Custom Blended Manicure - Why?

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Many women whom would not dream of missing their weekly manicure have never considered the possibility of nail enhancements. However, these same well-groomed women love the idea of a Custom Blended Manicure that perfectly complements their skin tone, doesn’t chip and is extremely low maintenance.

A Custom Blended Manicure is a professional technique that allows nail stylists to blend nail colour to create a perfectly natural looking nail enhancement. A Custom Blended Manicure is chip-proof and maintenance-free for up to three weeks. A Custom Blended Manicure grows out before it chips. Pigmented powders are custom blended by your nail stylist and then mixed with a liquid to form a coating that is applied to nails. Signature shades can be created to complement skin tone, to match a lip or dress colour; they can be matte or shiny, glimmery, sheer or opaque according to a woman’s choice.

Women who are resistant to nail enhancements tend to have an outdated idea of what today’s enhancements can be. These clients picture thick, unnatural, square claws. Harsh white tips and opaque pink nail beds. They imagine garish designs, natural nail damage and painful breaks. These perceptions are based on archaic technology of twenty years ago and not the thin, healthy, protective, natural-looking enhancements that Creative Nail Design has dedicated the last 24 years to developing.

A Custom Blended Manicure is a thin protective coating for the nails utilizing Creative Nail Design’s palette of 24 pigmented powders. The powders are custom-blended to exactly match the colour of your natural nail bed a separate powder is created to match the free edge. This is a manicure that will protect the natural nail so well that women with naturally weak nails will be able to grow long, strong nails.

A Custom Blended Manicure means endurance and impeccable grooming all of the time with minimal effort, and no drying time. And most importantly, completely natural looking nails.

A Custom Blended Manicure is like getting your hair coloured at the salon. Every three weeks you go to the salon to “get a touch-up”. Just like hair colour doesn’t wash out over those three weeks, it grows out. This manicure won’t chip or come off over 3 weeks, it grows out. Getting hair colour doesn’t automatically mean getting hair extensions and adding length. Getting a Custom Blended Manicure doesn’t automatically mean getting nail tips and adding length. A hair stylist custom blends your hair colour to cover grey or enhance a natural colour. A Custom Blended Manicure is able to create the illusion of longer, more graceful nail beds and to mask flaws like ski-jump nails, yellowing and ridges.

A variety of Creative Nail Design colours are available from the light and naturally toned Perfect Powders to vibrant Mosaic Powders, to multi-dimensional metallic METRO Powders. The powders are the nail stylists’ basic palette from which any colour can be created and any skin tone matched!

A Custom Blended Manicure is a modern woman’s answer to chic, durable, perfect nails.

Creative Nail Design is the only professional nail company training nail stylists around the world in the custom-blending technique. Creative Nail Design has made a commitment to provide women with the only service that creates a truly natural looking (perfect) nail.

This is the Press Release that has gone out to the magazines! The mags will shorten it to suit but I did say in a previous post that I would explain what was meant by Custom Blended! Hope this has helped!
 
Nice one Samantha - another notich on the post to raise the profile of us Nail Technicians
 
Wow that sounds fantastic!!!!
££££££ I can see lots of new clients with an ad like that.
Are creative arranging special training packages for the custom manicure?
 
This is very exciting - can't wait to see this in the press.

Cathy
 
Hi

I am sure in my flyer that arrived today it said they were doing a custom blend demo on a monday. Only had chance for a quick look though so i might have got it wrong.
 
Hi Sam,

Im probably being very ignorant, but Im confused about the term "manicure" as in "Custom Blended" - Is this service (aside from the colour blending) different from an enhancement service? Please don't think i'm being facetious - i'm not - i'm just mixed up! On my price list - I have Manicures & Enhancements, with prices obviously varying greatly between the two services...Would the "Custom Blended Manicure" fall in to the "Manicure" section for pricing or the "Enhancement" section, or somewhere midway?

Also, what are the expected timings for the service:?:
 
I've been experimenting with it for a while -
Custom blending rocks!
It's a perfect way to gain the edge over other technicians!!
 
Again, like Sara I'm not being facetious, and when I use the word 'just' I don't mean it in a derogatory sense, I am just trying to get this straightforward in my head in laymans terms, so please nobody take offence :D
Is a custom blended manicure 'just' an l&p overlay on a natural nail, but using colour blended polymers rather than 'normal' pink and white/soft white etc. In other words, is it an l&p version of say, using gel polish or custom blended gel polish?
 
bimbogeri said:
Is a custom blended manicure 'just' an l&p overlay on a natural nail, but using colour blended polymers rather than 'normal' pink and white/soft white etc. In other words, is it an l&p version of say, using gel polish or custom blended gel polish?
It is l&p allowing you to create a powder mix (using all of the CND powders)
with guidlines in the blending booklet provided, to create a blend specific to that clients skin tone and colouring. For both the traditional white and pink areas.
Results can be amazing as some have a bit of glitter, a complimentary colour tweak, etc. Quite unique and stunning results (if you choose the right tone)
 
How easy is it to 'choose the right tone'? Is this a hit + miss technique or can you, by following the guide, get the correct tone and results straight away?
 
i'm confused too...(not difficult!). If its a L&P overlay then isn't there the usual maintenance? It says it grows out...
 
Tickled Pink! said:
i'm confused too...(not difficult!). If its a L&P overlay then isn't there the usual maintenance? It says it grows out...
I was wondering the same thing myself.
 
Tickled Pink! said:
i'm confused too...(not difficult!). If its a L&P overlay then isn't there the usual maintenance? It says it grows out...
The article is written to help deal with the misconseptions of past "false nails" by not referring to it as enhancements... They are trying to describe what happens with a custom (liquid & powder) manicure to people who are currently getting natural manicures, ie with enamel. There are a huge number of these clients who won't let their technician "put false nails on".
The article is to appeal to these people so they get interested enough to find out more from their tech....
Yep they are referring to rebalances, but it's put in a nice way ;)
 
Hi Guys - sorry I haven't been able to answer your questions although Envy has done a great job! You are all right - YES this is a liquid & powder overlay - BUT WITH A DIFFERENCE! The difference is how you speak ABOUT enhancements with your clients! As I said, there are some who WILL NEVER have nails done because of the misconception of them being overly long or false looking! We have 10% of the population (here and in the US) WHO LOVE THEIR NAILS but that leaves us with another 90% to convert! Custom Blending is giving that client a natural nail overlay - non-chip and blended to her own skin tone! These nails need to be done meticulously and THIN! DON'T talk about products, chemicals, tips, extensions... think natural even though you are essentially doing an L+P overlay!

Because of the misconseptions, we need to think and talk differently to that 90% majority! We need to excite them about 'natural' treatments to enhance these 'I will never have my nails done' clients TO THINK DIFFERENTLY!
Does this make sense?? These women NEED to have the 'perception' of NATURAL - THEIR OWN - REAL NAILS - even if thay have had a little help! This is an upmarket 'personal-to-them' treatment - 'Oh my nails are custom blended to MY skintone bla bla!!!

They are going nuts for it in the states because the teks are dealing with a whole new clientele as well as their Enhancement ladies!! HTH's!
 
thanks samantha!
 
I had planned to get some metro & a few other powders at Excel, having seen this, think it will be more cost effective to go down the custom bended route.....

Will the kits be available to buy at Excel?
 
Bryony said:
I had planned to get some metro & a few other powders at Excel, having seen this, think it will be more cost effective to go down the custom bended route.....

Will the kits be available to buy at Excel?
Absolutely! ;)
 
this is probably a silly question, but do you do the free edge in a different colour (custom blend) the same as you were doing a pink and white, or do you apply it all over the nail, as if they we just having clear.

i'm a bit confussed. please help me
 
OK i am still a bit muddled :o .

I was looking through the Hyperion catalogue last night and these descriptions threw me.

Flawless pink powder

Hides imperfections in the nail plate.Reduces the appearance of fill lines.Creates a healthy pink glow in almost any nail.Hides natural nail smile lines allowing you to create the illusion of longer,sleeker gorgeous nails-designed specifically for clients with short nail plates.

Custom blended manicure kit

A thin,protective coating for the nails using creative nail designs palette of 24 pigmented powders.the powders are custom blended to exactly match the colour of the natural nail bed,a separate powder is created to match the free edge.


So my questions are :

Which do you use to extend the nail bed ?

Are both as efficient just varying in colour ?

Is the only difference that you can create nails to exactly match the natural colour of the clients nail ?

If you were only wanting to extend the length of the nail bed would you use flawless pink and soft white for example ?

Also i think i read somewhere that flawless was not intended to be used alone,the catalogue doesn't say this,so what should it be used with ?

I know there are a lot of questions,i thought i understood the basic principles ,obviously i don't :lol:

Thankyou :hug:
 
Becki

have a look at the tutorials they will tell you more about custom blending. in short its about mixing a blend for your client to disguise any imperfections or extending their nail bed you have a choice of 24 colours to mix that blend, there are lots of receipes on here.
 

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