Creative Nails

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Creative Nails Biography

At That Nail & Beauty Place, you can be sure to receive the most up-to-date and professional nail treatment services possible.

Whether you are looking to have to most perfectly manicured, natural nails possible or the personally tailored nail enhancements, you can rest assured that at That Nail & Beauty Place we can provide for you the most perfect nail enhancement service for your needs.

All of our technicians are fully qualified and are using the most up-to-date techniques available. Our aim is to provide an exquisite finish to your nails, regardless of whether you nails are natural or artificial.

The products that we use are the industry leaders. We use first class competition winning formula’s to provide the best service possible.Our Brands...

At That Nail & Beauty Place, we use the most highly rated nail enhancement products available, supplied by Creative nail products. This brand is currently the most highly and critically acclaimed product on the market worldwide. Creative is the brand name associated with success; only nail technicians with an advanced understanding of nail practice are allowed to purchase the products needed in order to provide your nail service.

Nail Extensions...

Nail extensions are the most commonly booked appointments. There are several types of nail extension services that we can provide for you in order for you to have the most unique and tailor-made service

There are genuinely three types of nail extension products that are most commonly offered to our clients. Theses are liquid and powder, gel and fibre. It is important to understand that all of these products derive from the acrylic family; the only difference between the three systems is the way that products cure

Types Of Extensions: Liquid & Powder…

Liquid and powder is the most popular nail enhancement system used in our salon. This product cures all ‘get harder’ by a natural process of the oxygen evaporating when the liquid and powder blends. This process takes up to 48 hours to get to the most durable state. You will find that your nails are incredibly strong and durable. Liquid and powder can be used to sculpture or build up onto the natural nail and correct irregular nail shapes, e.g. if your nail grows upwards it is possible to correct the nail shape by re-balancing with liquid and powder.

Liquid and powder is effective for the use of ‘nail bitters’ due to the ability to form nail shape, hardness, pliability and natural nail colour. Liquid and powder is most commonly known as acrylic nail extensions. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the use of acrylic nail enhancements, of which we would like to address. You may or not recall a recent documentary about ‘nail extensions’ featured on television. Watchdog featured a salon in the south-east region who provided acrylic nail extensions to a client. They apparently used a liquid and powder acrylic containing the controversial MMA product. MMA is an extremely dangerous, hard and controversial substance. MMA is most commonly used in the dental practice. It has also been used in the product of bullet proof glass and artificial limbs. This product has been banned in most states in America due to problems associated with MMA, however, this is used in nail salons in the UK.

At That Nail & Beauty Place we actively oppose to the use of MMA as this can damage the natural nail and can also possibly damage your health. You can protect yourself by using a reputable salon who holds credentials, e.g. NVQ qualifications etc, and by looking out for the following signs:

Yellowing of the nails.

Strong smelling odour emanating from the salon.

Masks being worn by nail technicians.

Electric, metal nail files being used on the natural nail.

Poor sanitation.

Cheaply priced nail enhancements.

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No qualifications displayed in the salon

Liquid and powder, when used by professionals, is the most perfect way to extend and protect the natural nail, providing that you listen to the advice of the technician when it comes to removal of the artificial nails. Liquid and powder is removed by submerging your nails in pure acetone for approximately 25 – 30 minutes. The product breaks down and goes into a gel-like formula and can be easily wiped away from the natural nail. We advise that you have a re-hydrating manicure after a ‘soak-off’ to return the natural nails to the best possible condition.

Usually liquid and powder extensions take approximately 1 – 1 ½ hours to complete. The average cost is £30 - £35.

Types Of Extensions: Gel...

UV gel is a product derived from the acrylic family. UV gel is an acrylic that cures or ‘gets harder’ when using an ultraviolet to accelerate this procedure. The UV lamp is a catalyst which makes the oxygen evaporate; thus making the gel hard and durable. UV gel has a high-gloss shine finish which is a tell tale sign. There are two types of gel that you can be used; bio gel and normal gel. Bio gel when coming to removal needs to be soaked off in acetone. Normal gel has to be manually filed off in order to return to the natural nail. This is an area of controversy – to soak or to file. Our personal recommendation is to use a bio gel. Soaking in acetone can dehydrate nails, but as long as a re-hydrating manicure is performed, damage is minimal. On the other hand, a non-bio gel cannot be removed by any other means than ‘filing off’. ‘Filing off’ poses a danger of filing onto the natural nail plate and damaging the nail.

At That Nail & Beauty Place we use a bio gel for clients wishing to have gel nail enhancements, and all of our technicians are trained in this procedure. The product again is the world renowned Creative bio sculpture gel, which is ‘low-odour’ and limits possible damage by being able to be soaked off in acetone.

Gel nail enhancements can be particularly useful to clients who are subjected to having their hands in water regularly, e.g. hair dressers, as the process ‘shrink raps’ to the natural nail making it water tight, making the product more durable. The high-gloss, wet-look finish is particularly appealing to clients wishing to show-off their nails, however, due to experience, the clients nails have to be in a reasonable condition to begin with as most gel products are quite transparent and can not disguise contra-indication/abnormalities on the nail plate.

Gel can be sculptured or built up for strength on nail extensions, but it is not as pliable as liquid and powder in our opinion. Gel is a premix formula that is painted onto the nail. The gel is quite sticky, but on application, levels by itself. This makes tress areas and nail shapes difficult to build up. Gel enhancements often take 1 – 2 hours to create due to the product having to be set by UV lamp. The cost is usually around £35 - £45 to be applied.Types Of Extensions: Fibre...

‘Fibre’ or ‘Fibreglass enhancements’ can be used to extend or add strength to natural nails. The fibre system also derives from the acrylic family. The basic products used are a fibre - usually silk, cotton or nylon and a resin. The resin is set or accelerated using a chemical spray. This is how the fibre enhancement is ‘cured’ – accelerator spray speeds-up and heats the resin, thus making the fibre product hard and durable.

Fibre enhancements can be tricky and can take a relatively long time to produce. Most nail professionals will swear by fibre enhancements as a ‘repair tool’, but not as a product used to extend nails. This is due to the product being the most difficult to build up the stress areas, and can be the thinnest nail enhancement system. We discourage nail extensions with fibre, as in our opinion, the durability and the strength of nail extensions using fibre can be problematic.

Clients who have naturally ‘nice’ nails who need protection from everyday wear-and-tear, and who desire a thin and natural look to their nails, are often very satisfied with fibre nail enhancements.

Fibre is more commonly used as a repair system for natural nails, e.g. if you broke or snagged your natural nail, it is possible to repair like magic. No more catching in your hair or pulling on your clothing. You can often keep the length (depending on the break) and protect the nail you have without loosing the length of your natural nail.

Resin tends to be quite runny, and if the application is not accurate, it can spill or run onto the skin surrounding the nail. This can make the product ‘lift’. If resin spills onto the skin surrounding the nail, it can cause an allergy. The smell of the resin and ‘activator’ can be quite offensive to clients; therefore this is best practiced in well-ventilated areas.

Fibre extensions can be removed by soaking off using pure acetone which usually takes approximately 10 – 15 minutes to dissolve. An alternative to this is to manually file the fibre enhancements off of the nail.

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