Prepare and Touch Up Nail Holes

gloss buildup. Okay, so I have an area here. We have a hole that was plugged in the wall, and one of the things I see inexperienced people do is plug a hole, take a flexible knife, and just run a bit of filler through it. The filler will end up filling in the texture around the hole, and then you'll end up with a nice flat spot. What you should normally do is take a bit of filler, fill it in with your finger, and then clean up the excess from around the texture so the texture doesn't get filled in. Now, once it's dry, I'm going to take my brush, just a little bit of paint on the end of my brush, and all I'm going to do is dab it over this area here and touch it up. So I don't want to take it and put a big brushstroke here; I'm just going to dab it outwards, like this. This is it. What we would call dry blending around that point. Now that point is all touched up here. I'm going to let it dry really well.