Help! Help! What did I do wrong?

[nailzoo]

It sounds to me that you have used lineout instead of tip blender (maybe I understood wrong), I could only imagine what that looked like ..... it would be like using glue/adhesive to try and dissolve the tip ..... what a mess.

Didn't your teacher explain what products are used for? Even though both lineout and tip blender are for lazy techs.

With accurate filing & good prep, you won't need either of them.

 

[min11]

A few companies sell this type of product, EzFlow included....I have never bought the EzFlow one, never tried it and would never recommend it to my students....it's not needed when you are working well and are well educated :hug:

Mine came with the kit I had to pay for from NSI for my NVQ course at college. Its quite annoying that there are several products in the kit that the tutor hasn't used, or shown us what they are for! waste of money then. However the course is good, so I don't want to moan too much.
At least I know now that I can basically bin the bottle that is taking up space in my lovely pink case......

It came with one of my kits at school also (EzFlow) but although the tutor let us try it she advised against its use. She showed us only so we could see for ourselves what it actually did. One gunked up abrasive later I never touched it again. Didn't make anything any easier or quicker.

 

[2littletoys]

def best to learn the correct "manual" way than relying on a product like Line out to do the job for you.

Sounds like you thought it was a tip blender..

 

[jaynesavage]

It came with one of my kits at school also (EzFlow) but although the tutor let us try it she advised against its use. She showed us only so we could see for ourselves what it actually did. One gunked up abrasive later I never touched it again. Didn't make anything any easier or quicker.

Didn't it annoy you that you had spent money on the kit, only to be told that the product was useless? why can't they leave it out?

 

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Didn't it annoy you that you had spent money on the kit, only to be told that the product was useless? why can't they leave it out?

Not at all. To be honest it was worth having it to find out with a tutor in a class room situation where we were all shown how to use it and have answers instantly about it. The choice I made was well informed because of that. If I had never learnt about it I might have gone out later to try it, used it either inappropriately or wrongly and made a hash of things with no idea why.

The kit was expensive anyway and it was the only item never to see the light of day again. The fraction of the total cost if made up was well spent in the long run.

I don't know if everyone shown how to use it went on to find it useless, I personally don't have an issue with blending so it wasn't for me :hug:

 

[Cathie!]

Just as an aside, the EzFlow tip blender is in the fibre/silk kits to switch brushes if your brush on activator gets, well, activated with resin, it will remove the activated resin and give your brush on brush a new lease of life...it isn't advocated as a tip blending product in the education programme.....even though it says that on the tin!

 

[jaynesavage]

Not at all. To be honest it was worth having it to find out with a tutor in a class room situation where we were all shown how to use it and have answers instantly about it. The choice I made was well informed because of that. If I had never learnt about it I might have gone out later to try it, used it either inappropriately or wrongly and made a hash of things with no idea why.

What an excellent way to look at it Min11, you must be a glass is half full type of person!
Our tutor has never mentioned it, and there are other things which I'm not happy about, but you've made me realise that its up to me to ask. Will def try to see the good points. thanks.

And a good tip to try from Cathie - thanks.

 

[min11]

Just as an aside, the EzFlow tip blender is in the fibre/silk kits to switch brushes if your brush on activator gets, well, activated with resin, it will remove the activated resin and give your brush on brush a new lease of life...it isn't advocated as a tip blending product in the education programme.....even though it says that on the tin!

I haven't done silk/fibre nails in ages as haven't gotten around to replacing my used up products so forgot about that! :o My tutor wasn't advocating we use it but as it is in the kit and is called what it is we were shown what it can be used for so we knew and had an informed opinion rather than buying it later expecting it to be a help or cure for technique issues. Nothing like trying it and finding it to be a nightmare to put you off even going there :lol:

What an excellent way to look at it Min11, you must be a glass is half full type of person!
Our tutor has never mentioned it, and there are other things which I'm not happy about, but you've made me realise that its up to me to ask. Will def try to see the good points. thanks.

And a good tip to try from Cathie - thanks.

I found little hiccups in what I learned just like many others but like a lot of people though I learned a lot coming in here to add to what I already had, or do differently in some cases. I had a slight advantage in that I had to ask. The class was in Norwegian which I could understand for the most part (actually I realised I understood a damn sight more than I thought) but any details I didn't get fully I asked about and got told one to one in English. At the end of each demo and talk she checked what notes I had taken and I needed to give a verbal run through of techniques and what I had missed got filled in there and then. It was hard work but in the end I think I got a lot of time spent on me which definately helped a lot.

Definately never be afraid to ask in classes, I ask and ask until I get it :lol: