Opinions of CND Performance Tips Please

[tracey louise]

great advice geeg,i am abit like emmsybabes.i can blend but i am quite slow at doing it which for this reason i dont really enjoy doing it either.so if i can use something which would allow me not to do this and to use my time in another area and allowing me to cut my times down then i think they are definately worth a try.i am really looking forward to trying these.x

 

[nailzoo]

Now imagine in your head of where the nail goes in a tip with a well (it fits snuggly into the wel area underneath).

Now imagine where the acrylic goes on a tip you have buffed in (it encapsulates and covers the nail evenly up the sidewalls to the end).

Now imagine where the acrylic goes on a well-less tip, it's thinner in the stress area (because it aint buffed in and obviously creates a thinner area wher the tip is adhered) ..... use your mind ..... don't loose me here(or do I have to draw pictures) ?

Then think about the sidewalls coming out from the cuticle (you have coverage or acrylic)..... then no/very little coverage of acrylic where the tip fits on (which makes the sides jutt out), obviously they dont jutt out if you make the acrylic thinner in this area, (but if you buffed them in , there would be an even coverage of acrylic) ...then a certain wideness of the tip, with little or not coverage at all.

Do I have to make a drawing, or do you get what I am saying? Please don't force me, i'm not that good at drawing.

How come people hate these tips one minute, then love them the next? will we love drills and MMA if someone says they are ok?. Or will we listen to the innner self and think logically.

I'm not selling tips, i'm just speaking logic.

 

[Denmark]

I think that they are easy to use and it save time and time is also money...

I don´t quite understand the part of them not been so strong?? Well dosn´t the strengthen lie in the overlay not the tipp.. so the thinner the tip the more overlay..???

 

[Cec]

Nailzoo, I understand what you mean, and that's why I don't like to use white tips. I like to have my sidewalls and cuticle-area really thin. When I use white tips, I happen to file off the gel at the sidewalls so it's only tip at the sides -> Less strenght at the sidewalls (as you said, it's the l/p or gel which gives the strengt, not the tip). Hmmm... I am note sure if this made sense either....

However I can't comment on well-less tips, but I assume they are the same as white tips.


C.

 

[Cec]

I think that they are easy to use and it save time and time is also money...

I don´t quite understand the part of them not been so strong?? Well dosn´t the strengthen lie in the overlay not the tipp.. so the thinner the tip the more overlay..???

You have the answer in your last sentence!

C.

 

[Bagpuss]

Do I have to make a drawing, or do you get what I am saying? Please don't force me, i'm not that good at drawing.

your gonna hate me .... please :hug:

 

[tracey louise]

i can agree with nailzoo and geeg and i do understand what you are both saying as you have both made great arguments.and im not saying that i like them now just because someone else has said they like them just as im not saying that i dont like them because someone else has said they dont like them.all i am saying is,is that i would like to try them and make up my own mind rather than just follow everyone else as i am also my own person but its just interesting to hear different views and opinions on things.
i still agree with what you both said as they both made sense and sound logical.

 

[adelekeegan1]

Oh hell, I'm totally confused now, yes I want drawings, no, I don't do what someone tells me, do I have to use tips ?

Who am I, where am I

 

[~Emmsybabes~]

I totally understand the logics of having no blended area...less nailplate for the L+p to adhere to and all that lot,
But From what I have seen it hasnt made a difference wether I have used a white tip with a well....a blended natural or clear tip...or a sculpture in strength,

I have clients who break them no matter what I put on, and I have clients who go 4 weeks before coming back to me with no breakages with all different methods.

 

[Denmark]

I think i can rember Gigi teling in another tread, that the difference in sculping a nail versus tipping is so little, that it dosn´t matter in strength what metode what you choose, but i could remember wrong..

 

[Deena]

I totally understand the logics of having no blended area...less nailplate for the L+p to adhere to and all that lot,
But From what I have seen it hasnt made a difference wether I have used a white tip with a well....a blended natural or clear tip...or a sculpture in strength,

I have clients who break them no matter what I put on, and I have clients who go 4 weeks before coming back to me with no breakages with all different methods.

I am coming to the conclusion that this principle can apply to all sorts of things, tbh. I remember being told that my monomer absolutely required a primer and now I've read here that it doesn't. I've actually forgotten it a time or two in the past and it hasn't made the slightest bit of difference. I've also read that 'X' must never, ever come into contact with 'Y' and, again, it hasn't mattered a jot when it's happened.

Hmmmm ... trial and error, coincidence, manufacturers' hype, I dunno, but some things aren't always as hard and fast as we might think, perhaps? A little flexibility and an open mind can go a long way! :hug: x

 

[Sassy Hassy]

How come people hate these tips one minute, then love them the next?

Now come on EVERYONE knows it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind ... and we do VERY OFTEN! :green::green::green::green:

 

[adelekeegan1]

Now come on EVERYONE knows it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind ... and we do VERY OFTEN! :green::green::green::green:

What Moi

 

[geeg]

This thread is discussing CND Performance tips so that is what I am talking about.
They are very very thin.
They sit on only 1/2 to 1mm of nail plate.
Using them leaves the maximum amount of nailplate exposed so that more product can bond to the plate which is a stronger bond than that of nail adhesive.
In fact, using Performance well less tips is as close as you can get in strength to a sculpted nail without actually sculpting it (can you picture it, Carl??)
We can get just too pedantic about things and frankly I think the points put forward in a previous post are spurious and do not support the evidence of how the tips perform ... and that is from my considerable experience of using them on myself and others.

No on is twisting your arm to use them Carl ... but neither should you put others off trying them with rhetoric and weak arguments which you cannot support with experience.

 

[jo-anne]

Well i have always been a totally sculpting tech but after being a model for my friend i am wearing a hand of both sculpts and performance tips. I must admit they both feel exactly the same, strong and thin, and as i have quite flat nails there is no pinching feeling as they`re only glued to the edge of my nail.
I also can admit that I have purchesed a box of them to try, especially for when i get my PopIts.
So its a thumbs up from me on performance tips!

 

[Deena]

I can't quite understand what the angst is with performance tips? If you use thicker tips, you need to blend them away, but these are an 'Oven ready' version with the hard work done for you, freeing up your time to get on with the application.

Thicker or thinner, none of them have ever just broken off for me. The performance tips are stuck on just as fast as any of the others. The only significant difference is that you're relieved of the very vast majority of the blending, isn't it, which has to be a good thing, I'd have thought?

 

[Bagpuss]

I just like them...:lol:

You use something...you try something...you either like it or you don't.

 

[sodabubble]

To all geeks I thank you for sharing your experiences. I am going to order some of these in natural with my next cnd order. Must also add speedbond to that list as I only have gelbond!!

I am hoping to be able to have a play and get my application of them right.

thanks again :hug:

 

[pickinicki]

I have used the white performance tips and they are brill no bevelling out to do at all, quick and easy. I haven't tried the natural yet, I don't think they would work on an imperfect nail:smack:

 

[fairiegirl]

I got my performance natural tips on thursday and tried them out with my popits. They really are ultra thin and nicely shaped. I did find that the largest tip only just fitted my thumb nail. Unless i'm deformed and have very large thumbs, but apart from that no blending glue and go. Really think i will invest in more of these tips in all flavours.