Patrick -> Nail Problems "BE GONE" (Sep. 8 2003 19:30:41)
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I recently ran across a nail care product that I have found to be outstanding. If you are like me, I can’t keep a set of nails in shape. When you grow 120 rose bushes, fish two or three days and play ten to twenty hours per week, I need iron nails. Well, I found the next best thing. I was surfing the net a couple of months ago and ran across a company called Lume’. What they produce is a nail gel that is the same type of plastic product used in dentistry. You apply a base coat and a topcoat that are set with a ultra-violet light. It is ultra easy to apply. The gels are self-leveling. You just apply the gel and let it set for a minute or so, then set it under the UV light for one minute. What you get is a somewhat flexible, hard as nails finish. What I do is buff off the gloss and you get a nail that looks almost exactly the same as your left hand. The gels are clear. Having a salon apply acrylics will give you a similar result, but with drawbacks. Acrylics, like super glue will attack the nail surface. I have been using super glue and silk for moths. When I removed this mess, my nails were paper-thin. Acrylics do the same thing. Lume’ claims the gels don’t attack the nail bed, so your nail stays healthy. The only thing I do different from the Lume’ instructions, is put two topcoats on. I have had them for a month and they look like the day I put them on. I jammed a finger into a door last week, which would have shattered any nail prep that I know of. Not only didn’t the nail break, I couldn’t find a mark on it! OK here is the downside. It’s fairly expensive to start with. The starter kit runs about $125, which comes with a UV lamp. You will have enough gel for your wife and daughters as well, as they claim the shelf life on the gels is only about six month. If you keep light off from the gels, I think you can get about a year. I am one happy rose-fisher-flamenco-dude. Here is the web site: http://www.lumenails.com/ Pat
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