Suggestions to prevent or fix nail curing with soak off gels. First, I want to explain why. When your nails are moist they fluff up microscopically. Like a sponge on your kitchen sink. When they are dehydrated they shrink, again like that sponge. When you overlay your nails with anything (even polish) you trap moisture that travels up from the bed of your nails and into your nail plate. This is a normal occurrence. But normally the moisture is allowed to evaporate and the nail stays at pretty much the same texture. Now, once you get a little free edge. The moisture that is puffing up the nail is able to evaporate under the nail plate causing it to shrink and curl. Some people have this worse than others, while some won't have this at all. It just depends on the porousness of your natural nail and how much size it changes at both ends of the spectrum. This happens with Acrylic and Hard Gel as well. The difference is, with good adhesion those products are stiff enough to "not" allow the nail to curl unless it lets go. SOG's are super flexible, so when you start to curl it goes with it.
So now that you understand why, here's how you can prevent it....BEFORE it starts. The key being before... When you reapply your SOG's (with little to no free-edge)...for your trouble nail curlers, apply some of the clear soak off gel "under the nail". This will trap some of that moisture and keep it from curling. You can also do this with brush on resin and an activator (spray or brush on). Then when you go to soak off the nails in two or so weeks, it will come off as well. Be sure to clean under the nail, dehydrate it according to your manufacturer's recommendation and then reapply and let it cure while your tops are curing. For the shortest nails you may want to cure them upside down facing the light for at least a minute to be sure they got some light on them. DEFINITELY send everyone home with cuticle oil. Tell them to apply daily to their cuticles and under their nails. This will also keep the surrounding skin from getting dry with the use of the soak off chemicals. Hope this helps you all out!! :) Kind Regards, Elaine T. Watson Star Nail International Vice President of Marketing and Sales Global Education Director 800.782.7624 extension 321 fax 661.257.5847 [email protected] Blog: itsnotarealjob.blogspot.com On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Becky <[email protected]> wrote: > I really love these gel polishes but I now have it on my own nails and they > are seriously curling. I don't even like how they look. I noticed the same > on my natural nail clients and I know we've discussed it here a bit. I'm > going to have to go back to having acrylic on, which I don't mind, because I > can't stand how much they are curling. > > Oh well, I can definitely attest to how well it holds up on natural nails, > which is why I started wearing it anyway... > > -- > 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]<nailtech%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. > -- 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.
