Nicole, that blue chrome stamped nail is gorgeous!!! I’m in love 🩵 Someday I hope to gather the courage to try stamping. Also, I bought that cuticle bit and will try it on my next mani.
These are beautiful! I would love to use both methods but I can’t use dip liquids. I get dip flu pretty badly. I have to find my respirator before i try doing dip liquids again. I have started using the gel method and find it easier and lasts the longest on my nails. Is doing stamping and decals easier with gel?
Thank you!! Yes definitely use a respirator!! I’ll link the one i use plus I put pieces of cotton ball up my nose so I don’t smell a thing! You totally can do stamping and decals with gels- I find it just as easy with gel! So for decals, you’d do gel base and cure, apply the decal, get it all trimmed and shaped up to your nail, gel base and cure, gel top and cure and done! And stamping is similar too with gels- a lot of people like to do gel base and cure, wipe off the tacky layer and buff the nail smooth. Wipe off again with alcohol, do all the stamping, then once it dries- gel base and cure, gel top and cure!
I have peel base on over my builder gel and underneath the dip powder. I do my stamping on top of the dip powder. When I want to do a new mani, I pop off the dip powder, put on new peel base and do a new dip mani and stamp over it if I feel like it! If I don’t use peel base, I just use an e-file to remove product. and that includes stamping polish or regular polish. I always have builder gel or rubber base gel down as an overlay on my nails, so I don’t efile down to my natural nails unless I’m doing a fill!
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Nicole, that blue chrome stamped nail is gorgeous!!! I’m in love 🩵
Someday I hope to gather the courage to try stamping.
Also, I bought that cuticle bit and will try it on my next mani.
@@nadineburke8030 thank you so much!!! You can totally stamp!!!
I'll have to stick to stickers with my patience 😂
@@dinapierson4973 LOL!! I promise with practice stamping is awesome!!
These are beautiful! I would love to use both methods but I can’t use dip liquids. I get dip flu pretty badly. I have to find my respirator before i try doing dip liquids again. I have started using the gel method and find it easier and lasts the longest on my nails. Is doing stamping and decals easier with gel?
Thank you!! Yes definitely use a respirator!! I’ll link the one i use plus I put pieces of cotton ball up my nose so I don’t smell a thing!
You totally can do stamping and decals with gels- I find it just as easy with gel! So for decals, you’d do gel base and cure, apply the decal, get it all trimmed and shaped up to your nail, gel base and cure, gel top and cure and done!
And stamping is similar too with gels- a lot of people like to do gel base and cure, wipe off the tacky layer and buff the nail smooth. Wipe off again with alcohol, do all the stamping, then once it dries- gel base and cure, gel top and cure!
Here’s the respirator I use from Amazon!
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How do you take off polish since you are allergic to acetone?
I have peel base on over my builder gel and underneath the dip powder. I do my stamping on top of the dip powder. When I want to do a new mani, I pop off the dip powder, put on new peel base and do a new dip mani and stamp over it if I feel like it! If I don’t use peel base, I just use an e-file to remove product. and that includes stamping polish or regular polish. I always have builder gel or rubber base gel down as an overlay on my nails, so I don’t efile down to my natural nails unless I’m doing a fill!