Acrylic Sculpting for Beginners
by Anastasia Milton
100 video lessons for beginners and experienced nail technicians who want to get professional education.
To pass the course you will need 3 months
Continuing Education Units: 50
Acrylic is my favorite product for nail sculpting. It allows not only to sculpt nails but also to create designs. It is suitable for clients with thin, short, extremely bitten nails, oily nails, for clients with hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).
But not many nail technicians are able to work with acrylic. Often they think that it is difficult, they do not know how to choose the right products and brushes, do not understand when it is necessary to pinch the nails.
On my Acrylic for Beginners online course, you will learn how to create beautiful and elegant nails.
Anastasia Milton, author of the course, nail technician and educator with 16 years experience
If you are considering a career as a qualified nail technician, Acrylic for Beginners course is an ideal course for you. It contains all the elements you require to study from home in order to become a fully qualified nail technician and to secure professional indemnity insurance to practice professionally either from home, as a mobile service, or in a nail bar or salon. The Acrylic for Beginners course also includes information on manicures so that you will not need to do a separate manicure qualification in order to complete this course.
This course is designed for anyone who wants to start working with the acrylic system. No previous experience is needed. At the end of the course, you will be able to create a natural-looking nail extension using astonishing nail products. You will gain both practical skills and knowledge which is essential in your career as a nail technician.
Three Reasons to Start Acrylic Sculpting course
Certificate
Achieve a feeling of success! At the end of the course, when all your tasks are completed, you will be given access to the Test Lesson. After the Test is passed successfully you will get the numbered Certificate with your name.
5 Star Support
Guidance at every stage.
You are constantly in touch with educators and support team. We always answer all the questions from all the students.
Contents
We start with basics. We discuss the structure of a natural nail, the way it grows, what materials are required, and how to choose them.
We move on to practical tasks. We learn to feel the product and to apply it properly, to choose the right moment for pinching, to shape the nail into a perfect shape by filing.
Improving the techniques. We practice achieving beautiful smile lines and applying polish, creating perfect nails for further application of one tone polish or for French manicure.
We go up from simple to comprehensive, moving on to next assignments only after the previous ones are fully completed.
The acrylic Sculpting course program
Theory
- Product chemistry (polymerization process)
- Physiology and anatomy of the natural nail
- Nail sculpting
- Artificial nail architecture
- What an ideal long-lasting nail should look like
Practice
- Applying gel polish Natural nail prep, applying gel polish, removing the product.
- Practice with a product on a tip.
- Natural nail prep before gel sculpting. Pushing back the cuticle, filing the free edge, troubleshooting, applying dehydrator and primer.
- Prep for basic «Square» nail shape Fitting the form, cutting it according to the natural nail shape.
- Placing the form stiffener
- Working with a C-curve tool and forms
- Sculpting: creating a nail using 3 acrylic beads Sculpting free edge of the nail, apex, cuticle area
- Taking off the form
- Pinching the nail
- Sculpting strong and flexible nail Pinching with your own nails, using different pinching tools, find the perfect moment, troubleshooting.
- Filing technique Theory, filing zones, choosing the right file depending on a zone, holding your hand right while filing, how to tell it is time to stop filing.
- Nail sculpting troubleshooting Not enough filing vs. too much filing — how to find a perfect balance
- Buffing the nail
- How to take off gel nails safely using a nail drill Filing the length and top coat, choosing the right drill bits, speed and zones for filing.
Who would benefit from this course?
The course has been developed for those who are new to sculpting, or learned it by themselves, as well as for nail specialists preferring to start their education "from scratch", and for manicure professionals aiming to expand the range of services offered to the clients.
What will you get in the end?
You will:
- Have detailed knowledge of natural nail architecture and learn how to prepare the nail safely for sculpting;
- Know all about the contents and chemical properties of various products;
- Obtain information on the products currently available on the market and recommendations on the best choices to make;
- Practice working with gels of different viscosity;
- Learn the safety precautions necessary to protect both your clients and yourself;
- Master the application techniques;
- Learn how to choose the right form and how to fit it;
- Learn how to choose the right nail length for each client;
- Acquire the sculpting and pinching techniques that make your sculpted nails look natural;
- Be able to quickly make 10 nails perfectly shaped by filing;
- Learn to apply polish even and fast;
- Easily correct your mistakes even if you make them;
- Learn to create a perfect C-curve.
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It was very helpful! Learned sculpting nails, new filling techniques, liquid and powder ratio, theory and history of nails. I’d like to thank you for comments and feedback!
Good learning lesson for those with some experience and want to learn proper way. Although good for those just starting out I think those type of people need more hands on training to better understand what they are doing wrong and shown in person correct way. Just my opinion but others may disagree
Cindy guerrero. What do you think about the course?
Very instructive for a beginner. Learned the techniques of gel and acrylic. How to use the forms well and the tips. Since i have a store and wasn’t able to take classes here in Belgium this course allowed me to learn at my rhythm and free time. Thank you to all the teachers who were sometimes hard but I learned a lot.
The course is spectacular, I'm super happy, I learned a lot from the course. Thank you for everything, thank you for being always available to answer any questions, the technical assistance was very good, I recommend all professionals and beginners to take this course. Thank you. Thank you very much
The course offers a quite strong knowledge base for nail sculpting with gel. In addition to very detailed explanations and instructions, I now know what literature to turn to with additional technical questions. All in all I enjoyed the class very much.
I think this was a very well put course for beginners and self-taught people like me. Extremely helpful
I like this course and I like the way we learn. We have to upload the assignment so the tutors can check my work and give me some comments.
the only sure thing is that I will advertise you very much Any girl wants to do nails to learn Right I will advertise like your own advertising as well as Dude you learn everything right in the right order all is perfect I can not find no mistake ie to say I know to confuse or anything that shows that it is exactly that and finally
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Is the acrylic course using poly gel as I am interested in learning polygel.