NAIL COVERING

摘要

Transfer nail coating application strips have an adhesive layer that is attached to a clean and dry nail without water, and can be immediately encapsulated with any type of top coat for nails. An ink layer bonded to the adhesive layer can have any desired color and/or pattern. When the strips are larger than the nail, the adhesive layer and the ink layer will completely cover the nail and tear at the edges of the nail with a remainder of the layers attached to a base layer of the strips when removed from the nail after application.

主权项

1. A method of applying a nail covering comprising:
preparing a coating application strip having a base layer, an ink layer and an adhesive layer, said strip being dimensioned to be larger than the nail at least in a widthwise direction so as to cover at least skin adjacent to lateral sides of the nail; applying the coating application strip to a clean and dry finger or toe nail to cause the adhesive layer to stick to the nail up to an edge of said nail near said skin adjacent to at least lateral sides of the nail, and to cover at least part of said skin adjacent to at least the lateral sides of the nail with an excess portion of the adhesive layer and the ink layer, wherein said excess portion attaches to said skin adjacent to at least the lateral sides of the nail; removing the base layer from the nail, leaving the adhesive layer and the ink layer on the nail and said excess portion of the adhesive layer and the ink layer on said skin adjacent to at least the lateral sides of said nail; encapsulating the adhesive layer and the ink layer on the nail by applying a top coat to the nail; curing or drying said top coat; and wiping clean said excess portion of the adhesive layer and the ink layer attached to said skin adjacent to the nail of the finger or toe after said top coat is cured or dried.