How to apply gel-lacquer at home

Covering the nail plate with gel-varnish is one of the most popular procedures today. In comparison with the usual nail polish, it does not require a long drying - in just 1-3 minutes in a UV or LED-lamp and your marigolds will play with bright colors. You can apply it as an artificial nail, or natural, the result of this will not suffer.

What is gel-lacquer?

This product appeared in the nail industry relatively recently, just a few years ago, and immediately won the recognition of women of fashion all over the world. Among the huge range of conventional varnish coatings, it has always been very difficult to stop at something special, and here - having high strength, the so-called "hybrid" of gel and varnish. The main advantages of this coating are that it is easy to apply. The material has unique properties, due to which the intensity of color and shine, the integrity of the coating, and the nails under it do not "cloud" during the entire period of wearing (about 2-3 weeks).

How to apply gel-lacquer on the nail plate correctly?

The color intensity, as a rule, depends on how much material is applied to the nail. If it is a single layer, you can enjoy a translucent light shade, and with a two-layer coating you will get a dense, saturated color. The choice is only for you. Remember only that before you use the gel-varnish, you need to pre-prepare the nails, as in the case of conventional modeling.

After lightly working the nail plate with a file (with a small abrasive), you can proceed to apply a thin layer of Bond-gel. Remember that it should not be much, as inexperienced masters like to do. After all, after you apply Bonder-gel on the nail, its surface should remain matte. If there was a gloss, then you need to remove the surplus coating. All is simple - it remains for 30 seconds to dry it in a lamp.

Now apply gel-lacquer first layer. Remember that you should retreat from the edge of the cuticle approximately 0.5-1 mm. Surplus gel, trapped in this forbidden zone, must be removed by a gunner or all of us known orange wand. Dry the first layer for about three minutes in a lamp. If the resulting color is not enough, then you can then apply another layer of gel varnish and also dry it in the lamp until it dries completely.

To begin work, as a rule, it is necessary from the right hand, putting thus a covering on the little finger. After that, the finger with the gel-varnish should be placed in the ultraviolet lamp for five seconds. At this time, you need to apply the material to the left little finger. Continuing to alternate, you need to cover all the nails of your fingers. This procedure is simple, but time-consuming.

Why is it necessary to alternate? This question interests many women, but the answer to it is elementary. Observing the alternation, you can prevent the gel-varnish from getting on the skin near the nail and cuticle. Such a technique should be used by those masters who are just beginning to work with this coating and are trying to understand the essence of the procedure.