Why do I need to apply a layer of base coat during my manicure?
A very common question, and a not-so-simple decision! Which one, and why? Fret not, for we are here to answer all your questions…

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What exactly is a Base Coat?

A base coat is a layer applied to the nails before covering with a colored polish. They are usually clear but sometimes feature a slightly colored appearance to off-set yellow or undesirable undertones on your nails, similar to how color correcting contours work under makeup application to conceal red, yellow or purple undertones. However, their wide array of benefits doesn’t stop here!

Perfecting, Protecting, and Nourishing

Base coats also provide a foundation for the polish, serving as a smoothening layer to offer an even surface for colors to stick to and lay evenly on top of. They act as a barrier between your nail and the colored polish to prevent damage and staining, while simultaneously ensuring a better surface to adhere to, which provides the opportunity for longer wear time of your color. By applying a base coat, you can improve your nails’ health, natural color and ensure longer, more even, and more vibrant manicures.

Which Base Coat to use for Traditional Polish?

Using a base coat under a traditional polish is an essential step to creating a long lasting manicure as they create a better surface for polish to stick to. Providing a better, stickier surface for colors to stick to will help prevent chipping and peeling of the polish, helping to keep your manicure looking perfect for longer. Polish base coats are especially important when using highly pigmented colors on the nails, bringing us to the second reason why base polish is so necessary to nail health. The base coat creates a barrier between your nail and the color, so you can avoid staining or ruining the natural color of your nail plate, which can be very hard to reverse. Additionally, base polishes can be formulated with actives or ingredients that will help to moisturize, strengthen, and nourish your nail plate and nail fibers.

When the base provides aid…

Manucurist offers a wide range of base coats to fit all nail types and needs (to find your nail type, checkout our diagnostic tool! ), that are all formulated with up to 84% plant-based ingredients, and jam-packed with nutrients, vitamins and minerals to keep your nails and the planet happy and healthy :

Our base coat is fortified with pistachio gum (an ancient natural resin), avocado extract, spinach and green tea extracts which contain vitamins and antioxidants. Even our most simple and traditional base coat will help to nourish and care for your nail health underneath whatever brilliant color you choose!

This base is perfect for nails that are generally healthy but could still benefit from a little extra nourishment and protection. This base contains 5 plant extracts and 5 vitamins that, all together, offers a complete dose of everything your nails need to stay hydrated, strong and healthy.

Soft, bendy and flexible nails begging to be strengthened need this base coat! It contains a special AHA treatment that is extremely effective at repairing soft nails and easily bend, crease and break.

Vertical nail ridges are very common with causes such as improper nail care, nail trauma, vitamin deficiency or simply increases in age. This base coat is specially formulated with ingredients and a slight tint to even out imperfections and fill in ridges while keeping nails moisturized, smoothed and strengthened.

This base offers a sheer coverage that visibly corrects and blurs imperfections while offering nourishment and strengthening with its formulation containing keratin and AHA.

This base coat is the ultimate option for regenerating very damaged nails. The formula is jam packed with ingredients that strengthen, hydrate, nourish, protect and rebuild the nails structure including: Vitamin B5, Vitamin C and AHA. After one week, nails are completely regenerated.

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Base Coats for Gel

Gel polish has a different chemical composition than that of regular polish. It contains chemicals that require and react with UV light to cure and harden. For gel manicures, a base coat is an essential step in protecting the nail and assuring long-lasting wear, as well as decreasing the rate of peeling or chipping by acting as an adhesive barrier for the polish to stick to. For typical gel manicures, the removal process is extremely harsh for the nail fibers and structure, so using a base helps to shield and protect from scraping and drilling that is often required for removal.

However, it’s your lucky day. Manucurist’s Green Flash, the world’s first-ever LED nail polish whose base coat has the same adhesive and protective properties, can be removed easily and quickly with a mild acetone-free remover. In one minute, the varnish comes off by itself from the nail it's magic ✨In addition our Green Flash Base coat is formulated with 84% plant-based ingredients so you can keep your nails and the planet happy and healthy.

Let’s flash ! ⚡️

Product Spotlight

5 Reasons You Should be Using a Base Coat

Hey OPI Obsessed, today we’re getting down to base-ics, with a refresh on all things base coats. (See what we did there?)

Is a base coat necessary for nail polish? Of course! Read on to find out more about base coat nail polishes, and some tips to ensure your mani stays on point with a round-up of 5 reasons you should be using them. 

SHOP TOP AND BASE COATS

Using a base coat nail polish actually extends wear:

Proper application of all steps is key to making nail polish last. Be sure to start with properly prepped nails and apply 1 even coat of base coat to start, for OPI Nail Lacquer application start with OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, and for OPI Infinite Shine application start with OPI Infinite Shine Primer-- this will allow additional color application layers to have optimum sticking power and ensures less chipping! Because no one likes a chipped mani.

Base coat nail polishes help to prevent staining:

Base coat nail polishes in general help prevent any staining that might occur, especially from darker nail polish shades, but certain base coats work a little extra when it comes to stain fighting. Our OPI Infinite Shine Treatment Primers are like a base coat nail polish and treatment in one! These nutrient-rich formulas like the OPI Infinite Shine Brightening Primer contain antioxidant-rich lotus flower oil and bamboo extract to help brighten nails that may already be stained and helps to prevent future staining from happening.

What is the difference between nail primer and base coat?

A true nail primer is a product that creates cross-linking adhesion and is typically found in professional product systems like acrylics for example. The acrylic product becomes ‘bonded’ with the nail primer to help provide stronger sticking power to the natural nail.

What is the difference between base coat and top coat nail polish?

Top coats like OPI Top Coat and OPI Infinite Shine Gloss are the keys to high-shine manicures. They keep color true during normal wear and ensure manicures are long-lasting.

Using a base coat nail polish can provide added strength:

Weak nails are no match for OPI Nail Envy or OPI Natural Nail Strengthener, use these in place of your regular base coat nail polish for a little extra support. The hydrolyzed wheat protein and calcium in OPI Nail Envy work together to provide harder, stronger, and longer natural nails, and Natural Nail Strengthener works by building in layers of added strength and support where needed.

Base coat nail polishes can help smooth out nail surfaces:

We mentioned our OPI Infinite Shine Brightening Primer earlier, but we can’t stop there! These magical treatment primers do wonders, especially when it comes to nail ridges. Nail ridges are usually harmless and can be a sign of vitamin deficiencies (like vitamin A, B-12, protein, calcium, iron, or zinc). Another cause could be Onychorrhexis, a longitudinal ridging that can result in splits (similar to split ends in hair) at the free edge.

The OPI Infinite Shine Ridge Filler Primer helps condition and smooth the nail surface prior to Infinite Shine color application.

Use of a base coat helps to achieve full color coverage:

Thanks to all of the amazing benefits mentioned above like stain prevention, increased strength and smoothness for example, as a whole, base coat nail polishes truly are the key to allowing your nail polish’s true color to shine through

Be sure to follow any color application with a final step of top coat nail polish.

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