The colour does not change the number. Neither does the chrome, the French, or the fact that you asked for it on a Saturday. What changes the number is the work: how much structure is under the polish and how long the appointment takes.
“Builder in a bottle” over the natural nail. The dry‑mani look that lasts three weeks and adds strength without length. Filed, shaped, cuticle worked dry, gel, cured.
Builder gel applied directly to the natural nail for real strength and a little length. Four weeks between rebalances. The set for anyone whose nails bend before they break.
Apres soft‑gel tip extensions. Square, almond, coffin or stiletto, sized to your finger rather than to a box. No filing on the natural nail to fit the tip.
For length and durability. Hand‑sculpted and hand‑filed only. No MMA, no electric file on the natural nail, no Dremel rings around the cuticle.
E‑file cuticle work with no soaking. A cleaner edge and longer between visits, because water-swollen skin is why a normal cuticle line lifts in a week. Add to any service.
Same shape, same set, fresh colour. Tier‑1 art (chrome, French, dots, one accent) included with every fill at no charge.
More grow‑out to rebalance. Same colour or swap it. Fifteen minutes longer than the two‑week and priced for the extra work, not as a penalty.
Soaked and lifted, never pried. Cuticle care and a nail‑health treatment. Free with any new full set here; twenty‑five on its own or on a set from elsewhere.
Chrome, French, a solid accent nail, dots, and a single line. On every service, on every fill, at no charge. Charging four dollars a nail for chrome is the oldest upsell in the industry and it is the reason people stop asking for what they actually want.
Most people book by the last thing they had rather than by what their nails need. These three cover almost everybody.
Builder gel on the natural nail. It is not length, it is a splint. If your nails split at the free edge before they ever get long, this is the answer and it is the one most people arrive not knowing exists.
Full-coverage soft-gel tips, sized per finger. Lighter than acrylic, faster to remove, and no e-file on the natural nail to make the tip sit flat.
The dry-manicure look with enough strength to survive typing and washing up. No extension, no rebalance, just a clean three weeks.
No MMA. Methyl methacrylate is cheap, sets like concrete, and does not break when your nail does, so the nail plate goes instead. It has been the subject of FDA warning letters since the seventies and it is still in use because it costs a fraction of EMA. If a set took an hour and cost forty dollars, this is usually why.
No electric file on the natural nail. The drill is for the product, not for you. Rings of thinned nail plate around the cuticle are the signature of a tech using an e-file to save four minutes, and they take a full growth cycle to leave.
Nothing reused that cannot be autoclaved. Files and buffers are single-client. Metal implements go through an autoclave with a log. Read sanitation if you want the whole procedure; it is not the most interesting page here but it is the one worth checking at any studio.
EMA monomer costs roughly four times MMA, hand-filing takes about twenty minutes longer than drilling, and nobody here is working two clients at once. Those three things are most of the difference.
No. Square, squoval, almond, coffin and stiletto are the same price. Very long stiletto takes longer to sculpt, and that is the only case where the desk will mention time.
Please do. It is faster than any amount of describing, and it tells your tech the shape as well as the art. If the art in it is beyond tier one, the desk will quote it before you sit down rather than after.
Soft gel three weeks, structured gel four, Gel-X three to four, acrylic three to four with a rebalance. Anyone quoting six weeks is quoting the point at which it looks grown out rather than the point at which it fails.
Full sets book about five days out. Fills usually inside two.
Example interactive prototype. Not a real business. Names, photographs, reviews and figures on this page are illustrative. Identifying details on real client work are changed to protect their privacy. This is what Yeti can build for a nail studio in seven days.