How to Clean & Prep for an Acrylic Nail Manicure

Series Summary

The beauty ritual of manicuring fingernails began over 5,000 years ago and continues today with even more popularity. Caring for your nails is an important part of health and hygiene and should be practiced by everyone whether they care for their nails themselves or hire an esthetician or beautician to do basic care and beautification of their nails. Are you considering becoming a cosmetologist, beautician, or an esthetician? Would you like to learn for free how to give a manicure? Would you like to know what to expect before getting a French manicure? Giving a spa-quality manicure at home is easier than ever, thanks to these free instructional videos offered by Expert Village.

In these online video lessons you'll learn tips and techniques used in professional salons & spas from expert manicurist Paul Dang. He demonstrates step-by-step how to give an acrylic nail French manicure, showing you what supplies you'll need to get started, sanitation tips for you and your client, how to apply acrylic nail tips, and how to trim, shape and file acrylic nails. He continues by showing you how to apply coats of acrylic and French nail paint, how to straighten the polish, how to maintain your manicure, and how to remove acrylic nails.

Video Transcript

" Hello my name is Paul Dang and I am with Nail World on behalf of Expert Village. Clean and prep the nails before putting on the acrylic nails. It's crucial to clean the nails before you put them on because you want to get the oil and the grease off the nails to avoid any infection and so the acrylic nails will stay on better. You can use either alcohol or acetone to clean the nails. Alcohol dries slower. Acetone saves you time. You don't have to rub hard. Just apply light pressure. Now you want to clean out the cuticles using a rougher nail file, this will allow the nails to stay on better because of the rougher surface of the nail. Push the cuticles away from the nail bed but don't apply too much pressure so as to avoid thinning out the natural nails. Avoid skin. The nail will look rough when you are done filing but that is what you want before you apply the acrylic nails ... "