How to build nails at home

Nails are the beauty of our hands. Indicator of grooming and neatness of girls. However, nature does not reward everyone with beautiful, long, hard and healthy nails. Sometimes it happens that no matter how you smear them or three or polish them, they are still brittle, soft and constantly exfoliate. Today we'll talk about how to build nails at home on your own.

How to build your own nails

In the modern world, girls often use such a procedure as nail extension. It gives instant results - beautiful long nails of your choice. The result is one for building, but there are a lot of materials. So the procedure can be carried out using a gel, biogel, or acrylic. The latter is used extremely rarely, since liquid for acrylic often has an unpleasant odor. And when applied to the nail, it is less durable than gels. Acrylic is mainly used for modeling, in which it is very convenient due to its property - it is good to keep its shape.

Extension can be done using tips, or on forms. What will become more convenient for you, you can decide by trying everything on personal experience.

To grow nails on your own, you first need to purchase the necessary equipment. Then equip yourself with a place to work. Bright lighting is necessary.

To achieve a good result, be prepared for the fact that you have to mess around for a long time and sit in one place. This work is painstaking and requires accuracy. It is possible that the first time the result will not be perfect, but everything comes with experience.

Whichever way you decide to build up your nails, the whole procedure can be divided into four steps:

1. Manicure.
2. Preparing the nail for extension.
3. Gel coating.
4. Drawing (design).

Nail extension tools

To grow nails and be satisfied with the result, enthusiasm alone is not enough. Here you will also have to spend a little on the purchase of the necessary equipment.

When extending nails with acrylic, you will need:

• Acrylic Powder.
• Liquid.
• File for shaping.
• Tipsy.
• Nail glue.

When building up with acrylic, no lamp drying is required. It is worth purchasing only certified products so that your fingernails remained intact.

When building nails with gel, the first thing you need to buy is a UV lamp or, if possible, an LED lamp. The difference between them is that the second dries the gel much faster. However, when choosing a material, take into account the fact that there are gels that can be dried only in LED lamps. Watch the packaging carefully. And the difference in price is very noticeable. If you do not plan to engage in nail service, then for home extension, UV is quite enough for you.

The function of the lamp is to dry the gel evenly. There are a few things to know when choosing a lamp:

• For more convenient work, it is worth choosing a lamp with a large number of bulbs. This will make your work process easier and save time.
• There are many types of lamps, but it is best to choose the one that will be more spacious.
• Choose a lamp that has additional functions. Such as a timer, or a fan.
• The optimal power for a UV lamp is 36 watts, although low power lamps are cheaper, but they dry the coating for a very, very long time.

The next thing you need is:

• the nail file is hard;
• soft nail file;
• buff;
• nippers;
• pusher;
• sticks for manicure;
• brushes;
• brush;
• forms (tips can be used).

Despite the fact that gel extension requires much more tools and time, it is more convenient and the result lasts longer. And thanks to the use of forms, rather than tips, the nails look natural.

How to build up your nails with gel

To build up nails yourself with gel using forms, follow the following instructions:

1. Prepare your nail first. Do a trim manicure, take a nail file and grind off the top layer a little. It is most convenient to do this with the hard side of the buff.
2. Then degrease the nail with a special product. It is called that - "degreaser" and is sold in all nail service stores. You can also degrease the nail using the usual "Asseptolin" (95% alcohol).
3. Now take the mold and attach it well to the nail. Remember when extending your nails, if you had, albeit small, but your nails will have to be cut off. Otherwise, they will interfere with building.
4. The next step is to apply a foundation called TOP Gel. Spread the gel over the molds to the length you want to build up. And dry in the lamp. The drying time is always indicated on the packaging or on the jar itself. But more often than not, two minutes is enough.
5. Remove the molds and dry your nails a little more.
6. The base gel can now be applied. Try to spread it out in a small layer, but evenly. Make sure that the gel does not spread and that it lies flat on the plate. To avoid difficulties, the masters do this: they apply the gel to the nail and immediately dry it in a lamp for a short amount of time so that the gel has time to fix. This is done with all fingers. The most important thing is to make the nail as flat as possible. This way you have less work to do when cutting.
7. After the gel is dried, it is necessary to remove the sticky layer from it, using a degreaser (Asseptolin), and a regular nail polish remover can also be suitable for this purpose.
8. The sticky layer has been removed, the time has come for the crucial moment. Now you need to file off the nails and shape them. To make it much easier with this, initially, when laying out the gel, try to already make a small hint of the shape.
9. Having finished with cutting out the shape, you need to degrease your nails again. And you can start designing. It all depends on your imagination.
10. Dry your nails.
11. Now for the final part. Apply Finish Gel to beautiful nails. Dry in a lamp. Remove the sticky layer (if the gel contains it) and nails ready.

How nails are extended: video