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Manicures include more than beautiful nail art and creative designs. Healthy nails underneath the polish are just as important. Base coat, the first layer in the gel nail application process, acts as the primary shield that supports the integrity of the nails and protects the manicure. Many nail enthusiasts and even a few novices overlook the significance of a base coat. This often results in nails becoming stained, brittle, and increasing the likelihood of the manicure peeling. Quality base coats provide a combination of protection and adhesion =, and are a crucial part of professional nail products.
Base coating creates a barrier against staining and chemical damage.
A base coat is used to create a barrier on top of the natural nails.Natural nails have pores and these pores absorb the pigments in the gel polish. This base coat forms a dense protective barrier against the nails which causes the pigments to be repelled by the base coat rather than being absorbed by the nails. In addition to the staining that occurs when using certain pigments in gel polish, there is a risk of chemical damage to the nails and nails can become more weak and brittle, and the cuticles can be damaged due to the chemicals in hand sanitizers, hand soaps, and a variety of lotions. The base coat functions to protect the natural nails from these damage wuayys. While working with nail salons, we learned that the customers who use base coat do not typically show any discoloration to their nails even after using many dark gel polishes, but customers who do not skip this step do actually show a loss of nail health.
Applying Adhesion to Polishes for Long Lasting Manicures
Polygel does not adhere well to the smooth surface of natural nails, resulting in lifting or chipping to the polished nails. The base coat is innovative and solves the problem at the source. The base coat acts as an adhesive for the gel because of its viscous resin components that fill in the small grooves and imperfections of the Natural nail providing a rough surface that is bonded to the gel polish. The viscous base coat has a chemical reaction that occurs when the gel is cured, and they bond to each other. Because of this, the performance of the base coat and gel polish adhere better to the Natural nail to keep the manicure intact longer. The performance of a base coat extended the average retention of a gel polish from 10-15 days to 45 days. The long-lasting effect, also reduces the frequency of customers to return to the salon for gel polish and reduces the number of touch-up appointments needed, which is a significant factor for salons to retain customers.
Repairing Weak and Thin Natural Nails
People have weak, thin, and brittle nails due to lots of reasons such as frequent nail polish remover use, manicures, and daily physical impacts. Base coat does not only serve as a protective layer; it also acts as a “reinforcement layer” for such fragile nails. A good base coat provides a gentle “support” to thin nails, and help reduce the impact caused by the nail surface grinding during a manicure to further protect the nail bed from damage. Customer nails that break easily have been reported by our partner salons to experience a 60% decrease of nail breaks after 3 months of consistent use of the strengthening base coat, and many have found it to be an effective solution to thickening their nails. Base coat also serves to smooth out the surface of the nail, resulting in an enhanced finish to the manicure and gel polish application.
Global Safety and Quality Standards Compliance
Safety and protection of nails and nails wellness and health, qualified base coats that ensures adherence to the global standards of the strictest cosmetics safety guidelines, but as well ensures safety regarding health of the nails and the body. Currently, international standards in the nail industry that recognize and regulate the safety standards of the nails and the body consider the US FDA and EU REACH. Such regulations ban and restrict the use of harmful and dangerous, and highly toxic photoinitiators, and metals. For instance, the use of TPO and other similar products is regarded as limited in the EU to gel nail products due to the factors that pose a hazard to reproductive systems. Quality base coats that do not use such toxic, harmful and dangerous bases do ensure to use safe and environmentally friendly, less odor, and low-irritation. Moreover, the base coat manufacturing process must control and limited the release of solvents and the UV/LED curing technologies as solvent-free film formation is in line with protective and supportive global environmental and health trends. Thus, only products that comply with such strict regulations and standards can be labeled as "safe protective base coat” and in so doing, do not ensure to cause no harm, do not harm and provide environmental protection to the nails.
Commercial Benefits for Brands and Nail Salons
The benefits of base coat are not only limited to the users’ nail care effects, but also offer potential commercial benefits to nail salons and nail care brands. For nail salons, a base coat of good quality and consistency can improve the quality of the manicure, decrease the after sales rate due to peeling and yellowing of customer nails, and increase customer satisfaction and willingness to repurchase. As reported by one of our collaborating distributors, nail salons that use quality base coat tend to record a customer repeat purchase rate almost 35% higher than salons that don’t use quality base coat. For nail care brands, base coat is a fundamental category of nail care products and a cornerstone in the development of a fully inclusive product offer. Custom base coat products address the unique preferences of differing brands, and a low minimum quantity can reduce the initial investment risk for emerging brands allowing them to rapidly diversify their product offerings within the nail care category. Within the competitive nail products market, having a premium base coat distinguishes a brand and salon.
Base coat is essential in professional manicure services as it offers versatility in protecting nails. Base coats offer protection in multiple ways, such as providing isolation from pigmentation and chemical damage, as well as reinforcing weak nails and boosting adhesion. Lastly, base coat manufacturers can enhance their base coats from a commercial perspective while also tapping into global safety standards. Therefore, the ideal base coat suppliers help achieve these functionality goals. Colormark is the ideal base coat suppliers. With more than 12 years of experience, they have their own fully compliant EU REACH and US FDA base coat production systems in their own factories and offer OEM/ODM customization in low minimum order quantities. Their factory direct model sidesteps middlemen and ensures quality and consistency of the base coats, while also maximizing the value for nail salons and professionally branded base coat suppliers. Quality base coat as the starting point for perfect manicured nails, the ideal base coat suppliers offer the promise of the perfect nails experience.