Thanks Elaine, you have posted this before and after watching Doug Schoon's brain today, I got another dose of the info. I have always trained my clients to do this and now I have the SOG on myself.. my nails are definitely thin and weak and they are curling after about a week. I have been using oil underneath. I always seal my clients nails with resin and activator when they have natural nails under their acrylic but I didn't do my own.
I don't have acrylic on my nails at all now, just gel and SOG... On Aug 9, 2010 5:05 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> <nailtech%[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]<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.
