Elaine,
Thank you for taking the time to explain how to use your product. I'm looking at buying the gel kit with a lamp. THANK YOU, Terri ______________________________ > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:54:09 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: NailTech:: Re: Gels > > 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 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
