How to prep your nail - tech or client.
In these article I
well show you how to prep your nails.
I am starting by
doing a dry manicure and what that means is I am not
using any kind of
cuticle softener. if you do have a client with very stubborn cuticles and up in
the qiam then I would suggest to use that.
so when you are pushing back the cuticles you want to push this check the sidewalls. all the way down to the epineurium, as the nail grows out the ebony geom is attached to the nail plate which leaves cuticle on your nail plate cuticle and epineurium are very confused to be the same thing a lot of people don't know the difference so I do push on I check the side walls for cuticle and I do push the ebony cane back like you can see me doing right here and what that is doing is it is exposing, the cuticle that is stuck on the nail plate so it's really
hard to explain this
is the best way I can explain is by showing you on article and kind of walking
you through, how I do things so I like to push the up and game back. so it
gives it a nice shape because like I said as the nail grows out the eponym is attached
to the nail so as
your nail gets
longer the eponym, starts moving up and it starts leaving little skins or you
know whatever you want to call it on the nail plate which is the cuticle so
just take your time when you're doing this and really do it with a purpose
don't just go through the motions because this is probably one of the most
important steps before any kind of enhancement service. so just really take
your time and go you know do it with a purpose.
so you're done doing finally all ten nails I'm
taking a grit buffer.
And gently with
light pressure softening the free edge. going over the surface of the nail
plate, seeing if there is any leftover gel polish on the nail or maybe any
flakies on the nail and just really take your time you're going to see me with
my thumb swipe over my nail and I'm
feeling to see if I
left anything behind sometimes you can't see it but you definitely can feel it
so I do that a lot another little tip is I like to hold my buffer parallel to
the sidewalls and that corner of the buffer is going to get in the sidewalls and
get any cuticle that might have been stuck in there and use just hard to get
out you've scraped
and scraped and so
it really helps with that and it also helps with the skin so if you do have
clients that have a lot of you know dry skin callous skin on the sides it's
going to help kind of smooth.
those out a little
bit with how having to go crazy with your nippers so take your time. during
this step it's a very important step in the prep process and do it with the
purpose like with every step, that you're doing you're doing it with the
purpose.
I am done buffing
all 10 nails I'm going to go ahead and send my client to wash with soap water
and a scrub brush.
if you used cuticle remover this is the time you're going to
stress to them to make
sure they do a very
good job to take any leftover cuticle remover off of the nail plate.
So I am using Acton free.
especially free edge
I you know just really go over it very well
so I am NOT a nip happy person so I do my nipping in stages.
I will nip any cuticle or dead skin that is in
the way of my service. so anything that's going to affect how I apply my gel polish or how I
apply my acrylic I'm going to nip that now I save some
nipping towards the
end and I only nip what has to be nipped so for example. if I'm doing an
acrylic service I would just snip what's around the nail plate do my service at
the very end I will nip if there's anything left the reason why is because I do
a lot of hand filing for my acrylic service.
so when I file it sometimes takes care of a lot of the dry skin any cuticle or
hame nails that might be left over it takes care of it for me so I don't need
to go back and nip anything but if I do then that's when I would do it as at the
end so I'm just gonna show you guys
client has some skin on here we are we are doing a gel polish manicure
on her next so client has some skin that's kind of flaking down
some hang nails and
you know they're pretty prominent so I'm just gonna nip those now because I
feel like it might
get in the way of my
service so this is the time you would do it and like I said I am NOT a nip
happy person I don't go crazy with this part because I don't feel like you
should a good cuticle oil will help reverse these hard skins and getting
hangnail so it's really educating your client and pouring them on how to take
care of it and the proper
way to cut cuticles
and you know what to cut and what not to cut
so when it comes to
nipping any dead skin take your time when doing it make sure you close the jaws
of your nippers firmly then pull away I see a lot of beginner nail techs that
are scared to cut clients so they don't want to squeeze down and then they pull
before they try to you know squeeze down all the way and ends up causing bleeds
and
actually causes more
hangnail. so just be careful when you're doing this part squeeze, your nippers
then pull away.
I do it really quickly, because it's second nature to me I'm
comfortable doing it and you know it will get that way for
you to just you know
you've got to keep practicing. so now I'm just getting alcohol on a pad again
and I am cleansing the nail again this part, is super important cleansing the
nail is super important for my services so just take your time go through the
steps do everything with
a purpose and now my
client is ready.
Thank you.
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