Step By Step Instructions

After you have all that you need to do your Gel Nails (list of items you'll need is in the Gel Nail Know-How Tab), follow the instructions below:

1. Prep your nails: clip them, file them, push back your cuticles, and whatever else you need to do to make them look nice.

2. Brush on the ph bond which dries your nail so that its easier for the foundation base coat to adhere to it. If you find that your nails are getting too dried out every time you do this, then try to put on less the next time. Sometimes I skip the ph bond if my nails are still dry from the last time I applied it and they are getting too thin.

3. Paint a thin coat of the foundation base coat and cure under your lamp light for the time specified on the back of the bottle.

4. Paint a thin coat of the gel color you chose and cure under your lamp for the time specified on the bottle.

5. Add a second coat and cure again like you did in step four.

6. Apply a third coat if needed. Most colors are fine with two coats. Sometimes the color is still slightly transparent and needs another layer or you may want the color slightly darker.

7. Brush on the top coat sealer and cure for the time specified on the bottle.

8. Soak a cotton swab with alcohol and rub over each nail a couple times to make the tackiness turn smooth.

----You are done if you want to be. The next steps are for stamping.---

9. Get your stamp plate design, nail stamper and plate scraper ready.

10. Dab a couple dots of regular nail polish (Not Gel Polish) onto your nail plate over the design you are doing.

11. Scrape with firm pressure over the design plate to smear the polish evenly into the grooves of the design and scrape excess away from the design.

12. Immediately roll and press your rubber stamper firmly over the design on your plate.

13. You should have picked up the design, but if it doesn't look good, then try again after you've quickly cleaned out the design with fingernail polish remover and dried it.

14. When the design looks good, roll and press it onto your nail. If you don't like the results, then remove with fingernail polish remover (this won't hurt your gel polish). Then try again, but clean your plate first with fingernail polish remover and rub dry. Make sure your stamper is cleaned too with fingernail polish remover.

15. After you have the design on your nail and/or nails and you are done stamping, give them 30 seconds to be sure they are dry, then paint a coat of top sealer over each design and cure for the directed time.

16. Rub over the top coat again with alcohol.

Voila! You are done!

*For further tips, go to my Gel Nail Know-How Tab.