Replacing My Acrylic Extensions With A Builder Gel Overlay ft. My Natural Nails
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- Hi everybody,
Today I’m going to do my own nails today and I’m going to use the Builder Gel.
I’m going to start my soaking off my full cover tips, same as I’d soak of an extension, by removing the gel polish with a file and then wrapping in an acetone soak pad and foil. I’ll then prep the cuticle area with my file, but you can use a cuticle pusher and scraper. I’m going to make all my nails the same length and shape with a 240 grit file and then I’m ready to apply the builder gel.
I’m going to dehydrate the nails and then apply base coat. For the builder gel, I’m going to start at the cuticle area and sweep side to side, keeping contact with the nail to apply it to the nail, do the nails one at a time. Brush on a thin layer to add a little extra thickness and then wipe off the sticky layer - it’s very sticky on these. I’m then going to file them to perfect the shape. I’m going to finish with Beauty Beneath, Top Coat and cuticle oil.
I hope you enjoyed this video, don’t forget to like and subscribe.
Lots of Love
Kirsty XOXO
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Although I love all your work Kirsty, it’s actually nice to see some natural nails and shorter designs too. As you know it’s not practical for everyone to have certain length nails. So seeing these makes a nice change. Your nail look fabulous Kirsty x
Definitely! I'm a massage therapist and also work in hospitality, long nails aren't something I can do.
Mr or Ms Audio Person - you have done a bang-up job on the audio levels. I can hear the banter between Kirsty and Adam without piercing my eardrums when Kirsty laughs. So often, I'm using my volume constantly while watching vids on this channel but this vid I didn't touch it once. Kirsty and Adam make such a great team and you can tell they have a good time working together. Your whole team Rocks! Thanks again from British Columbia.
Yassss, I couldn't agree more! Spot on! Please do make the intro a little quieter though. I always have to mute it. Love you guys, and thank you for putting out some shorter videos too. Love a whole hand, but it's great to be able to see one nail in more detail. xxx
that would be the doing of adam i believe. he is the camera guy. 😊
I’ve been doing my own nails for a while now and I loooooove builder gel for my natural nails. It keeps them strong and they’ve grown out longer than I could have ever imagined. I use a clear builder gel (two layers) then I use whatever gel polish on top. It nice because I can change up the color anytime without removing the clear builder gel. It’s a miracle in a bottle honestly!
Marie Booster is it a hard process to do on yourself? I’ve never done it before but I really want to try after seeing this
Hey, where do you purchase the builder gel? Do I have to be licensed to purchase?
Can you explain? This is exactly what I want to do.
ok so how long were your nails when u started ... i have yet to use my builder gel lol i have been using the gel polish and full cover nails my nails were growing img finally had some free edge and then they all started to break right when i was getting ready to use the gel lol now i have to wait once again ..... so my question is can thus been done on your nails if they are short
@@shauwn_oy14, absolutely can be done with short nails. I started with poly gel and dual forms until I had a fair amount of growth, then did builder gel overlays to continue. No forms being used after that. I can't type with long nails, so I keep mine short -with my nail just peeking over the top of my finger. I want to try solid gels now.
Kirsty you’re my hero! I was in a class and admitted I bite my nails and it gonsmacked by another student with the comment of “You’re a nail tech and you bite your nails! That’s not professional!” My response was I’m not alone there are many top professionals who also bite their nails so bugger off!
I LOVE when you do your own nails! These videos help me SO much because I do my own nails at home with gel polish or builder gel. Don't get me wrong I love ALL the videos but I'm never gonna do super long acrylic stiletto nails on myself. I'd love to see more gel polish designs that can be done on shorter nails. I'm thinking about trying to do tortoise shell nails next! 🐢💅
I wish I knew how! I want to do my own but they're so thin and brittle. I give up!
@@RhondaReally take the leap!! Try bottled builder and structure gels, it's not as hard as you think. Watch all the youTube videos you can find on them, Kristy Nao Nails, Suzie Nail Career Education, Liz Nail Hub and many other non professionals who give surprisingly great tips. Sure, you won't be able to do what they do, at least not right away but you will do more as you learn more and will be surprised at what you can do to create your own great looking nails.
Sorry Kirsty, I didn't mean to spell your name wrong 🤪
Hey, where can unlicensed individuals purchase the biab?
Anyone know what E file she uses
These videos help me so much, when I want to start my own nail business in the future 🥰😁
Good luck!
same! good luck girl!
Awesome! Good luck! May you be very successful. ❤️
I hope you can do that❤️ I want to do that in college to get some side money. I’m actually starting now at 14 I found a cheap Wish polygel nail kit and I’m super exited to try it. Wish had good quality stuff for cheap so that’s a great start.
Me too! Best of luck to you all ❤
i'm still in the beggining of the video but i'm actually glad to see an overlay done by a professional once in a while, i really think people don't use their natural nails as a base often enough, i do this for mine because i really like the extra strenght it gives and i'vedoing this for YEARS now like almost 7 years already [ i just keep up the shape, and lenght i like, around 2cm, of natural below and overlay ontop, just as good as extensions but with that extra 'oomph' since for me at least it's way less common to have any lifting, breakage, and cracks in general]
I love you K! Your overall positivity and happiness is infectious!
I really enjoy watching and listening to you. I've learnt so much in the last two days staying up til the wee hours of the morning watching your teaching videos. Hahaha! lovely!
Love the colour of your hair, that suits you so much. Xxx
Gel looks so much easier than acrylic! Gonna have to give it a go.
Kirsty makes it look so easy and effortless.
Love your natural nails... I am on a quest to grow out my own natural nails... You and Adam rock... love from Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
Fab hun. I use my builder in a bottle to do infills. As I now have 4 children the youngest now being 6 months old I don't always have time to do a proper infill. Xxx
You do great nails like a rock star. Best teacher that gives master classes. I have a tip for you get some collagen with peptides in it to strengthen your nails.
I was so inspired I bought rose quartz build in the bottle and I love the finish. My soft nails feel really solid and are a lovely shape. Cheers 😁
May I ask what nail lamp you find I'd best to cure builder gel and how long you Cure for 😊
I can so relate to your wanting to remove your natural nails.... when I don’t have extensions on I chew my poor nails right down to the quick! But little videos like this encourage me for the in between times when resting them from acrylics. Thank you woman!
I just ordered builder in a bottle! Clear pink and white. Along with some gel colors, base and top coat, and I don’t remember what else. I’m super excited!
WELL? How did it go for you ? If you get a chance to answer me it would be so great of you !
I have thin nails too, sensitive to the touch when I have some products on them or even from water when pruned from it. However, I got Kiara Sky Nail Gel Kit and I plan on doing them as soon as all the polish and things I ordered come.
May Jesus Keep You ~
Gm!! I love to watch you do your nails!!
Very pretty Kirsty thanks for sharing and showing luv much love always 💅💕💕💕
You are so BEAUTIFUL and you Rock...🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I wish you could do my nails. I have NEVER done my
nails. But I love that pink you have done...❤️❤️
I love the short gel natural look you can make them a bit glam too but only for special occasions
Thank you great tutorial! Deciding to my own nails due to COVID-19 lockdown here in California. Just waiting for my supplies from Amazon.
i love this video because I wanted to do my own nails but they are so thin and tear easilt so the builder gel will help alot! and I love the nail color, will try that out aswell, thanks for the links of the products.
YAY! Doing your own nails! The teacher doing her nails! They look hreat by the way! Great! Builder gel! I've been using more gel and poly gel on my fingernails because there is no smell. I still love your channel Kirsty!
U r the best of the best @naionails #naionails u have video for everything I ever wanna learn. I wanna take a class
I LOVE the new nails. If I wasn’t in Philly I’d make an appointment. ✌🏼🍀
They look sooooooo good Kirsty !!!! But I do miss your old videos. Like doing your long extension with beautiful acrylic and bling.
I was so relieved that your natural nails were that long under the acrylic you removed. I was worried that I was doing my rebases wrong by not doing brand new sets every so often. I hope that made sense. I love your videos. I always learn so much from them that I can apply when doing mine.
Love the colour!
Lovely great colour as well x
Kirsty u are the best teacherxxx
I have bought it, really lovely to use, and lasts till you take it off.
I love you and your videos. You are beautiful inside and out. I think you are beautiful and I love your glasses. Beautiful nails thank you for sharing.
She's crazy!!! I love her!!!🥰
Love your videos! You are a perfectionist like me. Been licensed since 1990 & have never let anyone else do my nails-I do them myself!😉✌🏻
Love love love!!, 😍 plain Jane is my thing, and so much easier for me to change( which is at least once a week) 🤦♀️especially after a long week at work 😥👍it brightens up my mood, thank you kirsty 😘
I had my acrylics off and had an overlay, and the guy who did my nails said it is just an acrylic over the natural nail. I was surprised cos it still looks like I have acrylics still with the acrylic underneath my nail!! Plus my nails have been bleeding, like inside the nail bed I think the acrylic has aggravated my nail! Love your channel just found you!
I do love the color & I think I’m gonna get this done on my next nail appointment 👍🏼 thank you!
Nail queen 👸 I just love you Kirsty !!🥰
these nails are very classy!!! love the shape!!!! :)
Girl you freaking did that. Looks so good!!❤️❤️❤️
Here i am again back with my kirsty meakin addiction 😍 love this video lv Goldenize x
Thank you so much Im gonna try mine right now 🥰 I love your videos
Your natural nails are really nice 👍🏻
Love the silver hair!!!
I just found this video!! I hope I can learn some things here. I am such a tomboy! AWESOME!!
I just stumbled across your channel and you are fantastic! This is exactly what I've been looking for! 😍
Omg thank you I love you and I have been looking for a good overlay video and this just popped up! Best nail teacher ever everything is so clearly explained in detail yet with humour and without rambling ! Lots of love ❤
Beautiful 😍
Love the colour Kirsty!!
Yes for the natural nails!!
I loved these!! Perfect manicure! 💗
Really enjoyed this tutorial and on natural nails? Wow I want to attempt this.
My god I adore you and your vids!! Learned so much from you, absolutely beautiful nails!
I pretty much exclusively wear builder in a bottle these days (not this brand) and have found that you can get away with longer nails if you are willing to let the natural nail grow underneath for support. It’s a matter of preference , but an option nonetheless!
You make it look so easy.
Lovely tutorial...
They look lovely💅🏽💅🏽💅🏽
The nails look amazing and simple💕
I’ve watched this video SO many times😂 I love it, sooo therapeutic to watch and I just love natural nails with biab🤩😍😍
Rght! Been watching your videos for a while now trying to pluck up the courage to get my own ones done. I'm 50 and never been to a salon. My niece once stuck some nails on me about 10 years ago maybe more. Burned me with the lamp, it felt like the glue & varnish was running onto my skin and cut me with the filing so I've been really scared to get them done since. I've seen other different people on TH-cam do nails and they all could do with going back to nursery school never mind college.. I just need to suck up & get them done. I've actually managed to take a lovely pic of a set of kirstys own nails not one of her designs, I dont think folk round here are that good, lol but a lovely set of ombre with a couple of Crystal's on one finger of each hand. & a simple almond. So everyone keep fingers crossed for me will let ya know how I get on xx
Oh, and i pray i dont get pauletta pickups mr woo or it'll be stick on nails for me for the rest of my life... as for my cuticles I've never had them done so I'll probably be the talk of the road when I leave, lol wish kirsty could do mine, at least we'd have a laugh... aye duck x
I love that color!
Love them. When I am curing anything I lay my palm flat so my thumb is facing backward and use 2 lights, a big one for my 4 fingers and a small single nail lamp for my thumb. That way everything is flat and cured properly.
I love uuuu!!! I love your nail's, i love the way u talk i love your chair i love everything a out u!!! What top u got one is really nice!!! I love grey and pink!😍😍😍😍😍 U are the besttt!!!!
OMG i love you chicken cup!! I have 8 hens. They are most definitely my pets i love them!💖💖
Oh, what a pretty color! It's just gorgeous on Kirsty's hands. It seemed a bit weird not to add any crystals or glitter to any of the nails, though. No paintings, either.
Love the natural nails. 💜
My favorite color 💅🏻❤️
I love my builder gel over lays! I prefer soak off so I end up using it in a bottle alot. I prefer pots but so hard to find soak offs.
When I'm feeling froggy I even make a small extension with forms.
To remove the non soak offs I file as much as possible & then use magic burst gel removers
I do this on my own nails all the time...I like it much better and my nails always look good...they are strong too.
So beautiful art on yr nails which u removed.
Very nice 👍
Love your glasses!
Very pretty 💕
Thank you this will be so much easier for me
You said Taco!! I think you know Cristine. 😄
Wow that’s the type of e-file I need
I have been doing nails since the 80’s. Madam Glam for sure you can go as long as you want. It’s amazing stuff!!
i felt every bit that you done to your nails, especially the cuticle oil, felt so wonderful! one day i will purchase all your products bcuz i got my products from china, i know dont come at me, sally's didnt have what i was looking for
Your nails are beautiful
I have extremely thin nails. The build in a bottle js perfect to add strength to my nails.
Gorgeous thanks
Thank you Kirsty. Xx
Love this video!!
Love to get a video of Kirsty’s top ten gel polish colours !
...............now I want to see them decorated 😂We know you’re not gonna leave them plain Jane!
Wow really early.. great job.. looks wonderful 😁😁👏👏
I watch so many channel videos that sometimes I dream that it's my fingernails, then I wake up and I'm very sorry. Hahaha
Omg same, I look at my hands & it just doesn't feel right lol
I’ve been using Builder in a Bottle, rose quartz, as an overlay on my natural nails for a few months now and I’m loving it! I always like growing my nails out but when they’d get a certain length, I’d get a break, but not anymore.
Anne Findley is that hard to do on yourself? My nails are SUPER weak, and I don’t want much length. Thinking of trying to learn how to do this on myself
Tiffany Sanchez I found it pretty easy to do. On my non dominant hand that has short nails, it takes a little more time but the more I do it, the easier it gets. And infills are really easy to do also. Definitely give it a try!
Looking amaaaazing❤️🤗❤️
Pink pinapple smells sooooo good!
Love !!!!
bravo super magnifique gros bisous Martine 👍👍👍👏👏👏💅💅💅😙👄👄❤
Lovely😍
Ohhhhh i like it so realy much😍😍😍
Kirsty, can you give us an update on your poorly right hand ring finger, please? Lots of love xxx
That was cute.
Thank you for doing this. I am going to Builder in a bottle soon. #teamkirsry
Hi Kristy love your channel💋❤
Do you have a video on what drill bits you use when and where you buy them? It’s just that my drill bits kind of suck and I don’t know if it’s because I use them in the wrong way or if the suck on there own 😂😂
Jeanette Olesen I second that request x
I'd love to know which Electric file and bits
Would like to know which drill and bits too please :)
Same I’m desperate to know.