Airbrushing is an artform that many nail technicians have seemed to steer clear from. I personally love freehanding art onto nails, I feel it shows my true artistic talent. Not all nail technicians are excellent artists. I have found that many of my nail technician friends do not have that artistic thumb. Crazy, I know, but not everyone is nuts about art. With that being said airbrushing is a spray and paint with a nail art tool that is making it's way back into the nail art circut.
One of the newest and best items in the airbrush catagory is new and improved stencils. Tip: Use a CD case to keep the stencil in place. There are literally thousands of stencils out there with a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some stencils are made of paper, while others are made of plastic. Some stencils have sticky backing which makes those stencils one time use and disposable which can be more sanitary. You can get stencils at a salon supply store, a craft store, or wal-mart.
Another perk of airbrushing is the paint. Airbrushing paint seems to the thin, and thinner paint can flow more freely. So that your paint flows freely, cleaning your gun has to be the biggest and most important step. Without cleaning the gun you will not get free flowing paint. A few handy dandy cleaning helpers for cleaning the airbrush machine are: cotton swabs, squeeze top for better sanitation, a wire brush, detal proxy brushes in all sizes, and then a glass dish. Acetone will turn acrylics into gelly. Use the small dish to corral all the small parts to the airbrush gun and machine. DO NOT put whole gun in cleanser. Only soak parts of the brush for short periods of time, and then turn around and brush off the loose paint.
Just as polish gets more technologically advaced, so does airbrushing. Everything cycles around, and usually the second time around the medium will be more techologicaly advanced.
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