Air bubbles

[Butterfly Beauty]

Hiball

I'm still fairly new having completed my training at the beginning of last month. Today I've applied Ink London iLac to mine and my neighbours nails and we've both had air bubbles appear on a few nails. I've never had this before and I gave the nails a really good scrub with dehydrator. I'd really appreciate any thoughts on what might have caused this.

 

[Redduck]

I don't use the same product as you but it looks like you may have got little bits of fluff or debris on the nail / base coat and that's left a bump. Are you using lint free wipes?

 

[Butterfly Beauty]

I don't use the same product as you but it looks like you may have got little bits of fluff or debris on the nail / base coat and that's left a bump. Are you using lint free wipes?

Yes, using lint free and they are definitely air bubbles. I've just push the bubble to the cuticle edge and the whole gel has lifted off except a few mm from the free edge.

 

[Opinaillove]

I'd say it's not curing correctly. Gel polish can bubble if it's not cures right.

 

[user 111574]

Base coat applied too thickly possibly?

 

[Butterfly Beauty]

I'd say it's not curing correctly. Gel polish can bubble if it's not cures right.

I can't understand why those few nails wouldn't have, as all the others did

 

[Butterfly Beauty]

Base coat applied too thickly possibly?

All ready being super careful to get the base coat thin, seriously can't make it any thinner!

 

[blossom]

I can't understand why those few nails wouldn't have, as all the others did

The product may have been a little thicker there?

 

[Opinaillove]

I can't understand why those few nails wouldn't have, as all the others did

I've had it happen one nail bubbles rest are fine. Sometimes it might have been thicker or positioned weird

 

[Puddy89]

This would normally happen when the colour layer is applied to thick. It doesn't set properly. Try doing thinner layers, sometimes you may need to do 3 layers to get the desired colour. But it's better than them not curing properly x

 

[Butterfly Beauty]

This would normally happen when the colour layer is applied to thick. It doesn't set properly. Try doing thinner layers, sometimes you may need to do 3 layers to get the desired colour. But it's better than them not curing properly x

I think that may have been it, as I had been applying very thin but was struggling to get a even colour, so tried it a little thicker. I'm really hoping I come through this as so far, I have to say, I'm not finding Ink London a very easy polish to master. But I keep telling myself it must be ok otherwise no one would use it!

 

[nailedit00]

I would also make sure you shake the bottles really well all sorts of things happened to my nails when I first used ink didn't sake the bottle properly and applied too thick x

 

[beauty bits]

It has to be aplied thinnner than other gel polishes I've used but I love it x

 

[carolwheatley]

I use ink london . .this is how i do it.. i apply very very thin base coat...swiping slowly over the nail plate to ensure the basecoat is going on ....keep going over it until its covered.... very very thin 1st coat of colour.... same thing again... it will look lie theres hardly any polish on the nail.... then the second .. or 3rd depending on which colour... do them slightly thicker.... xx

 

[attitude]

My guess is that on some nails, the dehydrator wasn't completely dry when you applied your gel.