Does anybody do their own nails rather than go to get them done ? Just wondered how easy is it and where you got the kit from ?

DON"T!!

I've had 'enhanced' nails for about 20 years now, thinking of all the times I'd sat there and watched the technicians and I muse "How hard can it be!"

Fast forward and I've stuck one hand to the kitchen table and my nails have great big solid blobs on them!...

Avoid the acrylic! (even done professionally avoid it, ruins your nail beds)

      I use Fibreglass, it's wonderful, bare minimum filing of nails and when you soak them off your nail bed is smooth and undamaged :-)

I started doing it myself about 6 months ago and haven't looked back, the process is so simple (and lots of internet videos show you how to do it) and the really joy I'm totally 'cack' handed and even I can do it perfectly.
     To give you an idea this is a simplified version of the process:
You buy strips of either fiberglass or silk ( a mesh strip very very fine )cut a strip off (you buys ones pre-cut and shaped) cover the nails with it then put on the resin which can be done one of two ways, it comes in a bottle very like nail glue with a long nozzle and you put a teeny drip on the nail then smooth it over or the other way is get a bottle of resin that you can brush on (like nail varnish) then you spray with a pump action 'activator' and the  mesh disappears and you have a natural glossy hard nail :-) repeat and then buff up... sooo simple and fool proof!  <- now thats a very brief 'to give you an idea' run through, but it really is simple and 'faff' free.

Hope this gives you an idea.
There are lots of suppliers on the internet where you can buy wholesale beauty products I use 'back scratchers' which is the Rolls Royce of fiberglass nail systems but The Edge are good products too, all my bits, nail tips, glue files etc I buy about every 4 months and costs me about £35, where as previously I was having my nails done in a salon paying £35 twice a month!
   A lot of the online wholesalers do 'starter kits' to get you going with everything you'll need in them.

Example of one of the wholesalers I use: http://www.capitalhairandbeauty.co.uk/nails/fibreglass

Liv this looks really good. I have my nails done twice a month a 20 quid each time which I don't mind but it is getting the time to get it done. Will have a good look at this
Thanks
Lucyx

I am with husky girl on this one  a big dont and the number of people I have seen who have used acrlyics and ruin their nails for ages is mega.
I would go with hg advice or grow your own lol

My nails are so brittle anyway! Since I had them done I have loved them. So tough and they look so smart !

Joke is my daughter has started at college to qualify as beautician which includes manicureas well as lots of other exciting things. Mum is still waiting for her jurn ! closest I got was to have one hand nicely filed and treated and then she ran off with bf saying I will finish off when I get home, still waiting and that was last week LOL
Yes my nails are really brittle too I managed to grow them a while ago for about two months all on my own then they started breaking and now the lot have gone and keep breaking again. No rhyme nor reason

Mine break mid way up the nail which is so painful. Since I had the acrylics done they are all so much better . I can show my hands off now where before I used to hide them !