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Acrylic Nail Tutorial for beginners

(Video: Kiara sky nails - how to apply acrylic for beginners)

1. PREP THE NAIL


So we are going to start prepping the clients nail for acrylic application.As you can see they may be some
dead tissuses around the cuticle area and we wanna make sure that we remove that along with the
shine REMOVE DEAD CUTICLES . When pushing back the cuticle you want to make sure that you are not
pushing too hard you also want to make sure that you are not going at too deep angle because you can
damage the nails bed and you don’t want to do it too parallel to the nose because you can slip over the
top of the skin n possibly cut your client. So now that we those nicely pushed back you’re going to grab a
SANDING BAND with a medium or fine grit and we are going to use this to remove the shine of the
natural nail . When doing this you wanna make sure that your are kissing the nail very slightly you don’t
wanna put any pressure if you want more detailed into removing the dead tisssues fro the natural nail
you can grab a tapered cuticle bit this is going to help you cleaning bit and this is going to help get into
the small channels of the side walls and the cuticle area.So now tha your done with the rest of the
fingers we’re goin to go ahed and fit the nails tips.

2. APPLY THE NAIL TIP


When applying the tip you want to make sure that it’s fitted from sidewall to side wall you don’t want it
to be too large hanging over and you don’t want it to be too thin .If the nails tip is too small it will
increase the chances of lifting now when applying the tip to the fingers you want to make sure that you
are putting is right at the edge where the free edge would start you want to make sure that you have
enough of the natural nail beds so that the acrylic can have something to adhere to and it has a popper
foundation. >now that we’ve applied the tip it s time to trim to the desired length and shape before I
use a nail file on my clients I want to make sure that I properly prep it when you grab a new file you will
notice that the side of the file are extremely sharp the easiest way to remove this is by grabbing another
file and running it alone the sides . Now I’ve prepped the file the side are going to be dull they will not
cut my client.

3. SHAPE IT!
Why I shape the tip before applying my acrylic is because it eliminates me having to do it at the end of
the acrylic application.If you apply the application proplery and smoothly it will keep the shape you have
made.Now that we have that on there and shape the way we want it to I’m going back with my sanding
band and we are going to get rid of the sludge here you want this to blend nicely
4. REMOVE LEDGE
Now that we have that on there and shape the way we want it to I’m going back with my sanding band
and we are going to get rid of the sludge here you want this to blend nicely because this also increases
proper retension . REPEAT THESE STEPS ON THE REST OF THE NAILS. OK so now that we have all these
ready we are going o start with prepping the nail for acrylic application with our dehydrator and our
primer first.

5. APPLY DEHYDRATOR
First you want to apply your dehydrator and you only want to apply it to the natural nail bed now that
that’s dry you want to go in with your primer

6. APPLY PRIMER
Apply the primer to the natural nail as well and wait for it to dry.

7. APPLY CLEAR ACRYLIC


You have to put down a thin layer of our to basics clear pwder when applying this bead want to make
sure that you’re not going all the way to thecuticle area because when you go into your finishyed filing
and you file around your cuticle it’s going to file away your pigment color and your going to see your
clear underneath .Now the reason why im putting a clear layer beneath color powder is for when my
client comes back and she wants to change to a differrnt color all I have to do is file down to my clear
layer and then we can put a new color on .

8.BEAD METHOD
This is going to be a using three separate zones to build up the foundation of your nail your first zone is
going to be FREE EDGE second zone is going to be APEX and third zone is going to be CUTICLE AREA
9. APPLY COLOR
So first pick up your first bead and place it in zone 1 and then drag it down towards free edge this is
going to taper the product down so that we have a nice curve at the end of the process .You wanna pick
up just enough powder so that you can cover the tip of the nail .You want to use the body of ur brush to
lightly flatten the acrylic bead and then pull it towards the free edgewhen placing ur bead you also
wanna to make sure that your using the tip of the brush to feather the top of the acrylic thid id going to
make is easy for when you apply the nest bead so that they can flow countinuously into each other . So
now we are going to do zone 2 im going to place this bead in the middle of the nail and then we are
going to drag it towards the free edge . This bead is going to be slightly bigger than the first bead that
we used beacsue we want to make sure that we have enough thickness along the stress area(apex zone)

APEX :

(THE APPEX IS THE THICKEST PIONT OF AN ACRYLIC NAIL AND GIVESNTHE NAIL IT’S STRENGTH.)

This is going to be called the apex nail another tip that u should use when doing an acrylic application is
angling your clients nail downward this is going to help with the flow of the acrylic so that it lays nice
and flat you want to remember to feather the top of the bead in to your next working area because you
don’t want to have a sharp hard line working against you.Now your last beadtis going to be the smallest
bead and it’s going to go into the cuticle area which is zone 3 you want to make sure that you have just
enough to cover the nail bedand then you gonna drag it down to zone 2 with the tip of your brush you
are going to ever so lightly walk the remaining of the bead up into the cuticlr area without tuvhing the
skin.Alright

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