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  • Makeup2018

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    June 17, 2018 at 2:57 am

    I make nails polish any colour

  • Makeup2018

    Member
    June 17, 2018 at 2:58 am

    But I need know how I make top coat matte 

  • belassi

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    June 17, 2018 at 4:33 am
  • Makeup2018

    Member
    June 17, 2018 at 11:21 am

    What this

  • belassi

    Member
    June 17, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    It’s a two in one pack. It comes with shiny nail varnish and a little sheet of wet-or-dry paper to use after it dries, for those who want a matte finish. I recommend using 1600 grade paper. I got the idea from this guy here.

  • doreen

    Member
    June 18, 2018 at 5:18 pm

    @Belassi
    :joy: :joy:

    @Makeup2018
    Please read the forum guidelines. Then you might also understand Belassi’s replies.

     1)            Please do not ask us to do your lab work
    (or your research) for you.
     Do not request complete/finished formulations
    unless you have already looked at the sources for that information and found
    nothing helpful. If you show up out of nowhere and start asking for extensive
    help, or otherwise demonstrate that you don’t want to do any work yourself, you
    just aren’t going to get what you are looking for.  It is obvious most times when people have
    tried to do research and just need a hand or when they are looking for someone
    to do all the work for them for free.

    2)            Introduce yourself in the introduction
    thread before requesting information/help.
     The newer you are in our
    community, the more necessary it becomes to explain your situation and why you
    need our help, especially if you are asking for information that most chemists
    could find on Google with a quick search.

    3)            Do not DEMAND help. Being that rude is
    a good recipe for getting nothing at all, ever. No one in this community is
    getting paid to do this, and we have NO obligation to help you – or even to
    respond to you at all. Asking nicely and politely works much better. Also,
    those people that just take information but never have time to help anyone else
    are eventually going to find this community much less helpful.  While many of us are happy to help each
    other, and even first-timers, there has to be give and take.  Not all take.

    4)            Please don’t ask questions privately.
    The whole point of this community is to share our questions and answers. If you
    do need to ask a private question, due to privacy/trade secret concerns, don’t
    be surprised if the person you’re asking requests a consultants fee for an
    answer.

    5)            Please don’t hijack other people’s
    discussions, but if you don’t understand something about that question or its
    answers, ask us about it.
     If you want to ask anything that’s different than
    the original question, START A NEW DISCUSION.

    6)            Do NOT ask for an amount of help of the
    kind and/or quality that would ordinarily require you to pay a consultant for.

    Don’t request complete or detailed manufacturing procedures, Standard Operating
    Procedures, equipment info and/or sources, etc. This is all info you will have
    to pay a consultant for. 

    AND 

    1)      Please
    use correct English, or at least as close as you can get to it. 
    Proofreading
    helps. Also, if you are not sure of how to say or ask something, tell us that –
    don’t just assume that we will automatically know what you are asking,
    particularly if English isn’t your first language.

    2)     
    Please
    have or develop something of a thick skin.
     Nuance is hard to communicate in
    print – but we can guarantee that no one here wants to make you look stupid, or
    feel bad, or embarrass you. It is much more likely that something here that
    upsets you is the result of a too-quick and/or thoughtless response. Please ask
    for clarification before getting angry or flying off the handle.

    3)     
    Please
    wait patiently for an answer. Or a response, etc., and please let us know how
    things turned out.
     Asking a question, getting an answer, and then going
    away without helping the rest of the community by sharing your results is going
    to make most of us very reluctant to answer your next question. If multiple
    suggestions are made, please identify what suggestion you used to solve your
    problem in your follow up. It will help the community, add some credence to the
    suggestion, and help future people looking at the discussion. In addition, thanking
    the responders for their help is the only payment they get – please keep that
    in mind.

    4)     
    Please
    use a descriptive title.
     Not just “help, xyz does not work”. Also, post as
    much information as you can relating to the issue – the more detailed you are,
    the better we can answer. Consider refining or elaborating on your question if
    you are not getting the answers you really think are helpful,

    5)     
    When
    asking about stability or formulation issues, please provide as much formula
    composition (INCI names with percentages), batching procedure and equipment
    information, and any other information about your problem as possible. Be
    SPECIFIC! Please also tell us what your status is.
     Our answers will be
    different if you’re a professional chemist than they will if you are a DIY
    kitchen formulator or if you are a small business.

    6)     
    When
    asking about specific chemicals, use standard CTFA/INCI nomenclature AND trade
    names, and be as specific as possible. Please don’t make us have to look
    information up ourselves if we don’t need to. 
    When asking about alternatives
    or replacements for a raw material, please include at least the following info: the reason you want to replace the
    chemical, the purpose the chemical is serving in the current formulation, the
    type of formula it is, and any other attributes that need to be maintained in
    the overall formulation. If you are asking for suppliers of a particular
    chemical tell us how much you want and where you are located. There is no point
    you telling us that you want xxxx chemical and then we tell you that you can
    buy 200kg drums of xxxx from a supplier the USA if you are are only making 200
    gram batches at home in Europe.

  • chemist77

    Member
    June 18, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    @Doreen after sincerely reading your post I am guessing Makeup2018 will stick to the laid rules. Next post will be by Makeup2050????

  • doreen

    Member
    June 19, 2018 at 10:23 am

    @Chemist77
    :joy:

  • Makeup2018

    Member
    June 20, 2018 at 3:27 am

     :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D  

  • Biochemist

    Member
    June 20, 2018 at 1:47 pm

    @Belassi??????? do you have a blog I could follow? ???

  • doreen

    Member
    June 20, 2018 at 2:00 pm

    @Biochemist
    That would be awesome! @Belassi ‘s writings have made me spill my morning tea several times. :joy:

  • Biochemist

    Member
    June 20, 2018 at 2:13 pm

    @Doreen the few times I’ve posted I’ve wondered what he might say ???. How good would a ‘Ask Belassi’ thread be? ??? I’m sure some of my questions would give him heaps of material!! 

  • belassi

    Member
    June 21, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    Ummm… not a blog, really, no, sorry! I’ve been in hospital for a few days. The liquid soap they use is absolute rubbish… I was tempted to ask my wife to sneak in a gallon of mine and go around replacing it all.

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