Any New Tricks to Share? - Here's one of Mine!

[blossom]

This is going to be hard to explain and won't be of interest unless you are mobile and concerned with storing/carrying your brushes while out and about.

I discovered a brush container at my local art shop which is basically a clear plastic tube about the size of the inside of a kitchen roll tube, with a base and obviously a lid. Inside is a long, flat piece of very thin plastic which you need to make sure is a bit longer than any of your brushes, and an elastic band is around this.

You slip your brushes under the elastic band and there they stay, not touching each other, not touching the plastic of the tube (which would, in time, start to melt) and not touching the lid either, even when turned upside down, because the elastic band holds them in place.

All you have to do is make sure you keep the brush contained in your case the right way up so that when you are carrying your case, your l&p brushes are either horizontal or with bristles pointing downwards.

Hope this helps someone. Oh and it cost about £2.50 lol!

 

[hayls]

Great tip Geeg! I will be trying that one out later, have 2 sets to do tonight!:green:

xxxx:hug:

 

[Urban Geek]

I always have a supply of baby wipes handy to wipe away any dust on my desk, they are also quite refreshing for your hands and are also excellent for use during solar manicures for wiping the exfoliator off the clients hands.

I used to use toothbrush holders for storing my brushes but now I use an inscense box which holds quite a few brushes (always covering the bristles with the fat end of a pippette).

 

[Susie H]

I'm glad you brought this up Gigi because I watched you do this at the popit demo and thought what a great idea and then completely forgot:lol:
I swear I have managed to go from blond moments to senior moments without a sniff at intelligent thought in between
And as a add on, just because I'm a tree hugger, I would use this pad to soak up any unused monomer at the end of the service:lol:

 

[Denmark]

I have just been on my Brisa course this weekend, and did learn a new way to remove the stickey layer on the finishing gloss, after the gloss have been in the UV lampe for 2 min. wipe of the stickey layer with a DRY pad, then apply a little Solar oil to each nail and roub it in, spray with water and use a towel ore a dry pad to to remove it. It realy gives a much higher shine, than whenwe where useing scrub fresh :lol:

By the way I LOVE BRISA.. Why did i wait so long before i toke the jumpe i don´t know :lol:

 

[skymark]

Thanks for the ScrubFresh tip Geeg, anything that reduces odour is good to me, I love working with product but can't bear the smell.

 

[skymark]

I dont really have any great tips as such, but I mentioned yesterday on another thread that the small glass tea light holders that i think you can still buy in asda i think are so ideal to have in your kit...they are small and perfectly formed, made of glass and cant really get knocked over, as well as looking really nice they are pefect for putting a small amount of product in to avoid contaminating your products etc...and easy to clean, and they are only 25p each...bargain! lol

Do you use this as a dampen dish?

:hug:

 

[xAnnaBannAx]

Do you use this as a dampen dish?

:hug:

i havent done but i suppose you could use it as a dappen dish...only thing is it doesnt have a lid

 

[nicky's nails]

This is going to be hard to explain and won't be of interest unless you are mobile and concerned with storing/carrying your brushes while out and about.

I discovered a brush container at my local art shop which is basically a clear plastic tube about the size of the inside of a kitchen roll tube, with a base and obviously a lid. Inside is a long, flat piece of very thin plastic which you need to make sure is a bit longer than any of your brushes, and an elastic band is around this.

You slip your brushes under the elastic band and there they stay, not touching each other, not touching the plastic of the tube (which would, in time, start to melt) and not touching the lid either, even when turned upside down, because the elastic band holds them in place.

All you have to do is make sure you keep the brush contained in your case the right way up so that when you are carrying your case, your l&p brushes are either horizontal or with bristles pointing downwards.

Hope this helps someone. Oh and it cost about £2.50 lol!

that is fab tip hun, will be looking for one of these myself xxx

 

['chelle]

My clever tip I thought of myself is:

You know those jelly filled heat things, where you flex the metal disc in the middle and it crystalises and heats the contents? My daughter got some of these in the form on handwarmers. They are exactly the right size to act as a coaster for the bowls I use to do a soak off. I put an activated one of these under each bowl of remover, and this heats the acetone to a safe temparature in a safe way to speed up removal of enhancements.

And these ones are hardly unheard of, but if I had to give a new starter some tips they would be:

Ask your client to pay you and get their car keys out before you apply enamel.

Tidy nail enamel with the pointy side of an orange stick dipped in nailfresh (Geeg showed me how to do this with a fine brush and it was even better)

 

[skymark]

i havent done but i suppose you could use it as a dappen dish...only thing is it doesnt have a lid

I see, was just wondering what you used the little jars for.

:hug:

 

[xAnnaBannAx]

I see, was just wondering what you used the little jars for.

:hug:

They are good for pouring a bit of polish remover in say for when your tidying up..easy to dip into and you wont contaminate your bottle of remover....also i have a bottle of cuticle massage cream and another of cuticle remover (amongst other stuff)...so they come in handy for putting things like cream in in..you can just put in the amount you need in and again avoid contaminating your bottles of product, etc. (hope that makes sense)

 

[cherubs]

Well mines more of a little cheat really :smack: when doing a french (with any colour polish) I paint all over the tip and then sweep out the smile line with an old gel brush and scrubfresh! people are always amazed when I tell them how it's done!!

 

[angel fingers]

i'll pass on one i found out recently from a tech in the u.s.a.

if you are doing black l/p acrylic tips[or other dark colour]
you can mix the powder into some gel and apply and cure it. this totally prevents the colour bleeding and the nail bed area from getting a discouloured tinge that sometimes occurs when using it with monomer.
i find it works very well.

 

[littlegrohl]

I dont really have any nail tips.. but after doing two training sessions with 2 different companies i have perfected my application by doing this simple little trick.

Add a few drops of food colouring to water in your cup and take your machine outdoors.. go through the application methods as you would when applying spray tan to the body, but on the walls.
washes off easily and also helps you to get the correct speed and air ratio.. if the coloured water runs or is patchy you can adjust it to suit.

can also be done on cardboard/butchers paper.. and is great for people who dont have models willing to help out!

hth

 

[HeatherDavis]

About the whole hands down pad thing... I have been doing this for a while now, actually, and I use my pad DRY. Not only does it cut what you smell and TOUCH, it also keeps you from wiping your brush excessively.

Great tips geeks, can't wait to try some of them...

 

[skymark]

They are good for pouring a bit of polish remover in say for when your tidying up..easy to dip into and you wont contaminate your bottle of remover....also i have a bottle of cuticle massage cream and another of cuticle remover (amongst other stuff)...so they come in handy for putting things like cream in in..you can just put in the amount you need in and again avoid contaminating your bottles of product, etc. (hope that makes sense)

Good to know. I think I get so stuck in my little routine of doing things I never think of these things.

:hug:

 

[CDN nail chic]

Just goes to show that you can learn a new thing everyday! Thanks that's a great little tip I am going to use.

I was once a chronic wiper and developed contact dermatitis. It wasn't until I took a CND conversion course where I was shown how to use a 'sushi' dish set to the side to place my dappen dish and pad to wipe on. Also how not to wipe so often. That alone got rid of my rash. Any extra help with the odor is always great.

Cheers, RAE

 

[sarahpoppy24]

The scrub fresh trick WOW!!! Cant believe what a difference it makes to the smell amazing

 

[bubbles10]

Hi, not really a practical tip, but a good recycle tip.

When you have purchased and used all the files from the sampler file and buffer kit (plastic grey box) i store my most popular asked for polishes, about 6-5 polishes fits in nicely in this, all clients thinks its a purpose design carry case. Why throw away a good sturdy storage box?

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