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A Well Kept Secret About Artificial Nails

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A Well Kept Secret About Artificial Nails
I have been in the beauty industry for 30 years, and I have done every type of artificial nail technique that has ever been invented. It all started with porcelain nails which emerged into acrylic (a softer form) then there was fiberglass, gel, and more. About a decade or so ago a system emerged which was a combination of acrylic and fiberglass nails.

I found it to be wonderful. If you have ever been in a salon where acrylic nails were being done you will know about the smell, and the dust from the filing.

This system which was developed, (I call my interpretation of it Glazed Nails) uses acrylic powder but instead of using the monomer (acrylic liquid) to cure the powder and harden, it uses a special type of nail resin. It also uses no primer (acids) to make it adhere to the natural nail plate.

The result is that firstly there is no smell. If you have never smelt the monomer (acrylic liquid) then you probably won't appreciate this statement but I guarantee you that these are definitely a step in the right direction. Then there is very little filing because there is very little shaping to be done. Dust from the acrylic nails can be devastating to your health, especially your lungs.

Just recently there has been a huge outcry about the toxicity of acrylic monomers with high levels of MMA which is supposed to be extremely dangerous. I have watched with more than a passing interest and have seen one manufacture of this stuff say that it is not dangerous and another manufacturer say it is deadly. The jury is still out but if you use the Glazed Nail system you need not concern yourself.

This link The Methyl Methacrylate Story will take you to a report where The Vice President of Science and Technology and the Co-Director of Research & Development of two major companies (producers of acrylic nail systems) give their opinion as I have mentioned above.

As I said, I have used every system out there. I had my own beauty school and I taught fiberglass, acrylic and gel nails and I can tell you without fear of contradiction that this system is the easiest and safest yet. I now have a Online Beauty School from which I teach the very same system.

Having said that I have to say that this system has not been widely adopted by the industry and I am at a loss to understand why. It may be that nail techs may not want to learn a new system, but I am not sure why, because the benefits far out-way the few hours one may have to put in to learn it.

It may be that there is a lot less infill's needed, because when the nail grows out the re-growth is a lot less noticeable and clients don't need to return as often. Although I do have client's that come every two weeks to keep their nails looking in top condition, the bulk of my client's would only come once a month and sometimes every 5-6 weeks. Lasts longer - Less money in it for the technician. (You can always take on more clients).It could be that the name and the technique is simply not sexy. I must admit, "Glazed Nails" doesn't sound sexy.

I suspect the reason may be a combination of the above, and that the system is not widely known. I had one of my students tell me that when she ordered the ingredients she needed to do these nails, she was told by the wholesaler that she was wasting her money and she had never heard of it. As I said, Glazed Nails have been around now for over a decade and was brought out in it's original form by Backscratchers, a very well known and well respected company in the artificial nail industry. There is NO excuse for every Beauty Wholesaler out there by now not to know about this system of artificial nails, whether they choose to stock it or not. I suspect that the wholesalers have a vested interest also because this system is far cheaper than acrylic nails (the markup on acrylic nail products is massive).

I would never go back to using acrylic or for that matter even gel and neither would any of my client's, many of whom have been with me for 20 years or more, but you be the judge. I have embedded a YouTube video of me putting on one of these nails. Have a look and see how easy it is.

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