Course

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£ 429 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Distance Learning

  • Duration

    1 Year

This Airbrush Nails course is exciting and spectacular. throughout this course students will create 20 stunning designs which covers the basic techniques required to design your own works of art. Suitable for: Further education, career progression and personal development

About this course

There are no previous skills or qualifications required to register for this study programme.

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Course programme

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Part 1, 'Foundation'

You're told how to promote airbrushing services, how to make money doing airbrush nails and about the tools and products you'll be using.

Part 2, 'Essential Techniques'

First, you learn how the airbrush and compressor works. Then you'll learn how to control the airbrush and the paint depth by carefully airbrushing the lines and shapes on progress card 1. Your hand will be shaky at first and the paint may not go where you want it to. Your lines might be wiggly and uneven, but don't worry, after a few minutes you'll get the hang of it!

Next you'll learn how to cover larger areas with paint. the object here is to make a nice even colour. You always start at the side of the object (the point of impact or POI) so that any paint splutters do not go in the target area. Then you move steadily into the target area, covering it with circular movements of the airbrush. You'll still be making mistakes at this stage, but it's early days, you're learning how to co-ordinate your hand and eye. There's plenty more cards if you mess up.

Now we show you how to fill 'donuts'. Your target area is smaller and control of the gun is vital. We show you how to change colour half way through, so you can see how you would create a coloured blend. In this example the first colour was green, followed by yellow. There's no need to clean the gun in between, the colour changes look spectacular!

So what's next? Well we introduce you to the use of stencils. These are thin plastic sheets with hundreds of patterns cut into them. The holes and patterns are all 'nail sized' so you place them over the nail. Spray onto the stencil and the paint goes through the holes and onto the nail, so the pattern of holes in the stencil appears as paint on the nail.

You won't be surprised to know we've designed a progress card for you to practise this essential technique. There are 8 rows of nail shapes and we show you how to spray blends, overlaps, step and repeat and other fascinating techniques.

As before, practice until your relaxed and happy, by this time you'll be handling the airbrush as naturally as you do a pencil, so now's the time to move onto the realistic 3-D nails on the Nail Trainer practice hand.


Part 3, 'Putting it all together'

You've learnt the basics; you can control the airbrush, compressor, airflow, paints and stencils, so now it's time to create some real nail designs on nails.

So, you will click some of the large nails into the Nail Trainer, and start on:

Design 1

A simple 2 colour blend in blue and red. We show you how to 'mirror' the design so it looks good on the left and right hands of you clients.

Design 2

A quick french polish look with a soft smile line. You will be amazed at how quick this is, you can do this design on all 10 fingers in a few seconds, and charge good money for it.

Design 3

is a butterfly wing design in purple and black. This is created by spraying the nail black and then lightly spraying purple through the edge of a stencil, moving or 'stepping' the stencil down and spraying again. It only takes a few seconds to complete the design, but it's very effective.

Design 4

a staircase step and repeat but using a three colour blend. Again the design is mirrored, left and right.

Design 5

Another french polish design, but with a shrt smile line.....beautiful, quick and effective.

Design 6

Another step and repeat using a curvy french stencil offset left and right.

Design 7

This looks complicated, but it used a single image on a stencil rotated to different positions and 4 colours. You'll see how easy it is when you see it being created on the DVD.

Design 8

A french double chevron. Ideal for wedding nails. It uses the corner of a buisiness card as a stencil. Place, spray, step, spray...and the design is finished. 10 seconds and it's done.

Design 9

One of our favourites...the ladybird design. Its an orange and red blend and then black paint is sprayed through the multiple holes in the stencil. Quick and beautiful.

Design 10

Two colour zig zag on white. Where the colours cross, you get a third colour automatically.

Design 11

Another nail great for weddings or valentines. Uses a half moon stencil for the lunula and a heart shaped stencil.

Design 12

This is an interesting design showing you that ordinary everyday items can be used to create designs. You spray through a piece of lace with contrasting colours to produce this spiders web effect. It looks like it would take hours, but it's completed in a few seconds once you know how.

Using these techniques and your imagination you now will be able to improvise thousands of new and exciting designs. The course even includes a 'Salon Display' card to show off your designs to your clientel.

Airbrush Nail

£ 429 VAT inc.