Do the OPI color work with other base and top coats? For example, I have the Gelish brand UV top and base coat?
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yup! they're all the same thing. I have mally brand top and base coat and they work like a charm with OPI :)
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Hi Hannah - I have the Gelish too kit too. That's how I started out. I like their colors but found them thick even though they lasted forever. The OPI does work HOWEVER, I find that it doesn't last as long as when using the Gelish. The one thing I really like about OPIs gelcolors is that they're not as thick and apply easily. Hope this helps!
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To my knowledge you have to use a base and top coat as they are part of a "system" for curing the gel polish. I use Gelish base and top coats with many different brands of gel polish colors and it works great.
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I have used OPI gel color polish and Gelish also with this system. Both worked fine.
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I hadn't tried it, I did use it over an OPI color, not quite the same result
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I don't see that this lamp has anything to do with brand Gelish. Nor sure why it is in the name. I have used it with many different gel polishes. But bottomline, I like Gelish polish best. I wasn't keen on IBD even before I got the LED lamp so having the lamp didn't make IBD work better for me.
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I have used mine with both Kiss brand top and base coat as well as Shelac top and base coat and they both worked great for me!
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Yes, I have many OPI on them. I haven't found any brand of polish that won't fit.
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I use an LED light which works for most polishes (like OPI, Gelish but not CND) and requires only 30 seconds for base and top coats, 60 seconds for polish coates. The UV light (which works on OPI and CND and others) takes 2 minutes per coat and because of the UV rays, you should use sun block on your skin. The LED light costs more, but shopping on Ebay and Amazon can reveal good prices. Some lights say LED then when you buy them but then read LED UV on the cover--but they are just LED. Hope this helps.
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There are two different types of light for gel/shellac nails: LED and UV. UV takes longer than LED. You need one or the other for OPI.
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Well when i was first doing gel on myself I was using a different brand and I had to redo my nails every week to two weeks that that product I bought from the store, I guess the gelish product could be old I don't know for a fact that it's brand new but can go twice as long between doing my nails so I would just base it on that I buy colors from any brand but I'll only use gelish top and base coat
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This base coat is meant to be used with a top gel coat and then cured with uv light. I know that without the light the polish never and i mean never dries. I don't know if you could put regular polish over it. I feel like you would still need to use an uv light.
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I would say no, this cannot be used as a top coat as well. They do seem very different. the top coat uses uv to cure and lock down the color coat. the base is used to attach the color coat to your nail. I would not recommend not getting all three types if you want to do gel nails.
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It works for me, but you should use 2 coats as a base, and then apply daily over polish for best results. I just ordered my 3rd bottle. I have tried them all, and I get good results with this.
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Also...the gelish brushes are awful BUT the colors are so much better than Shellac to me. My salon has stopped offering Gelish but when I don't feel like doing it myself, I take my gelish colors and they use their Shellac top/bottom with salon quality light. Also you CAN use the Shellac top/base with an LED light but go 2-3xs as long on light cycles and expect that it may peel after a week.
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No. It won't work over nail polish like OPI. It will work over nail art with the exception of rhinestones. Once you put a coat of this gel over a rhinestone it makes it look like a dot. You can do it if you want but it won't look right. I would suggest a rhinestone glued over the gel.
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yes you can use top and base gelish for color gel of opi and we have DND base and top you it new but this very good thanks you visit
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I use it with an OPI pale colour, and it works pretty well. I work with my hands, and am therefore very hard on my nails.