Many are interested in how to build up nails at home. There are several ways, and which one to choose depends on the desired end result. International standards of modern modeling are constantly rising, new materials and technologies appear. But for home lengthening of nails, you can choose a simple proven method of modeling on tips.
Materials such as gel and acrylic are used to lengthen. You can choose acrylic, then you don’t have to file extended nails for a long time during correction, since this is a soluble material. In addition, a UV manicure lamp and an apparatus with a mill are not needed. If the lamp has already been purchased and there are several gel varnishes, you can purchase a three-phase system of modeling gels and make extensions.
Alternative to salon building
In the arsenal of the salon master of manicure are many convenient tools, sterilization equipment, several brands of materials. All this is deprived of an amateur who makes nails at home. Therefore, technologies that do not require complex preparation are especially interesting.
Nails are modeled in two main ways: using forms or using tips. Forms are paper or foil-made patterns that are applied end-to-end to the nail and applied to them, which polymerize and become hard. Tips are finished pads made of plastic. They are glued directly to the nail, and then polymerization material is laid on them.
It is worthwhile to dwell on a technique using tips, and consider how to build up nails at home with gel and acrylic.
Modeling steps
Both techniques have a similar sequence of actions. These are certain stages in building up. Consider how to build up nails in stages at home using the example of a jacket.
- Preparation. To begin with, the nail is cleaned of overgrown skin, the length and natural shine of the buff are removed. Then the nail is degreased and treated with a primer.
- Tips are glued. Before this, they are tried on, choosing for each finger, and laid out alternately for each hand. After gluing all ten tips and trimmed with tip cutter to the desired length. Powders formed on the nails from the tips are cut off so that the surface remains smooth.
- The nail bed is laid out with camouflage, forming an apex.
- The free edge is laid out with white material.
- Filed.
- Artificial nails polish or top coat.
You can simplify the technology by combining paragraphs 3 and 4. In this case, lay out the camouflage with one drop and after filing draw a jacket with white gel-paint.
Gel extension
To perform gel extension, the following materials and equipment are required:
- Lamp.
- Manicure tools: pusher, nippers for leather, knipser, brush for dusting.
- Pilots 150, 180 grit, buff 240 grit.
- Gel base, camouflage gel and white for drawing a jacket, top gel.
- Gel brush.
- Klinser and acid-free primer.
- Tips and glue.
- Tipsorez.
This is enough to build gel nails at home. How to do this, explains the video in detail.
Gel technology
Many designs are made by gel, in particular, color jacket. Its technology is more complicated than that presented in the video, because the nail bed is laid out separately from the free edge. It will be difficult for a beginner to do this, so there is another option - drawing a jacket.
How to build gel nails at home:
- Nail preparation.
- Bonding tips and shortening them.
- Opil tipsa, shine removal from a nail.
- Degreasing, primer treatment of a natural nail.
- Application of the base gel, polymerization 1-2 minutes in a UV lamp.
- Application of camouflage gel, polymerization 2 minutes.
- Opil.
- Drawing a jacket with white gel, polymerization for 2-3 minutes.
- Application of top gel. Polymerization 2-3 minutes.
Features of using the gel
Work with the gel should be careful and slow, because with rapid movements air gets into the gel, and it will be difficult to get rid of the bubbles. After polymerization and sawdust, they will leave ugly craters on the surface. Brush movements are zigzag. The gel has the ability to reach for the brush, it is used to cover the surface with the desired layer. Sealing the ends is mandatory.
When modeling an artificial nail, a transverse arch is built, which, when intersected with a longitudinal one, forms an apex - the highest point. It should be in the middle of a natural nail bed. To build gel nails at home yourself, it is enough to remember that without these arches there will be no strong nails. Therefore, the gel is applied, and not applied like varnish.
French service can be done using stencils, removing them immediately after application. If the line is a little smeared, it is corrected with a brush dipped in alcohol.
Acrylic extension
To perform acrylic extension, the following materials and equipment are required:
- Manicure tools: pusher, nippers for leather, knipser, brush for dusting.
- Files 150, 180 grit, buff 240 grit, polisher 1000 grit.
- Acrylic Powder.
- Monomer.
- Degreaser and acid primer, glue for tips.
- Tips.
- Tipsorez.
- Brush for acrylic.
This is enough to build nails at home with acrylic. How to do this, explains the video in detail. After the procedure, the nails can be coated with any varnish.
Acrylic technology
In acrylic technology there is no rendering of a jacket, but it can be done with varnishes. On acrylic nails, the varnish holds well, without chipping. Since the building will be covered with varnish, you can take any acrylic powder. The most popular is transparent, which forms nails similar to natural ones.
How to build nails with acrylic at home:
- Nail preparation.
- Bonding tips and shortening them.
- Opil tipsa, shine removal from a nail.
- Degreasing, primer treatment.
- Application of a large drop of acrylic and its distribution on the nail, building an apex.
- Opil.
- Polishing.
- Application of varnish, design.
Recommendations
In order to build your own nails at home, as in a salon, you need to purchase a manicure machine. He performs manicure and filing of artificial nails. It will help with correction. There are situations when you can’t do without it: with a thin milling cutter it is easy to remove excess material near the cuticle, cut out the arch under the free edge after correction. Do not take a cheap model for home use, it may not have enough power. It is better to buy a manicure device with speed control, reverse, foot pedal and a speed of at least 2500 per second. This is a semi-professional equipment that will not fail and will last a long time.
When purchasing a lamp for the polymerization of gels, it should be borne in mind that not all gels dry out in a small 9-watt lamp. In any case, the process is delayed, increasing the drying time by two or three times. Better is a 36-watt model with four removable bulbs that need to be replaced every six months. There are also combination lamps in which UV lamps and diodes are combined. It is preferable to purchase such a lamp, since this will significantly increase the speed of work and all gels (both UV and LED) will dry out well.
When purchasing tips, it is better to give preference to transparent. There are translucent cream tips, imitating a natural nail. They do not fit: their border when lengthening the nail bed can be seen through camouflage, so it’s better to take tips without pigment.
What are convenient tips
Tips are not considered a very professional way of building, but sometimes even masters resort to it. In the case of too large pads on the fingers, it can be impossible to substitute the form, then the tips help out. Although they cannot be pushed, there are tips with a pronounced C-curve and a deep smile line.
You can build up nails with nails at home, as in a salon. To do this, you need to do everything carefully and slowly. If the tips stuck crookedly, do not tear it off - it will be removed with the top layer of the nail. It is better to use a nail polish remover with acetone, then it will dissolve. Do the same when you need to remove acrylic nails. But the gel is insoluble, they have to be cut off.
Instructions on how to build nails at home
To build up, you need to prepare everything you need and allocate enough time. A manicure can be done in advance, in one to two days, so as not to waste time on it and accidentally cut the cuticle. For success in modeling, sterility is required, and blood drops will disrupt adhesion to artificial material. In this manual, the cure time is for a 36-watt UV lamp.
How to build nails at home step by step:
Step 1: Selection and gluing tips.
In order to choose the right size tips for each nail, do their fitting on alcohol-treated nails. The width of the tips should equal the width of the nail along the line of a smile from edge to edge. Having picked up all ten tips, they begin to stick them. A drop of glue is applied to the tip area, distributed and set at 45% at the end of the nail, slowly putting the tip on the nail and expelling air from under it. Hold so 5 seconds. When building yourself, first 5 tips are glued to the right hand, building is done, then go to the left.
Step 2: Cutting off the tip nut. Without touching the natural nail, remove the step, which was formed after gluing the tips. A 180 grit file makes several movements. Tips are well cut, it is a fairly soft material.
Step 3: Remove natural shine from the nail.
Buff 240 grit removes gloss from nails and tips. Do not forget about the butt.
Step 4: Degreasing and primer treatment.
Having brushed off the dust from the sawdust, the nails are degreased with a clinser or prep-primer having an alcohol composition. After drying, a little primer is applied with a brush: for gel building - acid-free, for acrylic - acid. In the latter case, they act with extreme caution - this is a very strong acid! Contact with skin could result in a chemical burn. Nails are keratinized cells, therefore they do not feel the action of acid. But it should be borne in mind that for all five nails, the amount of primer with a well wrung brush is enough.
Step 5 (for gel technology): Application of the base.
The base is applied with a brush thinly, as if painting nails. Cure depending on the manufacturer for 1 or 2 minutes. The sticky layer will remain. The following material will be superimposed on it.
Step 6: Apply camouflage material.
The nail is coated with camouflage imitating the color of the nail. In both technologies, an apex is built. In gel technology, you can apply the method of turning the hand. In this case, the material located on the nail naturally forms a drop. Its top is the middle of a natural nail, that is, the drop will be asymmetric. Polymerization 2-3 minutes.
Step 7: Opil.
The nails are wiped with a degreaser and filed. Then they grind and polish if desired.
Step 8: The final step.
This is a top gel that dries for 2-3 minutes, or regular nail polish.
Common mistakes
Kits with a lamp and gels are currently sold, to which detailed instructions are not attached. Their customers, not understanding how to properly build nails at home, often make the following mistakes:
- Insufficient sterility during the building process.
- Inadequate or excessive treatment of the surface of the nail with a file.
- Abundant wetting with an acid primer of nails, getting it on the cuticle and side rollers, which leads to a chemical burn.
- Insufficient drying of the material in a weak lamp or device with bulbs that have exhausted their life. They burn, but ultraviolet radiation is very weak.
- Insufficient application of the material, which is difficult to correct at the stage of filing. I have to report material and repeat the operation.
Forewarned is forearmed. Now you are prepared theoretically, it's up to practice. That's all about how to build up nails at home.