E-File Do's ✅ & Don'ts❌ What You Need to Know Learning E-File • Bits Explained

E-files can be the worst thing if you don't know how to use it, but they can be the best thing if you know how to use it.

I'm going to show you the do's and don'ts of how to work your e-file. Let's get started.

To be totally honest, you don't have to buy an e-file to be a nail technician. You can use hand files your entire career.

So this is if you're interested in an e-file, this will be sort of beginning tips if you're interested in getting an e-file and how to use it.

I'm not going to talk so much about the e-file itself. I'm going to talk more about the do's and don'ts of what you can do when you're first learning.

And there's a few key points you want to hit to make sure you get on the right foot or the right hand, I guess.

OK, so the first thing is finding an e-file that is compatible for you.

I suggest if you're beginning, you want something with a lightweight handpiece, low or no vibration, and up to 30,000 to 35,000 RPMs.

You want to find something that starts off very low speed, because low is going to be your friend, especially when you're learning.

And honestly, right through your career too, especially on that natural nail. I recommend using 2,000 or 3,000 RPMs on the natural nail.

Please don't use your e-file at these speeds, especially on the natural nail.

Now you're going to make mistakes when you first learn, so I highly recommend work on a fake hand or practice finger.

Avoid cutting skin by practicing lots first. Don't start learning on people.

Respect your bits. If you don't learn how to use them correctly, you will cut the skin and make it very uncomfortable for your clients or yourself.

Once you learn how to use the bits correctly, you will create nails with great precision and much, much more efficient.

Why do we have to have an anchor point? Because once you have an anchor point, you can do anything. Right now, we're going to get a bit in here.

okay again i'm not going to talk about how to put the bits in what kind of bits right now

i just want to talk to you about the number two thing anchor

you want to have an anchor point so why is an anchor so

important because it's just what it means you're it's an anchor

point a starting off point think about yourself of jumping

in midair you really can't right you have to jump off of something and that's what an anchor is so i use my pinky when i'm doing clients i will rest my pinky

on my other hand because I grab the client like this let's pretend this

is my client's finger the end of this I

will grab a client's hand like this over top of

their hand I don't go under I don't have as much control that's an all other

video I go over top when I do that I can hold on to their finger but my finger here now becomes an anchor point, a jumping off point for my pinky.

And the reason why that's important is because when you are filing, you use your pinky, I'm going to exaggerate it,

I use my pinky as my momentum, my start-off point, my jumping off point.

If I don't have it, I don't have any base point that I can grab onto.

So when this machine is moving, let's move it. When it's moving, you want to be able to push through and bring it back.

Push through, bring it back. And I'm using that pinky muscle to bring it back because I want to go side to side.

That's the most efficient way to file going side to side.

If you don't have your anchor point, you can literally remove the anchor point and you can do this.

But if the drill bit pushes you, you don't have an anchor point to come back.

It'll just take you with the movement of the drill. The E-file will make you just spin all the way around.

It can even happen sometimes if you have an anchor point, but you've got to exercise that muscle.

OK, OK, I'm going to show you the importance of side to side.

that is the motion that we use on our nail I

do feel going side to side is going to

make you much quicker it's going to speed up your time if you're just

going one way you can do that you can just go one way but if you're anchoring

properly you have all the control to go side to side and I highly recommend that for speed so going side to side you can see when I'm going back

and forth and I'm using my pinky to anchor

that's what you want to do you

can even use this finger if you're more comfortable with this finger you can do this

one too for me it's just my pinky is more comfortable

if you don't you don't have

as much control I'm not faking that either I'm just showing you that you

just don't see how I went on round and around if I had my pinky right there see how it's I've got great control I can go over top of the whole nail and I can actually go quite quickly.