Acrylic nails... Love em' or loathe em'!?

[digger1967a]

Scratches I said! You blooming stoopid Farm yakker, not blooming PLOUGHED FURROWS! LOL
You really need to stop playing with the farm machinery!

[fetishbootslut]

You don't have to have them tacky looking. If you want low key and elegant go for a french manicure look, or if you are mad on red like me, get them painted red
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I too have mine bright red love it. I am known for my red nails & matching lippy.

Tink glad we have a nail tech here to ask questions so here comes one:

I always struggle with them lifting from the ends on certain nails any ideas why?. Have to glue them a bit and baffles my nail girl.

[tinkerbell]

ok is it lifting from the bottom of the nail? where your cuticle is?

if this is the case and these are acrylic nails, your nail bed hasnt been preped properly and maybe a small amount of the acrylic has leaking into the cuticle and that then leaves the acrylic with nothing to hold on to, hence the lifting

if theyre just stick on nails,....thats to be expected after a few days, but if you want to get some more life out of them, get some salon grade glue, i use creative nail design products, theyre pretty much like the gucci of acrylic nail products haha! x

[fetishbootslut]

Hi

Not acrylic now gel nails I have infills every 3 weeks and new every 2-3 mths. They come off from the tip I was wondering if she isn't overlaying the end enough so they lift??.

I use to use all creative polish etc but now with gel don't need painting so I use the solar oil only to stop my cuticles drying out.

[tinkerbell]

yay on oiler! i love you

ugh gel,. i hate gel but if theyre done ok ill let you off

yes the ends need capping with a very thing layer of gelas nails naturcalls curve on the end where as where that gel starts off down your nail, its flat so when grows up the free egde of the nail doesnt keep up that shape

[Freddo]

That sounds really painfull Monty had me shuddering at the thought

[sarahxxx]

I use to have acrylic for about 10 years now have had the gel version that are kinder to your nails for the last 5 years I LOVE THEM.

Same here, I use Gel now, have done for the last ten years, used acrylic for 5 years before that

Have tried a few gels but now use En Vogue

Sarah

[SassyAnn]

Good grief, it's all double-dutch to me! I just have natural nails. I tried painting them years ago and was really bad at it and also have a tendency to pull the polish off when bored. Mine just grow until they get in the way and I file them down, or they snap off cos I've done something clumsy.

[tinkerbell]

oh en vouge is nice,....

a lot of people get put off by acrylic because they have had them in the past when they werent the best lol or they havent had them done properly

heres a pic of mine that i did to go on tour with mr rockstar

[tinkerbell]