![]() ![]() However, you can’t expect it to be as good as the wear time you would get with a gel manicure. If you don’t want to stop using RNP or are interested in getting slightly longer wear with your RNP, I would recommend trying a gel top coat with it. I wonder if the chipping caused by the incident would have been as bad if the whole manicure on my right hand had been gel. Gel top coat is also more flexible than RNP top coat. 2) Gel top coat performed slightly better than regular top coat did (especially if you take into consideration the Tupperware container incident). To answer the questions posed at the beginning of this post: 1) Yes, you can apply gel top coat over and RNP manicure, provided that you allow the RNP to cure for several hours first. Gel top coat appears to have performed only slightly better than regular top coat would over RNP. ![]() Overall both manicures were durable with minimal tip wear for the 7 day test period. Also, I broke the Tupperware container lid!Īs you can see, wear was slightly worse on the nail tips on my right hand, though there was tip wear on both hands. This was to be expected since I am right-handed. This caused some chipping on the right middle fingernail that otherwise would not have been so pronounced. Note that, early on in the week, I had an unfortunate run-in with a Tupperware container and bent but did not break the pointer and middle finger nails on the right hand. I did not do any maintenance to the manicure for 1 week. I believe application was successful because I allowed the RNP to cure sufficiently before applying gel top coat. As you can see, I experienced no crinkling or warping of the RNP under the gel top coat. Approximately 10-12 hours after the manicure I applied RNP top coat to the nails on my left hand and gel top coat to the right. I gave myself a manicure with RNP per the above and allowed it to dry overnight. OPI “You’re A Doll” on pink, ring and pointer fingers, stamped.Kiss Colors “Soft Gray” topped with China Glaze “Haute Metal” on the thumbs.OPI “ Brand New Skates” on the middle finger.OPI “You’re A Doll” on pink, ring and pointer fingers, stamped (I can’t remember what I used to stamp).Beauty Secrets base coat (Sally Beauty Brand).On my right hand (left hand in the above pic). Here are the results, and they’re pretty much what you would have expected… RNP top coat, I conducted a wear test on these products for one week. In response to a co-worker’s question about 1) using gel top coat on RNP and 2) the wear time of that vs. ![]()
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