Same

hey some advice coming from someone who started nails at 11 is to always believe in yourself. im now 16 and get compliments on my nails so often and was told multiple times that i should open a nail salon lol

@@tristansmith8620 that is a very helpful tip, i also started at 11 and hopefully i will get the same results

@@diwigalang8810 u definitely will !

@@tristansmith8620 thank you hopefully!! I hope i do even when my family does not encourage it and thinks it will just fail and move one

using a hand file or buffer also works just fine, as long as ppl are careful not to apply pressure. with a hand file some ppl get used to applying pressure, which will cause more damage. i buff mine manually and nails hold just fine with barely anything taken off. for a nail tech, using the e file as much as possible is safest to avoid carpal tunnel and other related long-term damage to the hand and wrist.

It seems like people are getting allergic to these things because they or their techs put, cure the product on a skin.

Heya, thought I'd chime in. So there's a lot of information and science behind it, and I've recently become obsessed, fallen down the rabbit hole and basically scared myself, haha. To synopsize, the most risky, allergenic component in nail products are the HEMAs (hydroxyethlymethacrylate). Depending on how unstable the formula and how small the molecules are, the more likely they are to penetrate the skin barrier and trigger an immune response, and once you have an allergy, it is almost definitely permanent. The goal is to minimize how much HEMA you absorb. Find nail products with larger, more complex HEMAs that are harder to get into the skin. Straight HEMA has a very small molecular size and can more readily seep into the skin. Then you have Di-HEMA which has a larger size, and has lower risk. Then the more expensive Bis-HEMA which are pre-encapsulated HEMA molecules that are large, complex, low risk and it's hard for it to get into the skin. But it's very expensive! It's literally 10x the price to produce. So I would recommend Bis-HEMA for DIYers, along with a safety protocol to minimize risk. IF you are going to do nails from home, I implore anyone to do the following: - Find more complex, larger HEMA and avoid high concentrations of straight HEMA. Don't trust cheap Chinese products, even if it displays the ingredients. It is often false information. If you look at a product, either look on the site or Google it's MSDS or SDS (Safety Data Sheet - same thing as MSDS, just different names). This will give you the exact concentration of ingredients in the product. Any concentration of pure HEMA above 15% is higher risk, but in a perfect world, there would be no straight HEMA, in favor of larger HEMAs such as Di-HEMA or Bis-HEMA. If the company won't give you an SDS sheet, don't trust them. They should be open, transparent, and ready to give you info. - You MUST get a professional lamp. I know this is a real bummer. I've unfortunately been using a cheapo Amazon lamp, and I've only just realized the risk. Wattage is NOT a good measure of a lamp - it doesn't at all determine the potency or wavelength of light. In order for a product to fully and safely cure (it only takes a 50% cure to harden and look beautiful), a lamp needs to be high grade and sturdy. Either use the lamp specifically designed for the product or use the best, most powerful lamp you can find on the market to ensure that it can properly cure most products. A product must be at least 70% cured MINIMUM to be safe. If it's not fully cured, you still have these free-roaming molecules that can leech out of the nail and contaminate the skin. - If you're using color, use thin coats. Seriously. Don't do thick, viscous coats where the light can't properly penetrate. - Protect your skin from the dust from filing. I wear long sleeves and use a nail dust vacuum. - Wear a mask to avoid inhaling the product. - Use NITRILE gloves - not vinyl, not latex, but nitrile, medical-grade gloves. These HEMAs can permeate some gloves, so nitrile is important. - Cure for 60 seconds, REGARDLESS of what the brand says. A reputable chemist tested the cure of many products and has not found a single one, even of professional quality, to be sufficiently cured in under 60 seconds. Many brands will tell you that you can cure for 40, 30 or even 20(?!) seconds. Do not trust this. 60, minimum. - And most importantly, apply carefully and avoid getting it on the skin. I would recommend checking out The Nail Hub on KZfaq. She is fantastic and will tell you ALL you need to know. The Nail Hub website will also recommend products. What I recommend is IBD gel (not perfect at all, but lower risk and SO much cheaper than these very complex formulas that are literally like 20x the price) and I'd recommend the Kokoist Infinity Lamp. Yes, it's an investment, but you only need to buy it once! It's like $200, but after that, you know you're safe, and you don't need to replace it. Given everything I've discovered, I may actually do a video about this in the future.

@@briannab4770 This was incredibly helpful! I had just got the Beetles kit to start, like so many others I didn't want to overspend unless it was something I thought I could actually do. (It came with EVERYTHING, efile & light to cure, cheap). I have to say, I did it. And it was wonderful finally having nails again! I think I learned something from each nail lol. But, practice makes perfect, the real test the next set! I've been looking into better products since I finished the first time. I never thought about the light quality, that I will have to look into as well. I just want to thank you for your reply, this was so nice of you to do! I was nervous to try, luckily it worked out for me. But I will probably invest in better quality everything, for sure. Thanks so much for your recommendations!

Wow. I haven't heard. I'm about to look into this.

Generally it is if you want your nails to last a while. You wanna make the surface a little rough so the products can grip better. How you prep can make or break the manicure.

I'll say this: If I don't prep the cuticles and the nail before enhancement, they will literally pop clean off in days. If I do the necessary prep, they will literally never come off, and would last months if I left them (I removed a set after 3 months recently, haha). The cuticle area develops a sticky, protein build up that products will NOT adhere too, and the nail naturally has a shine and smoothness that things don't want to stick to. And that's generally how it goes with most adhesion in the world. When it comes to gluing anything, you often have to sand or roughen a surface to create lots of textural irregularities so that the glue has many crevices to sink into, and it creates a grip. When something is smooth and shiny, there's no grip, there's less friction and much more slip, y'know?

gel and acrylic doesnt stick to shiny areas thats why it comes off if it goes on ur skin :)

Yes, sadly that is a common experience for many. But do know that this damage is very temporary. They are weak and bending right now, until the last bit of damage has grown off. Then your nails will return to normal. But this is a case in point of knowing your nail technician and knowing your nail technician skill level. Clearly, the girl that was doing it that made the mistakes is not as experienced. You always want to book with the other person. Which is interesting because they work in the same salon. So apparently the manager/owner is not training them of the quality. They should have the first nail technician train the other nail technicians.

@@NailCareerEducation Thank you so much for responding. It is very interesting that many technicians at this salon are at very different levels. I'm going to stick with my regular. She could see I was very upset about the damage.

1000 Rotations Per Minute or 2000 Rotations per Minute

She said fine or medium grit ❤

I do recommend this. Even on Thin nails. Because it’s very very gentle

@@NailCareerEducation if you use very good equipment n are very good n precise? then yes maybe it can be safe but from experience most nailcare workers either dont have that skill or dont care enough to put in the effort, n they end up making ur nails paper thin and you cant even use or touch your nails for weeks after

This is a fine arbour band - it’s extremely gentle with very little pressure

She goes with speed 1. No one has ever used sooooo low speed! I am gonna try it to see how it feels, maybe you should do the same. Suzie that's the grid of it, 240? Thank you! ❤❤❤❤

Lol Your comment is hilarious.

This is absolutely fine. She's using a high grit, very low speed. She could have done triple the filing and it would be absolutely fine.