What is the cure time? For Audrey is my fave! I'm thinking about buying it just for that polish
Thanks Cira On Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Maggie in Visalia <onykoph...@yahoo.com> wrote: > So I got my March issues of Nails and Nailpro and that was the first time > I'd seen ads for China Glaze's new gel line. WOOHOO! I've been waiting for > a long time to see if they'd join the polish revolution or not. > > So I made a mental note to check out the local Sally's-- seeing as how > Sally's is where we buy China Glaze around these parts. > > And then I got word that the March specials for Sally's include a BOGO > deal on China Glaze-- including the new Gelaze. AND the professional price > for Gelaze is an entirely reasonable $8.70 per bottle. So buy one get one > free brings it down almost to the realm of regular polish prices.... I > bought one of everything for a total of 29 colors and a top coat. > > Then I posted my pic on Facebook and everyone wants to know what I think > of it. > > First of all-- I think they want me to pronounce it "Jeh-- lahze" or maybe > "Jel-laze" but I'm just calling it "jel-lazy" because it's more fun that > way: I'm pretty over EVERY SINGLE line of gel polish on the market > (almost-- with props to Young Nails and NSI) feeling the need to include > some form of the word "gel" in the name of their gel polish. So "gelaze" > just makes me roll my eyes. > > I am not sure how I feel about it yet. I like that it is thin and > polish-like. It's easy for me to get a thin coat with it. I LIKE that it is > a 1/3 oz bottle (which should be taken into account when factoring the > lower price, btw) because I've had SO much trouble with my gel polishes > curing in the bottle. Smaller bottles means getting more use of each one > before I lose them to poor powder coating. (OH! If only I had control of > choosing bottles for this application, I could fix this!) > > But coverage is mediocore. I do a lot of gel polish over acrylic and I can > still see much of the file marks in the acrylic through the polish. I can > graduate my grit for a smoother finish on the acrylic before polishing, but > that seems like it should be an unnecessary step for a product that's > supposed to eliminate the need to buff. > > BUT so far, I think the China Glaze gelaze top coat might be my favorite > gel polish top coat. It's not the shiniest I've used, but it's thick. Which > means that when I put it over glitter, it actually gives me a mostly smooth > finish. Most gel polish topcoats sort of sink into the glitter and leave a > very textured finish. If I want a smooth gloss finish I have to use my > builder gel-- which doesn't soak off. So I'm digging the Gelaze topcoat so > far. > > Mind you. I haven't seen how it wears and I haven't soaked it off of > anyone yet. So we'll see. But China Glaze is opting to match their regular > polish palette with the gelaze, which is making my clients do happy dances > that get them scolded for wiggling while I'm working on them! FINALLY! Flip > Flop Fantasy and For Audrey in a GEL FORMULA! You'd think it was Christmas! > LOL. > > Ok. Those are my thoughts thus far. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maggie Franklin: > Owner & Artist, The Art of Nailz <http://artofnailz.info/>, Visalia CA > > * "Visionary rebel dreamer; obviously way ahead of my time."*Maggie Rants > [and Raves]@Nails Magazine <http://blogs.nailsmag.com/maggie/> > Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/onykophile> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NailTech" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > nailtech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nailtech%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to > nailtech@googlegroups.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nailtech@googlegroups.com');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nailtech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nailtech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
