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Your skin tone/coloring: Fair with neutral undertones and freckles, green/gray/blue eyes, warm brown hair.
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? HK Girl Top Coat by Glisten and Glow… that ish is AMAZING. Sets and dries SO fast and glossy. I love it.
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? Glisten and Glow base coat… it’s blue based and doesn’t stain and it’s a little sticky so it clings to the nail polish.
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? Zoya Remove Plus Nail Polish Remover
Your skin tone/coloring: Next to my name! (blue-green eyes)
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? Nail-Aid 1 Minute Artificials that I buy at Wal-Mart, and have for many years.
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? European Secrets Rock Hard nail hardener. Usually followed with a coat of Nail-Aid 1 Minute Artificials.
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? Currently, Cutex Strength Sheild nail polish remover.
This week’s Survey has woken me up to just how long it’s been since I last did a full mani with color! ?
Your skin tone/coloring: Light medium, yellow undertones. Dark brown hair & eyes.
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? Jordana Quick Shine.
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? Whatever I have handy, TBH. I’m using Nail-Tek at the mo, and it dries matte, so that’s nice.
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? Straight acetone (perk of working in a lab) or the Kleancolor pads – propylene glycol is the shizzle.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light with warm undertones, brown eyes, black and silver hair.
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? Live, Love, Polish topcoat. It smooths glitter finishes, is very shiny, and super long wearing. I work with my hands and don’t wear gloves, and typically get 5-7 days of wear.
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? Also the Live, Love, Polish base coat. It has a slight blue base and grips polish well.
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? Zoya Remove+
Your skin tone/coloring: light, MAC NC 15-20, med brown hair and eyes
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? Don’t have one.
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? Don’t have one
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? Don’t have one
I am really clueless about nails. I’ve only had them done professionally twice. I keep my nails very short and I rarely paint them. Just not something I can get into!
Your skin tone/coloring: NW47 neutral (peach) undertones
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? kiko gel effect (the best !!!)
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? kiko bb base
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? diadermine nail polish remover
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat? I use the Clinique base and top coat finish
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? As above
What’s your go-to nail polish remover? Whatever I can get on sale.
Skin tone/coloring- light neutral skin, blue eyes, dark blond hair
I do at home gel manicures- I have a high powered LED light and all of the needed supplies to do gel manicures. My favorite base coat is Gelish Foundation Gel, top coat is FingerPaints top coat, and go to remover is a mix of pure acetone and a nourishing acetone remover.
My skin tone. , medium tan ,
I like Deborah Lippmann “ Addicted to Speed” for my top coat and for my base
Julep “Oxygen smoothing base Coat “
and Deborah Lippmann “The Stripper” remover.
Your skin tone/coloring: fair/cool undertone
What’s your go-to nail polish top coat?
What’s your go-to nail polish base coat?
What’s your go-to nail polish remover?
I have gel nails done every three weeks. My real nails are so weak I can never grow them out very nice. Luckily I have found a wonderful nail tec that is a magician and I wouldn’t give her up for anything.
Skintone: Light medium leaning cool.
Go-To Topcoat: OPI Plumping Volumizing Topcoat. I get over a weeks chip free wear with any brand of polish, I’m not especially gentle with my nails either. HOWEVER. this has been discontinued! When I could no longer find it in stores I tried another OPI topcoat called Brilliant, along with 4 or 5 others, none of them did what the Plumping one did. I finally found some on Ebay so I have a few in reserve but :-(.
Base nail coat: Nailtiques Formula 3, it helps my brittle nails. A month or so ago I actually had to cut my fingernails, they had grown out so much that it would have taken forever to file them down.
Favorite remover: Zoya 3 in 1 Remove. I just started using this in November. I don’t think I will ever use another brand.
skin tone/color: fair-light neutral with a hint of olive
– What’s your go-to nail polish top coat?
None at the moment. I had seche vite and didn’t like it. I don’t know why it has so much hype.
– What’s your go-to nail polish base coat? I used Revlon and now I’m using Orly Bonder. I haven’t noticed any difference in preventing staining. Both are good. However, nail polish starts to chip on me in a day or two. It’s a fact. I keep my nails short btw. Zoya peels off on me the quickest. Essie was fine. Now I have a few Sally Hansen’s hard as nails xtreme and I like them for a bit long lasting effect. Just a bit though.
– What’s your go-to nail polish remover?
Cutex.
Skin Tone Colouring – NC-20-ish
Go-to nail polish top coat – Aila – Better Than Gel
Go-to nail polish base coat – Aila- Prime
Go-to nail polish remover – Aila – 3 in 1 Nail Colour Remover
(favourite nail colour) – Aila – Pookie (thought i’d add/share) 🙂