I'm Kirsten Meakin from naio nails in this video I'm gonna talk to you about
filing I'm gonna show you how I do my filing system it works for me something
I've developed over years and I think it creates a beautiful look
What I'm going to do first is go under the nail at the side you get that straight
so it's coming out of the side wall nice and straight I'm going to do that on
both sides so I anchor the file under the nail I'm not going to the side it's
going under the nail I'm not anchoring it up it's nice and
flat it's an angle with the finger
from that I'll do the cuticle area so I've
developed this filing routine over 20 years and I do it naturally now I just
do it with my eyes closed um so I like to use a curved file really
around the cuticle area and what that does it's helped stop you kicking into
the skin so your file like this when you're going under nail the position
that I'm holding the file is like a violin like a violin bow I used to play
the violin mm-hmm I think I'd be really bad that's how I hold the file when we do the cuticle
area I hope you like this I call it the claw
so it's kind of like the claw so I've got a claw shaped hand and I'm holding
it with my thumb supporting the file also with my finger underneath
okay
so you can see the claw shape here
and as I'm filing I'm not holding it flat if you hold it flat you run the
risk of filing up jumping up what you want to do is file at an angle
so you're angling with this part sticking up and this part sticking down
and you kind of use the cuticle as a bumper it's only using this a bumper you're
not filing into it and you're gonna go round and as you come to one o'clock two
o'clock you'll find it you can't twist your body enough to get round so you
need to reposition how you are holding the file so you're gonna go from this
position from the claw to the gun and then as I came down I did that side and
look it's nice and straight with the gun, gun, gun, or the pointer, pointer,
pointer finger yeah okay so you're still in that position you can stay in the
same position and do the other side like that some people and sometimes I will do
this I will come round and go back into the claw
I will go this is the two claws you see there's this claw which is cuticle claw yeah and then there's also
this it's also the same position that you're gonna use on top of the nails the
wider hold your fingers the more of the file you can use so it's those two
fingers that need to be really curved and the thumb gives you the pressure and
the stability as well so when you file over the top surface you need to make
sure you contour you're gonna twist the finger you're also gonna make sure that
you pinch back this skin you're also covering the skin with
your own fingers then, so pinch back the skin you'll see the nail better you'll
also protects the skin of the client you can go from this wide position
this wide claw-like position and bring your thumb right down here and this is gonna help
you when you file over the top surface you can look down the barrel of the nail
and file just from here to here so from the centre to the free edge
when you do the free edge what you want to do is make sure if you're getting it really
straight you don't want to anchor this down to make sure it's completely flat
so as I look at that now that's all I can see I can just see the center board
so I'm angling the finger towards me the finger is slightly dropped and all I can
see is the center board and that's going to get it perfectly straight it's not
going to soften the corners if you want soft corners you can file like this and
it'll soften the corners off and you can rotate it up but if you want it
completely straight we're gonna make sure we run that along and all I can see
is the center board if you struggle at filing because you create an angle every
time you file what you need to do is file straight check it turn the hand
over it and check it from this angle as well
looking at the nail from this angle you'll get another view on it and it may
be slightly off so you can adjust it turn the hand back around check it
and I think that's straight, do you? Just gonna do a quick recap straight sidewalls the
file is under the nail on both sides and you're holding the file as if you were to
playing the violin then for the cuticle area we can use a round curved file to
go around the cuticle anchoring and angling that to just touch the cuticle
area you can see that by the demarcations on the file and you're
going to reposition into that naughty teacher or pointer or gun position and
come down and you're gonna do the side at that point as well nice and straight
and you can do the other side as well then you're going to come over into a
wide claw bridge file the surface and then you can shorten the distance
between finger and thumb and then that will help you to file the
complete length this is for when you're looking down the barrel of the nail and
then when we come to do the free edge we're going back into that violin
position making sure I can see just the center board and you can also turn the
hand over to check from this angle as well
once you're happy with all the contours so you've got a nice apex you haven't
failed off your apex you don't want to do that, you're happy with everything you can also turn
the hand over file both edges with the file like this as well so if you're
filing from this side you don't need a lot of pressure because
else you're gonna cause pressure on the natural nail
it's very softly and when you finish filing when you're just whipping over the
whole nail just just make sure it's all nice and smooth you're going to use a
lot of light pressure then as well
and I'm going to go over with a white block
to start down the center of the nail from the cuticle to the tip and I'm
going to pull down the left side on the right side and then I do like to do a
quick contour over the nail and that'll finish the nail
now when you get your new files it's very very important to take the edges
off so I'll grab a new file and show you what I mean on a new file the edges here
are very very sharp and they like to cut skin all files are like this
it's very important to take off that edge this is on all files so what
you'll do is you'll take an old file like this one and file the edge of the
file I know that sounds crazy but we filing the file it's filing the edge
of the file to take off that sharp edge to run your thumb across it and you'll know
and you'll notice that it is a lot smoother. so if you have a feel between the two you'll notice a massive difference
and we're gonna do that on all of the edge
don't worry about this bit here you don't need to do that we just need to do
these long edges and right to the ends
on all four sides
so you know that that is not going to cut anybody
so it's very very important to make sure when you grab a new file to take off
those edges as there will be blood and guts everywhere
and that's it that's my filing routine I hope it helped you don't forget check us
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