Envy Nail Studio

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We are open and ready for business!!
Please WhatsApp 07871 605352 for appointments!
Based in Kingston Park.
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💅 Appointments available from 9.30am - 9pm Monday - Saturday 💅

⭐️ New client 10% discount on all treatments in June and July ⭐️ (quote Facebook 2)

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You can’t beat a bit of leopard print 🐆

Not long now……..

We’re loving the monochrome effect today whilst playing with styles 🖤🤍

All done with builder gel on natural nails. No extensions required!
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Do Acrylics Damage Your Nails?

I hear this so often in salon.

We regularly get people coming in, asking for “something other than acrylics as they’ve ruined my nails previously”…
(great for me as I get to do my builder gel speech), or they will say they don’t want acrylics because…
“they ruin your nails”.

They know this for a fact; because their neighbour’s cousin’s husband’s wife’s dog, had a set once - and they told them so 👌🏽

Although I am an avid new recruit to builder gel and I will praise it until the cows come home - I have to do my bit and put people straight about acrylic, as it was and always will be - my first love (although I have now moved on 💔😉)

No, acrylic does not damage your nails. Period.

Acrylic as a product is brilliant and when applied correctly and removed correctly, is an amazing bit of kit.
I am 20 years plus trained with acrylics and I don’t believe it would still be around or as popular if it wasn’t a decent product.

Here’s the controversial bit.
Damage is caused by either the technician applying the product (over exposure of product/incorrect ratios/over filing) or from incorrect removal techniques. This can be from drilling off and over filing by your tech - or the client removing their nails themselves.

By that I mean the client (yes you) can cause the most damage to your own nails if you don’t go to a decent salon and get them removed properly.

When a nail is overfiled, you lose layers of your natural nail, which in turn makes them thinner, sometimes sore and more prone to ripping or tearing. This damage can take a long time to grow out.
Similarly if you bite or pull acrylic off your natural nails you are doing exactly the same thing. That is where damage occurs. It is not the product itself.
I am sick and tired of hearing acrylic being blamed for damaged nails.

Go to a decent salon, check their credentials/certificates. Look at the brand they are using - it will be labelled on the bottles. If there is no label, there is a reason they don’t want you to know. Ask them the name of the brand. Google it.
Don’t let people over file you. If there’s heat, tell them. Make them stop.
Don’t bite or pull your acrylics off to save paying for a proper removal. You’ll pay more for it in the long run.

If you have damaged nails and want acrylics it can be done sensibly by a good technician.
Keep the length short so as not to put too much stress on them and allow them to recover.
All in all, be responsible for where you go to get your nails done. Don’t go cheap or quick because of time or finances. It’ll bite you in the backside later.
Good nails are an investment. They are not something to be done cheaply or be done with mediocre products or irresponsible technicians.
Take the time, it’s worth it I promise.

And no…. acrylics don’t damage your nails.

Much love💋

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