 hey how are you I'm getting ready I'm logging on to I'm trying to log on to my computer so I can at least be able to read you all's comments so give me a second so that way I can just go on with the tutorial I may have to sign in under my other name. Before we get started do anyone have any questions anything that you want me to touch on shall I say okay I'm gonna start I'm gonna wait okay so the first thing and I'll just check up periodically I want to talk about brushes first these brushes are by so I hope you have pen and paper as well these are back alpha brush you can actually like Google alpha brush on Instagram there are some codes for these okay I think I got in to my other one all right cool so next I'm gonna talk about well first let me go back so this size right here is about a 14 it's one of the larger sizes I don't recommend this as a beginner but once you get a little used to it I think you could use it this one here is by poochies nails you don't need any type of license or anything and when you order these as for them already pinched and these are Kalinsky brushes this here is about a not no excuse me this is a 12 this is I believe this is a 8 oval it has a little oil on it so I won't be using this one but this is the one I really want to show you guys with but it has a little too much oil I'm gonna run a little acetone through it and see if we can get it back together with this is what I would recommend starting with it's a little finer as you can see it's smaller a little like weight it's not as heavy so we're gonna try to use that one today once you get your nails I got these from Sally's I like to clear only because you can do clear designs you can put a colored acrylic over top of them and they're pretty good the Sally's ones they're a little thick for me but that's what we're gonna use for right now your finger here your practice finger all these things will be listed in my store front on Amazon we talked about buffers earlier I prefer the purple buffers for acrylics also for acrylic nails this is a 100 100 file here this is a 100 180 file it's usually listed there I got this from the nail supply but if you're going online you want to get the 100 and the 180 the 100 it is a harder grit so that is better for filing like shaping your nails the 180 is great for like buffing and it's not as harsh so think of it as going down being rougher the number going up being a little lighter okay hold on I'm gonna try to see if I can log in from here okay and then we talked about the clear we'll get back to that y'all I'm still trying to get in so give me a second okay and then I'm gonna need a little dish something like this I got this from the nail supply but it's just a little dish to put your monomer in the monomer that I suggest and great for beginners is the Mia secrets liquid monomer and the Mia secrets powder and this is the multi-balance natural pink acrylic y'all I'm still trying to alright so we talked about acetone make sure you have you some acetone this comes from Sally's it's great and get the pure acetone don't get the one that's blue get the one that's clear and it comes in the clear bottle you'll need alcohol I just took regular alcohol put in here and then we talked about primer you're gonna need your primer and I suggest the no lift nails one and all I did was put it in an empty nail bottle I get these nail bottles from the nail supply so that says primer I use a little this here so nail polish holder and I have the paper out here so that way I can dab this on here that way I don't put too much so you'll see me do that so I think we cover basically everything and then here's the cuticle oil your need okay let me check to see if I have any questions okay good good I'll do a more in-depth one with my real nails on my YouTube once it's time for that but I just being that I just did them yesterday when that time comes we'll do it okay so let's get started cuz I don't want to be long-winded okay so the first thing you want to do you're starting fresh I suggest taking I want to have some cotton here this is like no-link cotton take a little alcohol or you can take some acetone if you have a like polish or had on polish you want to just kind of we're pretending this is a nail okay wipe your nail down so acetone preferably wipe the nail down that's gonna dehydrate your nail it's gonna get any polish that you have on off and then just take the 180 side and just lightly kind of buff your nail you want to rough it up just a little bit and then what I like to do is take alcohol or this spray here spray it where's my oh here it is and I take the cuticle pusher and I go around the edges and just kind of push the cuticle back very gently not rough you want to just push it back any little excess skin now you may see a little skin still sticking up that's fine what I do normally with my drill I go in with the sanding band I'll show you what the same thing is this is what the same the band looks like and my drill here I'm trying to everything is kind of generally to y'all and then what I do is with that little excess skin you see how I'm holding it it's almost like holding a pencil and you want to keep the speed down and then I just go around here I'm gonna turn it on just for a second and you just go right around your cuticle get just close you want to put it at I want to say a 45 degree angle and just go around the size my angle may be wrong and then you want to just lightly go across the top here and rough it up a little bit more and you don't want to see any shiny parts on your nails but again get as close to that cuticle area as you can and you're gonna just kind of get the rest of that loose skin that's dangling around your nails off okay now I want to show you both kind of drill in regular way so again we're gonna go back so if we didn't use the drill we're gonna take the softened buff inside and just go around the way you want to do that is kind of lay your file at almost a 45 degree angle and just go around like that and that's how you would do it with a nail file lightly rough it and that should take the excess off okay after you do that what I like to do is take some more cotton take the swipe and then just wipe the nail I just wipe it off that dehydrates the nail again okay now what I do let's match up a nail that will fit on here and the thing with this also is that you don't want the nail to be too small I remember when I used to go to the nail place and get my nails done I always say why they can't use a smaller nail so I can get a skinnier point the key is you want to go from side to side from one side of the nail bed to the next but this little piece here you want it to be just like on the tip of your nail so you want to look and if it's too wide you can file it down let me check this one this one is a better fit because it goes from side to side so now we wipe that off let's get the glue so now you're gonna take the glue and just put it on that rim of the nail now this is a fake nail this ain't a real nail and you want to just kind of hold it there right on the tip you don't want to go past that little line that little imaginary line I want to make sure y'all can see some of this hold this here for a second now on this thing here I know we add the spray because again this is not a real nail you don't have to add the spray so this one I need an assistant trying to spray it y'all so to stay but you don't need this spray I only really got this spray for my jewels and for these little things because they're hard like I said you got to really rough it up with that dry let me see if you have any questions why they're trying hello well I'll be honest with you if you get stuff a little at a time I would say you shouldn't like you can find deals on the monomer and the acrylic for like $20 your nails they shouldn't that's like $10 you roughly would spend about 50 I'm only using this nail for practice to show you guys I always suggest people start with practicing that way before you get on your nails and you start messing up your own nails but I have a lot of polish for this stuff I've bought over time like with the jewels all this stuff I suggest you get off of Ali Express you get more for your money but the basics like this like Ali Express doesn't sell me as secrets me as secrets it's not sold like in stores only they only have an Amazon store it is the best acrylic system for beginners this right here you don't need like I said you could use alcohol or acetone buy stuff a little at a time you don't have to buy it but like I said look for codes on your brushes this again you don't need it's just alcohol you can use alcohol this is probably five dollars at Sally's this is actually empty I just pointing I'm glad I kept it though what are these a dollar you know now we're gonna use this too so near that's a dollar I use this but they're only like maybe three so I mean just about a little bit what you can't I will buy the basics the first things I would buy would be nails acrylic monomer and primer that would be different and a brush of course you can start out with a cheap brush but to be honest with you the better the brush the better you're gonna be able to lay acrylic but like I said over time maybe get two things let me start with my acrylic monomer and powder and even if you don't have primer use alcohol and a brush those three things basically and maybe just practice on your natural nail until you can get you some nails then maybe the next week buy you some nails and then your nails are gonna probably fall off because you don't have the primer so that gives you more of a chance to practice and then once you get your primer and you get better at it so let me finish so I'm just gonna do a basic square or like some people like so we don't cut that down I want to make it where it's not too long because everybody don't wear them long just a nice length so that looks like a pretty good length I think it's kind of on their crooked so now we're gonna take the rough side the 100 side remember going down we're just gonna file now if you're like okay I don't want them I want them to be a little small and you want to bring them in take your clipper here and just kind of I can do it better on my nails kind of take it off the side a little bit but start out like I said don't it doesn't have to be a big investment but think of the money that you'll save let's say if you spent $50 on all your stuff you just saved yourself hundreds of dollars because now you can do your nails every two weeks where you are paying some people pay $100 every two weeks $80 I'm in some nail groups and for jewels and all of that stuff those girls charge like $180 just to get your nails done a hundred and you see how I got my finger here on this side of the file that's to give me a little leverage just to get deeper into that that's where dang on it the nail just went flat across the room y'all hold on I'm gonna rough this up so we can regaloo another one and that's another thing you want to make sure that once you file you get all the dust off of your natural nail I'm not worried about it on this nail here but on your natural nail see how that stuck better than the last time I having to add the spray so we're gonna let that dry and I'm gonna look to see if we have any questions I still can't get on okay so so far everybody's gone but I'm just gonna cut this down that's why I don't really suggest the like I said these tips because they're a little thicker so they're harder to stay even on a regular nail so it's just not this one so I'm gonna try to be a little more gentler and that's another thing too when you do use tips you may have to hold where you glue the tip just a little bit okay now what I'm gonna do is I know nobody's on but just in case anybody come back and watch the live I'm just gonna rough around where you glue the nail so in between here I'm just gonna rough that just a little bit and that makes it if you doesn't have you don't have a hump and it's a blending okay so nobody's on so the next thing you're gonna do you're gonna just take your primer and the reason this blue cloth is on here so that I can just dab it on there so I don't get too much and then you're just gonna put your primer not as close to the cuticle but in between on that nail be a part there now I'm gonna add a little bit of monomer to my dish well since nobody's on here asking questions I'm just gonna go ahead and do this nail and I guess if someone sees it they'll ask questions I'm gonna use this poochies brush it's a little shorter it would be the next best thing to an 8 so we've added our primer now we're pulling out our acrylic I like to kind of give it a good shake so that way it's mixed up well and I just put the top down and that way it's kind of like at an angle and then I can see what I'm doing like still on okay so you what you want to do this is called burping your brush you take your brush and you lay it kind of flat in like that let's let all the bubbles come out of it what have you so put that in and then what you want to do is just kind of wipe it so this is a fresh nail you want to just hold tap your brush a little bit let it bounce in the acrylic powder and you see that little white powder stuff it's gonna go away and then what you want to do is lay it should be enough right there in between where you started and then I wiped my brush you want to patch your size so it doesn't run across the sides and I'm pushing it down towards the cuticle and then wiping it back up now I'm taking the belly of my brush which is this part here and just kind of flattening everything out and steady wiping my brush on my paper towel now I'm taking the tip and going around the edges so it doesn't get on the cuticle and wiping now I'm going to put my get my brush back in and just kind of go across that I'm looking at it from side to side and I'm seeing that I already got established my oh goodness I can't think of a technical name off the top of my head but basically you want to add more here because that's where our nails tend to break so you want to have just a little bit more there the technical word will come to me in a second I can't believe I forgot so now I'm dipping my brush back in wiping it and then I'm just going to dip just a little like two to three ounces and now I'm taking it backwards and sweeping it forward and something I want to make note of that you all can't really see but what I'm doing is I'm holding it down here but I'm touching it very very lightly don't be aggressive with it if you just touch real light that's all you need you don't need heavy pressure that's when you start to mess up so now I'm looking at it all angles this is what it looks like from that angle and I'm gonna tell you the better job you do of laying your acrylic the less you have to file but it'll take practice that's why I said get you some practice fingers now I'm just going to add a little bit more acrylic here at the tip it's very lightly tap and I'm brushing in the opposite direction just so that it blends and there we have it so and take as many bees as you like and what I mean by bees this is a bee when you put your brush in the monomer and then in the acrylic and you lay that like this is a bead I'm just gonna get next to the cuticle a little closer and that's considered a bead each time that you put your brush in the monomer and pick up acrylic no matter how big it is how small it is so don't get stuck on I got too little put it down lay it down and even if it takes you five acrylics on there and but it's neat it doesn't matter some people get caught up in oh I did one bead or it only took me two beads or whatever so that's what the nail is looking like and always look at it from every angle so if it's something minor that could be fouled off then that's fine but this is all you have to do so now I'm just gonna close this up wipe your brush off really good I'm a double check but I don't think anybody is on but I'm just gonna act like you here while that dries I'm gonna put everything up and we're going to following that and also you don't need this size they have smaller sizes see you have smaller sizes so if you just want to test it like what I did was I was like I may want to go back to the nail one to the nail salon so I start out with one smaller than this like this one so it gets even smaller so start out with a small one of this and your monomer which is the eight ounces that's the smaller size I think they may sell for ounces of it and you can just start there and that's not expensive because I don't want it to be expensive for you so that's why I'm showing you the cheaper acrylic powders you know later on you can get into the Valentino powders and the young nail powders but right now I don't suggest those because the Mia Secrets is easy to work with it's cheap and it won't cost you a lot of money okay so no one's still on so now you just tap it's still a little wet so we let that dry now that's drawing I'm gonna see if I can figure out how to get online I'm gonna come back so that way I can get a little closer