Showing posts with label taranaki nail technician. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taranaki nail technician. Show all posts

Friday, 5 February 2016

BrillBird Conversion Course

PLAY TIME!

I have started on my 2016 nail goals by attending an acrylic course, trialing out another brand of acrylic from the company BrillBird.

The ever amazing Jill Roberts who is the new educator for the company just happens to live in New Plymouth! How lucky are we?! She is super sweet and her classes are so fun, I can't wait to do some art courses with her...her work is incredible!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS........



I love the pots! Cute little triangles, the only thing I would say is that the pot takes up more room as the amount inside is in a cylinder hole, but its just packaging, product is what counts.
The product was really nice to use, easy to get ratios right (even in this heat!!).
Cover pink was a good coverage, thats always a plus. 





The form (I used the one I got lol so didn't have a photo of my own to use) was a good stickiness, reasonably easy to apply and I love how they have lines for stiletto, when my artistic forms have almond or rounded lines.

Myself-left, Rennell-right and Nyssa over that way -> somwhere lol getting our acrylic on.


We had such a fun time at this course!
We got some good tips and tricks and we get a BrillBird certificate to show we know how to use this system. 

Below are my efforts for the day:



Index - Encapsulated 3D
Middle - Encapsulated Glitter Fade
Ring - Reverse Application Glass Stiletto with 3D art
Pinky - Reverse Application French

My natural nails were quite long so the only extension was on my ring finger the rest are acrylic overlays. You can see I got lazy and didn't fix my ring finger cuticle line....but that was pure laziness lol I'll be changing that one up anyway so I will fix it later.

It's so important in an industry where new things pop up every week to go and do upskilling when you can. You always have room to improve and learn new things. 

On that note ill leave you with the food I ordered when we had our lunch break......droooooool


B xxx

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Friday, 22 January 2016

Why does it cost extra for nail art?


Nail art.
The thing that can transform your nails from run of the mill everyday,
to individual glam filled personalized pieces of art.
Don't get me wrong, they're not everyone's cup of tea, I'm not telling you that you HAVE to have nail art to have a fancy manicure, and to be honest some days even I can't be f....uhhh bothered with it lol.
If you've ever seen or had nail art done you know that it is not as easy as it looks, and every brush stroke or glitter sprinkle is very carefully placed and applied with an extreme amount of thought.



And yes it may be a quick glitter fade, or a few polka dots, 
but what you aren't thinking about is how much that glitter may cost, or how much product is wasted when applying polka dots, or the tools that are used to complete these looks. It all comes into play when artist price their work.
But most importantly....
TIME.




Anything that takes longer than a regular colour application should be, and is for myself, considered art.
As a client try and remember you aren't just getting your nails painted by a random person....
The woman or man sitting in front of you usually has spent a lot of money learning and practicing how to do these things on your fingers, they are creating something, something that will never truly be created in the same way and once you've worn it out it will only remain in an image (if she (me lol) remembered to take a photo)
Really, that means the nail art on your fingers, is priceless.

So if you're wanting art, dont expect it for free...
Support your nail tech (most of you do and we are super grateful for that) and pay that extra $ for that customized design.

B xxx

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