I am through nail artist. I don’t skip any steps. Every step helps me achieve a perfect foundation. When my clients come back for a fill, they rarely have a repair. The ones that have repairs are because of their job that requires heavy use of their fingernails .. like hairstylists that shampoo and use their nails to scratch and shampoo the scalps. I use to have clients that would have nails pop off , but once I changed the products I was using and learned how to prep really good. I no longer had complaints about nails popping off or not lasting.