As a retired nail technician I have to say, this is by far one of the MOST professional tutorials I’ve seen. Your attention to detail as well as careful technique is one I would happily trust my hands to!
Anastasia, I have to tell you Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks for all of the nail tips, poly-gel, acrylic,soft gel and all the nail art that you do! I'm grateful that you explain what you are doing and why certain things might happen. I absolutely appreciate you and your beautiful work!!
I definitely learned that it's better to use acetone on clear tips rather than alcohol, which leaves a white film. Hope you're well Anastasia! Thanks for another great video 🥰
Working with soft gel tips infuriated me at first because of how runny the gel was😭 but after many trial and error, i really improved a lot. Watching your videos helped me and boosted my confidence. Please keep on uploading how to troubleshoot soft gels, builder gels, hybridgels etc. 💗 Love from the Philippines💗🇵🇭
This how I do mine and have ran into all the problems mentioned. I have flat nail beds, but I’ve practiced so much it’s getting easier. I don’t like those little lamps they provide because you have to turn it on while you’re trying to hold the nail straight. So I bought a clip on flash cure lamp that I leave on during the initial gluing process. So much easier!
If you do this in your own and especially as a beginner, I highly recommend getting a gooseneck uv light👍🏽. I was having a hard time with my glue and getting my nails on straight with my light , the gooseneck lamp was PERFECT! Or you can buy like a thick gel glue and it will hold your nail in place for you :)
This video is definitely going to be a reference video for the students at the soft gel course🤩👍 Or even better, -a problem solving lesson in the course itself😉 These are all issues that appear regularly 😬
I think a midnight blue glitter gel combo is probably my all time favourite 😍. I'm acrylic tech trained but really fancy a go of soft gel extensions now 🤔😊 xx
I often do them, I learned from you actually! Although I will say I'm barely learning with this video, not to use builder gel because the products are different 😅 no wonder the tips kept peeling off from the builder gel even if the gel was cured 😅😅😅
Me too, my nail beds are flat do to horrible removal of poly gel. What helps with bubble for me is adding a little blob of the gel on the cuticle part of the gel extension. However, when I do this I end up with excess gel on the sides
Oh gosh Anastasia you make it look easy but it takes lot's of practice...I've had bubbles and leakage problem's...I find using the 4 in 1 gel's so hard as I have ski jump nail's so filling the space between nail and extension is a messy and almost impossible task...I find for me I'm better using polygel or the solid extension gel as it moulds the extension to my uneven nail's better...thankyou for sharing the nail's turned out so beautiful and I love the look of those Saviland paint's xo 💜💅💜
I grew up in a time where you had to go to a salon and get acrylics if you wanted nails. I do all sorts of stuff at home now like, polygel, acrylic, and hard and soft gels. Even designs are so simple now, like transfer foil, like come on! What a godsend. I think full cover tips and rubber base are my absolute favorite products as a go to for long wear nails. Mine are pretty oily and bendy so hard gels like to lift really bad on my nails.
I've worked with glue and glued my fingers together. Lol. I've tried polygel clear to use on my nails to do extensions which works great. Now I'll have to try the 4 in 1 builder gel. Thank you for the information.
Have you ever seen gel polish allergies? And do you have any comments or advice on how to avoid it? I recently made a few of the mistakes you showed here and then some and ended up with a relatively bad skin allergy. The skin on my thumb is peeling and most of the skin around all my nails is hardened. I have a bit of lifting on the nail bed but not too bad. I'm trying to keep them clean and hydrated/moisturized and I'm applying a keratin nail polish frequently. I had used gel polish and done gel extensions in the past and didn't have any issues. I think what caused it was overexposure to the wet gel polish prior to curing. I'm hopeful that, once my nails and skin have healed, I can try again. But I'm a bit worried about allergies returning or getting worse. Love your channel. Hopefully I can keep learning more about how to properly do my nails in the future if they survive this little allergy crisis. :(
I think your is not a gel allergy but, as you said, maybe uncured gel exposure or cleaner. It happened to me too, the very first times I used gel on me. I applied baby cream on top ( the one for the baby buttom😅) and helped a lot.
I have this happen to me if I cure gel on to my skin. I go back in with the efile and gently file around the cuticle to clean off any excess gel product or else the skin around my cuticle will itch like crazy
I personally like using the hard gel glue instead of liquid. Gel x nails are all I do now and I change them out every 3 or 4 weeks. I don’t even bother with a fill.
Did you have your model hold the flash cure lamp? If I let go of the tip to just put it in the lamp like you showed, it would slide all over the place and most likey off the nail.
I’m having some right trouble getting my nails to stay on recently. I’m lucky if I get a full week. I have very oily skin and nails but I prep them within an inch of their life. Dryer than the Sahara but my nails still lift 😫😆
Thank you for the video. It would be helpful to see how you actually cure them under the lamp. How you hold it under the lamp without letting go of the nail
I bought that Saviland kit based on one of your videos and for some reason have been too intimidated by it to use it. Thanks for doing this video. I'm going to finally use mine!
I'm a complete moron and not good at cosmetology stuff AT ALL, and I was able to figure it out. Now I always have a cute mani and my 16 year old daughter is able to brag at school that her mom does nails and she's never without a fresh set. She's so happy because we could NEVER afford to keep her in nails from the salon. It took me maybe 3 sets to really master the techniques to where I got compliments all the time. Don't be scared and don't give up girl, you can do it!!!
@@amymandeville8342 Oh man, TRUST me, I do the same. But it's good to be a thinker and thorough for this. Use that overactive brain to make sure you've got everything you need laid out ahead of time, that the tips are the right size, all that. Take all the time you need on prep. Then, just trust yourself. Keep it moving. You might mess the first couple up. Soak them off and go again. You CAN do it. And the self-esteem boost you get when you succeed is SO GOOD. I believe in you. You've got this.
@@bethanygee6939 that's what I had planned on doing. I think I'm also going to get some if those clear clips to hold the tip on, too. My next problem will be keeping my klepto Siamese from running off with my stuff! 🤣🤣
I do this process for quite a few clients but because of your video on the Vetty solid glue I'm going to try that route. It Looks SO much easier then Doing it with a thinner viscosity because you have to maneuver around the little light to flash cure and keep the nail straight. It doesn't get easier! I am just wondering how long nails last when doing it with the solid nail glue method 🤔. Oh, and I absolutely love your videos. Thank you for all of the educational information you provide! It is very much appreciated 💕
Look up the removal process of the solid gel glue. It was a dream in application, but the worst nail product I have used, due to the removal. I tried soaking off- and nada. Then I attempted to efile it off, and that was awful as well, because it has become a layer of rubber. I had to peel it off, and that was so bad for my nails! Also, any excess glue that squeezed out of the nail during application was horrible to attempt to file away- I ended up using nippers to cut it. I only used it once, and went back to using builder gel as the adhesive, along with a gooseneck uv light- slightly less easy than the solid glue, but so worth it for easier removal.
@@deeh5126 I watched a different video prior to this one where the woman tried soaking off. She took the nails down as much as possible then soaked. The stuff turned into a rubber consistency the could just be peeled off. The first one she tried it too soon and it took a little of her nail bed but after soaking the others longer- no damage. So maybe it depends on brand? Some of my clients like full cover tips as an alternative to acrylic or hard gel so soaking off isn't something I'd need to do on the regular. Still going to try it on myself cause hey, what nail tech doesn't attempt all these lovely new ides on themselves first!? 🤣
@@deeh5126 just reread your response and saw you know about "peeling" it off. 🤦♀️ I use Young Nails Fiber Gel as an adhesive but it is a b**ch to file if I get too much product under the nail. I've tried hard gel- but sometimes that heat spike happens no matter what I do. So I guess it's whatever works best for each tech as an individual. Like people rave about Young Nails. I invested SO much money in them - I kept having lifting. Thought it was me. Tried a different brand- BLAM- NO more lifting. I lost a lot of clients assuming it was me not the products - trial and error- sucks but that's all we have most times
@@lisaw2138 I really hated that the removal was such a pain, but you can win with everything. I hate that YN didn't work for you after you invested so much! I have only used their protein bond, and it worked well, but I have since switched to a more affordable one that seems to work as well.
Because of your educational videos. I started beauty school and I learned so much theory and now I'm actually able to apply the technique that I've learned from your videos to myself and my nail models. THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you for all your fantastic videos. Q: what do you do with the glue under the free part of the extension? Do you remove with a brush, spread it out under the nail or just let it be as it is?
Have made ALL these mistakes (I’ve only done two sets so far). For my first set, I used way too little extend gel, over cured, applied crooked, and used too small sizes. Second set, I overcompensated and used way too much gel. Will try just applying gel at the tip as before I was applying all over and extra at the tip. I’m gonna try larger sizes too as I’m still having sidewalls peeking out.
Can you please show the nails grown out about a week? I find that all goes well for me but then as they grow out, my hair catches on the area nearest to the cuticle, no matter how securely applied. I also file the nail tip prior to applying, to try to create less of a ridge, but it still does it. Any advice?
I have found if you leave a small gap between the cuticle and the tip, and you put gel there (obviously w/o touching the skin) it can fill that little crevice so it doesn't catch as much
If you're getting hair caught, that means you've got lifting. You shouldn't let it stay like that because if hair can fit in there, so can water and bacteria and you can get a "greenie," which is stuff growing under the nail. That can be really bad. 🤢 You can usually avoid this if you take the time to do really good nail prep for good adhesion. Personally, after taking what most people would probably consider WAY too long with my nail prep, I apply the nail just a smidge short of the cuticle. Then, after application but before polish, I take my e-file and the cuticle ball or that pointy bit she used in the video for the cuticles and I run it over where the nail ends near the cuticle. Then I take the polish over that area so it covers it up. That usually helps a lot. I've figured out that most of the issues that I had at first went away with time and experience. You've just got to put the practice hours in. It gets easier. Don't give up!!
Two questions pleas. Do you have to slightly buff the nail tip before applying color due to shine and polish sticking? Also can we clean off tips with alcohol before polish?
I’ve been looking at this kit for a while looks really good I always use full cover nail tips but my problem is I have to paint my gel and do my nail art before I glue them on as I’m terrible at painting my nails 💅 once there glued on I’d buy this kit in a heartbeat if I was any good at painting my nails when there glued on great video as always thank you Anastasia ❤❤
I'm new to doing my own nails using the full tips and I'd like to try using the colour gel. How do you clean the brush after using the colour gel? Thank you in advance
I'm just getting back into my nails. For 10 years I did acrylic nails and I stopped doing them about 10 years ago because of the damage to my real nails. Recently I purchased everything I needed to do polygel nails and after playing around with it I've decided to apply soft gel tips instead. I'm waiting to receive my nail drill but I got a manicure set and I've been using it. I'm finding other issues I need to address. Apparently my nail beds are bigger than the average nail tips so I've found a set with 15 sizes that I'm hoping will work for me when they arrive. The only question I have is did you cure the nail polish after each coat that you applied.
I installed soft gel extensions and I had several nails that split down from the tip of the extension to my natural nail. is that due to an error or just poor quality full coverage tips?
hi Anastasia! i have seen this video and i was wondering if these tips are good quality (will they break easly?, they are going to last a few weeks like normal extensions? they are easly blendable?) Thanks!!
Hi 👋. I am just starting to use full coverage nails 💅. Question please... how do you remove them? Some say do not efile the plastic only soak off and others say only hand file them off to remove them? 🙄 what do you do?
There should be no leftovers of dead skin tissue, they look diffrent from the nail plate - a little shiny and no ridges. Surface of the nail plate looks more dry and usually have tiny ridges on it
I've been told SO many times that you can use builder gel for soft gel tips and it will work. Is that really not true? :( I'm trying to stop biting my nails and I have tried so many things and I bought some soft gel tips from Sally's, I already had builders gel, because someone told me that it would work just fine. :/
You can use builder gel. I bought the ASP gels made simple kit from Sallys which is the builder gel and dual forms. It also came with a bonder to apply first to help the gel stick and the lamp. With builder gel the plastic form pops off after curing. You don't leave it on. Hope this helps!
@bellemieux8583 I have such weird and odd shaped nails and nail beds. I have wide nails that are super curved on the sides but completely flat in the middle, and only some of my nail beds are curved at the cuticle, others are flat so instead of a ) at the base of my nail it looks more like ] (mostly my thumbs). I also have oily nails so even when I did used to get professional nails done, after 1 fill in of acrylic, I had to get a whole new set! I just want pretty nails 😢
I have odd shaped nails too. Since you already have the builder gel and the soft gel tips you have options to use them together. If your tips are only the nail tip you can glue them on with nail glue and then put the builder gel on top to build the nail. If the soft gel nail tips are the full nail coverage kind you can use them as a dual form aka poppit. After curing the builder gel you can pop it off with a cuticle stick. There are so many different ways to build nails!
@bellemieux8583 I want to really keep them short for now.... so should I clip the back end to make them the length I want? Or should I make them longer and them reshape to the length I want? Alternatively, I was also thinking of getting some hard gel to try as well. My builder gel is really liquidy bottle gel. Tho I do have the IBD pot gel as well. Should I use the pot and wait till I have some length to my actual nail to use the bottle?
I'm not exactly sure. I have personally not used soft gel tips. I have only used the ASP builder gel from Sallys which is thick gel. as far as length i like to keep the natural nail longer to add support. I extend about half the distance of the cuticle to the free edge past the free edge that way it's not too long and has good support.
How would you deal with an autistic client who can't stand anyone doing anything with their cuticles? No pushing back (not even himself), no softener, not anything. I'm asking because my it's my husband and he really wants me to give him beautiful nails, and I would love to do it! I'm just not sure how prep without touching the cuticle.
So weird, I’m autistic and also couldn’t stand it unless I did it myself. I’m on medication now so I can just close my eyes and let other people do it, but I enjoy manicuring myself. I also get freaked out because so many salons will cut you 😅 If he wants nice nails, maybe he can learn to do the cuticle part.
