Basically, I was talking about over anything. I always like to base my gel overlays with a clear coat that I know is fully cured. I *have* used white gel directly over acrylic to do french looks from time to time.but the results are mixed. If the acrylic is not buffed just right, the color *crawls* into the scratch marks made by the buffer.if it's buffed too much, they tend to peel! For consistent results..just take the extra few seconds it takes to scrub on a very thin layer of clear gel..no matter what color comes next. IMHO! Lol
Karen in Key West, Who is NOT laffin at all y'all up there.just smiling' real big! <wink> _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Angela R Wingerter Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: NailTech:: Re: Gel polish freakout! Karen, When you say to apply colored gel over a cured clear gel, are you just talking about on natural nails? Are you including over ac. too? <http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/05.gif> Angie Wingerter _____ From: KeyzKaren <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 2, 2009 2:04:12 PM Subject: NailTech:: Re: Gel polish freakout! In my experience adding pigments to gels makes them act weird and "crawly" <---technical term! Lol Here are some things I'd like to offer on this thread: -For colored gels..no matter the color (even white tips).it's recommended that you put a FULLY CURED clear base down first. Then do your color layer(s) next. -Always err to the side of caution by building color intensity with multiple FULLY CURED thin layers rather than thicker layers. The color pigments are occlusive..the UV light simply cannot fully pass through colored gels to fully cure the lower portion of a layer, let alone other layers that may lie beneath. This leads to my next thing: -When you are going to put any gel other than a completely clear coat over another coat, be sure you FULLY CURE the lower layer before proceeding. -Adding regular polish/lacquer to gels is something I've experimented with.you can get very lovely sheer colors, but adding enough polish to make them opaque changes the chemistry of the gels so much that the resulting nail enhancements simply don't hold up as well. I'd stick with sheers.or buying manufacturer's colors. Hope this helps!!! Best wishes from " Paradise " Karen in Key West , who, instead of fuming about the crazy traffic on our little island just now.is grateful for those cold fronts up north!!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
