How To Build Apex On Acrylic Nails

Apex placementCentre of the extended nail bed the longer the enhancement the further back towards the cuticle the apex is Upper arch angleStraight out from apex to free edge.

How to build apex on acrylic nails. Place a third bead closer to the cuticle and blend. Freeze the look before turning the hand over for a full cure. When you encapsulate your nails youll only use a little bit of the colour and build up the nail using clear.

HOW TO SHAPE NAILS httpsyoutubeVxaCUTITE1k Brush. Start with the first bead right in the middle and blend out but leave the majority of that product in the middle at the. ¾ of the way up the nail extending almost all the way to the sides.

Straight out from apex to free edge. Float in the body of the nail with the builder gel of your choice and turn the hand upside down says Greg Salo president of Young Nails. 13 of enhancement Upper arch angle.

Establish a foundation layer of gel. BallerinaTapered Square Apex placement. Now JJ has been our model hundreds of times so I thought to myself if she doe.

To create a C-curve you need to make the acrylic thicker down the center of the nail which you can check by looking down the barrel of the nail from the tip to the cuticle says Peters. Again try to practice building the apex without filing. Remove the shine and prep the nail carefully removing any dead tissue and contaminates.

Here Gina Silvestro of Gel Essentialz in Cranston RI demonstrates how to make a symmetrical apex using gel for a standard pink-and-white look. Upper arch anglestraight down from apex towards the free edge. ¾ of the way up the nail.