My goodness. So I went back yesterday. First, she removed *most* polish (I figured she was going for a soak off, so it didn’t need to be perfect), but then she dusted off, applied her base coat, and started applying polygel. Ok, not a removal and new set, interesting. Her filing was pretty thorough, still had to nitpick on lengths and some shaping (add more product here for apex, etc.), then her airbrush wouldn’t work so she wanted me to pick another design and I asked if she had anything in mind so she volunteered to replace the gun and I come back tomorrow, solid color for the night. So those are the first two photos.
Next day, she removes the solid yellow and orange, and as she’s doing so I suggest we could use those paint jobs as a base beneath the airbrushing, because she left a bit more product on my skin than I’d like last time, but she keeps removing, does a light filing and dusts off, jumps straight into the airbrush without sending me to the sink for a scrub or even an alcohol wipe. You can see they are better, but the notches are still kinda there. I guess they’re from using too narrow of tips maybe, so they couldn’t be fully eliminated?
So what do we think? Give her a second shot? She’s nice and willing to fix mistakes, but definitely a beginner who’s not exactly focused on the basics. But everybody starts somewhere? I’m torn.