As long as you do DIY manicures at home, many people should find gel manicures difficult.
So we’ve rounded up a ton of questions about the right way to do gel manicures and troubleshooting, and here’s a quick overview of the top 5 mistakes people make when using gel manicures!
1. Water exposure!
Our nails are like real sponges. When our nails are soaked in water, they can absorb about 3 times their own weight in water. When they absorb all the water, they expand in size! Then after about an hour or so, they will shrink back to their normal size. But what happens when you apply a polish or gel to the surface of a water-swelled nail? Although the nail shrinks to its normal state, the gel does not shrink with it, thus loosening the bond between the gel and the nail, and the gel comes off completely!
So if you’re going to do your own nails, don’t soak your nails in water, even if a nail salon does. We need to wait at least 30 minutes to 1 hour after showering before applying gel on our nails!
2. Not polishing/preparing your nails properly
Gel hates a lot of things, but what it hates the most is the smooth and shiny finish. Gel is like Velcro in a way, it needs something to hold it in place. So you absolutely need to properly and thoroughly wipe off the entire finish on your nails before using the gel! It requires complete sanding of the nail with a nail file, leaving the nail “rough” and completely dull. If you don’t do this correctly, the precious gel you just hunched over for a few hours will pop in a week or so. Honestly, this situation is very sad.
Therefore, it is very necessary to prepare a nail file.
3. Not removing all the dead skin on the nails
The cuticle isn’t just the curved part of the skin on top of the nail, it’s actually the hard-to-see dead skin growing on the actual nail bed! Since it’s barely visible, we remove some skin when filing the surface of the nail, but those little cuticles on top can be a little tricky. You can use the rounded edge of the nail file to push the cuticle up while removing the cuticle, or use the cuticle nail drill with an electronic file! A diamond nail drill is a good choice, but be careful to remove it very thoroughly! !
4. Wrong curing light
I’ve seen this a lot lately where people see a very cheap mini LED/UV curing gel light that seems to fit 1-3 fingers at a time and think this will be their gel light. But unfortunately, these types of lamps don’t have the energy needed to fully cure the gel! You have to buy a more powerful light to get the full cure you need, otherwise if your gel isn’t fully cured it won’t stick to your nails properly!
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Post time: Sep-09-2022