome powder -- and maybe even nude/neon blood red/black. Anyway, I find that I'm very confused about all the various methods of applying these powders; your video says half-cured matte, one I saw before said full-cured matte, another said tap it into cured but tacky color or base coat, another says into UNcured gel, and one I'm just watching in another tab, says half-cured shiny no-wipe topcoat (like with chromes). I've watched a lot of your vids and I really like your style - and your magnetic gel vids are the BEST! -- so I thought I would ask you your opinion of all that. I'm going thru my fake/practice nails at an alarming pace! 🤣 Thx for this vid and all your others!
It depends on the design/colors for which technique I like, and also learning new techniques as time goes on. ☺️ Now I don’t worry about curing the powder. I just apply to my matte top coat, then go straight over with my regular top coat. 🩷
There are many different techniques to achieve similar results, and a lot of nail techs do things slightly different. So it’s great to play around with your products and see what works best for you 😄
@@NailsByKatieDutra Well, I've had outstanding results by doing it as you showed in this video, so I'll stick with that. 😊 I also figured out how to make the blues and purples (and greens!) less of a mess and more manageable -- for the base coat, I use a lighter shade of whatever powder I'm using, and by doing that, even the green, blue, and purple come out really well. Wish I could show you how awesome they look! I wound up with a full set of "skittle" nails, from pink to orange to green to blue to purple, so I'm thinking that will be my next look on my actual nails -- currently a frosty pearl white because I finally cut them and e-filed away nearly all the hard gel overlay, to let them grow out naturally, so I wanted some that didn't grab the eye while that's going on -- frosty white to the rescue! 😉
Does the matte top coat need to be a no wipe ? is this why you only cure for 50% of total time? The one i have needs to be wiped after curing and just wondering if this will still work...
I would think yes, because if you cure for 1/2 time it is still a tiny bit tacky but not much. If you have a matte that needs to be wiped I would try it on a tip first and see what happens!
I unfortunately watched several pigment videos before yours. Thank you so much for all the step by step instruction. This video was amazing and so helpful.
So... my friend... will you talk pricing?? What do you charge for an ombré? Per nail? Oh , and btw, thank So much for the tutorials 🥰 I learn so much from you 😍
Great video! I have been looking at all boomer videos to get as many tips as I can. Would you put a thin layer of trinity on before you apply the Cotton candy? Or is magpie pretty strong? When working on a client do you worry about the pigment getting onto their skin? Or once you put the top coat on and cleanse the pigment will be easily removed from skin? Not sure if a latex barrier is needed.
A latex barrier is not needed, the pigment washes away super easily if the clients wash their hands or if you use alcohol to wipe it off. If you don’t use a type of hard gel underneath then this would just be considered a gel polish manicure, so it depends on the type of nails that you are trying to achieve. I personally rarely ever do just basic gel polish manicures, I usually do hard gel. Thanks for watching ☺️
Please help me understand why you use matte top coat to apply pigment is it because it isn’t as tacky upon 1/2 cure and pigment isn’t as vulnerable to bleeding where you don’t want it?
Omg, so glad to have found your video, I have a bunch of pigments & never ever thought of using them this way, thank-you so much for making this video, now I know what I am doing for my next nail look lol
