Gel Polish One Step Lips, 10 ml
SKU: 947150
Gel Polish One Step Lips, 10 ml by ReformA is a light dusty pink nude with a warm undertone and no shimmer. One step means base, colour and top are gathered in a single bottle: on a healthy plate Lips goes on with no separate base and no top coat.
Lips is the palest shimmer-free shade in the CLEAN GIRL collection: Satin runs pink-beige at the same warm undertone, and Naked is clearly deeper and more coffee. The dusty component takes the brightness out of the pink. Two thin coats, each cured separately, a 10 ml bottle with a brush.
Specification
- Product type: one step 3-in-1 gel polish
- Colour: a light dusty pink nude, warm undertone
- Effect: no shimmer, an even solid colour
- Volume: 10 ml, bottle with a brush
- Formula: TPO-free, HEMA-free and DI-HEMA-free
- SKU: 947150
- Manufacturer: ReformA
Use it for
- A pale manicure on a groomed nail, with no obvious colour.
- French and minimal line art on a pale ground.
- Express work: fewer products and fewer steps than a three-phase scheme.
- Pedicure: a thin coat builds no extra thickness under closed shoes.
- Neighbouring tones in the light pink gel polish and nude gel polish sections.
How to apply
- Do the manicure with a cuticle remover: place a drop on the cuticle, push it back and take off the pterygium down to a clean, dry plate.
- Go over the surface of the nail with a 180 grit file and remove the dust. A single-phase formula holds by mechanical adhesion, so this step is not skipped.
- Degrease the plate with Duo Prep and stop touching the nail with your fingers from this point on.
- Apply the first thin coat of Lips straight onto the plate, with no base. Keep the hand in the air and do not touch the underside of the free edge with the brush. Cure.
- Apply the second coat to the final result and cure.
- No top coat is needed: the finishing components are already in the Lips formula.
- Apply cuticle oil no earlier than 30 seconds after the last coat is cured.
On healthy nails Lips works with no base and no top coat, that is what one step technology is. If the plate is thin or bendy and the hands tend to sweat, apply an acid-free primer before the colour, and a base coat as well if you need it: on that kind of plate the mechanical adhesion of a single-phase formula may not be enough.
Curing time: 60...120 sec in an LED lamp. The time depends on the power of the lamp and on the diodes themselves, and has to be checked separately for each product.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to buff the nail before one step gel polish?
Yes, and it is not an optional step. The single-phase formula of Lips holds mainly by mechanical adhesion, so the surface of the plate is taken over with a 180 grit file and the dust is removed. A skipped buff is the most common reason a single-phase coating comes off in the first days.
How many coats of one step gel polish do I need?
Two. On a pale shade like Lips the first coat reads as a sketch and only the second gives an even colour. A third is not added: pale pigment covers less by nature, and part of the volume in the bottle is taken up by the components that handle adhesion and gloss.
How thin should each coat of one step gel polish be?
Thin enough that the brush leaves a continuous film with no pool at the cuticle. You do not build thickness with Lips: a single-phase material in a thick coat does not cure all the way through and slides onto the side walls before it even reaches the lamp.
Can I do a French manicure with one step gel polish?
Yes. A pale shade like Lips is convenient as the ground precisely because it does not argue with the smile line and needs no separate base under it. Draw the line once the second coat is cured and the colour has its final look.
The colour on screen may differ from the real shade of the product: monitor calibration and the display modes you have switched on both affect it. If you have any doubt about the shade, get in touch and we will show you the colour in person.
Not tested on animals