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Today I'm going to be covering gel design.
I've already done a basic, acrylic, sculptured, stiletto nail.
As a base underneath, it's very thin
so that when we put the gel design on top and we encase it on top of that
we're not going to add to much thickness.
So this nail is all ready to go.
We're doing a bubble effect.
What we're going to do is use three different colours:
painting the pink onto the tip
I've just got some gel cleanser on here so I can wipe my brush on it
and then going into a nice deep purple,
and the reason I'm using the purple at this point is so we can cover up the client's natural smile line
again just wipe it onto the gel cleanse - and then onto a pale purple.
Then what you're going to do is get your brush into a nice point and just marble those lines together
where your colours have joined up.
I'm just going to take that pink a little bit higher.
The next stage before you set it is to pick up clear gel, bring your brush in at a ninety degree angle
and do little droplets onto your design, especially where your joins are of your colours.
What will happen is that the clear gel will sink
and that colour will start to go round it so that you get this bubble effect.
"If you want to place that into the lamp for me."
So that's only been into the lamp for about twenty to thirty seconds because we don't
want it to be fully set yet as we're going to add a little bit of glitter next.
So, I've gone into my clear gel, and then into my glitter,
and just tap it wherever you feel you need a bit of glitter
don't go over your bubbles because you want to highlight them.
I'm doing it round the zone three area and then in between some of my bubbles.
Make sure you wipe your brush every time you pick up some more clear gel
because you don't want glitter going into your clear gel.
Now that can go into the lamp for three minutes.
Now what we're going to do is encase this whole nail with clear gel.
So what you need to do is paint a thin layer on the whole entire nail
and then you're going to pick up a big bead of clear acrylic and run it down the whole nail
and then put a little bit more on.
This is a self-levelling clear gel so what it will do is sink into that last layer that
you've painted on so you don't really have to work with it too much.
Let that settle.
If your stress point is not in the right place you can get your client to turn their finger
upside-down so it is in the right place, but this is settling quite nicely.
Just going to put a little bit more on this side.
I'm happy with that so that can go back into the lamp for another three minutes.
So that nail's been in there for three minutes now and we need to take that sticky residue off the top.
We're going to do that with our gel-residue wipe-off.
One thing to remember when you're doing this
is that a lot of clients can actually have an allergic reaction to this uncured gel that's
still sticky on the top
so make sure that when you are using your wipe: place your wipe on and you wipe down,
then turn it over and do it again.
Don't rub it because if you get uncured, residue gel round here on the client's natural skin
it can cause an effect and it can cause an allergic reaction
so just wipe it twice, make sure it's off and the leave it.
We're going to file this nail now.
Gel is a lot softer than acrylic so it doesn't take so much to file it.
When you're using your file make sure that you are being a little bit softer with it.
I'm still using a one-fifty/one-eighty grit but I'm just not applying as much pressure
with my file,
plus the gel is self-levelling so it shouldn't take as much to file it to make sure that it's nice and even.
So, just make sure that your stress point is in the right place,
your nail is nice and smooth and your shape is good.
We can get rid of the dust on that nail now and finish off with a gel top coat.
Then get your client to pop that nail under the lamp for two minutes.
To finish this nail of a little bit of cuticle oil, massage it in
and that's the gel bubble design done.