Vinylux clear

[faye_g]

Quick question, tried to search this topic and couldnt find an answer, if i was to do a french manicure with vinylux cream puff but just wanted to use the vinylux clear top coat and no base colour is this ok? I want to try it on an existing customer but she will only have clear, but didnt know if need to have another colour to act as a base coat?
Thank you

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[Murnettie]

What about clearly pink? That's almost clear?

 

[faye_g]

I didnt know they did vinylux in clearly pink, I will have a look and order some, thanks

 

[Redduck]

Hiya, I'm pretty sure they don't do clearly pink. The paler colours are negligee and romantique - beautiful but not clear.

 

[geeg]

Quick question, tried to search this topic and couldnt find an answer, if i was to do a french manicure with vinylux cream puff but just wanted to use the vinylux clear top coat and no base colour is this ok? I want to try it on an existing customer but she will only have clear, but didnt know if need to have another colour to act as a base coat?
Thank you

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Really good question and very well thought out; you have been thinking !! well done. and you know what ?? Even I am not sure of the answer to this so I am going to ask Wee Fee ... CND EA extraordinaire to answer it for us.

My guess would be that the same adhesion promoters that are contained in the colours may not be contained in the top coat so that it might not anchor well to the natural nail plate on its own (as i can see you suspect also). but I think we should know and have a definitive answer on that.
:Love:

 

[faye_g]

Thank you geeg, this is what i was thinking, i will test it on myself this week. I know she wont have a layer of colour, i have done the same nails on her for 10 years and she wont change 😄 but think she would be so impressed with the Vinylux and I might just be able to talk her into trying it 😄

 

[geeg]

Thank you geeg, this is what i was thinking, i will test it on myself this week. I know she wont have a layer of colour, i have done the same nails on her for 10 years and she wont change 😄 but think she would be so impressed with the Vinylux and I might just be able to talk her into trying it 😄

Lets wait for wee fee to respond before you try it on yourself and waste it. I'm sure anyone would love Vinylux and if there is a 'colour' that with one thin coat will look quite clear that you can use first, then you will be good to go as the top coat, as we know, will adhere to the other coats.

I'm very impressed with your question and how your knowledge of the product and the chemistry behind it has prompted you to ask it. Just shows how education empowers us. X

 

[Wee Fee]

Quick question, tried to search this topic and couldnt find an answer, if i was to do a french manicure with vinylux cream puff but just wanted to use the vinylux clear top coat and no base colour is this ok? I want to try it on an existing customer but she will only have clear, but didnt know if need to have another colour to act as a base coat?
Thank you

Vinylux Weekly Top Coat and Colour Coat are quite different products with different jobs to do. While nothing drastically bad will happen (it's a consumer safe polish after all!) the Weekly Top Coat does not contain 'adhesion promoters', these are the little suckers that give the colour coat such superior adhesion to the natural nail without base coat.
Worst case senario - the Vinylux Weekly Top Coat applied directly to the natural nail chips. One layer of Vinylux in Lavishly Loved is almost clear, maybe your client will be happy with that if she knows it will give her manicure better longevity?

 

[Lynne Baker]

I had this with a client. She was adamant that she didn't want ANY colour on her nails apart from the white tip. Sooo, I said, let's try Beau (it might have been Negligee, but I'm knackered and I can't remember which!), and if you don't like it you don't pay, how's that?
I won't like it, Lynne, she insisted.
Well, let's try it anyway...
She loved it! She loved how it gave her nails a healthy look without any great opacity. I got my 30 quid, she got great nails, and I just had an email saying "this stuff is genius, it's been on 8 days and no chipping!"

Boom!

 

[geeg]

Thanks for responding so quickly Fiona. Geeking first thing on a Saturday morning ... We are obsessed! Happy weekend! :Love:

 

[tuan]

Thread revival.

I honestly did not know that CND Vinylux products were this old.

But as for using the top coat alone, you can't. It chips instantly. It needs to be over a color.