Gel covering of nails

Applying gel nail polish to your nails is often compared with nail extensions. But these are two different things. With the help of build-up, you continue the nail plate, and with the help of a gel coating apply the product on the nail plate itself. This strengthens it, moreover, regular use of this method of nail care will help you grow the marigold and make them beautiful and well-groomed.

Gel nail polish at home

Most often, the gel coating is applied to short nails, so as to give them a volume and stiffness with the help of a gel. You can do this in any beauty salon.

If you want to do this for yourself, and make beautiful marigolds for friends and acquaintances, you should know what is needed for gel coating. There are many tools and materials, and they are inexpensive. The most important tools for gel nail polish at home:

• UV lamp, in order to do this at home, you can buy a lamp 18 watts, 36 watts (the more, the better - this will help to quickly dry the gel);
• nail files for correcting the shape of nails, length;
• means for disinfection, to process the entire toolkit before each use,
• means for degreasing nails;
• Base coat (protects nails from harmful pigments);
• gel-varnish .

You've all bought it and now you need to know a few rules about using this manicure method.

Technology of coating the nails with gel-varnish

Here's how to properly cover marigold gel at home:

1. To begin with, you need to polish the surface of the nail plate and give it a shape.
2. Cover with a light brush motion of the nail plate with degreaser.
3. Apply the substrate to the varnish, dry in a UV lamp.
4. Apply the main colored lacquer. Dry again.
5. Then you need to fix it.
6. At the end, wipe each nail with chemically alcohol to remove the sticky layer.

If you want a gel covering of nails with a pattern , then it should be applied to a dried color varnish, always before the fixer.

Pros and cons of the gel nail cover

The gel coat of nails has a lot of positive qualities, and women and girls like it because it keeps on the nails twice longer than the usual varnish. This saves your time, as it is not necessary to go to the manicure salon every 2-3 days. Also, the positive property of lacquer is that you can safely clean houses, or engage in other things that are related to chemicals. The gel will give your nails a shine, brightness, spectacularity.

And as for the negative characteristic, it is one - you can not remove it yourself, it is better and safer that professionals will do it.