During one of those fabulous "condo" training days at Premiere many years ago, Tanis, Vicki, Jenny, Ellen and I spent a whole day playing with product. At that time, I learned several tricks that have served me well:
Never worry about cleaning all the gel out of your gel brushes.leave a little in there to keep the bristles soft and supple and "primed" so to speak. Be sure to always store them out of direct light..even light bulbs can have UV spectrum rays that will cause the gel to cure in your bristles. Especially those newer "true light" bulbs. If you need to clean your brushes, alcohol or acetone either will remove uncured gel. Both can be drying to natural hair bristles.so I use a drop of a good quality cuticle oil massaged into the bristles to recondition them on the rare occasion I clean them. Keep several brushes aside for various uses: I use a flat, short natural bristle gel brush for fills-the rounded shape of the edge of the bristles fits right up to most cuticles. I use a #6 round pointed taklon brush for the whites. I have a flat square nylon-very short white bristles-that I use to float on thin layers of sparkles/glitters. And a square, natural bristle brush I use just for colors-the tips of the bristles are pretty flexible.sort of like a polish brush, really, now that I think of it.and it lets me get very close to the sidewalls without touching. I try to never cross use them.some clients just are NOT amused by a single blue glitter in the middle of their perfect pink and whites! Lol Keep empty polish bottles (you can buy them at pretty much any supplier) to pop the handles of your gel brushes in as you use them. I have 3 on my desk at all times. Hope this all helps! I learned from the best! Karen Key West --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
