Welcome back to my blog!
I know it’s been a long time since my last article, but between work and summer I decided to take a break.
So here I am back and today I am here to talk about another apparently innovative technique, which however hides things often unspoken.
Let’s start!
Dip powder method, what is it?
Like the acrygel combined with polyforms, the dip powder method has also spread widely on social media through advertisements, which showed an easy and fast method to have impeccable nails.
In practice we are talking about an acrylic powder that is used in a different way than usual. (Some brands work like a normal acrylic when combined with the monomer).
After applying the base, dip the finger in the powder, or dust it over, after which a product is used that serves to seal that layer and at the same time serves to be able to dip the nail again. (If the explanation is not very clear going to look on youtube there are several videos).

In this way the color and the hypothetical structure are obtained.
Finally an activator is used that hardens the acrylic powder, allowing the filing.
Because yes, this procedure is done on nails with tip previously applied, to seal the whole and create a structure, as well as the color.
Convenience?
This way it seems much more practical and faster than a nail form reconstruction, and you can do it at home by yourself.
But like polyforms, practicality approaches the incorrectness of the fundamental rules for a reconstruction.
As the dust is very thin, it is impossible to create a structure.
A reconstructed nail without a structure is bound to break.
Hygiene
We have often talked about how important hygiene and compliance with certain rules are to avoid nail diseases.
As I said before, this method involves dipping the nail in a jar containing the powder.
This speech I make refers to those who use this technique in salons. If I use the jar for personal purposes only, there is no problem.
You can understand that if a client has some sort of mycosis or bacterium, it will lodge in the powder jar, and the next client could be infected.
Then you could think about dusting the dust over the nail, not letting the dust fall back into the original jar.
For hygiene reasons, the dust must then be thrown away for each customer.
So returning to the previous discussion, is working in this way convenient?
In my opinion no.
Although it may appear faster and easier, the risks of breakage of the reconstruction and of possible infections from mycosis or bacteria are present.
Obviously in the commercials that run on social networks, all this is not explained, but to capture more attention it focuses on the speed and apparent convenience of the method.
Here we are at the end of the article, I hope you enjoyed it and clarified your ideas on the Dip Powder method.
Everything I say is about my personal opinion, nobody is forced to think like me.
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Until next time!
SOFIA
