KKSP - STILETTO-PIPE

KKSP Shape (Russian Almond)

From 2009 a very unique shape emerged from among my hands, almost all by itself – KKSP (Krisztina Kalmár Stiletto Pipe). In essence, I combined two different shapes that were popular at the time – pipe and stiletto. In Hungary in 2010 there were only a few nail shapes that were know to us: square, pipe, almond, stiletto. “Edge” (the nail shape created by Valentina Denisenko) had just freshly taken the country by storm.

KKSP incorporates the best features of all the various nail shapes: the slenderness of stiletto, the curved profile of pipe, the straightness of Edge (and thus its amazing thinness and longevity). It is important that it will look its nicest, if it is at least the length of a shorter form (i.e. if the overall length of the nail is at least 3-3.5 cm).

I didn’t name it: it was named by an instructor well-known and recognized in Hungary – Erzsók Molnár – who asked me to introduce my new nail shape at one of their events. After my presentation she suggested that we name the new nail shape right there, in front of the audience. After listing out the characteristics of the nail, she named it Krisztina Kalmár Stiletto Pipe (KKSP). So I’d like to thank you Erzsók, right here, for this wonderful name.

Within weeks, this shape became the favorite of my guests and my friends, as not only is it kid and nylons-friendly, but also slender and easy to decorate nicely, and it will make any lady’s hands beautiful and feminine.

Very soon after this, people started to call this nail shape as „russian almond”, well, I didn’t fight against it... and I don’t even mind. Call it however you want, but when you learn from me, remember tot he story behind this nail shape.

Amaze your clients with elegance and perfection. Medium to long size nails, with wonderful-colorful Art French.

Long nails made with paper forms and/or dualforms. Learn to make a beautiful slim, long nails, with built in glitters, shell pieces, and other nail art.

Learn to mix the right amount of gel paints to acrylgels, to get bright and good consistency colors.   Let’s make perfect smile-lines, extreme length or medium long but still comfortable and feminine nails.

• Introduction, explanation of the technique, materials, tools and brushes
• Color mixing
• Perfect form placement
• Single or double smile-line or inbuilt glitter-shell design on the nailbed extension
• Art-french (marble or ocean-water effect)
• Filing techniques
• Dualform nailbed extension
• Art-french made with dualform
• Filing

 Material list

• Table lamp
• UV lamp
• Mini UV lamp
• Towel for the table
• Metal tools
• E-file,different size of drillbits
• Filers, buffers
• Nail prep, primer
• Base gel
• Paper forms /Dualforms ( I can bring dualforms)
• Jar for liquid ( you can work or with monomer, with alcohol or with acrylgel solution
• Builder brushes and smaller brushes
• Paint bruhes
• Paper to clean the brush
• Different nail art products (shell plates, glitters flitters etc)
• Paint gels
• Top gel
• So all that is important for a technical course.