Do they work for you? What's your favourite one? Essie Smooth-e amzn.to/2QH604M American Classics- Bridge The Ridge bit.ly/3grIfZc OPI Infinite Shine- Ridgefiller Primer bit.ly/2RV1Ir9 CND RidgeRX bit.ly/3sDAQsn Vitry- Ridgefilling BB Base amzn.to/3auvBoG Dior Diorlisse Ridge Filler amzn.to/3tJsHE4 Dazzle Dry Transform bit.ly/3au6l1M Discount Codes: Beyond Polish USA (5% off regular prices)- TheSalonLife Erica ATA (10% off bits, bit kits and files)- TheSalonLife Dazzle Dry (20% off)- TheSalonLife20
Ive read many reviews that Essie can yellow your nails. I used it once & found it to be true. Plus it took two coats to fill my ridges. I liked the polish, but with 2 coats my nails were too creamy & the white part did not stand out. If you use a color every time its not a problem, but I prefer a simple natural look or french manicure.
Since the 80s, my favorite "no manicure manicure look" is a matte ridge filler. I've used many different brands, but L'Oréal was the first, and it just left such a nice sheen that looked great on men or women - I used to take it to school and do male friend's nails. If you have ridged nails but don't want to use a ridge filler, 1)DO NOT BUFF THE RIDGES AWAY! The ridges are the strong part, and the valleys are where less nail material is growing, and 2) textured polishes (sands, glitters, satins, etc.) disguise ridges better than matte cremes.
I agree so much with your comment. I also find that ridgy nails look actually kind of folded or corrugated. So filing the “ridge” we file all the nail we have in that area sometimes
I have ridges on my nails. Recently, I used Essie-Smooth-e, based on your video. I did it twice. Two coats each time, under my Essie nail polish. When I removed the nail polish after the second time of using Essie Smooth-e (I always keep the polish only for one week, remove, and wait a few days before applying polish again), my nails were pretty badly damaged, with some peeling tips. I love your very informative videos, but felt I should alert you to this. I cut my nails short and I’m using oil and Keratin RXx until my nails grow back.
I will deny it in public because I know the rules (😜) but I have been using the DD ridge filler Transform over other lines of base coats and under other brands of polishes and it has been very effective with my problem, old lady nails 😏
I use this Essie for most manicures (I love Essie!) and it dries super fast. We are limited to what we can purchase locally in polishes, so this is definitely my go to. My fav, are the Expressie polishes, especially for pedicures! I love OPI colours but I find they take too long to dry (I’m not the worlds most patient tech!) Love the videos you guys do!
I have a ton of ridges and the Essie does wonders for me, particularly if I want to use a colorful nail polish after. For some reason it makes the next coat of color adhere to the base so well that it doesn't migrate in my ridges, that's such a nice ridge filler! 10/10 recommend
I've found that the best ridgefilling base out there isn't marketed as such - in fact, it's hard to say what it is supposed to be for. It's American Classics Gelous, sold at Sally's, with the green top. It self-levels amazingly! They just call it a "gel coat." It is also great as glitter food. I was checking out DD transform but geez, FOUR coats of base?? Cripes, that seems excessive.
I use Dazzle Dry transform and I love it. I find the extra 2 layers and a little more dry time well worth it for smoothing and longevity of my at-home mani but I’m not a professional.
I use dazzle dry at home and I find the ridge filler is necessary because the polish isn't as 'plush' as others. That being said I don't let the polish dry for 5 minutes, just till it's matte. It lasts very well and because the rest of the dazzle dry system is so quick, it still takes less time than a regular polish manicure!
I have ridges and find two coats of basically any basecoat, and then two of the polish and top coat do pretty well at hiding them. I do have a ridge filler called Barielle that's, well, okay. Seems like your sheer polishes would be good to test these with. Thank you for the video!
I’ve recently dipped my toes into those (have some decently ridgey nails) and the one I got (Holo Taco, indie) did very well, managed to cover a giant one I had very nicely for a multichrome. The one downside I found with it is how beige it is- with the multichrome and more opaque polishes (though it generally doesn’t matter for those in me because I always have at least one glitter layer, that’s how I kinda cheat) it was fine but it’s not so nice for the sheer ones. Especially because the beige coloration isn’t always even. It conflicts a bit with my recent fascination over the sheer pinks and sheer pinky whites- even if the coloration is even it’s still beige enough to slightly change the color over it. For this reason I think I like the Essie because it’s one-coat and clear for those sheer colors. Makes sense given they make a lot of those. For somebody who already does four-five coats (bass coat, 2 coats color, sometimes a thin glitter layer, topcoat) dazzle dry is a bit much.
Very good points you made! I'm also not a fan of those beige shades, they make the nails look dirty in my opinion. We should test the ridge fillers again with sheer colors. And you are right, the milky ones often settle into the ridges and with sheer shades that would make it look more streaky too.
I definitely know from personal experience that if you use the wide from from Holo Taco with Smoothing Base, it behaves a lot better than with their skinny brush. Then again, I'm also decently new to polishing so that can factor in.
I'm so late finding these great videos! I have awful ridges. I tried Nail Tek Strengthener 2 and then Ridge Filler 2 over that and it gave a good result. Waiting for my Barielle Hydrating Ridge Filler to arrive to see how it works. It has a lot of good reviews. After watching this I'll probably try the Essie. Thanks for this video!
The Essie smooth-e base coat works for me. I usually do two layers of ridge filter but I understand that extra time can add up in a salon setting. I would not have the patience for the double base, ridge filter and another base coat so dazzle dry would make me nuts.
As a novice nail polisher. Transform helps me apply the DD much easier plus gives me more strength. Although I never put another base coat over it and it has worked fine
Yes, that used to be the old protocol (and 10 minute dry before color application) and it does work with majority of colors but some colors were cracking or peeling or something over it. So they changed it to 5 min dry, base and color coats...
Thanks guys... This was a great video! Soooo many of us out here have wondered if ridge fillers even work! I loved the idea of trying them under that gorgeous yellow from the recent swatch! Maybe that would be easier for Mr. Model aka "well aaiiiii wasn't wrong..." to wear for a day or two! Thanks again 💜
I always use ridge fillers. They work very well for me. I have ridges on my nails and the ridge fillers always make the polish look much more even and nice. Ridge fillers hide my ridges. I do the Ana Seidel’s, owner of My Bliss Kiss, Fab Five Wrap. You do two coats of a ridge filler with the fab Five Wrap. As a side note, Ana Seidel is also a student/fan of Doug Schoon. She makes wonderful products, especially her hydrating oil. (She doesn’t call it a cuticle oil because you hydrate your proximal nail fold 😀.) I think I heard you say it takes around 30 minutes to do a regular mani on natural nails. I could be remembering that all wrong. I wore acrylics for 15 years and went to the salon every two weeks. It usually took 60+ minutes for a regular fill. I would do a soak off a new set every once in a while and that took a couple of hours (30-45 minutes just to soak them off). So getting a manicure on natural nails and it only lasting 30 minutes or so seems like a very short time to me. Even if the ridge fillers added 10 minutes, that seems like a short time to me. Now that I do my own nails, an hours seems like a short time. I am very slow at doing my own nails. I have not learned to paint in the lines yet. I watch in awe and envy at how good you are at polishing only the nails and only rarely getting a tiny bit on the skin. It’s my opinion that the ridge fillers are worth the extra time it takes for the polish to look even and beautiful. I sit for 90 minutes getting my hair done. Sitting for 45-60 minutes getting my nails done wouldn’t bother me at all. As a client, I wouldn’t care about it taking an extra 10 minutes it would take to use a ridge filler and have the polish look smooth and even. I would make an appointment for when I had the time to sit there longer. I would rather spend the extra 10 minutes so my polish would look smooth. I would not like it at all if the ridges showed. In total honesty and not out of meanness or being nasty, if I got a manicure from a nail tech and walked out with my ridges showing without being offered the option of a ridge filler, I would probably not be going back. I tend to be a perfectionist, though. One of the things I loved and miss about acrylics is the perfection. If nothing else, I’d at least like to have 1 layer of a ridge filler versus 1 layer of a regular base coat. I also would not use a polish without a base coat. I also admit to not wanting to be charged more money because I got unlucky in the genetics pool and don’t have nice nails, but do understand a nail tech charging more for the extra time. Some of the polishes I have seen you swatch do not require a base coat at all. Do nail techs charge less if the client picks a polish that doesn’t require a base coat since that is less time? I have never had a manicure on natural nails, so I have no clue if they charge more for a mani taking more time and less for a mani taking less time. I haven’t used Dazzle Dry and due to skin sensitivities, I am afraid to try any kind of different nail product other than regular polish. Having to have 4 layers applied before the colored lacquer is applied seems like a lot even to me. It’s a good thing Dazzle Dry fully dries so fast, because a mani with regular polish might take forever to dry with four layers of base, two of the colored lacquer, and a top coat. Some polishes even take 3 coats to get full opacity, so that would be 8 layers of polish! Wow! If I wanted to wear Dazzle Dry. I would wear the Transformer because I’d rather have the four layers then have my ridges showing. I usually use OPI Nail Envy and 2 layers of a sticky ridge filling base coat from Vibrant Vinyls. On a related note, do you ever wonder why they are called ridge fillers, when they are actually filling in the groove of the nail to be more the level of the ridge? The ridges are the high point, the grooves are the low point and ridge fillers are filling in the grooves. Ana Seidel said something about that once. I thought she had a good point. I only know of one polish maker who names her ridge filler correctly-KbShimmer named hers filling Groovy, 😂😂
Hi Sherri! There is a huge difference between acrylic application and simple manicure. There are many ways of doing services and many different type of consumers. You can't compare DIY protocol to a salon protocol. As a one woman show I had to pick one type of client and cater to them. My clientele are busy business woman/business owners usually who come for services during the day (I work 9-5 M-F). They want services done right, clean and fast. They don't want to wait, so it's by appointment only and I'm always on time. My studio is not a spa where people come to relax. So the services are short, to the point with no frills. I sometimes get this from viewers "I would never go to a place that doesn't do any foot massage" etc. Well, that's why there are many spas out there already. I found a niche that works for me and my clients and there is no way you can please everyone :) I had 2 types of polish manicures for a while called: - 30 min mani (this was with Vinylux, dry mani, quick polish and Solar Speed Spray) $25 - Full mani (45 min, dry mani, traditional polish, hand massage) $40 I don't think anyone picked the full mani, people only booked the 30 min mani so that stayed on the Menu. My Dazzle Dry manicures take about 35-40 min and I book 45 min. $40-$45 My CND Shellac manicures take 50-55 min and I book 1 hour. $55-$60 Pedicures take me about 45-50 min and I book 1 hour $60-$65 I asked clients if they want a pedicure with a massage and scrub 1:15 min and $75 and very few are interested. For the sake of business like mine it's very important so be very efficient with time. I can run boring numbers (my hobby lol) but stretching the service to 75 min and only charging for 60 min would be a total disaster to a business. Measly 15 minutes per appointment and instead of 8 pedicures a day you can now only do 6. 2 hours unpaid per day. That's almost 12 unpaid weeks a year. Let me be honest with you, not many will say that but there is no money in nails. Very little. I can't afford to employ people. No-one will be interested in working in this industry for less than 50K, I had aestheticians straight of out school hoping for 60K a year. As for the prices. They seem high... but in this town (I think this is the most expensive town in Canada, seriously) everything is expensive. Small commercial locations on the Main Street go for 10K a month (that's basic lease plus all the extras which makes it double) An average house here is I think about 2 million. I don't think you can find anything for under 1 million. I rent LOL. I wrote about business and money on my blog once. It's an eye opener. www.polished.ca/the-price-of-luxury/ PS. All the nail dedicated places I know after 1 year in business realize that they have to branch out to other services because nails/pedicures don't cut it. Back in a day when I started 25 years ago salons used to retail and that's how you made money. The money was in a retail, not services. Just like restaurants don't really make money from food, but from alcohol sales. Nowadays everyone shops online from Amazon. Single operators like me and so many booth rentals/studio salons cannot keep a proper stock of products to retail properly. They are usually not on the main street anymore (too $$$) and by appointment only so no walk ins. That stream of income totally dried up. PS.2. A basic haircut in this town costs about $100. Takes about 30-40 min? Color is usually over $100 as well. Takes about 1 hour but during processing time they usually fit in another haircut there. Haircut at a barbershop here is a $35 (cash only) and it takes about 15-20 min?
Dazzle Dry is a regular polish and it has apparently no reactive ingredients. I think it would be less reactive than regular polish. That's what they claim, I'm not a chemist :) I agree with the ridge fillers, it should be groove fillers :) Doug Schoon talks about it too.
@@TheSalonLife Hi Anna! That all makes complete sense. Thank you for explaining! It does make sense to me to charge based on the amount of time it takes to do the service. I fully understand about prices of things varying depending on where you live. I was a Navy wife for 15 years, my ex did 23 total. Along with other places, we lived in Hawaii twice and the California Bay Area 3 times. One time we lived on Treasure Island. The San Francisco Bay Bride goes right through Yerba Buena and Treasure Island is attached to it. The prices in both Hawaii and the Bay Area are all a lot more expensive than where I live now. I live about 300+ miles north of San Francisco and it is much smaller. Everything in S. F. is really expensive. I am sure that there are probably a lot of cheap nail salons in S. F. but they wouldn’t be good ones at all. I stopped getting my nails done when I lived on T. I. Reason is that I couldn’t find a good salon. I have no clue what a manicure cost because I have actually never had one. I last had my nails done November of 2014. I had my acrylics removed December 2, 2014. The prices then for acrylics was $30 for a fill and $60 for a full set. There were other places that were a lot cheaper, but I would never go to a cheap salon. If the products the nail techs use are the good ones, the ones they should use, they are expensive. A good nail tech is not making a tons of money or even really good money. There are a lot of products nail techs have to buy and those are all expensive. Hair cuts and colors in San Francisco are really high. They were high in Hawaii too. I can’t remember the prices but a lot more than they are where I live now. Here a cut and color and style is usually around $100. I know the hair techs make some money though. My daughter’s friend is a hair tech and I went to her a couple of times before she turned out to be flaky. One time during lock down, when she couldn’t keep an appointment, she got me professional color and developer and my daughter applied it. Well, the color was exactly what she uses and cost less than $10. The big bottle of developer and a box of color cost $15.00. I had no idea that hair techs paid so little for the hair coloring products. Your housing prices are really high. They are in the same range as S. F. You can’t even buy a house in S. F. unless you are a millionaire. Where I live, houses are a lot cheaper. The average price for a house similar to what I live in now is $300,000. We paid $145,000 in around 2000, so prices have gone up in the last several years. Our house is around 1700 square feet with a nice backyard and a good neighborhood. Housing prices are going up here because people are moving up here from the Bay Area. I won’t even go into how a lot of us from here feel about that other than to say we don’t like it at all. Thank you for the information about Dazzle Dry! I like the idea of how quickly it dries so I may try it.
I do have ridges in my nails and I do my own manicures. A few of my ridges are very prominent and benefit from 2 coats of product. Where I fill I really need a ridge filler is when I wear creame finish polish. Right now I'm using OPIs ridge filler. I like it's matte finish. Sometimes when I re-do my manicure I remove, file, groom, apply base & 2 coats of ridge filler on one day. Add polish color & top coat on the next day.
I use DD 2 base coats, 2 coats of Transform, a third base coat, the two color coats and the top coat. It takes time, but it looks amazing, lasts 2 weeks and my nails are really strong. Well worth the time!
Because we wanted to use a color he would actually wear for 1-2 days. The true test on how the polish looks texture wise is at least 24 hours when all the solvents dry completely.
I went “polish-free” for 6 months because of gel polish damage and my nails grew out healthy. Then I used essie smooth-e for a few months and suddenly they’re peeling horribly, worse than when I was using gel polish. I have recently switched to DD, hoping for goid results.
So excited to see you doing a ridge filler video! I'm currently doing testing on lots of ridge fillers to find the best in all the land. So far, I've tested about 20 of them and I'll probably test more. I've got my testing notes and results in a shared Google sheet. Would you like me to send you the link at the email address in the About section? I'd be happy to share. I'd post it here, but it's not ready for prime time yet.
Interested to see that the CND product did well. I looked into purchasing it for my testing, but it seems really hard to get and what few reviews exist for the product are not positive ones. Given what you know about the formulas CND uses, do you think that the CND product would work well as a base coat under a wide variety of polish brands? Ideally the product that wins my testing will be one that is compatible with more or less everything.
I have bad ridges, and have found that no matter which ridge filler I use, I get better adherence and smoother look if I use a base coat first. Then, I need two coats of filler.
I like to wear my manicure as long as possible, however, I've found that manicures I do using ridge filling base coats don't last as long as they do when I use my favorite base coat. Perhaps you could do a wear test using these.
Great tip! I will try doing a wear test if I can find a patient model who would mind wearing the same color for 7 weeks ;) The less variables the better. Same person, same nails, same color, same amount of time.
If you keep nail polish in the fridge at lasts for years and stays fresh.....dosn't thicken. I have been doing this for years and it works for me. Hope that helps.
From chemists who develop nail polish I know that polish should not be kept in the fridge. It should be kept away from the light and in room temperature and closed tightly with the lid clean (to get a tight seal). That’s how the polish doesn’t get exposed to air. There is nothing in a nail polish that spoils really in room temperature.
Can you tell us, what caused the ridges on nails ? I use OPI nail envy strengthener, it's not for the ridges, but does the good job, as well as the top coat, both somehow smooth the surface of the nail.
Some people have ridges, that's the beauty of their nails. Sometimes horizontal ridges be cause by trauma or sickness but I don't think that's the case
l went from super smooth healthy nails to super deep thin ridgey brittle nails from a vegan diet. When I went back to eating meat they have slowly improved 70% over 4 years, with the rest of the damage seems to be permanent. So in my case it was inadequate nutrition. I have to eat high animal protein now.
I have an actual deep crack running horizontally from sidewall to sidewall. I was getting the nail enhancement caught and banging into things since my pinky and ring finger are messed up from ulnar nerve entrapment/ cubit tunnel syndrome. The last 2 digits of the left hand resemble a claw of sorts and I can't move them. quite painful and numb at the same time. Waiting for the orthopedic appointment. Anyways I had to cut the nail off and all the other ones because it's only making it worse. I would love to apply some builder gel over the crack and glue it back together but that is probably the last thing I should do, so im just keeping it clean, free of product other than a bit of cuticle oil further up the nail and generally keeping it out of the way as the inability to mobilize the 2 fingers renders my hand basically useless. at this point its beyond a hand derp, its like a zombie hand. the finger with the injured nail still has good circulation, so it will heal so long as I don't screw it up with products. if I were to put any pressure on the non existent free edge of the nail, the crack would widen into a deep crevasse and likely even bleed. just to give an idea of the extent of nail trauma. if this nail takes a turn for the worse im off to my Derm, stat. I just figure they will give me some more of that topical antibiotic stuff which I still have from the last time I was there a few months ago. I may use a tiny dab of it if my Derm recommends it. ill ask her.
my pinky nail. its like a slice across down to the nailbed. it was just the stupid artificial nail getting banged up and caught on things that tore it. it has not bled at all, though.
Would it be ok to use the Essie ridge filler with the other Dazzle Dry products? I thought you said in a recent report that Dazzle Dry works as a system to keep the color from discoloring the nails. Or do you prefer the CND polishes? I have some very ridgey nails. I hope you answer this, considering this is an old video. I appreciate that you demonstrated all these products. Thank you.
Hello there :) Yes, DD is used as a full system. I once applied DD color over another base because I just wanted to quickly swatch it and it totally cracked. Like right away like those cracking polishes lol. It's a very different chemistry. It's main benefit is that the system is nitrocellulose free so it doesn't stain nails yellow. Here is more info on how and why nitrocellulose stains nails bit.ly/3QSkU2O
@@TheSalonLife so even though their ridge filler is inconvenient to use, you have to use it with their polish? Would discourage me from using the brand after I saw all you went through to use it.
I'm a bit dubious bout ridge fillers ..I have quite corrugated nails which I put down to genetics I find a good base coat then colour tgen top coat lessen the ridges but its somthing I've never thought of using really
It's interesting, when it comes to ridges I always think more about texture, not the look. The look is then more streaky issue than ridges. We both figured that creme color would show the texture of the nail surface better.... We will do another video with sheer colors. To be honest I don't think any Ridgefiller will be able to hide the visible ridges and texture ridges. You would need to do multiple coats and dry them in between I think...
Ive been struggling with my vertical nail ridges for years. What would you recommend to hide the appearance, its a pretty big insecurity of mine. Always trying to hide my nails and not let them be seen by anyone. Im a male, 18, i dont want anything that will dry too shiny, if any. Thank you
Hey Alonelyy, As someone with super ridgy nails, I feel you. For me, they run both vertically and horizontally. I haven't found too much in the way of ridge fillers that created a night and day difference. The ones we used in this video did lessen the look but not enough to warrant purchasing, IMO. There is the gel route, but it isn't something I recommend. Sorry, we couldn't be more help. All the best - MSL
I love your video, so glad I found you. I have a problem nail, that after watching this and looking at my nails it is really bad. Thank you I am going to really look and try products .
Honestly… I think it should be compared like you did the Dazzle… using the entire system, base, color and top… with a very streaky soft white/nude pink type color, just food for thought.
Would you do this again with no color? I'd like to know how each cover the ridges/damage? How many coats needed & the look after a clear polish? I'm looking for a base ridge filler that does not make my nails milky because I like to do a quick natural look manicure. Would you also use nails with different degrees of damage. I will donate for your time. Tyvm
I think all the ridge fillers are milky because the ingredient that makes them ridgefillers is milky. Generally I don't recommend nail polish on damaged nails because that can cause even more damage bit.ly/3tyghEd
I would be interested to see this test with a white or very light polish like Funny Bunny etc, as my ridges don’t notice under medium or dark colours. But light ones are where it’s gets frustrating.
My experience with CND is mixed: no question, it goes on smoothly and easily, and it Looks great. But, using only CND from base to its luscious top coat, I find that after a few days, it just peels off my nails in one sheet. Any idea why this may happen?
Hi there! There could be several reasons why CND Shellac peels. Most common is that incorrect lamp is used. Here is a video where I explain other causes 10 Reasons Why Shellac Chips & Peels. [ANNA'S NAIL ADVICE] th-cam.com/video/trUaX-8Idyw/w-d-xo.html
I don't use Orly really. Just odds and ends. I used Cutique (their cuticle remover) for years and I really liked it. Now I prefer Blue Cross but I do dry manicures in the salon mostly.
They recommend using a full line from Dazzle Dry and I do agree. It's very different product and you won't get full benefits (like their line is super gentle on the nails, doesn't cause white spots or yellowing)
Cnd is thick from start and have the color urs is its very Hard to Apply but have won alot of prices i personal think its Hard to Apply but when u figure it out is worth it.... My nails Are worse than ur hubby
#thesalonlife in your professional opinion which is the most appropriate Arylic powders for beginners that are high quality products but affordable?? I am a student Nail technician who has kinda got a bit brand happy because I saw and believed in the word of the utubers that were hyping the brand up not realising that there paid to say that there the best thing since slice bread
Hi there :)) I would pick a quality line you will be working with. L&P system takes time to learn and get used to if you use something to learn with you will have to re-learn again if you switch lines. Here I made a video about 10 pro acrylic lines. I would say YN, NSI, Harmony are reputable brands. Stick with a full line and learn from the line’s educators. Contact the company for help if you need to. The only thing I would advise you- don’t work too wet. Don’t get swayed by how cool it looks. Too much liquid vs. powder is asking for allergies. If someone is showing you to wipe skin around the nails with a monomer soaked brush- RUN!
Hi, I 've seen online the most beautiful nail polish it's called The Gell Bottle - Teddy. Unfortunately it's not available in my country. Do you know of any dupe for it?
The Gel Bottle is a gel polish, not a polish :) I used to have it until I heard about the problems people were having with it.... I can't remember the color exactly. I swatched beautiful sheer pinks here: th-cam.com/video/K7bw888UFWM/w-d-xo.html
I don’t shake a top coat or clear polishes but any polish that has any colorant, pigments or like mica or anything that settles on the bottom I do. I never have any issues with air bubbles. And I do thousands of manicures :) Well, actually the shaker I have which is made to mix polishes does actually shake them. It actually moves them
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Do they work for you? What's your favourite one?
Essie Smooth-e amzn.to/2QH604M
American Classics- Bridge The Ridge bit.ly/3grIfZc
OPI Infinite Shine- Ridgefiller Primer bit.ly/2RV1Ir9
CND RidgeRX bit.ly/3sDAQsn
Vitry- Ridgefilling BB Base amzn.to/3auvBoG
Dior Diorlisse Ridge Filler amzn.to/3tJsHE4
Dazzle Dry Transform bit.ly/3au6l1M
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The opi ridge filler is pretty good seems to work nicely some polishes actualy cover ridges well most OPI polishes do a good job of it
I use Zoya (part of their Color Lock System)--one coat only. I apply it after my base of OPI Nail Envy. Works beautifully.
Ive read many reviews that Essie can yellow your nails. I used it once & found it to be true. Plus it took two coats to fill my ridges. I liked the polish, but with 2 coats my nails were too creamy & the white part did not stand out. If you use a color every time its not a problem, but I prefer a simple natural look or french manicure.
Since the 80s, my favorite "no manicure manicure look" is a matte ridge filler. I've used many different brands, but L'Oréal was the first, and it just left such a nice sheen that looked great on men or women - I used to take it to school and do male friend's nails.
If you have ridged nails but don't want to use a ridge filler, 1)DO NOT BUFF THE RIDGES AWAY! The ridges are the strong part, and the valleys are where less nail material is growing, and 2) textured polishes (sands, glitters, satins, etc.) disguise ridges better than matte cremes.
I agree so much with your comment. I also find that ridgy nails look actually kind of folded or corrugated. So filing the “ridge” we file all the nail we have in that area sometimes
Is this ridge filler still on the market? Please do share the name of the product if so!
I have ridges on my nails. Recently, I used Essie-Smooth-e, based on your video. I did it twice. Two coats each time, under my Essie nail polish. When I removed the nail polish after the second time of using Essie Smooth-e (I always keep the polish only for one week, remove, and wait a few days before applying polish again), my nails were pretty badly damaged, with some peeling tips. I love your very informative videos, but felt I should alert you to this. I cut my nails short and I’m using oil and Keratin RXx until my nails grow back.
your models personality was so lovely omg i smiled at every little comment he made 🥺
Thank you kindly 💕
I will deny it in public because I know the rules (😜) but I have been using the DD ridge filler Transform over other lines of base coats and under other brands of polishes and it has been very effective with my problem, old lady nails 😏
LOL, I haven't seen this comment LOL
@@TheSalonLife I was afraid you would yell at me 😂
I always use DD base coat and 2 coats of DD transform under all different brands of polish.
@@dowen6010 ummm so glad to hear this... I've been so tempted!!
I use this Essie for most manicures (I love Essie!) and it dries super fast. We are limited to what we can purchase locally in polishes, so this is definitely my go to. My fav, are the Expressie polishes, especially for pedicures!
I love OPI colours but I find they take too long to dry (I’m not the worlds most patient tech!)
Love the videos you guys do!
I have a ton of ridges and the Essie does wonders for me, particularly if I want to use a colorful nail polish after. For some reason it makes the next coat of color adhere to the base so well that it doesn't migrate in my ridges, that's such a nice ridge filler! 10/10 recommend
I've found that the best ridgefilling base out there isn't marketed as such - in fact, it's hard to say what it is supposed to be for. It's American Classics Gelous, sold at Sally's, with the green top. It self-levels amazingly! They just call it a "gel coat." It is also great as glitter food. I was checking out DD transform but geez, FOUR coats of base?? Cripes, that seems excessive.
I use Dazzle Dry transform and I love it. I find the extra 2 layers and a little more dry time well worth it for smoothing and longevity of my at-home mani but I’m not a professional.
Thank you for your comment Jessica! :) I'm glad that it works for you. It is a quality product for sure.... my clients are super impatient ;)
I use dazzle dry at home and I find the ridge filler is necessary because the polish isn't as 'plush' as others. That being said I don't let the polish dry for 5 minutes, just till it's matte. It lasts very well and because the rest of the dazzle dry system is so quick, it still takes less time than a regular polish manicure!
I have ridges and find two coats of basically any basecoat, and then two of the polish and top coat do pretty well at hiding them. I do have a ridge filler called Barielle that's, well, okay. Seems like your sheer polishes would be good to test these with. Thank you for the video!
Yes, we will do some sheer colors on top of ridge fillers :)) You are right, the more coats, the more polish hides the imperfections
As an exclusive Dazzle Dry user, I absolutely love the Transform. I have very ridgy nails. It’s really quite fine with just one coat of basecoat.
I’ve recently dipped my toes into those (have some decently ridgey nails) and the one I got (Holo Taco, indie) did very well, managed to cover a giant one I had very nicely for a multichrome. The one downside I found with it is how beige it is- with the multichrome and more opaque polishes (though it generally doesn’t matter for those in me because I always have at least one glitter layer, that’s how I kinda cheat) it was fine but it’s not so nice for the sheer ones. Especially because the beige coloration isn’t always even. It conflicts a bit with my recent fascination over the sheer pinks and sheer pinky whites- even if the coloration is even it’s still beige enough to slightly change the color over it.
For this reason I think I like the Essie because it’s one-coat and clear for those sheer colors. Makes sense given they make a lot of those. For somebody who already does four-five coats (bass coat, 2 coats color, sometimes a thin glitter layer, topcoat) dazzle dry is a bit much.
Very good points you made! I'm also not a fan of those beige shades, they make the nails look dirty in my opinion.
We should test the ridge fillers again with sheer colors. And you are right, the milky ones often settle into the ridges and with sheer shades that would make it look more streaky too.
Dazzle dry is pinkish
I definitely know from personal experience that if you use the wide from from Holo Taco with Smoothing Base, it behaves a lot better than with their skinny brush. Then again, I'm also decently new to polishing so that can factor in.
I'm so late finding these great videos! I have awful ridges. I tried Nail Tek Strengthener 2 and then Ridge Filler 2 over that and it gave a good result. Waiting for my Barielle Hydrating Ridge Filler to arrive to see how it works. It has a lot of good reviews. After watching this I'll probably try the Essie. Thanks for this video!
The Essie smooth-e base coat works for me. I usually do two layers of ridge filter but I understand that extra time can add up in a salon setting. I would not have the patience for the double base, ridge filter and another base coat so dazzle dry would make me nuts.
I use dazzle dry and I really like, it makes my nails smooth however it does take longer to dry
As a novice nail polisher. Transform helps me apply the DD much easier plus gives me more strength. Although I never put another base coat over it and it has worked fine
Yes, that used to be the old protocol (and 10 minute dry before color application) and it does work with majority of colors but some colors were cracking or peeling or something over it. So they changed it to 5 min dry, base and color coats...
Thanks guys... This was a great video! Soooo many of us out here have wondered if ridge fillers even work! I loved the idea of trying them under that gorgeous yellow from the recent swatch! Maybe that would be easier for Mr. Model aka "well aaiiiii wasn't wrong..." to wear for a day or two! Thanks again 💜
Hi Sara! Great idea LOL
I always use ridge fillers. They work very well for me. I have ridges on my nails and the ridge fillers always make the polish look much more even and nice. Ridge fillers hide my ridges. I do the Ana Seidel’s, owner of My Bliss Kiss, Fab Five Wrap. You do two coats of a ridge filler with the fab Five Wrap. As a side note, Ana Seidel is also a student/fan of Doug Schoon. She makes wonderful products, especially her hydrating oil. (She doesn’t call it a cuticle oil because you hydrate your proximal nail fold 😀.)
I think I heard you say it takes around 30 minutes to do a regular mani on natural nails. I could be remembering that all wrong. I wore acrylics for 15 years and went to the salon every two weeks. It usually took 60+ minutes for a regular fill. I would do a soak off a new set every once in a while and that took a couple of hours (30-45 minutes just to soak them off). So getting a manicure on natural nails and it only lasting 30 minutes or so seems like a very short time to me. Even if the ridge fillers added 10 minutes, that seems like a short time to me. Now that I do my own nails, an hours seems like a short time. I am very slow at doing my own nails. I have not learned to paint in the lines yet. I watch in awe and envy at how good you are at polishing only the nails and only rarely getting a tiny bit on the skin.
It’s my opinion that the ridge fillers are worth the extra time it takes for the polish to look even and beautiful. I sit for 90 minutes getting my hair done. Sitting for 45-60 minutes getting my nails done wouldn’t bother me at all. As a client, I wouldn’t care about it taking an extra 10 minutes it would take to use a ridge filler and have the polish look smooth and even. I would make an appointment for when I had the time to sit there longer. I would rather spend the extra 10 minutes so my polish would look smooth. I would not like it at all if the ridges showed. In total honesty and not out of meanness or being nasty, if I got a manicure from a nail tech and walked out with my ridges showing without being offered the option of a ridge filler, I would probably not be going back. I tend to be a perfectionist, though. One of the things I loved and miss about acrylics is the perfection. If nothing else, I’d at least like to have 1 layer of a ridge filler versus 1 layer of a regular base coat. I also would not use a polish without a base coat. I also admit to not wanting to be charged more money because I got unlucky in the genetics pool and don’t have nice nails, but do understand a nail tech charging more for the extra time.
Some of the polishes I have seen you swatch do not require a base coat at all. Do nail techs charge less if the client picks a polish that doesn’t require a base coat since that is less time? I have never had a manicure on natural nails, so I have no clue if they charge more for a mani taking more time and less for a mani taking less time.
I haven’t used Dazzle Dry and due to skin sensitivities, I am afraid to try any kind of different nail product other than regular polish. Having to have 4 layers applied before the colored lacquer is applied seems like a lot even to me. It’s a good thing Dazzle Dry fully dries so fast, because a mani with regular polish might take forever to dry with four layers of base, two of the colored lacquer, and a top coat. Some polishes even take 3 coats to get full opacity, so that would be 8 layers of polish! Wow! If I wanted to wear Dazzle Dry. I would wear the Transformer because I’d rather have the four layers then have my ridges showing. I usually use OPI Nail Envy and 2 layers of a sticky ridge filling base coat from Vibrant Vinyls.
On a related note, do you ever wonder why they are called ridge fillers, when they are actually filling in the groove of the nail to be more the level of the ridge? The ridges are the high point, the grooves are the low point and ridge fillers are filling in the grooves. Ana Seidel said something about that once. I thought she had a good point. I only know of one polish maker who names her ridge filler correctly-KbShimmer named hers filling Groovy, 😂😂
Hi Sherri! There is a huge difference between acrylic application and simple manicure.
There are many ways of doing services and many different type of consumers. You can't compare DIY protocol to a salon protocol. As a one woman show I had to pick one type of client and cater to them.
My clientele are busy business woman/business owners usually who come for services during the day (I work 9-5 M-F).
They want services done right, clean and fast. They don't want to wait, so it's by appointment only and I'm always on time.
My studio is not a spa where people come to relax.
So the services are short, to the point with no frills.
I sometimes get this from viewers "I would never go to a place that doesn't do any foot massage" etc. Well, that's why there are many spas out there already.
I found a niche that works for me and my clients and there is no way you can please everyone :)
I had 2 types of polish manicures for a while called:
- 30 min mani (this was with Vinylux, dry mani, quick polish and Solar Speed Spray) $25
- Full mani (45 min, dry mani, traditional polish, hand massage) $40
I don't think anyone picked the full mani, people only booked the 30 min mani so that stayed on the Menu.
My Dazzle Dry manicures take about 35-40 min and I book 45 min. $40-$45
My CND Shellac manicures take 50-55 min and I book 1 hour. $55-$60
Pedicures take me about 45-50 min and I book 1 hour $60-$65
I asked clients if they want a pedicure with a massage and scrub 1:15 min and $75 and very few are interested.
For the sake of business like mine it's very important so be very efficient with time. I can run boring numbers (my hobby lol) but stretching the service to 75 min and only charging for 60 min would be a total disaster to a business. Measly 15 minutes per appointment and instead of 8 pedicures a day you can now only do 6. 2 hours unpaid per day. That's almost 12 unpaid weeks a year.
Let me be honest with you, not many will say that but there is no money in nails. Very little.
I can't afford to employ people. No-one will be interested in working in this industry for less than 50K, I had aestheticians straight of out school hoping for 60K a year.
As for the prices. They seem high... but in this town (I think this is the most expensive town in Canada, seriously) everything is expensive. Small commercial locations on the Main Street go for 10K a month (that's basic lease plus all the extras which makes it double)
An average house here is I think about 2 million. I don't think you can find anything for under 1 million. I rent LOL.
I wrote about business and money on my blog once. It's an eye opener.
www.polished.ca/the-price-of-luxury/
PS. All the nail dedicated places I know after 1 year in business realize that they have to branch out to other services because nails/pedicures don't cut it.
Back in a day when I started 25 years ago salons used to retail and that's how you made money.
The money was in a retail, not services.
Just like restaurants don't really make money from food, but from alcohol sales.
Nowadays everyone shops online from Amazon. Single operators like me and so many booth rentals/studio salons cannot keep a proper stock of products to retail properly. They are usually not on the main street anymore (too $$$) and by appointment only so no walk ins. That stream of income totally dried up.
PS.2. A basic haircut in this town costs about $100. Takes about 30-40 min?
Color is usually over $100 as well. Takes about 1 hour but during processing time they usually fit in another haircut there.
Haircut at a barbershop here is a $35 (cash only) and it takes about 15-20 min?
Dazzle Dry is a regular polish and it has apparently no reactive ingredients. I think it would be less reactive than regular polish. That's what they claim, I'm not a chemist :)
I agree with the ridge fillers, it should be groove fillers :) Doug Schoon talks about it too.
@@TheSalonLife Hi Anna! That all makes complete sense. Thank you for explaining! It does make sense to me to charge based on the amount of time it takes to do the service.
I fully understand about prices of things varying depending on where you live. I was a Navy wife for 15 years, my ex did 23 total. Along with other places, we lived in Hawaii twice and the California Bay Area 3 times. One time we lived on Treasure Island. The San Francisco Bay Bride goes right through Yerba Buena and Treasure Island is attached to it. The prices in both Hawaii and the Bay Area are all a lot more expensive than where I live now. I live about 300+ miles north of San Francisco and it is much smaller. Everything in S. F. is really expensive. I am sure that there are probably a lot of cheap nail salons in S. F. but they wouldn’t be good ones at all. I stopped getting my nails done when I lived on T. I. Reason is that I couldn’t find a good salon.
I have no clue what a manicure cost because I have actually never had one. I last had my nails done November of 2014. I had my acrylics removed December 2, 2014. The prices then for acrylics was $30 for a fill and $60 for a full set. There were other places that were a lot cheaper, but I would never go to a cheap salon. If the products the nail techs use are the good ones, the ones they should use, they are expensive. A good nail tech is not making a tons of money or even really good money. There are a lot of products nail techs have to buy and those are all expensive.
Hair cuts and colors in San Francisco are really high. They were high in Hawaii too. I can’t remember the prices but a lot more than they are where I live now. Here a cut and color and style is usually around $100. I know the hair techs make some money though. My daughter’s friend is a hair tech and I went to her a couple of times before she turned out to be flaky. One time during lock down, when she couldn’t keep an appointment, she got me professional color and developer and my daughter applied it. Well, the color was exactly what she uses and cost less than $10. The big bottle of developer and a box of color cost $15.00. I had no idea that hair techs paid so little for the hair coloring products.
Your housing prices are really high. They are in the same range as S. F. You can’t even buy a house in S. F. unless you are a millionaire. Where I live, houses are a lot cheaper. The average price for a house similar to what I live in now is $300,000. We paid $145,000 in around 2000, so prices have gone up in the last several years. Our house is around 1700 square feet with a nice backyard and a good neighborhood. Housing prices are going up here because people are moving up here from the Bay Area. I won’t even go into how a lot of us from here feel about that other than to say we don’t like it at all.
Thank you for the information about Dazzle Dry! I like the idea of how quickly it dries so I may try it.
Your hubby is the best! Mine would never let me paint his nails 😂
I do have ridges in my nails and I do my own manicures. A few of my ridges are very prominent and benefit from 2 coats of product. Where I fill I really need a ridge filler is when I wear creame finish polish. Right now I'm using OPIs ridge filler. I like it's matte finish. Sometimes when I re-do my manicure I remove, file, groom, apply base & 2 coats of ridge filler on one day. Add polish color & top coat on the next day.
I use DD 2 base coats, 2 coats of Transform, a third base coat, the two color coats and the top coat. It takes time, but it looks amazing, lasts 2 weeks and my nails are really strong. Well worth the time!
True, might work but many people (over time) end up with nail surface damage due to such thick coating.
if I take it off every other week and let them breath for a week... will that still happen?@@TheSalonLife
Just out of curiosity why didn’t you do a sheer polish that you normally wouldn’t use on ridge nails that way we could see if the ridge filler worked?
Because we wanted to use a color he would actually wear for 1-2 days. The true test on how the polish looks texture wise is at least 24 hours when all the solvents dry completely.
You are the second person who suggested that, we will try to make another video with sheer colors :) Or difficult colors like the yellow one :)
I went “polish-free” for 6 months because of gel polish damage and my nails grew out healthy. Then I used essie smooth-e for a few months and suddenly they’re peeling horribly, worse than when I was using gel polish. I have recently switched to DD, hoping for goid results.
So excited to see you doing a ridge filler video! I'm currently doing testing on lots of ridge fillers to find the best in all the land. So far, I've tested about 20 of them and I'll probably test more. I've got my testing notes and results in a shared Google sheet. Would you like me to send you the link at the email address in the About section? I'd be happy to share. I'd post it here, but it's not ready for prime time yet.
If you haven't tried Gelous, it's not marketed as a ridge filler but it's the best one I've found.
Interested to see that the CND product did well. I looked into purchasing it for my testing, but it seems really hard to get and what few reviews exist for the product are not positive ones. Given what you know about the formulas CND uses, do you think that the CND product would work well as a base coat under a wide variety of polish brands? Ideally the product that wins my testing will be one that is compatible with more or less everything.
I would definitely pay extra for the DD Transform (orig formula) in a salon. I have VERY ridgy nails.
Great video and informative. Thanks for sharing and for your time. I was hoping OPI did great and it did.
The black ring he's wearing looks like there's a dead spider underneath because of his finger hair. 😂 He's such a good sport! 👍
There are a couple of Indie brands that make glitter smoothing top coats that i use instead as a ridgefiller and it performs the BEST
I think the second one looks good. Some you can still see the ridges. I was thinking about ordering the cnd
Thanks for another great video, to help all of us with ridge nails.
You are very welcome! Thank you for your comment Louise!
I have bad ridges, and have found that no matter which ridge filler I use, I get better adherence and smoother look if I use a base coat first. Then, I need two coats of filler.
You should try HOLO TACO Smoothing Base and HOLO TACO One Coat Black
Hi Nicole! How are their brushes? Square or the paddle ones?
@@TheSalonLife one coat black and the smoothing base have a long flat brush but their other cream colors have a rounded paddle brush
I like to wear my manicure as long as possible, however, I've found that manicures I do using ridge filling base coats don't last as long as they do when I use my favorite base coat. Perhaps you could do a wear test using these.
Great tip! I will try doing a wear test if I can find a patient model who would mind wearing the same color for 7 weeks ;) The less variables the better. Same person, same nails, same color, same amount of time.
@@TheSalonLife I wish I lived near you and I could volunteer!
If you keep nail polish in the fridge at lasts for years and stays fresh.....dosn't thicken. I have been doing this for years and it works for me. Hope that helps.
ment It lasts.
Wow. Never thought of that. I’m going to try this.
From chemists who develop nail polish I know that polish should not be kept in the fridge. It should be kept away from the light and in room temperature and closed tightly with the lid clean (to get a tight seal). That’s how the polish doesn’t get exposed to air.
There is nothing in a nail polish that spoils really in room temperature.
Can you tell us, what caused the ridges on nails ? I use OPI nail envy strengthener, it's not for the ridges, but does the good job, as well as the top coat, both somehow smooth the surface of the nail.
Some people have ridges, that's the beauty of their nails. Sometimes horizontal ridges be cause by trauma or sickness but I don't think that's the case
l went from super smooth healthy nails to super deep thin ridgey brittle nails from a vegan diet. When I went back to eating meat they have slowly improved 70% over 4 years, with the rest of the damage seems to be permanent. So in my case it was inadequate nutrition. I have to eat high animal protein now.
I haven't tried a lot of the ones you showed, but I definitely like Essie smooth-e, Dior one and CND - not that impressed, but it is not too bad :)
Just found you. Where are you located? I need to find someone like you!!! Thanks for all the great videos
Hi Katherine! You are very welcome! I'm in Oakville :) Thank you for your comment!
I have an actual deep crack running horizontally from sidewall to sidewall. I was getting the nail enhancement caught and banging into things since my pinky and ring finger are messed up from ulnar nerve entrapment/ cubit tunnel syndrome. The last 2 digits of the left hand resemble a claw of sorts and I can't move them. quite painful and numb at the same time. Waiting for the orthopedic appointment. Anyways I had to cut the nail off and all the other ones because it's only making it worse. I would love to apply some builder gel over the crack and glue it back together but that is probably the last thing I should do, so im just keeping it clean, free of product other than a bit of cuticle oil further up the nail and generally keeping it out of the way as the inability to mobilize the 2 fingers renders my hand basically useless. at this point its beyond a hand derp, its like a zombie hand. the finger with the injured nail still has good circulation, so it will heal so long as I don't screw it up with products. if I were to put any pressure on the non existent free edge of the nail, the crack would widen into a deep crevasse and likely even bleed. just to give an idea of the extent of nail trauma. if this nail takes a turn for the worse im off to my Derm, stat. I just figure they will give me some more of that topical antibiotic stuff which I still have from the last time I was there a few months ago. I may use a tiny dab of it if my Derm recommends it. ill ask her.
my pinky nail. its like a slice across down to the nailbed. it was just the stupid artificial nail getting banged up and caught on things that tore it. it has not bled at all, though.
Would it be ok to use the Essie ridge filler with the other Dazzle Dry products? I thought you said in a recent report that Dazzle Dry works as a system to keep the color from discoloring the nails. Or do you prefer the CND polishes? I have some very ridgey nails. I hope you answer this, considering this is an old video. I appreciate that you demonstrated all these products. Thank you.
Hello there :)
Yes, DD is used as a full system. I once applied DD color over another base because I just wanted to quickly swatch it and it totally cracked. Like right away like those cracking polishes lol.
It's a very different chemistry.
It's main benefit is that the system is nitrocellulose free so it doesn't stain nails yellow.
Here is more info on how and why nitrocellulose stains nails bit.ly/3QSkU2O
@@TheSalonLife so even though their ridge filler is inconvenient to use, you have to use it with their polish? Would discourage me from using the brand after I saw all you went through to use it.
I use the CND ridge xx which I love! I'm interested in other nail care items from CND like glossy top coat but unsure how it holds up.
I'm a bit dubious bout ridge fillers ..I have quite corrugated nails which I put down to genetics I find a good base coat then colour tgen top coat lessen the ridges but its somthing I've never thought of using really
I think that with a clear color the ridge polishes could’ve been more appreciated, nevertheless great video, thanks!
It's interesting, when it comes to ridges I always think more about texture, not the look. The look is then more streaky issue than ridges. We both figured that creme color would show the texture of the nail surface better....
We will do another video with sheer colors.
To be honest I don't think any Ridgefiller will be able to hide the visible ridges and texture ridges.
You would need to do multiple coats and dry them in between I think...
Ive been struggling with my vertical nail ridges for years. What would you recommend to hide the appearance, its a pretty big insecurity of mine. Always trying to hide my nails and not let them be seen by anyone. Im a male, 18, i dont want anything that will dry too shiny, if any. Thank you
Hey Alonelyy, As someone with super ridgy nails, I feel you. For me, they run both vertically and horizontally. I haven't found too much in the way of ridge fillers that created a night and day difference. The ones we used in this video did lessen the look but not enough to warrant purchasing, IMO. There is the gel route, but it isn't something I recommend. Sorry, we couldn't be more help. All the best - MSL
I’d say American Classic would be good for a guy since it dries matte
I love your video, so glad I found you. I have a problem nail, that after watching this and looking at my nails it is really bad. Thank you I am going to really look and try products .
Did you test the OPI Ridgeville if you did I missed it.
Have you ever tried the Ella+Mila or possibly an Orly ridge filling base coat?
No, I haven't... Have you? Do you like them?
@@TheSalonLife ella+mila is so good! I have finished the entire bottle. I also like that it doesn't have any color either!
Is this the one? I should try it :)
countonusstore.ca/products/ellamila-cover-your-bases
@@TheSalonLife absolutely!!!!
Honestly… I think it should be compared like you did the Dazzle… using the entire system, base, color and top… with a very streaky soft white/nude pink type color, just food for thought.
Would you do this again with no color? I'd like to know how each cover the ridges/damage? How many coats needed & the look after a clear polish? I'm looking for a base ridge filler that does not make my nails milky because I like to do a quick natural look manicure. Would you also use nails with different degrees of damage. I will donate for your time. Tyvm
I think all the ridge fillers are milky because the ingredient that makes them ridgefillers is milky. Generally I don't recommend nail polish on damaged nails because that can cause even more damage
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I also would like to see the ridge filler results without the colored polish.
I would be interested to see this test with a white or very light polish like Funny Bunny etc, as my ridges don’t notice under medium or dark colours. But light ones are where it’s gets frustrating.
I’m going to try Essie but do I need a Essie topcoat or can I use any topcoat Anna to help my polish stay on longer?
Is it just me, or does 💅 Joan’s Armour have the EXACT shade of well-settled black tattoo ink❓
My experience with CND is mixed: no question, it goes on smoothly and easily, and it Looks great. But, using only CND from base to its luscious top coat, I find that after a few days, it just peels off my nails in one sheet. Any idea why this may happen?
Hi there! There could be several reasons why CND Shellac peels. Most common is that incorrect lamp is used. Here is a video where I explain other causes
10 Reasons Why Shellac Chips & Peels. [ANNA'S NAIL ADVICE]
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@@TheSalonLife Thank you!
@@TheSalonLife oh,I'm sorry.. I meant that use the Vinylux.
Nails Inc base coat with wooden top is working amazing to me 😇
Thank you for the suggestion! I have to try that one out! I think Sally Beauty carries it.
@@TheSalonLife I got mine at sephora in the state, not sure in Quebec, I remember lots of things do not ship to Quebec while I was living there lol
Do you use one coat of ridge filler then the polish or ridge filler, base coat then polish?
Hi Kitty! Did you watch the video? :) I used them according to recommendation like the video shows. :)
@@TheSalonLife of course l never miss one of your videos 😘 l was just a bit confused when the extra drying time was mentioned but l understand now!
Cuccio 3 in 1 absolute best!
Could you introduce us to the gentleman with the amazing voice? 😊
He prefers to stay incognito ;)
Do you ever use Orly products? Thanks for doing ridge fillers! I was very curious if it worth the extra effort
I don't use Orly really. Just odds and ends. I used Cutique (their cuticle remover) for years and I really liked it. Now I prefer Blue Cross but I do dry manicures in the salon mostly.
Hi guys, can I use a filler from one brand and use my dazzle polish with it??
They recommend using a full line from Dazzle Dry and I do agree. It's very different product and you won't get full benefits (like their line is super gentle on the nails, doesn't cause white spots or yellowing)
@@TheSalonLife thank you dazzle dry too many layers do not have the patience for it. appreciate you guys!!
Cnd is thick from start and have the color urs is its very Hard to Apply but have won alot of prices i personal think its Hard to Apply but when u figure it out is worth it.... My nails Are worse than ur hubby
#thesalonlife in your professional opinion which is the most appropriate Arylic powders for beginners that are high quality products but affordable?? I am a student Nail technician who has kinda got a bit brand happy because I saw and believed in the word of the utubers that were hyping the brand up not realising that there paid to say that there the best thing since slice bread
Hi there :)) I would pick a quality line you will be working with. L&P system takes time to learn and get used to if you use something to learn with you will have to re-learn again if you switch lines.
Here I made a video about 10 pro acrylic lines.
I would say YN, NSI, Harmony are reputable brands. Stick with a full line and learn from the line’s educators. Contact the company for help if you need to.
The only thing I would advise you- don’t work too wet. Don’t get swayed by how cool it looks. Too much liquid vs. powder is asking for allergies.
If someone is showing you to wipe skin around the nails with a monomer soaked brush- RUN!
COMPARING 10 DIFFERENT PRO ACRYLIC BRANDS
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👍lol u used a mans hand, love that. Thanks for your video.
I have been using DD for six months and my nails are now peeling and in a terrible mess. If you use it and get white spots stop use and oil your nails
thank you for video
You are very welcome Marketa!
Hi, I 've seen online the most beautiful nail polish it's called The Gell Bottle - Teddy. Unfortunately it's not available in my country. Do you know of any dupe for it?
The Gel Bottle is a gel polish, not a polish :) I used to have it until I heard about the problems people were having with it.... I can't remember the color exactly. I swatched beautiful sheer pinks here:
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@@TheSalonLife thank you! I've watched your video and now I know what to buy ( going back to mademoiselle 😍)
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You should never shake your nail polish
I don’t shake a top coat or clear polishes but any polish that has any colorant, pigments or like mica or anything that settles on the bottom I do. I never have any issues with air bubbles. And I do thousands of manicures :)
Well, actually the shaker I have which is made to mix polishes does actually shake them. It actually moves them
@@TheSalonLife I didn't realize you had a shaker. :)
it shouldn't be called shaker then lol. It should be called mixer.💡