Have you ever wondered whether the winter cold could be causing your UV gel nails to lift, particularly if your natural nails are brittle and weak? We’ve had reported that some salon customers are experiencing this issue, despite not having problems when using a flexible builder gel.
Cómo influyen las bajas temperaturas en los esmaltes de uñas de gel UV
Nail professionals have long known that cold temperatures can have a detrimental impact on nail coatings, causing them to lose flexibility, become rigid, and prone to cracking or breaking.
Cuanto más frías son las temperaturas, mayores son los efectos negativos. En parte, esto ocurre porque la dureza y la durabilidad son significativamente menores a medida que bajan las temperaturas. El recubrimiento de las uñas podría acabar perdiendo su flexibilidad y volverse rígido, incluso quebradizo. UV geles constructores con mayor flexibilidad también pierden algo de flexibilidad, pero al ser ya muy flexibles, pueden conservar cierta flexibilidad incluso en las temperaturas más frías. El resultado es que las uñas más flexibles seguirán siendo más resistentes y duraderas a temperaturas más bajas.
Cómo influye la temperatura en la adherencia de las uñas
La adherencia también puede verse afectada por la temperatura. He aquí cómo funciona.
Everything expands or shrinks when heated or cooled and the greater the change in temperature- the greater the shrinkage or expansion will be. Interestingly, different materials will expand or shrink to different degrees and at different rates. These variations depend on the chemical composition and molecular structure of the substance. As a result, la placa ungueal does NOT shrink at the same rate or to the same degree as the nail coatings. Because they shrink at different rates, this creates a mismatch that builds stress at the interface between the nail plate and the nail coating.
This stress can pull them apart and will negatively affect adhesion. The reverse is true when these warm up again; one will expand faster than the other and this also causes stress to build up. As the nail plate and nail coating expand at different rates, stress at the junction where they meet will increase. Each time this occurs, there is a weakening of the bond between the nail plate and nail coating. This is true for all nail coatings. When flexibility is lost at the same time the nail coating is shrinking, the forces generated may seem tiny, yet they’re enough to cause lifting. Tell your clients to protect their nails, always put on warm gloves before going outside and don’t freeze their nails.
Tenga especial cuidado en evitar cambios rápidos de temperatura, ya que esto puede causar problemas aún mayores que provocarán cambios más lentos y graduales.
