I'm a perfectionist.
Tonight, I did my first full set of pink & whites on myself. I tried a technique where you start with the pink and shape the smile line that way - great for extreme smile lines, which are definitely my style. I played with it a bit on a nail prior and found I actually liked it so thought, hey, I can do this.
My teacher encouraged me to start on my dominant hand. I really wish I hadn't.
Some of them turned out great! Others, not so much. I have such an urge to soak them off already but the state of my nails underneath is just... it's not a good idea. I need to suck it up and fix them tomorrow in class. I'm more than likely going to have to put a layer of clear to build up some bulk on them since there was a lot of filing to be done to get them even.
I know I shouldn't feel bad, because to be completely honest for my first full set of P&W and for the fact that I did them on myself, they're fairly awesome, but... I'm too much of a perfectionist when it comes to things like this and I can't help but see every little flaw. I need to just remind myself that it was a learning experience and I can always throw polish on them to hide the smile-line flaws until I do a backfill next week to fix them (weekly fills will be necessary given my current nail growth holy crap).
I'm still so happy we have such a fantastic teacher. She's really been great, even if she tries to challenge me more given my background with working with this kind of thing on my own before. She's like me, though, and so she understood my frustration tonight and helped me out quite a bit.
The sad thing is though, I know that if I get a client tomorrow that wants p&w, I'd be able to handle it no problem. Somehow it's so much EASIER on someone else than it is me. Probably because my hands were trying to give out after so long of being in strange positions to file, fill, etc.
I need to just sit back, take a deep breath and not dwell on it. I'm only in the third week of class and I will have plenty of time to perfect it.
And perfect it I will, dammit!
Can I say that I'm kind of jealous of you? Nail school sounds like so much fun! Maybe in 10 years or so I'll take a sabbatical and go learn to be a manicurist just for the hell of it.
ReplyDeleteI tried an experiment today that was kind of super fail- I saw this post (man I hope HTML works here!) on Polish or Perish and I realized that I have a polish that's fairly similar. It's this sheer orangey pink my mom gave me TWELVE YEARS AGO and somehow it's still in perfect shape. I did it over light blues with a dark blue on my accent nail, but it was late so everything came out uneven and streaky. Plus the light blue I used doesn't work for my skin tone. I'll have to try it again :)
P.S. Am I just fail at figuring out blogspot (likely) or did commenting only become available on this blog as of today? I wanted to comment two days ago but I couldn't find the button for it?
It took me a long time to justify the cost of school but I finally decided to bite the bullet and go for it and I'm so happy I did. :)
ReplyDeleteI actually am waiting on that polish to get here - they had an issue with my order and so I only received 1/3 of it. I really can't wait to try it out but it's always awesome to find a dupe so quickly that you already own!
Nope, commenting has always been available - don't worry, I'm pretty new to blogspot in general as well. XD