Pinch Clamp

Pinch clamp for the perfect C-curve in your nail design

"New Style Nails" are all the rage. This style gives the artificial fingernail a pronounced C-curve, making it appear significantly narrower. To achieve this pronounced curve, the nail is often shaped using a pinch clamp. The pinch technique only works with a new set of gel, acrylic, or poly-gel applied over a form. With nail tips, however, only soft and flexible artificial nails can be pinched.

Pinch clamp application:

1. Prepare the natural nail as usual and apply an extension template accordingly.
2. Create a thin nail extension using a builder gel and cure it briefly in a UV/LED lamp so that the gel is still malleable.
3. Depending on the gel manufacturer, this usually takes about 10-20 seconds with LED and 20-30 seconds with UV.
4. Press the extension with a Pinch tweezers Hold together for about 5 seconds before attaching the pinch clamp from above at fingertip level.
5. Secure these as firmly as possible to achieve a nice curve.
6. Finally, this process is allowed to fully cure.
7. Remove the clamp and the template.
8. Then begin your nail structure.

As an alternative to this clamp, there is also the Pinch brace.