When to Use Base Coat？

Why do my nails need a base coat?
It's a question that comes up frequently and it can sometimes be difficult to choose, but there's no need to panic! We're here to help you make sense of it all.

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You should apply a layer of base coat to bare nails before your coloured polish.
It is usually clear but sometimes has a hint of colour to conceal imperfections or poorly coloured nails (yellow, white, stained, ridged, etc.). Like a foundation or corrective cream used in makeup, a base coat can be used to conceal minor flaws in your nails and enhance them before applying a nude polish or opting for a natural look.
But that's not their only use!

Perfection, protection and nutrition

Applying a base coat can improve the health of your nails and their natural colour, and ensure your manicures last longer.

Worn on its own, your base coat can provide your nails with effective protection by safeguarding them from external aggressors and humidity, which can weaken them. A layer of base coat also makes an excellent foundation for your polish by providing an even surface that colours can adhere to easily. It acts as a barrier between the nail and the coloured polish to prevent marks and stains, while ensuring better adhesion to help prolong your colour and its radiance.

Which base coat should you use with a traditional polish?

A layer of base coat under a traditional polish is an essential step if you want your manicure to last. Creating an even surface that the polish can adhere to helps prevent it from chipping and peeling prematurely and ensures your manicure will go the distance.

Layers of base coat are particularly important when you use very pigmented colours on your nails, which could leave traces when removed. The layer of base coat forms a barrier between the nail and the colour, preserving the nail's natural colour. Finally, base coats are sometimes formulated with active, hydrating, strengthening or nourishing ingredients, which care for the nail plate.

When a base coat becomes a treatment...

Manucurist offers a wide range of treatment base coats suitable for all types of nails and to meet all needs. If you want to know your nail type, our diagnostic nail tool will help you find out in a few clicks and recommend the best base coat to meet your needs!

Formulated with up to 84% ingredients of plant origin, our treatment base coats are bursting with nutrients, vitamins and minerals to keep your nails in tip-top condition.

Green Base Coat

This base coat is enriched with pistachio resin and avocado, spinach and green tea extracts to protect and care for your nails. Concentrated vitamins and nutrients with antioxidant properties make this base coat a protective, nourishing treatment that takes care of your nails whatever your chosen colour!

5.5 Base Coat

The perfect base coat to give your nails a boost and keep them healthy. It contains 5 plant extracts and 5 vitamins that together offer a full dose of everything your nails need to stay hydrated, strong and healthy.

Force Base Coat

For soft nails that just need strengthening, this base coat contains AHAs, which are extremely beneficial for nails that bend, flex and break easily.

Smoothing Base Coat

A common problem, ridged nails can be caused by vitamin deficiencies or simple ageing. This slightly tinted, smoothing base coat is specially formulated for this type of nail and helps fill in the ridges and even out the nail surface while hydrating and strengthening it.

Perfecting Matte Base Coat

This base coat visibly blurs imperfections while strengthening your nails with its keratin- and AHA-rich formula.

S.O.S. Base Coat

The ultimate base coat for regenerating damaged or weakened nails, its formula is bursting with hydrating, nourishing and protective ingredients to help restore the nail's structure: vitamin B5, vitamin C and AHAs. After applying it for a week, your nails will be completely regenerated.

What is the difference between base coats for gel and LED polish and base coats for ordinary polish?

The chemical composition of gel and LED nail polishes is different from ordinary polish. They contain chemicals that dry and harden in UV light.
A base coat is an essential step to help the different layers adhere under the lamp, protect your nails and ensure your manicure lasts by reducing the risk of premature chipping.
In terms of removal, traditional gel polish base coats can be hard to remove, which risks damaging the nail structure. They need to be dissolved with acetone, which destroys the layer of fat that protects your nails, and often require an abrasive drill to be used on the nail plate.

Luckily for you, this is not the case with Green Flash LED polish, the clean alternative to gel nail polish, whose base coat has the same adhesive and protective properties. It can be removed quickly and easily with a gentle, acetone-free Gentle Polish Remover. The polish comes off the nail on its own in just one minute - it's magic &#;

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In addition, our Green Flash Base Coat is formulated with 84% ingredients of plant origin, which allows you to easily change colour while preserving our planet's precious resources!

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Why do I need to apply a layer of base coat during my manicure?
A very common question, and a not-so-simple decision! Which one, and why? Fret not, for we are here to answer all your questions&#;

What exactly is a Base Coat?

A base coat is a layer applied to the nails before covering with a colored polish. They are usually clear but sometimes feature a slightly colored appearance to off-set yellow or undesirable undertones on your nails, similar to how color correcting contours work under makeup application to conceal red, yellow or purple undertones. However, their wide array of benefits doesn&#;t stop here!

Perfecting, Protecting, and Nourishing

Base coats also provide a foundation for the polish, serving as a smoothening layer to offer an even surface for colors to stick to and lay evenly on top of. They act as a barrier between your nail and the colored polish to prevent damage and staining, while simultaneously ensuring a better surface to adhere to, which provides the opportunity for longer wear time of your color. By applying a base coat, you can improve your nails&#; health, natural color and ensure longer, more even, and more vibrant manicures.

Which Base Coat to use for Traditional Polish?

Using a base coat under a traditional polish is an essential step to creating a long lasting manicure as they create a better surface for polish to stick to. Providing a better, stickier surface for colors to stick to will help prevent chipping and peeling of the polish, helping to keep your manicure looking perfect for longer. Polish base coats are especially important when using highly pigmented colors on the nails, bringing us to the second reason why base polish is so necessary to nail health. The base coat creates a barrier between your nail and the color, so you can avoid staining or ruining the natural color of your nail plate, which can be very hard to reverse. Additionally, base polishes can be formulated with actives or ingredients that will help to moisturize, strengthen, and nourish your nail plate and nail fibers.

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Manucurist offers a wide range of base coats to fit all nail types and needs (to find your nail type, checkout our diagnostic tool! ), that are all formulated with up to 84% plant-based ingredients, and jam-packed with nutrients, vitamins and minerals to keep your nails and the planet happy and healthy :

Green Base Coat

Our base coat is fortified with pistachio gum (an ancient natural resin), avocado extract, spinach and green tea extracts which contain vitamins and antioxidants. Even our most simple and traditional base coat will help to nourish and care for your nail health underneath whatever brilliant color you choose!

Green 5.5 Base Coat

This base is perfect for nails that are generally healthy but could still benefit from a little extra nourishment and protection. This base contains 5 plant extracts and 5 vitamins that, all together, offers a complete dose of everything your nails need to stay hydrated, strong and healthy.

Green Force Base Coat

Soft, bendy and flexible nails begging to be strengthened need this base coat! It contains a special AHA treatment that is extremely effective at repairing soft nails and easily bend, crease and break.

Green Smoothing Base Coat

Vertical nail ridges are very common with causes such as improper nail care, nail trauma, vitamin deficiency or simply increases in age. This base coat is specially formulated with ingredients and a slight tint to even out imperfections and fill in ridges while keeping nails moisturized, smoothed and strengthened.

Perfecting Matte Base Coat

This base offers a sheer coverage that visibly corrects and blurs imperfections while offering nourishment and strengthening with its formulation containing keratin and AHA.

Green S.O.S Base Coat

This base coat is the ultimate option for regenerating very damaged nails. The formula is jam packed with ingredients that strengthen, hydrate, nourish, protect and rebuild the nails structure including: Vitamin B5, Vitamin C and AHA. After one week, nails are completely regenerated.

Base Coats for Gel

Gel polish has a different chemical composition than that of regular polish. It contains chemicals that require and react with UV light to cure and harden. For gel manicures, a base coat is an essential step in protecting the nail and assuring long-lasting wear, as well as decreasing the rate of peeling or chipping by acting as an adhesive barrier for the polish to stick to. For typical gel manicures, the removal process is extremely harsh for the nail fibers and structure, so using a base helps to shield and protect from scraping and drilling that is often required for removal.

However, it&#;s your lucky day. Manucurist&#;s Green Flash, the world&#;s first-ever LED nail polish whose base coat has the same adhesive and protective properties, can be removed easily and quickly with a mild acetone-free remover. In one minute, the varnish comes off by itself from the nail it's magic &#;In addition our Green Flash Base coat is formulated with 84% plant-based ingredients so you can keep your nails and the planet happy and healthy.

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