Honestly, the camera man will have to be all over the place to film me!😆🤣😂! It would not be the true positions I’m in when I do my own nails. I would have to have to hold my hand in the position we usually film from for everyone to see properly. Then it would make it even more difficult fir me because I wouldn’t be able to see properly.🙃 I always do my own nails! I have for years! My husband has done them a few times! He’s really good!💅🏻🤍
I think I'm going to start campaigning for my idea about Coffee Corner Chats with Melissa and Tracey where Melissa does Tracey's nails (and maybe vice versa?) every couple of weeks 🤩🤗💅🏻. Love the videos with the ladies!
The confetti is Gorgeous!! I Love to watch you do the nails and I Love the different colors on your nails!! I do that when I get new products in so the customer see what it look like! Now to order the confetti!! Thank you!
Length! XXXL is very popular right now. I do NOT currently have this as an option for my clients. I know Tracy has mentioned how she does her length depending on the clients length of there actual nail bed! How do we go about clients who request XXXL nails, if that is something I don’t offer. For many reasons.
Can I build the free edge in gel then build the actual nail in acrylic? I do my own nails and I find it easier to build the shape in gel since I have more time to perfect it but I love using colored acrylics for design
No that won’t work. You never want to build your free ass in jail and put a hard product like acrylic on top of it. It won’t support it. You might as well filled it all in gel. The clarity is a little better as well. But you can always build your extension acrylic and build on gel on top of that.!
The weather in Colorado is so dreary today for Memorial Day so unfortunately I’m inside but I’m so happy that you uploaded!!! Thank you 💛 *happy Memorial Day, I hope everyone gets some peace. Respect for our lost hero’s, and to those serving presently. 💙
I do too! The transformation is unbelievable! As a beginner I think my nail looks wrong & that it will never look right when I take off the form. Filing does wonders
So pretty Mel! Perfect for summer and I love the colors on your nails especially that bright pink they match your shirt too ! Quick question i have white sculpture which i never really use for white tips but I do use white gel polish can I use white sculpture as a gel polish it is very thick i thought maybe mix it with base??
I would use it. It is really thick and even if you mix it with bass I feel like it will change the shape of your nail. Like make it look more bulky after you spend the time making them look perfect filing them. I would use Mission Control Fizz! 😉🤍💅🏻🤩✨
our sales are usually at the end of the month, so if we do one the next would be end of June and not one specifically for fourth of july but you never know
If the nails are thin or damaged I typically do acrylic.. if they have healthy nails and or work in chemicals or water all day.. gel typically does better on them
Love these and cannot wait to get my confetti kit! Oh by the way, what products did you use on the pinky & ring fingers? One more question, what color gel/acrylic (I am guessing Gel) is Ms. DeLaCruz wearing???
Melissa you are just the best ! question ....I used flex gel to mix glitter into to make a "full cover glitter" then I capped with ultimate finish gel ....is this correct and will the wear sustain? I also made ultra short enhancements with the flex gel - clear - and used the full cover glitter on top ...
New nail tech in training here. I have a question. So I'm not wanting to focus on acrylics when I finish school, I'm leaning more towards this type and gel extensions. I have a question about the products being used. Is the sculpture gel and base gel the same products, we're just addressing the procedure differently? Or are they different products as well? If so what are the actual names of the products. Tia😊
Synergy gel is our hard gel line. Hard gel cannot be soaked off. We have the gel in pots or in tubes, both are the same. Here is a video explaining all of them: th-cam.com/video/LFykeb6GC2Q/w-d-xo.html
You can use it in Gel or Acrylic. Pretty much all the videos we have on confetti are in acrylic. I wanted to use gel to show the gel text that you could apply in gel as well. 🙌🏼😉😊💅🏻🤩
@@mjaydelacruz8496 Thank you! I would love the links! I’ve been watching a tone of the YN videos and I’m learning more and more! You guys are all amazing and thank you for the education. Very much appreciated
Do you think it’s necessary to charge for length/shape? I can understand length since you’re using more products, but shape doesn’t make 100% sense to me.
@@lizbethgarcia3355 I can understand that, it always seems like coffin and almond are the shapes that are charged more for and square/rounded square are the default that aren’t.
Custom shapes take longer than square. Everything I learn new to offer my clients and to be able to perform any shape successfully... I’m charging for it. It’s called custom nails. Now someone’s gluing on a nail that’s in a custom shape already, that’s a different story. I actually would still charge for that because you’re having to pay to have all those custom shapes in stock. The beauty of it all is that we all run our own businesses how we want to and that’s what I love about doing nails. We all set ourselves apart from each other and that’s what makes us all unique.😉😊🙏🏻🤩💖💅🏻✨
@@lizbethgarcia3355 you’re charging extra for shape because you have spent your time perfecting the shape and mastering the shape to be able to offer it to them.😉😊🤩💖💅🏻✨🙏🏻
What does it mean by custom shaping? Because aren't you just filing to make smooth? I'm a nail tech and I have never charged for custom shaping I'm probably cheating myself 🤦🏻♀️
Usually when they say custom shaping in the videos they mean pretty much anything besides square. These extra shapes - coffin, ballerina, almond, stiletto, almondetto, they require different form placement and filling techniques for each, more time = more money! Charge for it! You got this!!
A custom shape is anything but square. It’s never to late to start charging do them. Your skill level of being able to do all these different shapes it’s worth something. It takes longer to shape ballerina, almond or a coffin shape. 😉😊🤩💖💅🏻✨🙏🏻
It would really depend on what they would be changing the design to. But to help you break it down, you would start with your regular rebalance price as your base price. Adding on to that, if you are completely changing out the design on the two nails, you would charge an additional $10-$20 per nail for encapsulation which includes one color/glitter. Any additional colors/glitters are $5 each for the set. If you are just rebalancing what's already on the nails and not changing out the encapsulation, you can just add in $5 per confetti/glitter and add the product in to the rebalance.
Idky... Why is it harder for me to do the right side of a nail than the left, even though I'm right handed? It seems wrong and Melissa just confirmed that normally it is the other way around.
Würden wir die Preise in Deutschland verlangen wäre ich schon millionärin oder es würde nie wieder jemand zum Nägel machen kommen. Aber andere Länder andere Preise.😅
Love all your work but it would be sooo much better on REAL model's hands and so much easier to imagine it on our hands ... im sure with all the employees...friends...family and willing volunteers ... you could find enthusiastic models......that and soothing music would be perfect ...tysm ! 💖💅🏽
Lol! Real hands are definitely ideal but Sally keeps showing up (the training hand) I guess I could count on that 😆🤣😂! I agree, nails always are more beautiful in person.
Again I’m still in the wrong damn city 🤦🏼♀️ if you guys charge that much for length and shape my minimum price for a full set would literally be like $300 🤦🏼♀️ damn I need to move ASAP!!!!! My nails are 3 times the length and use a dozen colored acrylics and glitters every set.. at that rate my sets would be like freakin $500 MINIMUM!!! I think I just threw up a lil in my mouth that I’m missing out on that much money living in the ghetto city of Cleveland Ohio lol ppl here would literally laugh in my face if I tried charging that 😂😂😂
People go to you because they love your work! Charge more the average nail tech! When you put that much work in you have to charge a little more than the others for sure to set yourself apart! 🤩💅🏻💖✨ You got this! Raise coming soon 💰 💵 🙏🏻✨
Yeah, you can totally buy from their website. I'm not a pro and I've bought from them. You need to go to their website and start an account, then the prices will show up and you can buy whatever you want.
@@Nails_By_Kimberlee I’m from South-Africa. Their South-African website only allows you to create an account if you are a professional. They require proof of your diploma(s) in order to vet you before creating an account and allowing you to see the prices and make purchases. Same with Gelish. It’s so frustrating. But since it’s not a requirement on the American site, maybe they can force the SA distributors to change their policies to align with head office...
I would love to see Melissa do her nails. 😍
Same!!!!
Yes!, I would love this idea 💕💕
Yes!!!! Me too
Honestly, the camera man will have to be all over the place to film me!😆🤣😂! It would not be the true positions I’m in when I do my own nails. I would have to have to hold my hand in the position we usually film from for everyone to see properly. Then it would make it even more difficult fir me because I wouldn’t be able to see properly.🙃 I always do my own nails! I have for years! My husband has done them a few times! He’s really good!💅🏻🤍
@@mjaydelacruz8496 Too funny that your husband can do your nails! That tells me you're a great teacher ❤️
I think I'm going to start campaigning for my idea about Coffee Corner Chats with Melissa and Tracey where Melissa does Tracey's nails (and maybe vice versa?) every couple of weeks 🤩🤗💅🏻. Love the videos with the ladies!
Awwww! That would be fun!! 😆😊🤩
I missed out on purchasing the confetti I was in the hospital with a total knee replacement!! Better now and still watching your videos!!
I don't know how anyone could leave sad after spending time with you! Your work s awesome as always!
That is so nice! Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻💖💅🏻✨😊
the confetti coordinate so perfectly
Its beautiful all dose colors has a buzz💯✌
Thank you! 💖💅🏻✨🤩
@@mjaydelacruz8496 your welcome love watching you work
To be honest you make doing nails look simple 🤗😍❤💯✌
@@jadelovely9820 Thank you for the compliments!🙏🏻💖💅🏻✨ It means a lot to me!
@@mjaydelacruz8496 you're welcome and you deserve the compliment you're extremely talented at what you do
I wanna be like you some day ❤😍💯✌
@@jadelovely9820 You will be more amazing than you already are!😊💖
I got some coming yay!!! I'm excited! Show me girl!! Work it! Worrrrrrrk it 🤣Pretty‼️‼️‼️
Have fun designing yours & your clients nails with them! 🤩💅🏻💖✨
Beautiful and cool! I love something fresh and new... Can't wait for my products I just got in this past sale to come 🥰👏👍🏼
😉😊💖💅🏻✨ Excited for you to receive them! 😁
The confetti is Gorgeous!! I Love to watch you do the nails and I Love the different colors on your nails!! I do that when I get new products in so the customer see what it look like! Now to order the confetti!! Thank you!
Enjoy your confetti! L 🎉 ✨💖💅🏻
Love these awesome job 😊👍🌈
Thank you! 😊💅🏻✨💖
I really like that you section the video so that I can bounce back to the beginning of each step.
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Yes! I’ve been waiting for a gel demo.
Love gel!! 🤩✨💅🏻💖
Beautiful beautiful nails. Thank you for sharing this. You always do amazing nails.
Thank you so much Kathy!💖💅🏻✨🤩
I'm goin to need my feet and hands done. I LOVE IT!!! Hello from Baltimore!!! 👋
Hello!! Nothing feels better than having your nails and toes done!! 💅🏻💖✨🤩😊
Absolutely and they're looking BEAUTIFUL too!!!
Your nails are so beautiful as always!
Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻🤩💅🏻💖✨😊
Yes would love to see more on electric file techniques
There’s electric filing techniques and pretty much 95% of our videos. There’s also one that was made not long ago, the art of shaping Nails. 😉😊🙌🏼💅🏻💖✨
th-cam.com/play/PLbrhuNO154v2oxKnuN07gEUrQrzfGWDeY.html
These are so gorgeous ❣️ I can't wait to get my orders so I can play!!! 🥰
So exciting! Have fun when you receive them!
Oh this just made me go order this confetti and more!! ❤️
You will love the Confetti Collection!! 🙌🏼🤩💅🏻💖✨
Would love to see the new products and foils on toes and can it be done
Love them!!! Cant wait to get my stuff to start playing
Cant wait to see what you create!
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Those are really pretty!
Thank you!! 💖💅🏻🤩✨
We need to see Melissa do the 1 hour challenge, too!!!❤️❤️
Refreshing! Good job! Thank you! :)
Thanks for the love!
So beautiful 😍😍😍😍
Thank you! 💖🧡💅🏻✨
Perfection!!!! 💕💜💕💜💕
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💖💛🧡💙 So pretty! Any chance of getting a Pride set out of Melissa? I can just imagine the awesomeness she'd come up with!
YESSS
Thank you so much!! 🌈 🌈🌈🌈
beautiful as always. Melissa, never disappoints. What color did you use on the nude nails. i see a little bit of glitter in the ring fingervvv
ManiQ gel polish. It’s called Glacier! ✨✨✨✨
@@mjaydelacruz8496 thank you ❤️
@@Baldhead_DivaNailz your welcome!
hi melissa love your work🧡
Hello! Thank you so much! 🙏🏻💖💅🏻✨🤩
😍😍😍🤗🤗💣💣 love it
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Length! XXXL is very popular right now. I do NOT currently have this as an option for my clients. I know Tracy has mentioned how she does her length depending on the clients length of there actual nail bed! How do we go about clients who request XXXL nails, if that is something I don’t offer. For many reasons.
Love your sherbet shirt
Thank you! 💖🤩💅🏻✨😊
Love these videos!!!!
So happy you are enjoying them! 🙌🏼👏🏼🤩💅🏻💖✨😊
Can I build the free edge in gel then build the actual nail in acrylic? I do my own nails and I find it easier to build the shape in gel since I have more time to perfect it but I love using colored acrylics for design
No that won’t work. You never want to build your free ass in jail and put a hard product like acrylic on top of it. It won’t support it. You might as well filled it all in gel. The clarity is a little better as well. But you can always build your extension acrylic and build on gel on top of that.!
Yes, you can. They are both polymers.
Use builder gel, or polygel though.
Beautiful
Thank you! 💖💅🏻✨
Gorge!!!!!
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@@mjaydelacruz8496 I adore you by the way. My nail goddess
@@joojoo_face420 Awwww! Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻💅🏻🤍✨ That means a lot to me! 😊
Lovely those look really good just all do I’m getting pract
Adorable
Thank you!! 💖💅🏻✨
love them
The weather in Colorado is so dreary today for Memorial Day so unfortunately I’m inside but I’m so happy that you uploaded!!! Thank you 💛
*happy Memorial Day, I hope everyone gets some peace. Respect for our lost hero’s, and to those serving presently. 💙
Amen! Total respect for our American Heros! ✨🇺🇸 ❤️🤍💙✨ Thank you Emily!
I get so sad when I hear the words "I'm going to file off camera." I love watching the filing process lol!!
I do too! The transformation is unbelievable! As a beginner I think my nail looks wrong & that it will never look right when I take off the form. Filing does wonders
We file on camera most of the time!😉😊💅🏻✨🤩
@@cmayo5659 🙌🏼😉😊💅🏻✨
So pretty Mel! Perfect for summer and I love the colors on your nails especially that bright pink they match your shirt too ! Quick question i have white sculpture which i never really use for white tips but I do use white gel polish can I use white sculpture as a gel polish it is very thick i thought maybe mix it with base??
I would use it. It is really thick and even if you mix it with bass I feel like it will change the shape of your nail. Like make it look more bulky after you spend the time making them look perfect filing them. I would use Mission Control Fizz! 😉🤍💅🏻🤩✨
@@mjaydelacruz8496 thanks😊🙏❤
@@raya74 Your welcome! Any time!
Will there be a 4th ofJuly sale i missed out on this one?
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our sales are usually at the end of the month, so if we do one the next would be end of June and not one specifically for fourth of july but you never know
Acrylic, gel, hard gel, dip...
What services and why for which client?
If the nails are thin or damaged I typically do acrylic.. if they have healthy nails and or work in chemicals or water all day.. gel typically does better on them
Melissa I love that color on your nails what is it?
Zigged When I Shoulda Zagged, In The Moment and Always A Bridesmaid! All Go Time!
Love these and cannot wait to get my confetti kit! Oh by the way, what products did you use on the pinky & ring fingers? One more question, what color gel/acrylic (I am guessing Gel) is Ms. DeLaCruz wearing???
Just a guess but to me they look like the mission control gel paints in Mega Jam (pink), Orbit (purple) and Sonic (turquoise/light blue)
I wanna know the colors on the pinky and ring finger of the practice hand?
@@tinacampbell2610 I think it's concealer pink.
The colors I’m wearing are Go time. Zigged When I Shoulda Zagged, Always A Bridesmaid & In The moment! 🤩💅🏻🤍✨
@@tinacampbell2610 It’s Concealer Pink with ManiQ Glacier over it!
Can we see this with acrylic please?
Melissa you are just the best ! question ....I used flex gel to mix glitter into to make a "full cover glitter" then I capped with ultimate finish gel ....is this correct and will the wear sustain? I also made ultra short enhancements with the flex gel - clear - and used the full cover glitter on top ...
By enhancement do you mean tips?
There are lots of different ways to use the gel products!
Yes that works! 🙌🏼😉💖✨💅🏻!
New nail tech in training here. I have a question. So I'm not wanting to focus on acrylics when I finish school, I'm leaning more towards this type and gel extensions. I have a question about the products being used. Is the sculpture gel and base gel the same products, we're just addressing the procedure differently? Or are they different products as well? If so what are the actual names of the products. Tia😊
Synergy gel is our hard gel line. Hard gel cannot be soaked off. We have the gel in pots or in tubes, both are the same.
Here is a video explaining all of them: th-cam.com/video/LFykeb6GC2Q/w-d-xo.html
So, I can’t use the confetti with acrylic?
You can use it in Gel or Acrylic. Pretty much all the videos we have on confetti are in acrylic. I wanted to use gel to show the gel text that you could apply in gel as well. 🙌🏼😉😊💅🏻🤩
@@mjaydelacruz8496 YN has best Gel on the market😍I am moving back to wearing acrylic and I have had my nails in YN Gel for about 3-4 years.
Dang I didn’t get that n bummed one tech said see scored drill for 100 off DANG !!
Oh I did get confetti
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What did you finish fine with? Would have liked to see
We finish file with our 150 grit hand file.
www.youngnails.com/products/150-150-zebra-file
Form application on different nail types...
Wide
Narrow
Xtra C curve
Flat
Bitten
We pretty much have videos for all all that. Young Nails will share the links with you!
@@mjaydelacruz8496 Thank you! I would love the links! I’ve been watching a tone of the YN videos and I’m learning more and more! You guys are all amazing and thank you for the education. Very much appreciated
th-cam.com/video/gp6a-q3d2HA/w-d-xo.html
Do you think it’s necessary to charge for length/shape? I can understand length since you’re using more products, but shape doesn’t make 100% sense to me.
Well some shapes are still more product also, like stilleto or almond is less product than square or even coffin?
@@lizbethgarcia3355 I can understand that, it always seems like coffin and almond are the shapes that are charged more for and square/rounded square are the default that aren’t.
@@spectralartnailstudio I assume it's because some nails are harder to shape than others? 🤷♀️
Custom shapes take longer than square. Everything I learn new to offer my clients and to be able to perform any shape successfully... I’m charging for it. It’s called custom nails. Now someone’s gluing on a nail that’s in a custom shape already, that’s a different story. I actually would still charge for that because you’re having to pay to have all those custom shapes in stock. The beauty of it all is that we all run our own businesses how we want to and that’s what I love about doing nails. We all set ourselves apart from each other and that’s what makes us all unique.😉😊🙏🏻🤩💖💅🏻✨
@@lizbethgarcia3355 you’re charging extra for shape because you have spent your time perfecting the shape and mastering the shape to be able to offer it to them.😉😊🤩💖💅🏻✨🙏🏻
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What does it mean by custom shaping? Because aren't you just filing to make smooth? I'm a nail tech and I have never charged for custom shaping I'm probably cheating myself 🤦🏻♀️
Usually when they say custom shaping in the videos they mean pretty much anything besides square. These extra shapes - coffin, ballerina, almond, stiletto, almondetto, they require different form placement and filling techniques for each, more time = more money! Charge for it! You got this!!
@@beautybyambuurrhh8385 your availability right! 🙌🏼😉💖💅🏻✨
A custom shape is anything but square. It’s never to late to start charging do them. Your skill level of being able to do all these different shapes it’s worth something. It takes longer to shape ballerina, almond or a coffin shape. 😉😊🤩💖💅🏻✨🙏🏻
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If this person would come back in 4 weeks for a design change, how would you handle it and how much would you charge?
It would really depend on what they would be changing the design to. But to help you break it down, you would start with your regular rebalance price as your base price. Adding on to that, if you are completely changing out the design on the two nails, you would charge an additional $10-$20 per nail for encapsulation which includes one color/glitter. Any additional colors/glitters are $5 each for the set. If you are just rebalancing what's already on the nails and not changing out the encapsulation, you can just add in $5 per confetti/glitter and add the product in to the rebalance.
I regret not ordering them because it was only a one time thing 😭😭
Idky... Why is it harder for me to do the right side of a nail than the left, even though I'm right handed? It seems wrong and Melissa just confirmed that normally it is the other way around.
Then flip-flop it. Work your right side before your left side. Does that make sense? 🙌🏼💅🏻💖✨🤩
@@mjaydelacruz8496 thank you so much hun, you are the Best ❣️
@@jenniferfitch9671 Thank you!! You are so welcome! 🙏🏻💅🏻🤍✨
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Do you prefer not to use nail tips, is the a difference...
th-cam.com/video/ee30k9eSl_k/w-d-xo.html 🧡
Stop filing off camera! Guys that's the magic!? If you can't file good your nails cant look good! We love seeing the filing:)
Würden wir die Preise in Deutschland verlangen wäre ich schon millionärin oder es würde nie wieder jemand zum Nägel machen kommen. Aber andere Länder andere Preise.😅
Love all your work but it would be sooo much better on REAL model's hands and so much easier to imagine it on our hands ... im sure with all the employees...friends...family and willing volunteers ... you could find enthusiastic models......that and soothing music would be perfect ...tysm ! 💖💅🏽
Lol! Real hands are definitely ideal but Sally keeps showing up (the training hand) I guess I could count on that 😆🤣😂! I agree, nails always are more beautiful in person.
Again I’m still in the wrong damn city 🤦🏼♀️ if you guys charge that much for length and shape my minimum price for a full set would literally be like $300 🤦🏼♀️ damn I need to move ASAP!!!!! My nails are 3 times the length and use a dozen colored acrylics and glitters every set.. at that rate my sets would be like freakin $500 MINIMUM!!! I think I just threw up a lil in my mouth that I’m missing out on that much money living in the ghetto city of Cleveland Ohio lol ppl here would literally laugh in my face if I tried charging that 😂😂😂
People go to you because they love your work! Charge more the average nail tech! When you put that much work in you have to charge a little more than the others for sure to set yourself apart! 🤩💅🏻💖✨ You got this! Raise coming soon 💰 💵 🙏🏻✨
@@lizethgarcia3125 100%. 🙌🏼🤩💅🏻✨
Why can’t these products be purchased by non-professionals? Huge market you’re missing out on here😔
Yeah, you can totally buy from their website. I'm not a pro and I've bought from them. You need to go to their website and start an account, then the prices will show up and you can buy whatever you want.
@@Nails_By_Kimberlee I’m from South-Africa. Their South-African website only allows you to create an account if you are a professional. They require proof of your diploma(s) in order to vet you before creating an account and allowing you to see the prices and make purchases. Same with Gelish. It’s so frustrating. But since it’s not a requirement on the American site, maybe they can force the SA distributors to change their policies to align with head office...
@@lizethgarcia3125 not on their South African website unfortunately
@@jean-marievanheerden4925 aw, I didn't think of that. I hate that for you. ☹ Have you tried buying their products off of Amazon?
@@jean-marievanheerden4925 unfortunately, we don't have a say in who distributors sell to.
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