Wrong gel colour on toes

[BerylStreep]

Bugger. I've just had a pedicure on holiday and I chose the wrong gel colour. It looks like a fungal nail infection instead of the lovely gold I thought it would be.

Can the colour be painted over if I go back tomorrow and explain?

Not sure whether you could have a different gel colour, or if they would have to remove and start again.
You can put normal polish over it though: maybe you could just do that yourself.

Thank you. It's horrific. It's channeling Halloween witch nails. Honestly, it's really that bad. I'll speak to the place tomorrow and see what they say.

I should have said something as soon as she put it on the first nail, but I thought a second coat would improve it. It didn't. 

You would have to take it off and start again , I've never heard of anyone putting gel on gel. I chose the wrong colour today to I'm really cross with myself.

But does it look like this?

You'll have to cover it yourself with a normal polish or go back and ask them to re-do it. IF they are feeling very generous they might not charge the full price but i would be surprised.

On of my DDs has her own nail business and recently had a lady come back with the same issue. (orange colour) She charged her half price for the off and on again in a different shade.

I had a nail colour I didn't like they just put another coat in a different colour

Just paint over it yourself. Would be an expensive mistake to have to start again.

Forgot to add - The reason they wont cover it with another gel is that you'll have a base coat, one/two layers of colour and a top coat already. It might take 2 layers of colour to cover what you have on plus another top coat ... 7 layers !? Not good, and would take an AGE to soak off again.

Fungal nail infection 🤣🤣. It's not that bad but it's not what I'd choose myself.

Oh, it's not that bad!
Forget about it, and enjoy your holiday.
At least you will know to choose a different sort of shade next time.

Oh you could put normal polish - something sheer or pearly over that quite easily. Pinking to warm it up? It'll be fine and cheaper for now.

I was imagining some sort of really deep dark green/brown nastiness

pinking? pinkish.

Christ that’s bad. What colour did you think you were choosing

Oh dear, that really does look like fungal toenail colour.

Paint over it with a normal polish.

On the outside of the bottle it looked like a really opaque gold.

Gold in white skin alwsyd bad

Glitter on top? You can’t polish a turd but...

Yeah glitter on top will help 😊

Agree that those sort of colours never look good on pale skin - you need something dark or something vibrant. My mum once had a similar honey brown shade on her fingernails - I think she thought it was a good neutral choice, but it really wasn’t! It looked like nicotine stains on her fingers...

Get stick ons.

They've cut your nails really short - is it sore?

That is terrible

Paint over it with normal varnish, you can do this a few times as there are acetate free nail varnish removers which won’t affect the gel underneath

I went back to the nail place today and they happily painted over a new colour. Did an extra 2 layers of colour and another top coat.

Thank goodness, no more gruffalo toes.

Show us then!

I've never had gel before but I always do a sky blue or turquoise on my toes because it can never make your toes look bruised or bleeding or infected or nicotine stained p!