Showing posts with label nail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Types of Nail Files

Emery boards are divided into abrasiveness, production material and form.


Abrasiveness


Usually nail file bilateral and each side has its own value abrasive. For example if the numbers 100/180 nail files listed, it means that one side has abrasive nail file 100, and the second 180. The higher the number of abrasive, the harder the nail file. It is important to use a nail file to destination, especially with regard to natural nails. Using the wrong nail files hardness may result in injury or fingernail delamination. To specify the abrasiveness, a special unit "grit."
- 80 grit - Sawing is used to remove the core thickness of the artificial nail for the correction or removal. The toughest sawing. In any case not be used for natural nails.
- 100-180 grit - saws are used to shape the artificial nail in the modeling process. It is also not recommended for natural nails. with the exception of 180 grit, as it can be used for the preparation of the natural nail to capacity.
- 180-240 grit - are used to shape the free edge of the natural nail. Sawing is placed exactly perpendicular to the free edge, sawdust made from the edge to the center in one direction.
- More than 240 grit - it grinders and polishers for natural and artificial nails. used for leveling the surface of the nail and give it a glossy shine.


Material


The most popular are cardboard-based nail files. They have an abrasive substrate having a different abrasive. You need to choose nail files, depending on the purpose for which they are used. Guided information on abrasives, you can choose for yourself the perfect nail file. Pay attention to the fact that such nail file can be cut only in one direction, so as not to provoke the separation of the nail plate. If the nail file is used in the cabin, as a rule such disposable nail file, as not all types of saws are subject to disinfection solutions - abrasive surface can just simply peel off the base. A nail file in the home can be used multiple times. Do not forget to wash and dry after each use a nail file.


Metal nail files can also be used for natural nails. But do not use those same nail file manicure sets from the Soviet Union. They damage the nail plate and provoke separation of the nail plate. Modern metal nail files are surface treated with a laser, which allows care of the nails. These nail files "sealed" the free edge of the nail to prevent delamination. Laser Nail Files can also be used for the treatment of the cuticle and side bolsters in the European manicure.


Glass nail files have similar properties with laser nail file, to the same glass nail files does not necessarily cut the nail in one direction. Their surface allows for "disorderly" movements, and file nails daily


Ceramic nail files have a soft surface and are suitable for the treatment of lateral ridges and cuticles. It is also like a glass seal the free edge of the nail.


Shape

Nail files come in different shapes - straight, boomerang, banana and so on. But the properties of nail files do not depend on its shape. Form - this is just the preference of the owner.





Monday, January 19, 2015

What materials are used for nail?The difference between acrylic and gel. Myths and facts

In the article about the capacity we have examined than the capacity differs from modeling, what forms and tips.

Now I would like to talk about what materials you build/modeling nails.

Today there are two material - acrylic and gel. Someone might say - and how bio-gel? Because they strengthen also increasing! Yes, build up, but is this material to the category of gels. So materials still two - acrylic and gel.

Both material and gel, and acrylic polymers, which belong to the group of acrylates. Both products have a similar structure and differ only in the method of polymerization. So acryl polymerized "in the air", using thermal energy, and the gel is polymerized in the UV lamp, thanks to the added part of photoinitiators.

UV lamp for curing gel no way affects the skin, does not cause sunburn and cancer respectively. The lamp uses a completely different wavelength of ultraviolet light than the sun and does not affect the melanin in the skin. This information is for those who are afraid of the gel, and therefore bio-gel and gel-Polish - NOT DANGEROUS! Dear readers, it's not in the imagination of the author, and the banal physics))))

Why acrylic seems to be stronger than gel? In fact, the fragility of nails not so much from the material depends, how much from properly structured architecture of the artificial nail. But still, even when working with the material feeling is that acrylic is stronger gel. And this, friends, is chemistry. Different crystal lattice of the material. Here and are the myths about the "fragility" and "porosity" of the gel.

And so the myths that through these so-called pores the natural nail breathes... Nowadays I always thought that this myth can be confused brain children, who have not passed the biology course. But it turns out many adults still believe in this story.

Note the matrix is the main part of the N. It is through this area goes to nail the nutrition and oxygen. The part of the nail, which we see (nail plate) - it's dead skin cells! Dead - they do not need, nor power, nor breathing. It is for this, after, for example, poor capacity and/or remove, correct to speak not about the restoration of the damaged nail, but the full update of the nail plate. The so-called damaged part will not be restored in any way! Just crested!

Let us return to our sheep, I mean materials.

The second difference, which actually depends on the composition, it is the consistency of the material.

Gel - "ready-to-eat product, which is immediately applied to the nail and polymerized by exposure to UV rays.

With acrylic, the situation is somewhat different. Before you Cup of liquid (usually volcanica liquid) and the jar of powder. When a certain ratio of the liquid and the powder is formed of a polymeric bead, a master spread on the nail. As polymerization occurs under the influence of heat, then the master must have the skills and speed to maximize ideally put the nail as acrylic compared with the gel difficult subject "police". And of course with the gel you should try to lay out the architecture of the brush, not a file, but to correct the error with the gel easier than acrylic.

Also acrylic nails are often more expensive than gel, but not so much because of the composition, but because of the difficulty of working with the material.

As you can see, the difference in chemical and physical reactions, with the same result - in the hands of a skilled master any material you can create the most natural and masterpiece nails. Good luck with your masters!

A little about the nail. Tips and forms

"Nail" in my opinion the term is controversial. So, when are tips you can talk about the building, because the whole shape of the free edge sets us tips and change we can not do anything. What to change - if, for example, the nail grows down, then when gluing tips we get quite "pull of his hooked" nail and tipson we don't fix it.

Then help us come form. With their form-we can fix any nails and give them a perfect shape. In this case, we are talking not only about growing the free edge, but also the simulation of the ideal form.

Hence, a new term - nail modeling.

What do we get up? The nail is lengthening nail with the help of tips. And nail modeling is the correction of the natural shape of the nail and bringing it up to the ideal form for nail extension.

The modeling technology is much more complex than building on tips. But there is no limit of human possibilities =)

Nail tips.

After standard preparation procedures nails to build up comes the solemn moment of bonding))))

But before that, we need to pick up tips by size for each nail. No more, no less - any deviation from the norm affects the integrity of the architecture of the artificial nail, and consequently on his nakabalot.

Apply glue to the tips on the nail and on the tips. Gently, putting tips at an angle of 45 degrees, stick it to your nail, releasing all the air. After gluing under tipson should be no air bubbles!

Consider the following picture:



1. Photo number 7 - example of correct selection and gluing tips to the nails. Boca tips from one of the sinus to the other, without air bubbles.

2. Next you need to shorten tips to correct length.

3. Definitely cut down type C in the area of its intersection with the natural nail, BUT! Be careful not to saw the natural nail! It has already been prepared and re-processing of files is not needed.!.

4. Matiram the remainder of tips nail file and write the approximate shape the future of the nail.

The nail is ready for the subsequent deposition of material!

Form.

Perfect nail does not happen, but everything can be improved. Forms.

When setting forms consider the following points:

1. No gaps!(Photo By Irina Shakhova)



2. The shape is slightly narrower than the natural nail


3. The basic principles of installation form


The first staging forms for arch forms, as well as for down-growing nails.
The second statement of the form - cabin square, oval
The third production of the form - almonds, stiletto, franlinabrona nails.

4. The following nuances 
- irregular, broad, irregular shape of the natural nail forces the wizard to cut the shape for tight installation to the natural nail. An example of a cutting form under an elongated, oval shape nail with the rampant hyponychium:



- high side bolsters and/or wide of the nail plate



Such nuances lot, under each specific case shape is cut out in its own way. The main thing that she was standing exactly on the axis of the finger, without gaps, already the natural nail (not to get flared or kegs) and most importantly - according to the chosen form of artificial nail. Because if almonds put the form exactly, when viewed from the side will not almonds, and a duck's beak.

What conclusion can be drawn? Forms we can fix any nails and turn them into candy.

And before you will read further, I would like to make you think - is it so harmful and bad building? (Photo and the work of Natalia the Abdullin G. K)

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