How To Fix Broken Corners 

I can’t believe I never thought of moving the nail form 🤦🏽‍♀️ always so helpful thank you!

Thank you so much for this. Broken corner is the story of my right thumbnail’s life.

I feel like by learning about nails I learn about life. You’re a very smart woman! Glad I found your channel!

Haven’t seen it Liz, but thank you...this is exactly the stuff we need to know! Thanks for thinking of all the practical issues we need to deal with.

Great video! Love how you tell and show how to do something!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills with us 😍💅🏾

This helped me so much. I suffer from iron deficiency and I have ridged nails from thyroid issues as well. My nails are very thin right now so I'm taking biotin vitamins too. But my natural nails are damaged from bad habits and learning on my own nails without reading first. Since I found your channel I've started to let my nails get healthier first before I practice on myself. I peeled off two gel sets like an idiot too. 🙄 You have taught me so much. I think I might go back to school at 41 this summer. But if not I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you. I'll be donating when I start to work. You really have the best channel on here. You deserve an award. If you can do private lessons I would love to pay you.

Waaayhaaaay!!! I've been doing it right!! It astonished me how quickly gel files down. I typically apply a layer of gel, then pour acrylic powder over (like a home made acrygel), then went to just gel, and I've been so overeager in filing, I've had to reapply the gel and start again. I love learning from you!! Xx

Thanks for that advice, Liz. Your tutorials are always top notch! I’ll definitely be trying this technique. Thinking about thumbs, I remember your video that teaches how to adapt forms for wide thumbs, and I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if you could buy multi-size forms-on-a-roll? It would be such a time saver! Perhaps one day it’ll happen….! Love from the UK 😘

Love, love, love your vids!!! I'm learning so much😘thank you beautiful 😍

Absolutely of great help to me. Because my own nails are so darn weak, I have gradually grown them out. (First with the gel type tips and gel,and now with just gel overlays) I do tend to mess up the corners, so thanks very much for this.❤️

Love Liz is back

Thank you so much for showing a great fix

This is a helpful video, I always get this kind of broken nails. Thank you for the video

I have to repair a few chipped corners. Thank you for sharing💖

that technique is totally awesome

I always am breaking my corners 😤 and today getting ready to fix them once more however I got a plus I turned utube on to keep me company and your channel came up doing corners lol 😆 if that wasn't a sign great topic very clear and understandable now I will watch more of yours thank you 😊 for getting the information out there im shy so this was great

Hi Liz! Such sage advice! When I first started & I wanted a new extension shape I would try and remove all the product off my nail completely - ended up thinning out my nail plate..... I learnt my lesson! Can't wait to hear about your opinion on full coverage tips.... as far as I am aware they are soak off at each service - so you could potentially be making nail plate thinner & brittle with removal? Hope you are having a great day =)

Nice video. Thank 😄 really work on my nails.

Thank you SO MUCH for these videos! I just bought my first lamp and gels (leafgel) and created an overlay on 8 nails and extensions on 2 that curve down really badly. I can’t tell you how helpful your videos are and how much I appreciate them ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I just realized that I don’t own any efiles and I can’t afford to get an efile machine right now - could you do a video where you show us how to use a hand file to deal with lifting around the cuticle and side walls?? My base coat and builder gel are both clear, and I’m TERRIFIED that I’ll end up filing my natural nail while trying to get some thin areas of lifting off.

Thanks for really helpful tutorial for us new nail techs. Greetings from ur subscriber in Cyprus😊

I absolutely loved this video. It was so clear and very easy to follow...thank you!

I had to fix a thumb nail last Friday. I had to reference one of your previous videos about customizing forms.

I so needed this. I break at least 1 corner almost every mani when filing off product

Love!

Great video ! I wish that you post it 3 days ago because I had to do and correction ans I have failed it 😞 thank you very very much, I learn a lot of listening your video. ❤️❤️

All your videos are awesome. Can you share which gel (self levelling) you used ? Did you carry-on with platinum bond duo after you fixed the corner? 😊

I have just that kind of break…thank you 🙏🏽🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏽Mia

I love when you say “who cares?!” It’s so true. We get so bogged down with being nit picky nail techs 😂

Great video. Can you do this with something other than a nail form? I don't have any yet and got 2 corner breaks on square nails. TIA

I have hard gel as on over lay on my natural nails and a few weeks ago my natural nail lifted from the free edge only and I had no idea why that happened untill today. I didn't realize I broke the seal, definitely something I'll have to keep in mind when filing my nails thank you for a great explained video!!

Wow, thank you for this. I grow my natural nails long, and use gel polish on them. I do my nails at home. I was doing exactly what you showed here so this confirmed my repair job except I use structure gel. Question about the bubble you had-is it flat in the gel? Did you buff it so it’s smooth? Also, what did you use to build the apex? Is making an apex important or can you just leave your nail’s natural curve? I hope you can understand that. Thank you again! 💅🏻❤️

Thanks for this, cuz, Thats my nails, LOL!! 😅💕💅🏻

Thanks!! For next vidcan you show how to practically do a gel ombre French? Or any color combo

Thanks Liz for all of your very informative videos. I’m 63 and have just recently qualified so I know I won’t have a massively long career in this industry so I’m trying to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can. My biggest problem at the moment is trying to find a couple of brands that a) are healthy for my clients, b) won’t break the bank and c) are readily available in Australia (preferably also an Oz company). I’ve done the IBX training and like the look of the LE range (but not an Aussie company), haven’t seen or know much about Kokoist, Akzentz or Estemio. If you could offer any advice I’d be eternally grateful. Also, I would love to order from you but seems I can’t order LE as there is a distributor here. Are there any other restrictions on what you can send to Australia? Cheers, Clare xx

Thank you for this video. It is very helpful. I would love to see how you would do an extension on a person who bites hers/his nails really bad. Like on Susie's (nail career education) friend Grant. I know gel burns so I don't know how to do it on a person that bites his/hers nails so bad. Many thanks if you will do a video on that 🙏🙏

Hi, it’s very interesting! Can I use acrygel to fix a broken nail? Thank you ☺️

Tah dah !

Quick Q on the slip layer: Do you not worry about bubbles since its just serving as the overlay? I’ve always wondered if that might weaken the gel or create issues later but its so hard to avoid any…

Off the subject I need your advice on which product you would recommend for the client who will insists on extreme length and I mean like full length long forms length

That looks so natural. You could wear clear nail polish and people wouldn't know from a distance.

Hey Liz! Just came across your videos and I must say, they are super fun to watch and super informative! Regarding this video in particular, I have a thumb nail that broke quite low on the nail bed (not extreme to the point of blood or anything, but still low enough to know it's going to give me trouble when I try to redo my manicure) do you think this method would also work for my issue? I don't know if the nail form will reach to cover the area of my skin exposed from the missing chunk of nail :( I look forward to watching your next video!

Hi Liz, thanks for the video, always love watching them. My question is sometimes when I'm doing a gel extension on a form when I take the form off I have a crack at the corner side of where the free edge and the extension meets 😢 I'm not sure if this is due to my technique or when the natural nails are very short or both 🤔 Can I remedy this by putting more product on top of the tear or should I always file the whole lot off and start my extension again? This is what I typically do as I worry the foundation won't be strong enough and it will break off. Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance. 🤗

Nail file and buffer link to products?

Oh good to know I was doing this correctly with the form. My husband has a problem with his corners snapping and splitting. (Probably only because of post surgery healing.) I’ve got to figure a mix to match his natural nail colour though because he says the clear spot bugs him when he notices it. 😝

Could you leave it natural by just putting regular nail polish on it? As I have good natural hard nails and length and don't want to damage them by applying gel polish every time. I have had biab put on this tme but have found it really chemically. But i tend to get breaks right ag the bottom of my nails and have to chop them right down to start again as im abit OCD about the nails being all the same length 😆

Great video Liz 😊👍. I broke a corner and ended up taking my extension right down to reform. When I had tried to fix a break before it would either break off again or when I was filing it it would fall off. I hadn't used a bonder first, could that have been the reason? Thanks 🙂

Damn... if only this came out a week ago!!!

Thank you so much for this video Liz. Question,. I have full cover soft gel tips on for a month plus. They are in great condition with minimal lifting. I recently did a gel rebalance on my nails but after prep and applying a rubber based gel and buffing, I applied another coat of reg. base gel directly on top and then color. The color started pulling immediately all the nails. I managed to cure them instantly to stop further pulling and reapply a second coat. As soon as a applied my matted top coat on top of the color it was bumpy and starting peeling after a week of wear on one nail. Why is that? (Mind you, everything I used was from the same brand from the ph bonder to the elastic base, reg base, color, top coat and matte gel) My other nails had the same issues with the gel color but I applied a shiny gel top coat and they are holding up really well “no issues”. On another nail, I applied a shiny gel top coat “cure” and then applied a matte top coat and it’s doing great. Is the buffing the issue that caused the pulling? Should I have not added the base coat and applied color straight to the nail after the rebalancing? Is there a right or wrong way to apply matte gel polish? Pls help

Do you hold the nail form in place while curing to keep that seamless fit of the nail for under the natural nail? This video is so useful because I chip my corners often. Thank you!

Can you do fixing a broken toenail ?🖤

How to know the differences between air pockets/ air bubble lifting instead of old gel just change color a little?

If you were to go straight into colour and file at the end, wouldn't you ruin the free edge where you would have capped it with colour? Or is that a non-issue...

I would use polygel and no form, it would take less time and effort

Hi Liz! Such sage advice! When I first started & I wanted a new extension shape I would try and remove all the product off my nail completely - ended up thinning out my nail plate..... I learnt my lesson! Can't wait to hear about your opinion on full coverage tips.... as far as I am aware they are soak off at each service - so you could potentially be making nail plate thinner & brittle with removal? Hope you are having a great day =)