I’ve never had any sort of fake nails before to add length (although I’ve had BIAB a bunch of times on my natural nail). One of my natural nails broke recently so I had to cut them all short, but I’m leaving for a European holiday soon so I wanted my nails to be nice and long for the pictures. 

The nail guy used those template things shaped like nails that you squeeze the gel into, shape it then hold it on the nail and cure it. I noticed that there are gaps between the surface of my natural nail (in the centre) and the underside of the gel. I can literally poke a toothpick down a couple of them. I mentioned this to him and he said it had to be like that because of the shape of my natural nail. 

I don’t know if this is just my inexperience talking but I would have thought the whole natural nail is meant to be attached to the gel on top? I am worried that it’s going to separate and come off quickly and also that I’m going to get shit caught in the gap and it will be hard to clean. 

It also made my nails angle upward toward the tip instead of straight like they normally do (even after I got him to grind down the front half to try and fix it). 

It feels like he just didn’t have a template that fit my nail shape/size or maybe didn’t angle it close enough to my natural nail tip. Can someone help - am I tripping or is it supposed to be like this???

Gap between natural nails and gel extensions???