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Friday, June 7, 2019

My Gel Nails















Ok i am so excited.  I have gone twice to have 
my nails done at a salon.  I about died on what I had to pay for when I had to teach them how to do the designs.  First off let me show you some of my own nails I have painted with REGULAR nail polish.  Then I can explain more on what I 
mean by me teaching them.  The so called professionals.

 This is my first try at the TRI-Color method.  You put 3 colors onto a makeup sponge and roll them onto your nail.  And my 2nd try above.  I couldn't get the pics to go in the correct place.  And you will notice I forget to do clean ups before I post pics.  Sorry.
 This one I did not pick the colors to match the pillow.  But after painting them my daughter noticed that they did.
I loved this design for Christmas that year.
This was my first try at the dots inside the dots.  I was so happy that it turned out so well.  Then when the nails started to peal I decided to try saving them.  I was a little lazy and didn't want to remove the polish.  So below is what I did to save them.
This Picture below is how I started out with the next design. I almost left them like this, but I had other plans.
And yes I forgot to clean up.
After doing mine my sons girlfriend wanted me to do hers.  She barely had nails so it was a big Challenge.  I think the design I chose did turn out quite well.
 Decided to try chevron design.  It didn't turn out as well as I would have liked.
Next I wanted to create a summery look.  I loved this one.

NOW for the Salons design.  I showed her the first 2 pics to put on my nails.  They are almost identical designs.  They said that won't show up on my orange nails.  I asked her to try please. 
They said they can do designs.
This is what they did with a lot of help from me. Looks nice but not what I wanted.
Next was this design.  This was a mess.  Had to redo a couple nails.  I chose the best hand for the pic.
THe other hand the snow flake was a big blob almost.  THe swirl was almost the same.  The guy had no idea how to do any of this.  I had to show him which tool to use and he said that is to small.  He used a bigger one on the other hand.  On this hand for snowflake and dots he used what I asked him to use.  The swirl he still didn't get right.  I helped so much on this I felt like I should of gotten a discount.  The lady doing my daughter said he was in a hurry to leave for home.  That is not right.

Now for my First Attempt  at Gel Nails.  I learned you can't clean up after using the light.  lol.  It dries hard EVERY WHERE.  My Thumb I was just playing around swiping the colors together.
Now for my GEL NAIL 2nd attempt.  And of all days my meds had me shaking, but I feel like I still did a good job.  
 The GOLD stripe was gold nail polish.  NOT GEL.  
UNTIL
I found this on Amazon.  You mix it 50/50 with your nail polish of choice.
It then turns it into a GEL NAIL POLISH.
Very expensive stuff. Link is below.

Click link above.
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