Video: How to do Free Edge Shapes on Acrylic Nails

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Learn how to do free edge shapes on acrylic nails with an artificial tip in this free expert grooming video on nail grooming and beauty.

- Introduction to Acrylic Nails with Artificial Tips

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Okay, now I am going to demonstrate different types of nail shapes on the free edge. And I have got my finger. First I am going to start with telling you the different names of the different shapes. This nail currently is a square shape and the way you can tell is how it has the squared off corners, just like that. I am going to take my one hundred to one eighty grit file and what I am going to do, I am going to file off the sides to give you the different shapes. There is squared, rounded, ovaled, and squovaled. Those are the different shapes. So this is the squared with the two sides squared off. Okay and I am just going to take my file and we are going to round the corners off and we are going to turn this nail into a rounded free edge of this nail. And remember when doing this on yourself or on a client, always use great caution as not to cut the skin, to cause any type of injury to the finger. Okay this is more of a rounded edge. You can see where I took the sharper edges off. Another example is more of a squoval shape. This is a shape that a lot of my clients do prefer. And I am just going to take it back a lot farther than the rounded on the edges. And you just continue to file the sides being very careful as to not damage the cuticles or the skin on the edges. And if you are working on your natural nails you just want to be very careful because a natural nail is a lot softer than the acrylics. The acrylics are a lot tougher. Okay, so I have taken the sides off a little bit more so this is more of kind of a square ovaled shape, taking the edges down. Another shape that we can do it the pointed. This is where the nail is a lot more pointed an you just really go in there and take those sides off. That's why it's very helpful if you have the more coarse file, it really helps to just get that edge smoothed out a lot more quickly. And that is more of a pointed shaped nail. And those are just some of the different nail shapes when filing nails.

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How to do Free Edge Shapes on Acrylic Nails

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