At a loss with my ski slope nails

[waxcetera]

Why no blending with gel bond may I ask?

 

[Lucy_Lu]

I have just posted a topic asking for advice on ski slope nails. I've had a couple of clients recently and I'm really really struggling 😔

Once ive cut them as short as possible, is it best to sculpt or tip them?

And why do you not need to blend with gel bond?

Feeling really disheartened after some technically difficult clients recently so any advice would be really appreciated 😔 x

 

[mrs turner]

Hi Lucy. I have bad ski slope nails from years of nail biting from being a kiddy. I always sculpt mine as tips just don't go right. I can create an elegant natural shape with sculpting. I do like you say , trim them back short then sculpt. , good luck hun all the best. 😊

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[waxcetera]

I always sculpt mine now

 

[Lucy_Lu]

Thanks for the replies. I have sculpted on the clients I mentioned but found it so had to fit the forms. I also found that after shortening the free edge right back these clients have very short nail plates and so thee French Brisa lite looks unbalanced with not enough pink. How would I get the look of extending the nail plate rather than just sculpting a white tip onto what's already there? Sorry if I'm not explaining very clearly!

 

[Aydie]

Try this to get the colour you are after, a cover pink. Take a new pot, put in 3 scoop of bl pink, then add in some bl white start off by adding a small amount of the white bl gel. Stir, check colour, then if it's not right add a bit more white, stir and check again ....
Use the cover pink to extend and hide the existing nail bed, elongating the look of the nail, then add your white. I find it easier to sculpt using the reverse method. You can find examples of the reverse method on YouTube with Young Nails.

 

[paulaxxx]

Hi! When I did my calgel training, they taught us the best thing for ski jump nails was to do a clear layer of calgel to fill in the area of the dip then apply a blendable tip. File/blend the tip in to the gel over lay- the gel has then already created a level nail before the tip is applied. This means that any blending is in to product not in to the natural nail. Then you continue to either build your arch/ apply colour etc.

 

[waxcetera]

Tbh I'm using young nails synergy on mine, I was losing the occasional one with BL.
I use clear sculptor to create a free edge then frosted pink as the cover pink.
YN have a great video on YouTube about form placement

 

[Lucy_Lu]

Thanks for the replies everyone - I really appreciate you all taking the time.

Aydie, that was a bit strange because last night before I'd seen your reply I'd found the young nails reverse gel method on YouTube and was going to post and see if that was doable with BL so thank you! And thank you very much for the tip of mixing white with the pink, that's exactly the answer I've been looking for (as I also have some clients with marked nails from NSS salons so this will be perfect for them too)

One question - do I need to use the clear as a base to sculpt the free edge too like he does in YN video?

Thanks again, don't know how I'd manage without you guys! X

 

[Aydie]

As long as you are using clear forms you can start with your custom pink or white.
If you only have silver forms or forms that don't let the light through, you are best off doing a thin layer of clear and removing the form, then going onto your coloured product, so that the free edge you create can let the light cure your products. White gel tends to cure less easily.

If you have green gold sparkle additive you can also add a tiny bit into your custom colour to help camoflage the redness of the nails, but it does make your mix sparkly.

 

[Claire@OBNMK]

As long as you are using clear forms you can start with your custom pink or white.
If you only have silver forms or forms that don't let the light through, you are best off doing a thin layer of clear and removing the form, then going onto your coloured product, so that the free edge you create can let the light cure your products. White gel tends to cure less easily.

If you have green gold sparkle additive you can also add a tiny bit into your custom colour to help camoflage the redness of the nails, but it does make your mix sparkly.

This happened to me, gelish forms, tried to do my first set of pink n white with Brisa lite, white didn't cure properly that's why they all broke off, luckliy the lady new it was my first time, she still came back to me tho

 

[x.x.kelly]

I had ski slope nails as I was a horrid nail biter then I don't a gel course with essential nails and used there products they lasted so well none broke off and as they've grew out there normal shape now