AHIER Acrylic Swallow Self-Adhesive Gel Nail Extension Forms - 100PCS DIY Tool UV Gel Guide Stickers

I’ve been painting my own nails for over 25 years. I used to paint my nails everyday before I had kids. Now that I have kids, I don’t have that kind of time and even as they get older it’s hard to go back to that. I only first learned about UV lamps acrylic nails, nail tips, nail extensions and all that about five years ago. I have long nails most of the time but got some builder gel along with a set of nail polish and was instantly obsessed with how long it lasts when used as a base coat. Naturally, I figured I should actually try it for its intended use and found these nail forms very easy to use. Personally, I think it’s easier to use fake nails for the amount of time this takes if you’re doing all your nails BUT these nail forms are perfect if you need to lengthen your natural nails. I plan to use these along with builder gel whenever I break just one or two nails. The amount you get for the price is good and will probably last me until the adhesive gets old if I’m just using them for broken nails here and there (heck these might last me the rest of my life). I was able to do all ten nails on first try my first try using these for the first time. I think if you have a reasonable amount of experience doing nails these are a breeze to use. If they still make these by the time the set I bought runs out, if it runs out, I’d buy them again.

So, I haven’t done enhancements in y-e-a-r-s, and I have not done nails professionally in well over a decade. The other day I had a wild hair and pulled out my acrylic nail kit and did an overlay on my natural nails for giggles and fell in love with the strength + uniformity the acrylic overlay provided. After a week I wanted to add some length and bought these forms because they were the least expensive. Honestly, I love them. Perhaps a tenured nail artist would prefer a different form for sculpting a nail (if they even still do acrylic nails anymore(?) haha) but I’m thrilled with these forms and the price.

Works well enough. My nails look so much better using these than using fake tips or the gel forms that came with a poly gel kit.Now it is a little harder to gauge length, it's just a perspective thing. It doesn't suck as well as I would like and depending on which polygel I'm using it will shift. It didn't stick well on the ends that wraps around your finger but to get a nice stiletto you want to stick it around and under your finger, so it stays straight.My complaint is one is under my nail it doesn't curve enough to stay up against the bottom of my nail, there's a flat gap. That allows product to seep between and under my nail unless I'm using a dark polygel it hard to see. If you use a clear/jelly polygel and apply just a thin base it will cure all the way through. So I will have to go back and file it down.Overall I'm happy with these. I might try another well reviewed brand to see if I can get a good curve under my nail with less or no seepage. But I'm not going to just those these out, I'm going to keep using them plus my daughter thinks they are stickers and lives playing with them after I am done.

This set was done using nail forms. This is my 2nd or 3rd set using them. It took some time to get the hang of it and it is a slow process using them on every finger. I will stop using once my real nails grow out. So far these are my favorite option to get length versus tips or the gel x press ons.

These get the job done for the most part, but it’s pretty difficult to get it aligned with my nail. I don’t have a picture of it, but if my nail is just a teeny bit too short, I can’t get it close enough to my nail without making it too thick underneath (which ofc I can fix with my nail drill, but time consuming)

Product was great came on undamaged and ready to go

easy to use

I loved these stickers to use with the Beetles Builder Gel...at first. I used the stickers a few times in December until my actual nails were long enough. However, the few times I used the stickers, I noticed the gel seeping under my nail and then I would cure it. It would sting for a few seconds but then go away so I thought it was just the process. I did my nails a few times since without the stickets. Now it is March and I noticed that on one finger, my nail was starting to separate from the skin underneath. I thought it was odd but ignored it. A few days later I noticed this happening on more fingers. Some were separating starting in the middle and others starting on the outsides and moving in. My fingers started to get itchy so I removed the gel I had on to reveal a bigger issue than I originally thought. My fingernails are destroyed underneath and I just hope my nail grows back and can stay attached to the skin underneath. I think it is due to the gel seeping under my nail because the sticker doesn't stay tight enough to the bottom of the nail.

Great, came yesterday I was thrilled to try them. My husband is very good he lends me his fingers to practice on......

I had trouble with these which may be user error, but I found they weren’t very sticky which made it quite difficult to get them to stay where I needed on my finger! I will keep trying but so far not a good fit for me personally