QuestionI have been doing nails for about a year now and have had great success. However, all of a sudden, my clients are experiencing lifting on their acrylics! They tell me about 5-7 days after a flll or full set the entire acrylic nail seems to lift right off! I have not changed any products, procedures or anything! It is driving me crazy! My clients say they are taking no new prescriptions, new soaps, shampoos, nothing. HELP!! I use No Lift Nail Primer and Creative Nail Design Radical Monomer and Powder! I have also tried using Bond Aid and Bond ex Primer by OPI to no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
AnswerYou say you've been doing nails "for about a year?" So it's possible that the changing of the seasons might be the culprit?
Where are you located? Could it have to do with changing temperatures? Or lifestyles as people get back in the routine of the school year? Whether they themselves are students, or have children that they suddenly have to go back to making lunches for, doing laundry for, taking to practices for sports, etc?
Are you experiencing more or less humidity this year than typical?
CND products can be finicky about the ratio of liquid to powder, and if you are working wet it's possible that the product is just getting brittle after a summer of sun and water-- especially if you live where people spend a lot of time in swimming pools filled with chlorine.
It's also possible that your clientele is suddenly doing things they weren't doing since last year-- like going back to school. I find clients have the most trouble in the spring-- when nails start to grow faster due to the extra sunlight, coupled with "spring fever" and everyone suddenly goes on cleaning sprees and decides to grow a garden! Then again, this time of year, when everyone gets busy with kids going back to school and getting ready for holidays-- and in some areas, buckling down for extreme winter weather.
It might be a fluke. Or it might be something you find yourself dealing with every year. Pay careful attention to who is having trouble and try to figure out what they all have in common.
In the meantime, one colleague tipped me off to this trick for my problem lifters: two coats of traditional MAP (Methacrylic acid primer-- just like No Lift) and two coats of Young Nails' Protein Bond. Gotta tell ya, this was a great tip!
Also, make sure your clients are using their Solar Oil. Or any BOTANICAL BASED cuticle oil. Keeping the skin around the nail and the natural nail plate hydrated will keep them from shrinking away from the acrylic as the skin loses moisture. A cuticle oil that is made of botanical oils (plant based) is excellent for preventing this lifting. Avoid any oil that contains mineral oil (no baby oil) because the lipids in the mineral oil are too large to penetrate the skin. They won't rehydrate the skin, they'll just make you greasy. And it takes a LOT of effort to make people understand this, but it has to be OIL, creams and lotions don't work.
