How To Build Apex On Acrylic Nails

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.

How to build apex on acrylic nails. Straight out from apex to free edge. 13 of enhancement Upper arch angle. The most popular apex method consists of 5 layers only.

THE PERFECT ACRYLIC APPLICATION Building an Apex Acrylic Nail Tutorial. Gravity will do its job and pull the product into place. When you encapsulate your nails youll only use a little bit of the colour and build up the nail using clear.

Use a larger bead in zone two and press lightly from side to side leaving the center relatively high. Freeze the look before turning the hand over for a full cure. 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.

Apr 13 2018 - Young Nails head of education Tracey Reierson demonstrates how to properly build an apex and arch using acrylic. Pick up a ball of builder gel. Gently roll the gel off the brush and onto the nail where you want the apex over the stress area.

Then place a second bead closer to the tip and use the very end of the brush to very gently blend towards the tip. Straight out from apex to free edge. ¾ of the way up the nail extending almost all the way to the sides.

Picture 1 If you apply slight pressure on the free edge a faded area will appear midway down the nail and that is where the apex should go for maximum strength. Now JJ has been our model hundreds of times so I thought to myself if she doe. For longer extensions move the apex forward slightly toward the tip to add extra strength.