00:00To be honest, I really hate situations like this, when there is this one broken nail and you have
00:04to fix it and extend it. So you take dual forms to build it out and everything seems just fine.
00:09By the way, here I have dual forms from ready to go, a small sample pack like this.
00:13There are two types of forms and they differ just slightly in their C-curve.
00:17I tried my best to pick the most suitable one. But because we used dual forms to extend it,
00:22it still ended up with quite a pronounced arch, since the form needs to cover the side growth
00:26points distribute evenly everywhere and so on. In general, no matter how hard you try in these
00:31situations, you still end up with one nail that looks different. Frankly speaking, that just drives
00:36me crazy. And someone will probably comment that I should have done all of them with dual forms then.
00:41Well, I suggest imagining a scenario where the tech simply doesn't have the time to redo everything
00:44using dual forms and so on, and she is just planning to do a standard overlay with regular gel.
00:49And now we've reached the point where the nail is already extended with a dual form, everything pressed
00:54on properly, looks fine and the side growth points are covered. It seems like the plan almost worked,
00:59but what a bummer, the nail really does look different. So what do I suggest doing in this
01:03situation? Well, first off, we'll simply overlay all the other nails with the exact same gel. And now
01:08it's going to be clearly visible that they look very different, because overlaying natural nails is
01:14one thing, but dual form extensions are a whole different story. And right now, as I am taking down the
01:20length of the free edge, we can see there's a huge amount of bulk in that arch. So I'm going
01:25to thin
01:25out that arch right down the middle and try to make the nails look more consistent. That is, while we
01:31usually try to keep that arch when sculpting with dual forms, because it creates beautiful architecture,
01:36in this case, I'm going to file away as much gel as possible, so it visually matches the neighboring
01:41nails. While since natural nails are never completely perfectly even, especially when applying milky gel,
01:46nail techs and clients often struggle with it not being distributed evenly everywhere. Just
01:51perfectly dense. So the very simple solution here will be a milky top coat, which I applied with a
01:57slight leveling effect. And my model and I decided to go with a simple oval shape. Well, you can let
02:02me
02:02know in the comments if I managed to make it look like we didn't extend that one nail at all.
