I thought that she was asking why her acrylic product yellowed not her brush. I've never had a brush yellow, my brushes have always been Russian sable and I've never seen them turn yellow. Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean. Do you mean a contaminated brush causing yellowing acrylic?
I was not saying that the cause of yellowing acrylic is due to ALL of the things listed happening at the same time, it can happen if just one of the things listed happens. Cleaning you brush in monomer and then putting a cover on it is the same as not cleaning your brush at all. Entity makes a brush with a cap that has a hole in the tip so that the liquid can evaporate out of the brush so that it should not hold contaminates in the brush. Notice I said "should not". I have used the Entity brush for many years with the cap and have never had a product contamination problem from the brush. I'm not saying that a contaminated brush is always the problem, I meant that it could be the problem. My list is by no means compleat, this is just a list of what I have experienced or what I've been taught at one of the gazillion classes I've taken or what other techs have experienced and shared with me. Katherine St. Louis, MO Sent from my iPad On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Pati <[email protected]> wrote: Katherine, I have to disagree a bit. Although the things you mention *could* attribute to the cause of a brush yellowing...I will add...I have used CND monomer (I use Moxie but it has happened with retention+ also) and powders forever...and I love the way it stays on and looks nice. Anyway... IF I use a brush with a cover..the bristles tend to yellow...it depends on the brush also. I use ONLY cnd monomer and never use a different monomer...well if I try one..I use a different brush..also..I do not use brush cleaner...haven't in a million years! I clean my brush with the monomer...which I also pour fresh each and every time. I lay my brush on it's side to store...so the monomer does not pool into the ferrule of the brush. I don't know why it happens but it does... Pati 'Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them, But you know they are always there. -----Original Message----- From: Katherine Fahrig <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 10:32 am Subject: Re: NailTech:: Myth or truth? Yellowing acrylics happen because; Contaminated liquid - leaving liquid in the dapping dish after doing one set of nails, then adding more liquid and never cleaning out the dapping dish. -Using one of those pump liquid dispensers, liquid left in the lid can go back down into the main liquid chamber resulting in the same thing as not cleaning out the dapping dish. -Brush cleaner in the acrylic liquid. Contaminated sculpting brush -using the same sculpting brush with more than one product. -Not cleaning the brush properly. - Leaving brush cleaner in the brush, i.e. taking the brush out of the brush cleaner dabbing it off then dipping right into the liquid with brush cleaner still in the brush. Expired liquid Liquid that has been left in the sun or extreme heat i.e. the car. Sometimes it's the top coat that has yellowed not the acrylic. Some sealant gels made for acrylics will yellow if they are old or have been left in extreme heat. If I can think of anything else I'll post again. Maybe someone else can think of more reasons for yellow acrylic. The reasons are legion :-) Yellow gel? My brand is Light Elegance and the ONLY reason for LE to look yellow is if the nail is lifted. LE gel will not yellow, well I don't know what would happen if it was expired or left in the heat. I go through it so fast it can't possibly get old and I never leave it in the car. I can't speak for other brands, I noticed that the Shellac French yellowed on my client who went to the beach for vacation. Katherine St. Louis, MO Sent from my iPad On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Veronica Mora <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you so much Kathryn, That helped out a TON!!! but I have another question, why is it that too much liquid can cause yellowing? That is the only thing i can think of that is making my nails yellow. I don't smoke, my products isn't old, and I've only had them on for about a week. > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:04:59 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: NailTech:: Myth or truth? > To: [email protected] > > Acrylic is not harmful to your nails. Manicurists who butcher the natural > nail and surrounding skin are harmful to your nails. People say that acrylics are harmful because they went to a NSS salon and had their nails butchered or they ripped their acrylic nails off themselves and damaged their own nails, then blamed it on the acrylic. Anyone can do the same amount of damage with gels. It's not the product, it's how the product is applied and/or removed. FYI acrylic is safely removed by soaking in acetone. Picking, ripping or biting them off causes damaged nails. > > Gels are a pre mixed, UV cured nail enhancement that is light weight, flexible, will not yellow and is extremely durable with no odor. I prefer to use gels, I like them better because they are very easy to file and have a great shine without buffing, it is a personal decision. > > Acrylics are a liquid and powder product that the manicurist must mix and > then apply the mixed product to the nail. Acrylic has an odor. > > I have nothing against acrylics except the odor, that is why I am a gel > master :-) > > Katherine > St. Louis, MO > Sent from my iPad > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Veronica Mora <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me why everyone says that acrylic is so harmful to your > nails? Is it true or False and why? > another question is that, clients often ask what is the difference of gels > and acrylics, which one is better and which one is worse ? > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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