Michelle and Coco... Calcium Kapping gel...yes over lay, cure 2 mins in a 9 watt or 3 mins in a 6 watt. I like to do two thin coats but if your client is careful with her nails ..one can be enough. Then move on to your basecoat, color and topcoat.
Calcium Kapping forms. They aren't for doing "extensions" but more for helping seal the free-edge. When doing overlays on natural nails....ALWAYS do all your shaping FIRST. Then put the fear of GOD in your client that they can not ever ever ever shape their nails between visits or they will break your seal. You can do the seal without the forms. Just brush your overlay on the nail, then with a bit of gel still on your brush...tap tap tap the ends (like when you polish your clients to get color on the very end). Cure. Do the next coat. Then tap tap tap the edge and cure again. If you shape after that you'll file off the seal you just created. As for primer pen....it's Methacrylic acid. NOTHING can live on methacrylic acid. However, unfortunately, not all state board inspectors know this. I like to suggest confirming with your state. I know it's safe and you'll never get cross contamination however, I would just die if some state board inspector just saw you use a "marker" on two clients and wrote you up for it. Just cover yourself and double check. Believe me, the pen is worth the effort. It's soooooooooooooooooooo much safer than brush on primer. You do not have to worry about spilling on your leg and burning you. You can't over prime your clients either or flood the cuticles with acid. Last Kapping Sealer. Not UV cured. It's not a topcoat or a basecoat. You can't polish over it or under it. You can put cuticle oil on the nails first....then do a clear coat of kapping sealer to your set and have beautiful shiney nails. It does have a UV inhibitor in the product so it won't yellow in the tanning bed or sun. It will also protect any product from yellowing. It also have a GREAT glow in black lights (fun at a club haha). You do have to lightly buffer block it off. :) Elaine On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Coco Mellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Elaine, > > Re: calcium kapping gel, u overlay & cure 2 min and then polish it as > usual without basecoat. Correct? > > Coco > > On Sep 22, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Michele Wolosyn wrote: > > > Elaine, > > I'm looking at the Calcium gel kit and it looks like there are forms > > with it. Can you extend the nail with the gel? Regarding the Primer > > Pen...do you have to cleanse the tip or is it considered sanitary to > > use on each client without doing anything with it after each > > one? Also, is the Kapping Sealer a UV cured topcoat? > > > > Michele > > > > > > > -- Elaine T. Watson Star Nail International Vice President of Marketing and Sales Global Education Director 800.782.7624 extension 321 fax 661.257.5847 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: itsnotarealjob.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
