Tammy Taylor vs Creative Design

[bengalkat]

Nettle,
You should get your products all in order and sell them. I bet you wouldn't have any trouble selling them to other TT users.
Michele

 

[TTLOVER]

I have been a very satisfied Tammy Taylor user for almost 11 years now and saw a few statements that are not correct and felt I had to speak up.
For one thing, I have never ever seen in the States where you could buy Tammy Taylor without being licensed. It could be that the people that are being able to get it withouth a licence in other countries could be getting impostor products. I buy directly from the company as I cannot even get it at a local beauty supply store...they do not carry it. Tammy does not even make a file that is a 120 grit. Yes they teach to etch lightly the nail plate in prep for acrylic application, but they NEVER teach to tear up the nailplate. If your nails are "thick" and your natural nails are "torn up" under the acrylic, that is due to a nail tech not being trained properly and following the proper prep and application----NOT due to the product itself. There is plenty of EXCELLENT education through the Tammy Taylor Company to help you be the best you can be at your craft, and make the most beautiful nails ever!!!
The club membership allows nail techs to get an even more reduced price from the wholesale prices on many of the more popular items that techs like to stock up on for retail to their clients. I HAVE NEVER EVER PAID RETAIL PRICES FOR MY PRODUCTS THAT I HAVE PURCHASED FROM TAMMY TAYLOR. If someone is charging you, the professional, retail prices for purchasing Tammy Taylor Products, there is something wrong. Contact the Tammy Taylor company directly to be assigned your own rep that can take care of you and that you order from directly. I never get my Tammy Taylor Products from anyplace except DIRECTLY from the company. That way I know I am getting the real product and not some knock off, and my product is always fresh. If there would be a problem with the product itself, the company WILL make it right.
Tammy Taylor is a Nail Professional herself. She started her own company to share with us things she knows works and to offer us the best product on the market, and to offer us the absolute best in education. She offers for free weekly videos on her website, where you will learn something new each time you watch them. These videos are available to everyone no matter what product they use. She does this to help all of us in this profession be the best at what we do.
Use what ever product you wish, but please do not bash what other people use if it is something different from what you use. I don't speak ill of other products out there, and I would appreciate the same professional courtesy.

Thank you,
TTLOVER

 

[PaintedLady211]

I too am a die hard Tammy Taylor user. I am a 15 year vetran. I started out with CND and tried all th e new things over the years. I could never get the product to perform for me. I had education from the best CND had to offer- Lisa Lavender (God rest her..) She was the most incredible educator CND has ever had anywhere. I even had private classes with her as a mentor. To me the best product CND has ever had on the market is the original SolarNail products. Anyway.....
Ever since I switched to Tammy taylor products my nails are beautiful. We have been able to custom blend colors for years with 6 pinks, clear, Peaches n' Cream, natural, and 4 whites. We also have the Prizma Color Powders, which BTW won Nails Magazine Readers' Choice Award. There is nothig you cannot do with Tammy Taylor products.
I would put a beginner using Tammy Taylor up with anyone experienced in CND and the beginner would win hands down.
Most Tammy Taylor users are Sculptors, while the majority of CND users rely on tips. That's why I am doing the ladies at the other salon in my small town instead of their nail tech who uses tips and CND.
Also, Tammy Taylor users are users by choice. Tammy does not advertize in the magazines; her advertizing is word of mouth from over 100,000 nail techs that use her products. Her education is the best going, including her videos that are also used by other companies and techs that use other products.
As for damaging nails--NO!!!!! I have never had a client that I couldn't take product off of and then polish with clear or buff to a shine.I have never had a client with any lifting or other problems I have seen with CND and other products.
Tammy doesn't worry about what other companies say or are doing. She is on her way to the bank, just as I am everytime I do a set of Tammy Taylor Nails.

 

[Qutique]

Thanks for the views.

I will have to try CND to see if I like it first before I make any drastic decisions lol.

 

[kay welch]

i use creative and happy with it but have been looking at tt videos and and do like the fact that you can log on and watch her do nails for free you cant beat watching.Also i have noticed that she works really wet i thought working to wet causes excess shrinkage??or is her products desighned to be used like this on her site there is loads of info and videos i cant find this with creative i might be wrong.But i think excess like this is fab but a lot of companies arnt keen to give it for free.

 

[Dessi]

Well i think that every mark has her best product! Personaly , i am in love with the CND's prep(cuticle remover and scrabfresh) and the solar oil, i am in love with Tammy Taylor's files and forms and her education is so detail and perfect, i am in love with EzFlow's L&P and exactly the truly white powder(still didnt try the retention), well i have problem and with the three marks with the mix ration(mean that the acrylic stuck on the brush) but this want practice to take it away, so my opinion is that all marks have something best that the other mark doesnt have it( still personal opinion):hug:

 

[angel fingers]

i use creative and happy with it but have been looking at tt videos and and do like the fact that you can log on and watch her do nails for free you cant beat watching.Also i have noticed that she works really wet i thought working to wet causes excess shrinkage??or is her products desighned to be used like this on her site there is loads of info and videos i cant find this with creative i might be wrong.But i think excess like this is fab but a lot of companies arnt keen to give it for free.

yes, the t.t product is designed to be used wetter than creative.

 

[becki x]

yes, the t.t product is designed to be used wetter than creative.

Wouldn't that then increase the risk of potential hazards such as over exposure ?

 

[kay welch]

thts what i thought she brushes in strokes no pressing and uses her brush ti tisdy up around the cuticle.

 

[Marlise]

ezflow for mi:green:

You just had to throw that one into the mixing pot :lol: :lol:

IFor one thing, I have never ever seen in the States where you could buy Tammy Taylor without being licensed.

It's interesting, isn't it. The lady who posted about this lives in the Caribbean, and according to her, you can get it over the counter.

Someone else posted saying in certain parts of America, you can buy CND products over the counter, which you most certainly can not do in the UK !


The only thing I can say about TT products is that I once had my nails done by a TT user and the job she did was dreadful. The nails started lifting within hours and the overall look of the nail was very poor. They were so bad I actually soaked them off when I got home.

Now, that doesn't mean TT products are bad, but the tech definitely did not have a clue. I assume she was trained by TT, in which case, it doesn't say much about their training. On the other hand, she could have gotten hold of their products via another way.

I personally would follow the others advice. Try to get some samples "Try me Kits" from all the companies that you are interested in and then make up your own mind.


Marlise

 

[kay welch]

you can have your nails done by someone who uses creative and have a naff set of nails and it also dosent mean the training is crap it is usually the tech??

 

[Qutique]

I to realize that you have to use TT a bit wetter. But I honestly thought that it was me. Because everytime my first ball was a bit dry, so I would have to start over.

I am going to purchase trial packages from the companies I am interested in and see which one is easier for me to work with.

Sometimes I have a problem making a nice ball, I guess that's why I have problems with my application.

CND Products are not sold here, because you have to be certified to purchase them. TT on the other hand because it can be purchased online, beauty stores purchase them and then resell here on my island. I have a friend who lives in St. Maarten and she uses TT. All she has to do is go down the road into the beauty store and purchase it. That is one of the reasons why she uses TT. It is easy accessible. I am not sure if she went to school or was taught by "watching and observing." But she told me it is at fingertips.

 

[HeatherDavis]

Someone else posted saying in certain parts of America, you can buy CND products over the counter, which you most certainly can not do in the UK !

The ONLY CND products you can buy "Over the counter are RETAIL items. There are some non-pro products calling themselves Solar nail or something and being sold in places like "Sally's Beauty Supply," which is open to the general public.

Just to clarify- anyone that is getting CND products meant for professional use in that general public manner is getting it ILLEGALLY. And its probably expired or something else you dont want your hands in...

 

[Qutique]

That is so true, now you mentioned it.

There is a girl in my class who opened a nail salon a few years ago. She never done nails and she is not qualified or licences. But she told me that she uses CND, Creative, Hollywood and something else.

Then I was wondering how she was able to get Creative and I can't.

 

[Marlise]

See, now that means nothing to me. I can't get TT anywhere around me at all. I have to order anything I want (which I happily do) but I can walk into every West Coast Beauty Systems store and get any Creative stuff I want. They are all over in this part of the US. So, what does that tell me/you? It's different depending on where you live I suppose.
Michele

The ONLY CND products you can buy "Over the counter are RETAIL items. There are some non-pro products calling themselves Solar nail or something and being sold in places like "Sally's Beauty Supply," which is open to the general public.

Just to clarify- anyone that is getting CND products meant for professional use in that general public manner is getting it ILLEGALLY. And its probably expired or something else you dont want your hands in...

Hi Heather,

I totally agree with you, it's the same in the UK, however, according to Bengalkat it is different in the West Coast ....


Marlise

 

[Carolina4TT]

FYI in any & all Sallies in the state of Fla, & Cali sell cnd right over the counter, might be more states but these 2 I know this for a fact I have bought it, & have seen it with my own eyes. As well as other ONLY professional nail products. CND Monommers & powders & brushs & tips & files etc. Sallies does sell generic cnd, under Revon name, but, it also sells CND ! Big as life :irked:

Carolina4TT

 

[HeatherDavis]

well the problem there might be that Sally Beauty Supply OWNS West Coast Beauty Supply- a VERY big chain on the west coast- thats where I am from btw.

I think a call to CND might be appropriate, this is a horrid thing IMO. I was just in a Sally and didnt see CND ANYWHERE, so I dont know what the deal is. Im pretty sure CND doesnt guarantee product bought that way!

 

[angel fingers]

ive trained with both creative and tammy taylor.

i think both ranges are quality products, different but good in my opinion.

 

[mynails13]

I trained on TT but switched to Creative after I graduated. In NH USA I cannot purchase either over the counter but chose to use CND after so many other experienced Techs in town recommended it. I felt that Tammy's quality (especially in the school kits) just wasn't there. I do, however, use her files which are worth the money she charges.

 

[Mrs Geek]

I know this board leans heavily to CND but I had to put my 2¢ in here. Someone said that CND is the leader in the industry.

Bengalcat, PLEASE PLEASE don't say the above. If this board leans heavily to wards Creative, it is because many people who use it are on here but trust me when I say that my husband has worked incredibly hard to create a site for ANY nail tek no matter what product line they use. He is a Creative Ambassador and the advice we give is proven fact and not opinion... but at the end of the day... no matter how many times we have asked heads of companies etc to come onto the site to help THEIR customers... it is still really the same people doing the help... and like it or not those who give up their time for free, are CND.

I am the distributor for CND in the UK... but I would happily (and have done 100000 times) give my help to anyone who needs it and I do not ram CND down their throats when I do.

Sorry to go on, but I just get so frustrated by these comments.
Respectfully Yours