How To Apply Gel Polish Like a Pro

Aug 24, 2023

How To Apply Gel Polish Like a Pro

Suzie shares her pro secrets on how to Apply Gel Polish, why Gel Polish sometimes wrinkles - and how to avoid it!

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Content

0.98 -> Hi! I'm Suzie.

1.78 -> I want to show you how to do a gel polish application

5.02 -> like a pro.

6.08 -> Let's get started.

12.42 -> When I first began in nails, it was just polish.

15.78 -> Now we have the invention of gel polish.

18.44 -> It's fantastic. It's revolutionized the industry.

21.54 -> So today I'm going to show you a few tips on how to get it right.

24.4 -> It's a little tricky.

25.76 -> It seems kinda easy because, you know, you just polish it and go,

29.02 -> but there's a few tricks to putting it on.

34.26 -> So when you're doing natural nails, you want to prepare the nail

37.2 -> by using a file

38.38 -> and buffing it up.

39.76 -> Very quickly, just buffing up the natural nail, making sure you get every little bit of it,

45.46 -> taking away the dust.

47.64 -> And then you want to use a prep.

49.7 -> And you just paint it on like this. I'll show you.

51.84 -> These have acrylic on here so I'm going to be polishing acrylic nails for you,

55.2 -> but I just want to give you a quick run down on natural.

61.579 -> Then you would put the primer on. This is

66.09 -> for natural nail preparation, okay?

70.06 -> Now for acrylic or gel, when you're

71.84 -> putting it on top of that, you don't need

72.979 -> to do that so much. Gel really sticks to

77.27 -> acrylic and gel quite nicely. Okay, so,

80.84 -> here's my gel I'm going to use. You don't

83.299 -> have to shake this stuff. This stuff is

85.07 -> highly pigmented. It's really good stuff.

86.75 -> I naturally want to shake it, as you know,

88.43 -> I like to shake things, but this stuff is

90.59 -> highly pigmented so you don't have to

91.789 -> shake it. When I'm taking it out of the bottle --

93.74 -> this is really important -- when you're

95.24 -> taking it out of the bottle, you want to

97.28 -> scrape it off of the post.

99.49 -> You don't want running into you. You want to

102.02 -> put this stuff on pretty thin, and you

104.3 -> want to take it off half the other side

106.13 -> of the post, and off the other side of

108.74 -> the brush. Completely off of that side,

112.1 -> and a little bit off of that side, okay?

115.34 -> and it's much like, if you see my polish

117.289 -> application videos, you don't want to

118.97 -> take your little brush and put it right

120.59 -> down at the cuticle and start, you want

123.08 -> to kind of move up a little bit. Now this

126.35 -> stuff's... it kind of sticks to where it

128.06 -> goes. With polish, you kind of want to go

129.59 -> one smooth swoop. This is a little bit

131.93 -> more forgiving, this stuff. You can go

134.54 -> like this. You can also take your time,

137.48 -> unless you're sitting under a natural

139.28 -> source or natural light is coming in the

141.109 -> window, where the UV's can cure it, you

143.75 -> don't have to worry about that. You can

144.709 -> just take your time. So do take your time

147.489 -> You want to get every little bit.

151.9 -> We put it on quite thin. Gel polish

156 -> doesn't like to go and thick, and for

157.769 -> a professional touch, don't forget to tip

159.569 -> that end. This method I'm using is called

162.09 -> capping the free edge. Now if you do get

166.65 -> some on the side, just like nail polish,

167.91 -> do take it off. Do the application

171.18 -> process quite thin

177.84 -> You can go sideways. You really want to get down in there. You can go

181.26 -> like this all over. You can go like this.

182.88 -> You can't really do that with polish.

194.78 -> And don't forget to tip the end. Sometimes I will

198.36 -> tip all the ends first, and then go in

202.379 -> and do it.

202.91 -> Because sometimes you can leave a bit of

205.47 -> a ridge, and then if you go this end... Like

208.23 -> you can see a little bit of a ridge

209.36 -> there. Whereas you can take that away.

217.7 -> Sometimes too... I'll show you more with the ---

219.93 -> with the cream one that I'm going to

221.13 -> show you, you'll be a little more finicky.

224.6 -> But take your time in doing this.

230.96 -> You can see it a little bit on the

233.04 -> cuticle there, so I'm going to take this

235.29 -> cuticle stick. The reason why we want to

237.72 -> take that away and take it off the skin,

239.31 -> it will actually cure to the skin. It

242.88 -> won't stay very long. The oils in your

244.68 -> skin will sort of deflect it off.

249.78 -> You want to do this quite thin so it cures

252.08 -> quite well.

262.26 -> So then I'm going to cure this in here,

268.8 -> and this is an LED lab. This goes with

269.96 -> the Max Estrada product. Each

272.03 -> manufacturer will have different

273.14 -> instructions. This requires, and it says

275.39 -> right on the bottle, two minutes under a

277.25 -> UV lamp, and his instructions say 60

280.31 -> seconds in an LED. Every company can be

283.04 -> different so you want to read your

284.03 -> manufacturers directions. They have the

286.28 -> best information what they want you to

287.6 -> do. Okay, so, I do want to show you this:

290.5 -> Ugly Duckling just came up with this

292.52 -> beautiful color. I want to show you

294.32 -> something that's interesting. I often do

297.47 -> the thumb separately because sometimes,

300.83 -> if you're especially if you're getting a

302.39 -> color like this -- this is a beautiful

304.01 -> color -- but I want to show you something.

307.34 -> Now I'll show you how to put this one on.

309.26 -> Particularly when you put this guy on,

311.18 -> you can see it's a bit thicker

312.95 -> consistency. When you put it on you

315.23 -> gotta really coax it in there.

325.06 -> It's a bit different because it's so

327.29 -> much thicker in consistency because

328.94 -> it's really highly pigmented so it's

331.07 -> trying to make it very good coverage. You

332.69 -> could almost do it in one coat.

339.14 -> A few years ago, I was finding some. Even some

341.3 -> of the brands out there now they will

342.68 -> have a shrink

343.88 -> aspect to them. You put them on, and it

346.25 -> pulls away literally from the cuticle.

348.02 -> Very frustrating. These high-end products

351.11 -> here, particularly these two brands, do

353.12 -> not do that. Some I've worked with in the past

355.25 -> do, but I find this this company and

358.25 -> Max's doesn't do that. And it is really a

361.49 -> pleasure to work with because it

363.53 -> actually remains where you put it. I'm

366.95 -> going to put this on the end. Now when I

371.66 -> cure this I actually try to do it -- I keep

375.2 -> my thumb up. I keep it up like this in

377.81 -> the light. If I keep it on the side,

380.45 -> the polish, especially a little bit thicker

381.979 -> like this, because its high pigment, will

383.96 -> pool on the side, and that's very

386.479 -> upsetting because when you pull it out,

387.77 -> and it doesn't cure. It's pooled, and it's all

390.11 -> mushy when you remove the sticky layer.

393.729 -> Okay, so, what I want to show you is I'm

396.53 -> actually going to put it on too thick to

398.21 -> show you what it looks like when it

399.5 -> wrinkles.

402.88 -> If you put your gel polishes on too

405.29 -> thick, and it's easy to do sometimes with

406.88 -> the creams because they have such a

408.98 -> thicker consistency, and you're trying to

410.39 -> get the density of color. If you apply it

412.64 -> too thick and try to cure it, you can

414.98 -> wrinkle really bad, and I want to show

416.81 -> you what that looks like. So I'm actually

419.93 -> going to apply it too thick.

424.54 -> This is certainly not a reflection on Ugly

426.5 -> Duckling at all! I love their product! I'm

428.63 -> simply using it for a demo. If it's too

430.91 -> thick, it just wrinkles.

437 -> Ugly Duckling recommends 90 seconds in a UV and 45

441.34 -> seconds in an LED.

445.9 -> Okay, so, take a look at that. It's starting to pit, and it's kind

450.26 -> of wavy. And it's not curing because

453.23 -> it's too thick. Just proving that gel

455.84 -> needs to go on relatively thin. Okay, so,

458.419 -> I'm going to show you what that looks

459.47 -> like when you try to remove it. It's a mess. This

462.26 -> is why you don't want it to happen it.

463.61 -> Because it really is pain. So spray some alcohol on

465.86 -> my pad here, and I now I'm trying to

467.81 -> remove the sticky. And when you see it...

471.41 -> See how it comes off like that?

472.79 -> That's not obviously cured. Just trying to

475.85 -> show you mistakes. What it looks like,

477.23 -> right? And you can see that this: you rub

479.9 -> it a little bit harder it'll literally

482.24 -> just... you can see that first layer... See

484.58 -> that? Look at that!

486.62 -> It's just wrinkling right off.

488.649 -> That is under-cured. [Camera Guy] That's some (inaudible). You gotta fix that.

493.119 -> [Suzie] (giggles) Okay, well, see if I can show you this?

496.189 -> Okay so I'm going to get a course file.

498.529 -> And what you have to do is, like I say

501.619 -> you can soak it in acetone or a gel soak

505.039 -> off remover, and do that for about ten

508.639 -> minutes, or if you're impatient like me, you can

511.699 -> file it off, and like I say, you can file

515.449 -> it smooth and try to paint it on again.

518.42 -> But if you see... See those little edges there?

520.86 -> If you have any little thing

522.829 -> underneath there, little dust or ridges,

524.63 -> of any sort, that's what can happen.

526.339 -> You'll see that through it. You don't

528.649 -> want that. You want to make sure that the

530.3 -> nail is not smooth, like super smooth,

533.81 -> because you don't want the gel polish to

535.279 -> chip. It has to be a little grit

536.87 -> there for the polish to adhere to. So we

539.24 -> do want to file this off though. What I'm

541.819 -> saying is we can't get away with

543.17 -> salvaging this as much as I'd like to so

546.11 -> we don't waste any time. You really got

549.529 -> to file it off. This is when you really

554.54 -> need a course file.

558.9 -> So I filed this all

560.06 -> off, and I'm going to paint in layer.

568.74 -> And don't forget to do the tip, okay?

573.019 -> And this is when I sort of do it like this

575.36 -> angle a little bit so it doesn't pool on

577.04 -> the side to get that thickness. Okay. For

581.329 -> a little bit of a different look, you can

582.47 -> do on the matte, either in French style or

585.98 -> on an angle, or anything you want for

587.48 -> that matter. We'll just quickly show you.

589.01 -> Just adds a little dimension to it. Just

591.58 -> for a little bit of fun.

597 -> Okay, and you just nuke it, and you don't

601.869 -> see the effect until you take the

603.219 -> alcohol and remove the sticky layer off it.

605.349 -> Then you see the effect. Okay so

609.249 -> I'm just going to take my alcohol, and

611.799 -> just remove that, and you'll just see the

614.08 -> matte take effect.

617.5 -> (giggles)

619.52 -> So if your client sit

620.769 -> really still when you're getting the gel

622.419 -> application done, if you move a little

624.309 -> bit it might go into the cuticle, and

625.509 -> once you get into the cuticle, it's

626.709 -> really hard to get it out of there. And

628.089 -> if your nail technician just take your

629.859 -> time and hold that finger steady. She

632.319 -> can't get away on you. Okay, let's get a

634.749 -> little reveal of those.

642.42 -> So if you're polishing your nails with gel polish

644.439 -> yourself, I hope that gives you a few

646.179 -> tips to make it just a little bit more

648.069 -> easier to do.

648.92 -> Okay, thanks for watching,

650.049 -> and I'll see you in the next video

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXiFSv8cC48