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Summary: Learn how to prime the natural nail for an acrylic nail with an artificial tip in this free expert grooming video on nail grooming and beauty.
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Kimberly Bornstein Kimberly Bornstein has been performing her creative expert nail techniques since 1997. In 2005 she moved to Los Angeles California to pursue her career as a l... read more
Okay, the next step we are going to be going to is before you apply the acrylics you, what you need to do is you need to add the primer to the natural nail. Where you have already adhere the artificial tip to the nail so that is what we are going to do right now. So the reason we need to apply the primer is it helps the acrylic adhere to the natural nail. We have clip the edge of the artificial nail off. Now we are just going to smooth that edge off and now we are going to go ahead and smooth that edge right off there. Filing, get that all smooth off. You can take a nail brush and kind of dust any type of dust where you were filing, this is a good thing to do. Kind of of just smooth those edges a little rough on the side a little bit. Now what we are going to do is we are going to take the primer help that acrylic adhere to the nail. Also to whenever you are using a primer you want to use extreme caution DO NOT GET THIS ON YOUR SKIN it can really burn. So you just want to do really small brush strokes, just apply it to the natural nail. You don't necessarily need to get that on the tip, the artificial tip. Just kind of smooth it on there and make sure you always put the lid back on really well cause you don't want it to spill and then you apply this technique to all the rest of the 9 of the nails and make sure that dries. After you apply the primer then we are ready to move on to the acrylic.