Quick and Easy After-Care

This video show you how to do a quick and easy nail after-care.

When you've done a new set of gel (or acrylic) nails, you're nails, cuticles and hands had to suffer quite a lot. A simple after-care is enough to give your nails and hands just what they need after a new set of nails.

Again, sorry for the zooming :).

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Glam Leopard Gelnails

FINALLY, here it is.

My new gelnail tutorial called: Glam Leopard.

Here's the video:

And here are the steps:

1. prep 

Push back your cuticles and remove the dead tissue with your cuticlescraper. File (240grid) your nail in the shape you prefer and buff on top of the nail with a whiteblock. Then apply your prep, let it dry, and apply your primer around your cuticle area. 

Now apply your form (you can also do this before you apply your prep and primer).

Forms

2. Apply gel

Apply one thin coat of clear gel, clean up with your woodstick and cure for 2 minutes.

3. Natural pink gel

Now it's time to apply your natural pink gel. Build it nicely on your natural nail only and make sure you create a nice natural curve. Let the gel level for a couple of seconds, clean up around your cuticle area with a woodstick and cure for 2 minutes. 

Natural pink gel

4. Build nail length

Now build your desired nail length with your clear gel. Make sure it fits right onto your natural nail.

5. Cure and pinch

Now cure your nails in the uvlight for 30 seconds and then remove it from the light. Now it's time to pinch the nail. Hold it for about 5-10 seconds and repeat this step (cure 30sec - pinch 10sec) for 2 to 3 times and then cure for another minute. 

Pinching tool

6. Remove form and file

Remove the tacky layer and then remove the form (I'm using my pinchingtool). Start filing the nails and make sure you're pleased with the way they look. I allways use my dustcollector so my workarea stays   dustfree and I won't breathe in too much dust. 

7. Apply glitter

Now it's time to apply your glitter. First apply some clear gel where you want your glitter to be (this doesn't have to be precise). Then tap on the glitter with a brush and let it fade out towards your cuticles. Then cure for 1 minute.

Silver Glitter

8. Apply clear gel

Apply the last coat of clear gel and make sure no glitter sticks out on the surface of the nail. Clean up with your woodstick and cure for 2 minutes.

9. File

Remove the tacky layer and file the nails. Make sure there aren't any bumps or ridges. I'm using an old 180grid and a 240grid file. When you're done filing remove the dust with your dustbrush and cleanser.

10. Acrylic paint

Mix your acrylic paint in the color you want. I'm using grey (mixed with black and white) and black paint. Apply the leopard print with a dotting tool. Let this dry!!!!! If the paint isn't completely dry and you apply your topcoat the whole design will be wiped out.

Dottingtools

11. Rhinestones

(This step is not in the video)

Apply your diamondstones with a drop of nailart-glue and let it dry. I chose silver and black ones.

Rhinestones

Nailart glue

12.  Topcoat

(This step is not in the video)

Now apply your uv-topcoat. Apply it as a polish and let it cure in the uvlight (mine needs to be cured for 1 minute).

AND YOU'RE DONE!

I hope you liked this tutorial and you will try it yourself.

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Simple Manicure Tutorial

Here's, as promised, my simple manicure tutorial WITH VID!

I did this manicure on a good friend of mine. (I'm sorry for the crappy quality)

Here are the simple steps, again:

1. desinfect and cuticles

desinfect both of your hands. Push back the cuticles with a cuticlepusher, and scrape away the dead tissue with a cuticlescraper and the backside of your cuticlepusher, Again remeber to keep your tool nice and flat so you won't put too much pressure on the nail and you won't hurt your client. Also be carefull with your scraper, It's a sharp tool and you don't want to remove layers of the natural nail.

cuticlepusher and cuticlescraper

2. trim cuticles

You can do this with a trimmer, but I chose to do it with my scraper, as it is a very sharp tool and I won't have to worry I trim too much (plus I can work very precise with this tool). Gently scrape away the excess cuticle, don't trim too much! Your cuticles are there for blocking bacteria!!! 

sharp blades on the cuticlescraper

3. clean and file

Clean up the nails with nailcleaner en start filing. I'm using a glass file and a 240grid file. Allways file one direction only when you're filing on natural nails. When you're done filing, buff the nail with your whiteblock. 

glass file and 240grid file

whiteblock 

4. remove dust

Remove the dust with a brush and cleanser.

5. apply basecoat

Apply a strengthning basecoat to harden and protect the nails. These basecoats tend to dry pretty fast. But make sure the nails are completely dry before you begin with the next step.

6. Creme and oil

Apply some nutricious handcreme and cuticle oil and massage it in. I'm using a pipette to apply my cuticle oil, because it's hygienic. I believe that using the same brush from the oil on every client can transfer bacteria from the one client to the other. I keep the brush for myself :).

Handcreme and cuticle oil

cuticle oil and pipette

And that's it! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. 

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Manicured my mother

Today I gave my mother a simple manicure. I did a simple one because we didn't have much time. 

Here are the simple steps:

1. Sanitize + disinfection

Wash your hands and let your clients wash their hands. Then disinfect your hands (and again your clients too). A simple disinfection gel is good enough.

You can choose to dehydrate your clients nails with nailcleaner.

2. Cuticles

Gently push back the cuticle with a cuticlepusher. Mind that you keep your tool flat at all times so you reduce the pressure on the nail, because this can hurt your client. Then gently remove the dead skin and unnecessary cuticle skin. You can do this with the other side of your cuticlepusher or with a cuticlescraper.

cuticlepusher and cuticlescraper

3. Filing

Gently file your clients nail (best is a 240 grid file) and one direction only, or you can damage the nail. Just file a little on top, and then file the free edge in whatever shape the client prefers. When you're done with this, use a whiteblock and buff the nail, again, one direction only. Remove your dust with a brush.

glass file and 240grid file

4. Strengthening basecoat

I chose to use a strenghtening basecoat on my mothers nails because she had pretty weak nails, probably because of the cold weather. I applied one coat.

5. Polish

Let your client decide which polish they prefer. My mom likes the casual, discrete but cute types of nailpolishes, also for her work. She chose a simple glitter polish.  This polish only needs one coat, but it depends on how many glitters your client wants and so on. A colored polish probably needs two coats. Finally when your polish is dry, apply a shiny topcoat polish (you can also use a sealing uv topcoat, if you have a uv lamp).

6. Creme and oil

When your polish is completely dry, apply some handcrème on your clients hands and rub it in, and why not give a little massage? Then put a drop of cuticle oil on each cuticle and rub that in too.

Voila, your client has beautifull, clean, soft nails and hands!

I hope this helps

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