Nail extensions

 

UV Gel £25.00
Gel nails are an extremely natural-looking enhancement, thin, clear, flexible, non-yellowing, non-porous and they resist lifting. They can also be used for natural nail overlays to strengthen your own nails. They are applied in an acrylic paste like form and cured under a special UV lamp, they are much lighter in weight than conventional acrylic nails. The ultimate long-term goal with gels is for the client to end up growing out and wearing her own long, strong, beautiful, healthy nails under the gel; so that she is no longer to be considered wearing artificial nails, but with the gel becoming essentially just a very strong, bonded base coat to protect her own nails from cracking, splitting, peeling or chipping.

Acrylic Tips £25.00
The original nail extension system, an advanced nail enhancement providing unparalleled strength with some flexibility. Plastic tips are applied over your own nail, then cut to size and blended in before having a layer of Acrylic placed over them. Available in both natural or bright white, Acrylic Tip and overlay continues to be the most popular choice with Nail Technicians and their clients worldwide.

Silk & Fiberglass £25.00
Also known as 'Backscratchers' these extensions are pieces of silk, fiberglass or linen that have been cut to a desired shape and glued over the natural nail or over the natural nail and artificial tip extension. The fabric is then coated with more glue (to build up strength) or with a "resin". Resin is a thick version of glue and because resin is thick it takes a very long time to dry. It needs something to accelerate the drying time so an accelerator is used (also called an activator). This comes in the form of a liquid that is sprayed as a fine mist over the resin coated nails. We only use Silk as it is the the most natural-looking, linen is the strongest but most 'fake looking' and fiberglass sits between the two. We choose not to use fiberglass as it is only slightly harder wearing than Silk. These nail extensions are often too delicate for those with an active lifestyle so not the right choice for everyone.