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Should I go back?

Should I go back?
Should I go back?

So I found a girl who does acrylics. I made the appointment a month ago. She texted me two days before to ask if I’d consider trying builder gel. I’ve been doing soft gels on myself for the last 3 years (and I’m pretty good, it was just more time consuming than I’d like). I said I’d prefer acrylic since it seems to maintain the stiletto shape better, but that if she really wanted and she had a hard gel, I’d be open to that. So she gets me in the chair and reiterated how she’d rather not do acrylic, I let her do her alternative and she insists it’ll be a hard gel, then pulls out a tube of acrygel/polygel. I thought that was a soak off product, but I let her continue because she promises to give me acrylic if I’m unsatisfied.
She does the application and filing and I’m thinking I’m lucky she only had to fix the length on two that didn’t match the other hand. She does her buffing and starts with the airbrushing, then top coats, a final file for crispness, and sends me on my way.
The appointment ran longer than she quoted and we both had engagements to move on to, so I didn’t have time to look at them and ask her to fix them.
From the top, they look nice. But letting the light move around on them reveals a not so smooth filing/buffing that she maybe could’ve hidden if she’d used a base color under the airbrushing. But the lack of apex and lumpy structure and the notches she filed into the sides seem bad to me. Am I expecting too much? Should I ask her to fix them?
My sunglasses were the inspo.

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