Acrylic Brushes:
When you first begin to practice your application of acrylic, you will usually make use of a smaller brush which could be a size 6 or 8. These brushes are great to begin with as they effectively lift a smaller bead of acrylic (powder with liquid) allowing you to master your application technique with the 3 zones. They also allow you to learn the ability to get your ratio of liquid to powder correct with more control. This smaller brush size of 6 or 8 is usually included within starter kits for this reason.
However, as you begin to advance in your experience and skills, you may find smaller brushes make your application slower and your treatment time longer. When working in the salon or as a mobile therapist where timing is key to ensure you can maximise your earnings, it is important that you can begin to reduce your treatment timings. One way to do so is to look to use a larger acrylic brush. Larger brushes allow you to effectively pick up a larger bead of product which means you can cover a larger area of the nail with less strokes. You will still be using your 3-zone process but will not require the use of up to 3 smaller beads to cover each zone, instead you may be able to achieve coverage of an entire zone in just one large bead. This does of course take much practice and good technique to ensure you are getting your ratio of powder to liquid correct to avoid flooding the nail or creating poor adhesion through too little powder/product too thin.
As you grow in confidence and more importantly, experience of creating the correct ratio of liquid to powder; you can begin to gradually increase the size of brush you are working with going from a size 6-8 and then to a size 10.
Dotting Tools:
This type of nail tool is exactly what you’d expect it to be; a tool that helps create even, perfectly symmetrical dots every time. It’s a nail art essential.
Use these dotting pens to create marbling designs, blend colours, create swirls and textured finishes. They can also be used for creating circles of various sizes, and to draw dots into petal shapes when doing finely detailed flowers.
Gel Brushes:
Gel Brushes are often designed for use specifically with UV Gel and are optimally shaped and sized for easy product pick up and application. These are often made with synthetic bristles to provide an easy to clean, long lasting and affordable brush which picks up the product without encouraging it to sink into the brush which could cause product wastage and make it harder to glide the product from brush to nail. Gel Polish is usually applied with the brush that came enclosed within the product lid and there is no need to use any alternative brush unless you choose to.
What’s in the box
5 x Acrylic Application Brushes: Sizes #2, #4, #6, #8, #10 (Yellow, Blue, Green, Pink and White)
5 x Dotting Tools (Pink, Yellow, White, Blue and Green)
15 x Gel and Nail Art Brushes (White)
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