I have a question... you mentioned the whites getting old and/or yellow with age... do you not replace the white totally when doing a backfill? It has been my experience and observations that when doing pink and whites ... you have to replace the whites during backfills and then the pink grows up and eventually gets removed because that moves into the free edge area..so in essence is getting replaced also. I have found, after moving back to NY..(where not everyone is wearing p+w's like in Florida) the acrylic is starting to get old and brittle before reaching the free edge area... something I haven't seen in years...(because everyone in Florida wore p+w's!)..JMHO
Pati 'Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them, But you know they are always there. -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Wade <ebbieday...@gmail.com> To: nailtech <nailtech@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 7:08 pm Subject: Re: NailTech:: Do Nails REALLY need to "BREATHE"????? Nope...no lungs. If the nails need anything to sustain them, they get it from the nail bed beneath the nail plate. However, they are comprised of keratin, like hair (well, similar), and while porous with the ability to absorb certain substances (oil, water, etc), these substances aren't really needed to "survive". That being said I do advise clients to remove acrylic periodically for a couple of reasons, the length of time being determined on an individual basis: As acrylic ages, it becomes "dingy" meaning the pinks begin to appear more beige and the whites lose their crispness (an effect of UV exposure). It also becomes brittle and tends to crack more easily. It also sometimes lifts more as it ages. I don't advise soaking off and getting a new set for financial gain for myself. But my clients seem happy to do so when they see the advantages of an occasional new set. Some get a new set every 2-3 months and others go 6-8 months. A very few never soak off, yet complain that their nails are brittle and break easily. One client has never gotten a new set, but seems to regularly have to have multiple repairs and replacements due to damage or lifting. She says she "gets a new set by default without having to pay for it this way." Whatever... ;-) I'll stop the rant now...lol Debbie in VA On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Sherri Evans <thenail...@gmail.com> wrote: Nails got lungs!? On Feb 10, 2011 9:33 PM, "Heather Lackey" <financialpea...@gmail.com> wrote: I tell my clients that if they can get something dead to breathe then more power to them! :0) Sent from my iPad On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:25 PM, pamsna...@aol.com wrote: > Ok Techs, my one long time client comes ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to nailtech@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nailtech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 nailtech@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nailtech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 nailtech@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nailtech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
