Diana You dip the toes in the glitter? And do what with the brush? I am trying to picture this in my mind. LOL.
Caralyn Sent from Caralyn's iPhone On Feb 12, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Diana Bonn <[email protected]> wrote: Been reading this thread, and maybe I am wrong here. But, I use the soakable gels for my glitter toes and nails and also as I have stated before,use the soakable gels for my new service of "soft gel manicure". But I consider them as enhancements, and I don't soak off!! I file them off. I like to use the soakable gels because of the consistency of the product, and for those that do not need length or building. These two new services (glitter/manicure) is picking up. Of course the glitter sells itself, but the manicure sells because of the speed of the service, the natural look of their own nail, less work on me, and the client perceives that they don't have enhancements (even though I tell them different). They like the feel of the flexibility of the soakable gels, they say it feels kind of rubbery and feel the extra strentgh to their natural nails that they would never get without an enhancement. And no one knows they have the gel on, looks like a shiny top coat on their nails (with no color).They don't want acrylic, they want something different and this is working. The don't have the chipping or the peeling or the breaking with their natural nails. So when you guys say that filing off the soakable gels will be to damaging to the natural nail, I don't understand. What is the difference of using a regular gel, or an acrylic as an overlay, you are still filing. Maybe it is the marketing or your type of service. Maybe the manufacturers of the soakable gels are saying to you, for natural nail clients who don't want enhancements. Maybe it is the marketing of not the product itself, but the marketing of a "No filing product - soakable gels". I personally think that this is a marketing issue. I mean acrylic is soakable. maybe it is a time marketing issue. Maybe the soakable gels are faster to soak off vs soaking off an overlay of acrylic. I just wanted to let you know, that I consider soakable gels as another type of product for enhancements, just a different type of product we have available to us for certain type of clients. For new users, you can file this off if you want. Depends on how you want to market soakable gels. Heck you could offer two new services with the same product. For those clients who HATE filing offer this product and soak those suckers off. For those clients that want the extra strength that don't give a hoot about filing, you have another service. And on the glitter nails, I hate to sprinkle, rather use the dip method with a brush. JMHO diana from indiana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
