Step by step / Acrylic Pipe shape nail
Preparation: Prepare the nail as usual: 1. push the skin up, remove any sticky skin with the scrappy part of the preparatory spatula, 2. shorten the nail length, 3. mat the surface with 180 grit file, 4. Dust off carefully, then use the preparatory liquids for proper sterilization, dehydration and adhesion (first use Nail Prep, then the acid or acid-free primer, as you like, or even both), 5. Before placing the pattern, remove the middle part and stick it as reinforcement onto the back side of the part below the free edge. Cut the pattern and tailor it to the form of the natural nail’s free edge, if necessary. The pattern should be positioned accurately according to the form of the desired built nail. Now, in this case, I shaped the pattern after the form of the modern stiletto nail, but if you like to build a parallel sided nail, it should have a parallel or slightly shrinking cylinder form. |
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1. Once the pattern is placed right, elongate the nail bed with the Cover Pink material, according to the desired form to be built. Emphasize Cover Pink only in the elongated section while it should thin gradually away in the remaining part, form the perfect negative of the smile line on the elongation. |
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2. Lay a white bead on the center of the pattern right underneath the elongated section: push it against the Cover Pink wall so that the smile line is almost automatically formed, while at the same time forming the free edge as well. |
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3. Apply a new layer suggestively with Clear powder at the white end and with Pink at the nail bed, for perfect color effect. At the same time create a C-curve adapted to the length of the nail. |
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4. Refine the nail through by keeping the order of fineness of the files for perfect polishing, and then polish with the magic gloss or lambskin polisher. To save some time, you can replace polishing with Top Shine, this way you don't need to keep the order of fineness grades of the files. |
