Tips extensions - is this method of extending old school and no longer needed 🤔

 Nail tips ? Yes or no ? 

Is using tips making us less of a professional Nail Technician? 

Is using stickers or stamping making us less of the nail artis? 

Does it matter that if I struggle with something, I replace it with something I am good at to achieve best results? 

Or if I am still practising sculpting, if  I use tips instead, as I found it easier and less stressful to work with, am I less of a nail technician? 

Once I've been told that the only proper way of extending nails is by using forms ?

But is it really the truth? 

I follow so many amazing nail technicians, who has hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, and they work with tips only😀

I follow amazing nail artists who can use stickers, decals, stamping etc and they create amazing looking nails with it.

And of course I follow people who can sculpte the most amazing nails  which I love and admire.

As fully qualified Technician shouldn't we know both ways and choose accordingly to the results we want to achieve? 

My belief is that, as a nail technician, I want to give my clients the best looking, long lasting, complimenting their hands - nails :) done in a safe and healthy way. 

Isn't that what it is all about ? 

Yes, sculpting is considered as higher level of skills as we need to now how to control products and fit form correctly at the same time,gives us more possibilities to achieve the most extravagant shapes, whereas tips are mainly preshaped, and we need to have few options to make sure we have the right tip  which will fit natural nail perfectly … however, working with tips is quite technical too,from choosing correct one , to preparation and blending it etc 

If we understand the method of extending, we can achieve great results even if we use tips , which yes, in fact they are ready made  and pre-shaped, and yes, maybe it does feel sometimes like cheating 😅 but if this  will make our live easier, then why not ? 

Open for discussion ❤

P.s Photos show my birthday nails - done by me on myself 😁 using tips and acryl gel 🤪

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