Thursday, December 1, 2016

Gel Nails - A Pain to Remove?

We all love gel nails, the shiny look it gives is great and the durability is second to none. However when ti comes to taking them off - people always ask me how to remove gel nails.
removing gel nails
Why are they so difficult to remove in comparison to standard nail polish? Because gel nails are much more durable! This is the trade off isn't it - we want them to be durable, but we want them to come off easily!

Unfortunately there is no magic way to remove gel nails, you just need to follow the correct procedure.

Many people, even many salons in fact will use incorrect methods for removing gel nails. Mostly because it is simply quicker.

Basic Steps To Remove Gel Nails

The correct procedure is not all that hard after all. It basically involves these steps:

  1. File your nails to carefully take off the top clear coat
  2. Warm up your acetone
  3. Soak some cotton buds in the acetone and use some gel polish caps to hold them against your nails
  4. Scrape your polish off with an orange stick
  5. Tidy Up your nails
DONE!

If you do find that some polish is still stuck, you should re-soak them with the acetone. That is the only safe way to remove gel polish without damaging your natural nails.

Of course it is tempting just to pick or file our gel polish off, but trust me - you will regret it. Your nails become as thin as paper and break or bend very easily. I'm speaking from personal experience!

So next time you go to the salon, or have someone remove your nail polish for you - make sure they do it the correct way. It will save you much pain in the end and you will be glad you heeded my advice.

Monday, November 21, 2016

Manicure- Your Fingernails Best Friend

A manicure is one of the best cosmetic and beauty treatments for both your hands and fingernails. Nowadays, manicures have become a daily necessity for many women in these days. The manicure is a most significant part of beatifying a women, which usually involves shaping and filing of the nails followed by an application of nail polish.

In this modern world, this beauty treatment is also quite common for men too and occasionally such as any part of events or meetings. 

A manicure can be done either at home or at a salon professionally. Even though most people can choose to have it done at a salon for the whole relaxing experience.

The major reason to take manicure at a salon is usually offering several different options for the person to choose from. These options could be ranged from many different nail polishes to the customized look. Among those, one of the professional options for manicure treatment is a French manicure, which becomes more popular among people in recent days.

In this American manicure, one can make cute stylish designs on nails such as gel nails and diamond nails and so on. They are always beautiful as well as classy that brings unique look among others. The great thing about American manicure is no color based provided in it.

Top manicure tips for healthy nails

There are many benefits of getting a manicure. Primarily, people can get a manicure for two common reasons such as clean nails and beautiful nails as well. It also provides many benefits for people and makes them to be aware of. Actually, it is a wonderful beauty treatment for the hands that apply directly to the nails, so the full hand can gain benefits. Moreover, the main purpose of manicure is to maintain the overall health of the hand. However, this treatment includes some fundamental steps that results to clean and healthy hands. 

Below are some of the top manicure tips to maintain healthy nails that include:
  •   First of all, everyone should get to know about their nails because it tells about a lot on body’s internal health.
  •  The healthy nails can protect the sensitive skin of the toes as well as fingertips that are made up of protein layers known as keratin.
  • There are different types of manicure available, so you can choose the best type of manicure depend on your needs.
  • With a regular manicure, a high level of protein can helps to keep your nails grows healthier as well as stronger.
  • A manicure is keeps healthy nails and making you look the best.

Importance of a manicure


The manicure is not only for women, but also the men can have this regular beauty treatment if they choose to. Manicures are one of the awesome ways to make your guys getting good looking hands and nails too. It does not matter about whether you have short or long manicured nails, but it should keep them well-groomed as well as clean.

Manicure Guide

Here is a great guide on YouTube about doing salon quality manicures at home.

Thursday, November 3, 2016

I Just Found The Ultimate LED Lamp

Ok, so I have been using a crappy old no name LED lamp for a while now since my good OPI one broke about 2 years ago.

I knew that I should invest in a new one, but just hadn't gotten around to doing the research to work out which LED lamp I needed. Well....then I found this list at DIY Gel Nail Kits from a post on the /r/soakoff sub on Reddit.

I read through the detailed reviews on the site and found the MelodySusie Violeta Pro60W LED Nail lamp to look pretty good.



This lamp doesnt just have LED lights, it has some sort of fancy globes that also invlude UV light - just like from your old school gel nail lamps! So it cures LED gel polishes, as well as UV gel polishes like Shellac.

It also feels like a brick - which is a good thing! By that, i mean that it is strong and well built. I seriously don't think it would be possible to break this led nail lamp if I tried!

I also like the fact that it doesnt have a bottom, because I have quite large hands (and feet), so it gives that extra space needed.

It does cost about $135 from Amazon, but I think its worth it as I have been putting up with a crappy lamp for so long now.

I havent used it a lot yet, but I will update you on what I think very soon. Stay tuned!



Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Gel Nails Tips and Tricks

We've all observed the lovable minimal dark bottles and super-charming convenient LED and UV lights. We've all known about excellent sparkle and dependable toughness of Soak-Off Gel Polish. Also, more as of late, with the ascent of DIY at home gel nail items, now everybody can attempt it! Numerous brands have soak-off gel nail units accessible at excellence retailers around the world, making this once-expensive and salon selective more available.

Yet, before you put on that night wear, pour that encouraging glass of whatever you lean toward, and pop in that romantic comedy, ensure you're knowledgeable, educated, and very much arranged for that extraordinary mani you're going to give yourself (truly, I adore polish, yet gel has changed my nail-driven life).

Teach yourself on what you ought to – and shouldn't do – with regards to handing down those tips with Soak-Off Gel Polish!


THE DO'S OF GEL NAILS AT HOME: 


1. Do Research! 


With for all intents and purposes all knowledge at our flawlessly polished fingertips, don't falter to inquire about, through the Web! Continuously utilize dependable, official assets for instructional exercises, tips, and traps. Watch a couple of recordings on fundamental gel application – numerous brands have effortlessly open video instructional exercises. Look at your most loved nail blog for tips that they've aggregated with their encounters. Begin assembling your own rundown of notes. This is a standout amongst the most critical parts of ensuring your gel nail treatment endures!

2. Do proper nail prep! 


Gel polish needs a spotless, dry surface to stick to so as to last. Begin by tenderly pushing back your fingernail skin. File your nail to the coveted shape (get those little holders from the edges and underneath the nail! These will leave unpleasant, uneven edges and cause attachment issues). Gently buff the surface and edges of your nail with an additional fine support (sufficiently only to evacuate the sparkle), then shower with cleansing liquor and wipe dry with a build up free wipe to expel flotsam and jetsam. Utilize a primer or pH adjusting fluid (gave for all intents and purposes each essential gel polish unit) preceding application.

Additional tip: utilize immaculate CH3)2CO (accessible at any excellence supply store) preceding the primer stride to get dried out the nail plate and guarantee there is NO dampness exhibit before starting.

3. Set up your provisions before you start! 


Ensure you have all that you require inside reach before beginning – once you start application, you would prefer not to need to touch anything pointlessly – this could abandon you open to build up and flotsam and jetsam sticking to your unfinished nail treatment. While doing a gel nail trim, dependably make a point to have the current accompanying:

Gel lamp (officially connected to!)

All gel polishes you mean on utilizing – including primer, base, and top coat

CH3)2CO

Cleansing liquor

Build up free wipes

Paper towels (in the event of some unforeseen issue!)

Tidy up brush

4. Do utilize an exhaust method! 


This "do" is imperative to keeping up the strength of your nails. While CH3)2CO can dry out the nail plate, legitimately soaking off gel polish will keep the peeling of your nails. Utilize a file to break the surface of the gel polish. Soak build up free wipes with unadulterated CH3)2CO, wrap with thwart, and let sit for roughly 10-15 minutes (don't look!). Utilize an orange stick to tenderly lift any outstanding gel from the nail. If not all the gel has lifted, re-apply the CH3)2CO soaked wipes and thwart for a couple of more minutes.

gel nails at home dos and donts 2

Also, WHATEVER YOU DO…

1. Try not to apply thick layers! 


This is an absolute necessity when applying gel polish! Pretty much as with customary polish, thin layers make for smoother application. Furthermore, on account of gel polish, gel establishment, and gel top coat, if the layers you are applying are too thick, this can adversely influence how the polish cures and follows. In the event that you think you may have connected an excessive amount of item, you can utilize the 'dry-brush' method – wipe all abundance item off the brush, and drag it back over the effectively polished nail – this will evacuate any overabundance item. Subsequent to curing, rehash 1-2 more times for an aggregate of 2-3 layers.

2. Try not to wash your hands! 


I know, sounds net. You CAN wash your hands, however just not before item application! It is best to have a super-dry nail plate to work with – subsequently all the getting dried out techniques taken preceding polishing. In the event that you should, wash directly after polish evacuation, dry Completely, and continue with preparing!


3. Try not to give the gel a chance to touch the skin! 


This can take a little practice and the best possible instruments, however as with large portions of the above don'ts, is such an indispensable part of an enduring gel nail trim. Gel polish detests skin, and if any keep running over is left to cure, it will begin to lift once the nail trim is finished. Moreover, if any of this errant polish is left to cure, it will make for barbed and un-even sides, which tend to catch… and, you got it, lift. Before curing every layer, utilize an angled brush that has been plunged in CH3)2CO (touch onto a paper towel to evacuate additional) to clean along the fingernail skin and sides of the nail.

4. Try not to pick! 


The main nail sin. As totally enticing as it can be, this is THE most conceivably harming move you can make – and one reason gel polish has earned a notoriety for harming the nail plate. With the high attachment that this item offers, peeling the polish lifts valuable layers of nails alongside the gel – and leaves thin, uneven, and chipping nails. So whatever you do, oppose, set aside your opportunity to soak, and DON'T pick.

Furnished with these tips and your gel polish pack, keep your wallet lined and have a fantastic DIY gel nail trim readily available!

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Remove gel nails easier with acetone

Do you ever have gel polish on your nails that just declines to fall off?

Well I accept you are utilizing Acetone as your nail polish remover, as it is unmistakably the best.

Soak a cotton ball in Acetone

Apply the cotton ball specifically to your nail and cover with foil - attempt to keep the cotton ball from touching your skin however much as could reasonably be expected

Leave these on for 10-15 minutes then the polish ought to simply rub off with a cloth

Presently here is the trap - have a go at warming up your Acetone before you soak your cotton ball in it. You can do this by putting the Acetone in a little fired of glass bowl, then setting it in a bigger bowl loaded with boiling hot water. It will take around 10 minutes for the Acetone to warm up - however when it does your polish will fall off so much simpler!

Saturday, October 22, 2016

How to do your own Gel Nails - Video Guide



Sometimes watching a video is easier than learning how to do something by reading a guide - this is one of the best tutorial videos on how to do gel nails at home I have found. Enjoy!



Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Can You Use Gel Nails When Pregnant?

Is it safe to utilize gel nails while you are pregnant?

Gel nails are utilized as a gel or fluid to the nail. They are set utilizing an UV beam or bright light or by brushing or showering a curing concoction on the gel. The essential chemicals in gel nails are methacrylate monomers. There is extensive rundown of methacrylate monomers, the vast majority of which are impeccably sheltered to apply. In any case, one write called methyl methacrylate monomer, or MMA ought not be utilized. It is an entire thought to stay away from MMA whether you pregnant or not.



MMA can exasperate your skin, eyes and in addition lungs, additionally, can bring about unfavorably susceptible responses. It has been banned in numerous states in the USA yet at the same time it is accessible in the UK, in spite of the fact that it has been generally supplanted. Notwithstanding, numerous little spending nail salons still utilize gel nails containing MMA on the grounds that it is much less expensive than more secure choices. On the off chance that you need to have gel nails connected, you need to ensure that you go to a rumored salon. You ought to check precisely which chemicals your nail salon utilized. Salon staff ought to be upbeat to educate you regarding every one of the items they are utilizing.

Gel nails emit exhaust when they are they are setting. These could make you feel queasy, particularly in the event that you confront morning disorder. You have to watch that the nails are connected in a very much ventilated room, or you have to hold up until you feel better to have them connected.

Amid pregnancy, your skin turns out to be more delicate. This implies you might will probably have an antagonistic response to SNS powder gel nails, or build up a parasitic or bacterial contamination in or around your wonderful nails. Pregnancy makes you nails intense and more, so in the event that you are contemplating a response or contamination, you can simply go non-simulated. Not at all like copy nails, gel nails should be evacuated by either drenching or recording. On the off chance that your nails are splashed off, CH3)2CO named concoction is utilized. CH3)2CO is utilized to evacuate standard nail polish. In any case, not at all like ordinary nail polish, gel nails must be in contact with CH3)2CO for up to 20 minutes to remove the gel.

There is a modest data about how safe this is amid pregnancy. It is a shrewd thought to be alert and take after these tips. You ought to utilize gel nail sparingly amid your pregnancy. Continuously utilize new nail polish amid the pregnancy or go for a characteristic look between treatment. Request that the salon staffs take the base digit of time expected to give the CH3)2CO a chance to do its assignment. You should need to watch that your nails are expelled in a ventilated zone with completely opened windows or aerating and cooling. On the off chance that you are doing all expelling works by your own, you ought to utilize cotton cushions absorbed CH3)2CO to your nails as opposed to absorbing your nails a bowl. This will diminish your skin contact with the synthetic which may hurt you.

In the event that you fill in as a nail master, apply and expelling gel nails may not be ok for you amid the season of your pregnancy. Being presented to exhaust each day may make you feel not well. In particular, it could likewise build your danger of premature delivery or have a child with imperfections from birth.

Finally your boss needs to ensure that your wellbeing and your infant's wellbeing are spared when you at work. Educate them to do a hazard evaluation for you. On the off chance that you run your exchange, you could solicit partners to assume control over some from your employments while you are pregnant. On the off chance that you do have any significant bearing or evacuate gel nails, you ought to take the accompanying security. You have to utilize a face veil and elastic gloves to spare yourself from any concoction. Additionally, you ought to work close to any window to get appropriate ventilation and finally, take consistent breaks for outside air.

Welcome to Gel Nails Guide!


Welcome to my new blog - Gel Nails Guide!

My name is Kelly and I have been working in the gel beauty industry for the past 10 years. In this time, I have come to really love gel nails and my customers seem to love it too!

Doing gel nails is one of those skills that is easy to learn, but hard to master. So this guide will be about helping you to learn to become a master.

So please check back to my blog often, as we plan to have a tonne of info coming your way.