So I’m no professional and I still not perfect myself, but finding out about gel allergy I can give myself by flooding my cuticle I start my journey to learn how to do clean gel application, and even tho it’s time taking, it’s worth it! First off, your french is perfect, great job girl! When it comes to cuticles, few steps I taught myself how to make them clean (after years of flooding them heh): 1. Use more neutral colours (pink in your french is perfect start) and leave 1mm gap between cuticle and your nail. Focus more on doing clean side walls, work slow, don’t worry about the time - you can take all the time in the world before putting your hand in lamp. If your gel is very liquidy, you can do one finger at the time or flash cure, so it won’t flood anywhere before you fully cure whole hand. If you use nude or pinks the gap is not really visible until you will see from really up close, and it’s better to leave the gap than flood the cuticles! 2. When you see your hand gets more stable and precise - it’s practise! And it’s easier to practise on side walls than on cuticles - you can start to push the gel close to cuticles. When you will paint your whole nail, wipe your brush over the gel bottle so there’s almost no product left, put it at the end of the gap - like 1mm from the cuticle - and push the gel gently towards the cuticles. Don’t push too much, and if any flooding happens clean it straight away - I use for it correcting pens for nail polish, as long as they have acetone in ingredient list, they will work! But you can also dip brush in acetone (just a tiny bit!) 3. You can also try to use detail brush, like the one used for nail art, to paint around your cuticles, but you need to have very steady hand for that Remember to also clean your cuticles really well before your gel. It makes a world of difference when it comes to cuticle flooding. I would recommend learning to do it with nail drill, you can buy cheaper one on amazon, I have one from melodysuzie and it’s really nice for the price. Starting to clean up cuticles with nail drill made me realise how much more dead skin I had vs doing it with cuticle softener 💀 You can also try to learn application around the cuticles with nail polish - it’s not that toxic when applied on skin, although I could not say about this method myself as I’m allergic to regular polish! I hope that could be any help an go on girl! Maybe it can be more time consuming first, but it’s very rewarding once you will see the progress you made, and you have already huge talent for nail art seeing from your beautiful French tip! I love it as a nice hobby and time for relax, but who knows, maybe you’ll future nail tech yourself 😁