We Don’t Need an APEX for Acrylic Nails! 🙄
Apex, do we need it? Why do we need it? Where does it go? I build a nail to show the importance of the Apex.
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00.01 Someone New by Lupus Nocte, Zorro ◦
00.25 Protect Filing by Cameraman➤
01.02 Working-Detailed by Cameraman➤
02.21 White Sands and Tans by Matt Wigton
03.06 Protect Filing Grfx 2 by Cameraman ➤
03.58 Working-Detailed by Cameraman ➤
06.36 Protect Filing Grfx 2 by Cameraman ➤
8.24 Aleatoric Underscore by Cameraman ➤
09.14 Presence by Mikey Geiger ▵
10.58 Paint You by Nu Alkemi$t ▵
12.02 Someone New by Lupus Nocte, Zorro ◦
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➤NCE edits with Final Cut Pro, Cameraman uses Logic Pro, Native Instruments and Output for Sound and Music design
Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:22 What Is Apex, and why we need it.
00:49 Form Application
02:02 Build Nail with Acrylic
03:39 Building the Apex
09:15 Shaping
10:46 Pinched Shape
I am not a professional and have recently started doing my own nails. I have learned so much from you. I know that if I ever have a question about what I am doing or what I need to do that I simply need to visit your channel. Thank you for putting in the time to educate us. You’re a great teacher and I appreciate you very much.
You are the first person I’ve seen use a white color to really show the APEX!!! YES! So smart!
I panicked when I read the title and then I was like... Jeez, Suzie, don't do this to me 😭💜
For real!!!
I was the same lol
Panic made me click as well xD
Sameee i was like... Girl you better not...
Agreed.. we were about to have some fighting words...
I’ve watched so many Apex videos. They’ve all been helpful but this has been by far the most helpful.
Am I the only one who watches and listens because she is just so knowledgeable and SOOTHING. I love this lady❤👏
Some of my pet peeves is it when people build the nail almost completely flat, no apex, sides filed so hard it's exposing layers and angled, the free edge is flat, no c curve at all 🙃. I've been seeing this a lot lately even with well established techs
This is the exact reason I ditched salons and started going them myself. They were ugly, pointed upwards and flat. Looked like I had glued almond slices on my fingertips. Ugh.
That’s the “style” now and then my friends always be breaking their nails and I’m like y’all they’re so flat & no apex of course they’re gonna break
A lot of the tutorials/nails I see on the internet use mainly tips, they don't bother to even sculpt the nail themselves and charge crazy prices on top of it
I prefer flat nails, as flat as possible, because they look the most natural. Alas they don’t stay as long and can bend which is a nightmare.
@@Liusila then do a gel overlay on your natural nails and with time they will grow long
An apex is sooo important for the structure of nails. Especially longer ones. I’ve seen some really bad breaks that snap the natural nail off when nail techs haven’t built a proper structure. That doesn’t mean the nails need a huge bump in it, the size of the apex depends on the length of the nail. Glad you covered this suzie. Tyfs ☺️💕 Xx
I love watching you do nails! I'm more of a polygel type of girl... but watching you do acrylic makes me feel like i can do acrylic like you do.... I tried and I can't even get it down right... in one of your videos that I've seen, camera man did a better job than I did🤣
Lol well don’t be hard on yrself / we all learn differently- you may kill the shaping and cammera man could suck - we all different 🤍😁and that’s a good thing
So true!
I freaking LOVE polygel!!! It really is a GREAT WAY to learn! You don't have the time restraints like with acrylic, but you have the benefits of acrylic with the strength and stability and how it stays until you decide you want it moved... it's like the best of both worlds!😄 I think you'll gradually find yourself getting better and better at other mediums just by using polygel. I never thought I would TOUCH builder gel, and I thought that my right hand was just always gonna have a shaky application, and that these were facts I just needed to accept... But I actually don't use acrylic anymore unless I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO! (And I have found ways to make working with my left hand easier... well, it's still unnatural feeling, but it has MUCH BETTER OUTCOMES! Actually, most of the time my right hand looks better because I'm being so careful!) But yeah, girl, if you aren't loving acrylic, but you're great at polygel, you'll probably LOVE gel too!💖 No stinky knockout monomer smell!
@@katielunn6394 i love polygel too!!!! It's so much easier to work with! I'm good with polygel on myself but when it comes to others, it's a different story cause everyone's hands are sooooo different and they aren't mine that I'm use to working on😂 but I'm working on it.... I got the essential stuff for acrylic but haven't got to practice yet on how it actually works... you're right the momoner is stink🤧 and polygel, you can use an alcohol based liquid to use to work with the polygel! Which is amazing!
I did acrylics for years. When I first started doing nails gel was newer to the scene. Now I’m a hardcore polygel girl.
The graphics are so good to highlight whatever you are talking about! It makes things so much easier to understand!
I always visualize my apex as a teardrop with the bigger end toward the cuticle and the point going pretty much all the way to the end of the nail. Sometimes it's a little squat tear drop and is more spread out and other times it's thinner and more elongated depending on the shape and length of the nail.
OOOHH! i get it!! i can see it now! thats good way tp visualize it!
The transition from the pink/white nail to the black is flawless. Wonderful editing!!
Lol I thought that too when cameraman showed it to me
Hi Suzie, I know you have a video on bits for the efile but can you do another one a little more in depth of all the different bits and how to use them?
And why the colors on the bit. What's that about
@@Dresseduptogo The color determines the grit of the bit
@@ladymonds4936 Thank you for answering that!!!
Oh I would love for her to do another bit video!
OMG Susie, when young started this demo I was thinking it would be nice if she did the apex in a different color....and you DID! This helped me so much, thank you!
I think this is the first video I’ve seen that actually explains this but then again I’m no nail tech just interested in nails lol
You are a genius! I’ve watched every apex video on KZhead because it’s such a hard thing to understand & no one has ever used 2 different colors to explain it. This was so precise & clear. Thank you!!!
Thank you for emphasizing the bit about the side walls needing reinforcement! So many people ignore this and is almost always the first point for a bad break. Beautifully executed. Love your videos.
I always watch your videos but I don't think I ever commented, I have to say I love your videos. I love how your demonstrations are so precise and clear and your explanation all so precise and clear. Thank you so much for this video💙
@Grey Jade thank you😊
The best video I've watched so far explaining the placement of the apex, using two colours to give an example is brilliant. Thank you for your excellent explanation.
Reading the title, having flashbacks of how I'd be stressed with getting a good apex and still practicing. That title made my heart drop 😭😂 But I learned something new! Can't wait to try it out the next time I practice. Thank you as always!!!
I love the look of the apex
I just started doing my nails. I started with poly gel but almost immediately switched to acrylic. My very first set was almost flawless except for my pointer. It is FLAT lol! Not even a hint of apex ugg!!
@@ColletteKelly The smell doesn’t bother me personally, but I can’t really use it in my room anymore because I’ve moved into dorms. Also, Suzie has her own brand of odorless and she has tons of videos explaining how to use it! Hopefully you can get back into acrylic, it’s real fun.
@Grey Jade Which one do you use?
@@ColletteKelly if you dehydrate and prime your nails,then do a gel base your poly should stay. Also make sure your cuticles are pushes back
@@ColletteKelly I've always done polygel and got my first set to stay on for more than a month
Suzie, you the absolute QUEEN 👸 💅 of nails! That black couldn't have been more perfect & you make it look sooo easy! Thank you & CM for another awesome video... if but too short! I need at least am HOUR of Suzie & CM to get me in THE ZONE💅🙃😄💜💜love you guys xx
I believe upcoming Nail Tech, Nail Tech that are out there long time are going to be shocked and learn something new👍👍👍
Absolutely Beautiful😍😍😍😍Thank You!!!
I’ve only just started to watch the video so I’m sorry that I have to comment now.... but Suzie that dappen dish needs a shout out all to itself. It is stunning. ❤️
My favorite thing ; watching Suzie do her thing with her efile!
Hi! I love this video. I’m self taught and going to school next year. I focus so much on the apex and proper structure for strength. Thanks for always providing excellent educational content. 😍😍
Will you be making a beautiful, affordable, e-file for your line? I love your aesthetic and the e-files on amazon are usually ugly with a chunky handpiece. 💜
Oooohhh have I got a surprise for you 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
Oh this has me so excited!
@@NailCareerEducation no way!!!! I was going to write a comment to you TODAY asking for an affordable e file. I saw the new unicorn one from Kiara Sky and i I didn't realize how EXPENSIVE they are!!!! love ya Suzie !!!
Thank you Susie for this video as I was having a problem with exactly where the apex was at on the nail. It extended out further than I thought which is why I think I’ve had the problems I’ve been having with my nails. Please keep the videos coming.
Excellent instructions x
Thank You Suzie for this wonderful video. It helps me so much. Along with your slow curing monster. It has taught me patience & a better uninteresting of how to create a better nail.
Love that c-curve! Beautiful 🤩
I love your teaching method! Thank you so much!
As always this video is so helpful and informative! I wish all nail techs would watch your videos because I cannot even begin to count how many “nail techs” that did my nails in the past didn’t bother to add an apex on my long nails
I have to have an apex....every since you have started your youtubing... I've been watching you...learning how to do this with everything possible ...acrylic which I don't like to use because of odor...poly gel, hard gel, builder gel, and hard polish gel. I love learning how to do this...I'm posting a set I've done with poly gel.
You are an excellent teacher. I've learned so much from watching your videos in 1 week! I never imagined I would be doing own acrylic nails. I wish I learned this when I was younger I would've saved a ton of money and probably would've even made some. TY💖
Amazing! So helpful. What a great way to help visualize where and what the apex is. Thank you! I love how you use the different color to show it in the application.
Omg I love your product components!!!!!!!! As soon as my hubby gives me time I'm gonna get it all I love the diamond and how easy it looks to twist I've just so enjoyed watching you I hope you've gained even more popularity over ther last two years
Nice transition shot from that nude nail to black nail Camera man!!! Well done!!!!
Thank you so much for this video Suzie!! ❤️
Great info as always....Thanks 💖
This is super educational and thank you, dear Suzie!
This is so timely
Great video!! Thank you for this demo. Also, your voice and energy is so calming while inspiring me to keep practicing. Thank you!
i always love your nails susie. they look so elegant
This is such a good video! Thank you so much for this
Thank you for this video. As a self taught person right now I’m really struggling with the apex. I don’t want a thick nail but also don’t want them to break. This video was very helpful. Thanks Suzie!
I love watching you Suzie. You are a great TEACHER😊🍎🍎💅 Thank you so for making these videos for us 😊👍💜
That makes sense and can see where it would be practice and really watching the natural nail and what each would need. So many of the poly gel nails I am seeing are flat, long, and about nothing to them. Not to mention so much bling on it. Makes me wonder where the strength would be. So much to learn.
That’s just it if you have any kind of length and you have no Apex you have also no structure
you’re videos have given me the ability to create the nails of my dreams. thank you sm susie.
Love watching your videos tyfs 💗 💖
that dappen dish is the cutest thing ever!! :)
I love your videos,I have learned a lot more than I did on my nail school 🥺
Awesome video ! Thanks for the tips!
its a perfect , thankyou just when i start questioning my Apex you answer this question.
Another amazing video. Thanks
Great tutorial thank you 😊💅🏼👍❤️✨
Such a helpful video!! Love how you explained everything. ❤️❤️❤️
this was super helpful! Thanks Susie.
Just stumbled upon this video, I don't do nails or even wear nail polish but wow. This was very interesting, and the edits in the video are amazing! You can tell someone put a lot of effort into it 👏
Perfect timing. I just perfected my apex on 1 finger 😂😂😂 been doing builder gel. I am working on the other fingers.
Love your videos I swear!!
honestly i just like the way the apex looks
You BOTH did a Wonderful job with this video ❣️❣️ PERFECT 🥰😘🥳🥳
Susie, where are your glasses from? I LOVE statement glasses and those are calling my name! Plus, they look amazing on you.
nice information
love watching your videos. 💕
You look so beautiful Suzi xxx
I always do hard gel, but I just started doing acrylic. You have been such a help - plus I just love the Canadian accent!😃
What Canadian accent (says the fellow Canadian)? ;)
I love those nails! Please do vid on how you achieved that look.
I have the same dappin dish! Mine is clear or AB! So beautiful and thanks for the this video! It helps!
We need a suzie in every community 🥰
I love your videos nails are my addiction 😍
Yes
I told a client the same thing .... depends how long the nail is....then you for apex.....they didn't listen and came back to me to fix somebody else mess....thank you for this video
thank you so much for the video! helps me alot and to really understand whats the apex means and where to go! thank you so much!! :)
I started doing my nails with acrylic and upon seeing the title I thought I did wrong! I think I did a great job w y acrylic nails ✨
Take a shot everytime you hear APEX! LOVE YOU SUSIE!
Lol so true
You make my day! Camera man too!
Oh I wish I could get your forms in uk. They look fabulous ❤️
Just waiting that she will cone out with her own builder gel out 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Hey Suzie your videos are awesome. So detailed and well explained. I myself have very short bitten ski jump nails. If it is at all possible, can you do a tutorial video on how to do gel for this type of nail. One that could look (medium) long and elegant. Please and Thank you.
I learned so much from your channel. I've been doing Vitagel by Gelish and my nails are doing great.
The only time I don’t do an apex really is when I do duck tip/bell bottoms (btw on myself!)
I wish I could do.. any.. type of nail 😂 However, when I watch you I feel like the little girl I once was, ice skating in my socks in the livingroom bc I had just watched Tonya & Nancy and was so inspired I had no doubts I had the skills to be a professional lol !
I started doing my nails, and I love watching your videos… so informative ♥️🥰 I need to try your products. I seen it on your website , I try ordering and they have the option of the easy pays. Which is fantastic. But it’s only for the states what about Canada? I really interested in the low order monomer … will this option ever change?
I saw a video that differentiates apexes. American apex vs European apex (competition apex). In the competition apex you want the nail to look flat from what I got in the video. The competition apex puts the form more at a downward angle. It’s reall interesting and I wish I could remember where I saw it. Lots of Aloha to you and cameraman!! 🤙🏼🌺💅💕
It was on ‘Hot Pink Zebra Polish’ ~ American apex v hidden apex it was a really good video.
you mean upward?
@@kazakukog yes it was upward. So the hidden apex is in the ‘v’ created by the upward angle.
@@SarahLBanks yes, that's how we do nails in europe. i kinda cringed at the nail in the video, it's so curved down
@@kazakukog Yes. I rewatched it. My mistake. 😊
I would love to see you review anacrylics
I love a really nice, high exaggerated apex but my nails are usually long anyway😅
Mines are flat 😩 so I have to build an apex from scratch lol! It’s getting there!
wow i really need to come to your place so you can do my nails, i been doing my own nails for quite the while and i have not achieved the level you are at for sure, but i am in tennessee.
Is the brush you used available on your website?
Could you possibly do a video on your favorite lamp(s) for curing gel nails? I'm looking to start doing my own nails at home, and I have no idea what lamp to buy.
I just started to do my nails at home and I am learning so much by watching you. I want a set of professional brushes in those rainbow colors. 🌈In like sizes 8, 10, and 12 with an art brush and a gel brush. Do you have a set like that?
You are talented. My nails will be flat for a long time, till I am able to Master this lol
Just order some of her stuff being in texas is more expensive to order her stuff. But I hope it's worth it when it comes in! Hopefully I'll get to use it on my next Client!
Like liz from the nailhub said, it needed to looked like a dolphin nose. ;) love this video!!! Honestly, around me where i do nails, NO ONE ever do any kind of apex...
Lol. For me, that weak spot is east to find because it’s where my natural nail will break, or tear or go below the quick. It even happens when my nail is fairly short.
I'm no professional and do my own nails to stop myself from biting them because I'm a stress biter who's tired of my nails looking so ugly. Knowing where to put the apex is one of my biggest struggles right now, particularly because most of the vids I watch about nail apexes is more for long nails, rather than the short nails I need for both work at my labor-intensive job/personal comfort. Can you make a video to show where to build the apex on short nails?
Definitely Need An Apex. I Just CAN NOT Get With The Thin Nail No Apex Trend🙄 ...What’s Nails With No Strength❓❓ BROKEN❗️😂🤦🏾♀️ P.S. Your Videos Taught Me So Much In My Beginner Days ❗️Thanks Suzie 💜 🙌🏾 ✨
I have never really built an apex up really big. Never liked the look. I probably make them too thin but clients like it and the nails stay fine.
An apex is sooo important for the structure of nails. Especially longer ones. I’ve seen some really bad breaks that snap the natural nail off when nail techs haven’t built a proper structure. That doesn’t mean the nails need a huge bump in it, the size of the apex depends on the length of the nail. Xx
@Grey Jade aww god no wonder you passed out that would be bloody sore! Yeah I’ve had a few girls say to me that they’ve had that, when they’ve went to a nail tech who hasn’t done an apex properly on their nail. One of the girls had to go to a&e because she developed a nasty infection due to it. 😢. It took nearly 10months for her nail to fully recover before I could do a set on her. Xx
@Grey Jade I know, same. Absolutely they need to be covered, especially for nail enthusiasts just starting out or newbie nail techs. I was taught it as part of my nail tech course tbf, but I know a few people that weren’t. Xx
Hi Suzie, I love your videos, but have you done one, or can you do one, on how you achieve the apex like that using the Kiara Sky gel nails please. I started buying her tips and products thanks to a video I saw you did on them, and I do love the products (I am older with failing eyesight so building my nails never seems to work) but using these techniques, my nails are flat. I don't wear them long anyway, but they are so noticeably fake when they are flat like they are. Thank you :)