How to: Paint Your Own Press On Nails

I like having nice nails you to right now we could go to the salon for this but it's expensive and it takes a lot of time so if you're like me you might have taken it upon yourself to like learn how to do what they do at the salon but do it at home yourself this I will tell you from personal experience it takes a lot more time hours just to get your nails looking reasonable not even perfect it was the time for me whether I was going to this lawn or at home it was taking way too much time that's why I started using press on and I really like them they're so pretty and with press on they're not expensive they don't take a lot of time but let's look at this for a second because you could find ones that you like but even that could be timec consuming so maybe you purchase a whole set of them so you'll always have a color that you like I did that and I got them for really cheap but here's the thing now we're in a territory where this doesn't even look like a manicure it looks like a plastic nail not good so in this video I'm going to take you through my process my routine for painting my own press on nails since I started doing this not only do I really like it and in fact I think there's going to be someone watching who likes it so much you're going to want to do this like start a business do this kind of thing it's really enjoyable to do and they look amazing if you like this video give it a thumbs up and let's get started okay let's go back to the salon for a second you know about buffing because you buff you buff whether you have natural nails that are getting some gel over top or if you're doing like a nail enhancement like this the buffing is key because it helps the gel to adhere whether it's to Natural Nails or enhancements It's always important with press on they're shiny like this they're shiny so they won't hold any gel without buffing but wait a second we could be right back where we started taking like an hour to do our nails if we have to buff every single presson before painting it that's why these are so good this cost less than $20 for sets and sets of pre- buffed pre-buff nails they're ready to paint this box cost less than $20 and there are maybe six seven eight months worth of manicures in here awesome now when it comes to painting these it is easy there's just like a few things I want to point out and focus on of course you're going to need some gel to paint with and you can get a whole wardrobe of gel polishes for a really really good price so that part's easy one thing you're really going to want is a good LED lamp not one of those little ones so you'd have to do like each little finger individually and like press the button we need something that will cure the the nail making it glossy and gorgeous this led UV lamp from nail girls is so so good it moves with you it's got a bunch of really good features and using this because it's so high power gives such a lacquer to The Nail to where it just looks freshly done right out of the salon with this UV LED lamp you can customize the settings making it stronger or less power for the light on the back of your hand and this powerful LED lamp it doesn't need to be used while plugged into the wall I've never seen this before but you can of course use it plugged in like every UV lamp but it could be unplugged and you can turn it on and the display will show you how much battery it has it lasts for a long time and you can bring this with you wherever you want to do your nails without having to worry about plugging it in this makes it so easy to do press on nails especially in bulk pre- preparing your manicures before you're even ready to wear them when I'm doing it this way which is the first method I'm going to show you I'm using these pre-buff nails but these aren't just pre-buff they are pre colored they already have like a shade built into the actual nail all that these need is top coat but if you add a builder gel before the top coat you'll add shape and a layer that kind of makes it look as though you've had the nail built up with a gel extension method versus a press on and then you top it with top coat and that will give you that Salon style manicure instantly these strips of pre-buff nails all of the sizes are organized all of the nails are connected to the strip so you don't need to take the nails off for any reason until you're ready to use them that makes applying the hard gel applying the top coat really easy I just hold the nail strip in the middle and I'll wear gloves to prevent any oil transfer when I show you how to use color on a press on nail I'm going to show you using a nail stand and these present their own opportunities so this is another method outside of just painting the nails while they're on the Strip you can use some sticky Tac to take each individual nail and press it onto the nail stand itself this is magnetic and it allows you to make little designs or to work more specifically on that one individual nail I've got a little bit of sticky tack on here and now I'll take off one of these pre-buff nails before I set it on top of the nail stand I'm going to remove that little tab that creates a little Jagged Edge right in the middle where I've ripped it off of the strip and that is going to just be a small little detail that makes the nails look better once they're on optional step you can use a nail primer which helps the gel to adhere to the Press on without peeling off and if you have problems with peeling definitely do this when it comes to taking the actual color of your gel polish out of the bottle it's good to do this with a little bit of strategy rather than taking a lot out I like to slide it along the side so that there's only gel on one side of the brush and the other side of it is pretty much clean I always put the gel color slightly lower than I need to and then I push it up with the brush and allow it to flow and move a little bit since it has a slight spread of its own gel is self-leveling whereas nail polish if you were to go over it and over it you're making markings that will dry that way but gel you can smooth it over and over and it will continue to selflevel until it's smooth once you have an even layer of color you can put it in your UV lamp the base of this nail girls lamp is magnetic so the nail stand won't topple over or smudge now I'm going to add a second layer of color this will only need two and I'm going to cap the tip with a little bit of color right on the edge just to make it all seamless and then cure it once more and add a top coat sometimes this can happen your bottles get a little bit crusty and this can interrupt the line of light on your nail I'm going to show you a little tip with the bottles themselves if these have little Crispies in them it's going to interrupt that line of light when you're painting make sure that your gel polish is don't get gunked up with Crispies all you need is a little rubbing alcohol a little pack like this and cut a tiny little hole and now it has to be a hole that is smaller than the opening of the Polish bottle otherwise it's not going to work so I'm going to take that put the brush back in twist twist twist and then you'll see a lot of it is collected right there from here I'll take that alcohol wipe off and then take one more and just do a final cleanup you don't have to do this every time but every time that you do this your polish bottles will be clean and they won't have any little Crispies going inside whether you like doing these while they're on your hands or if you like painting the strip of press on or using the Little Nail stand once you're comfortable with your favorite method of doing these you can build from there and you can take your press on from like a basic solid color to something where you like like wa this is so cool and a lot of these tools don't cost more than a dollar or two which is awesome this is a silicone nail tool and you can use this in a bunch of different ways but I'll show you one right now this is very easy when it comes to using a French manicure strategy you basically just press this into the nail tip with some color on the edge and you keep going until it looks good and it looks really good it looks like professionally done it almost looks printed on and these these are really cool these don't have to be flower print they don't have to be this or that you can find these in all different styles these are nail foils and whatever base color you have underneath the nail is going to of course affect the mood and the atmosphere of the outcome these are really fun to play with these have to be my favorite because they're the easiest thing to use these stickers they detach from the backing when you place them into water so you can cut little little pieces out place them into literally a little bit of water and after 10 20 seconds they soften and you can just slide them right up off of the paper backing then these go onto the nail and it actually feels like you're working on a computer kind of cuz you can move them around and you can layer them on top of each other and while the water is still present they still move around which is really fun cuz you can find the perfect placement before adding your top Co coat these are of course prepainted pre-buff press on so all I did was add these stickers on top and then I'm like putting a little gem here and there and I like these a lot I'm going to link some of my supplies and the things that I use along with my favorite UV LED lamp the cordless cure Max by nail girls and if you want to leave a comment please let me know what kind of nail style you like the most including the shape thank you so much for watching and I'll see you you soon