How To: Gel Over Polish - No Wrinkles!

Do you have a color of Nail Polish you love, but want the durability of Gel? Suzie shows how to use a Gel Top Coat over regular Polish, and keep it from wrinkling!

Products Used in this video:

Rose Bonbon Nail Lacquer
Kiara Sky

Shine E Gel
Exclusive Nail Couture

LED Gel Lamp
Ugly Duckling

Suzie was not paid to promote the products in this video, and does not receive a commision from sales. Some products were given to Suzie to try, and she is sharing her experience of using the products with her viewers. Links to products are provided as a courtesy to Suzie's viewers.
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[simplynailogical]

Thank you so much for making this!! I struggled with this when using specialty nail powders like chrome or linear holo powder pigments, which work best buffed into a cured gel top coat, but I always used regular polish colours as the base. This definitely makes more sense now! Suzie to the nail rescue!

[loveksxo]

Everytime this woman puts her glasses on- sh*t is about to get real 😭😂

[RubyBoognish]

I like to put on two thin layers of a gel base coat, file the shiny part off, put regular polish on top of that, let it dry for like an hour, and top it with a gel top coat. I couldn't afford a bunch of gel colors so I started doing this instead and I haven't had any problems, as long as I do thin coats 😊

[jessicahill]

i've been looking for an answer to this question for months and everyone just said that you're not supposed to use them together. thank you so much for helping me cheat the '"rules" of nail polish!

[dinosgirl]

I like to polish my nails with regular polish at night, then the next morning, I use a clear gel topcoat. My nail polish lasts about 2 weeks or more this way - if I don’t get bored and change them first. Plus they stay super shiny. Great tip!

[Tigrinnaful]

Thank you so much for this tip! I can't afford a lot of gel colors but I have like a million of regular nailpolish. This really helps me to do a lot of fun stuff on my nails now. You are the best! Thank you ❤️🌹

[TheSarahLindy]

Been doing this for ages, because I love & own so many colors that just don't come in a gel format. It doesn't last as long as a straight gel manicure, but it does last longer for me than regular polish & topcoat alone. I reccomends to everybody 👍

[sophiepaas]

When I have a lot of anxiety or when I’m stressed, I watch your videos, because your voice calms me down. So thank you!

[kark]

Omg, Im so glad you made this. Im new to gel, but have over 100 regular polishes. I wanted to use gel to make it last longer! Now I can without the bad results I was having before!

[DiscoKittii]

I've found that if you don't cure your gel polish properly, that can happen as well. Say you have too thick of a coat of a dark color, the UV/LED light won't cure it all the way through, when you put the next layer on (or the top coat) it'll wrinkle up around the edges and the uncured gel with leak out the sides.

[rapooi]

I usually let my normal polished nails dry for at least a few hours before applying the gel topcoat. Done it for years

[wendypiklor]

I've been waiting for someone to do a video like this!!! I'm not a professional by any means. But I've experimented and figured this out on my own.Glad you educated us on this.😊
I've found that if you put a top coat like Seche Vite, Glisten and Glows (formally HK Girl), or Out the Door or any one of those fast drying top coats and let it dry completely for like a half hour to an hour it won't wrinkle either. I like this alternative because for 1. your polish won't smudge while you wait for your polish to dry and 2. I think it's healthier for your nails because you're not needing to remove all those layers of gel polish with either filing or soaking. Which can make your nails weaker.
Thank you Suzie!!!
👍👍👍

[nayl]

Could listen to you all day! You don’t go off point and start talking about things we don’t want to hear! You get straight to it! Love your tutorial 😍😍

[hollysnorten]

OMG Ms. Susie I have had that to happen to me many times because I just love the shine that gel top coat gives. Thank you for this video. Know I know what happened & what I need to do.

[claireeebee]

Thanks for making this Suzie! I've been avoiding painting my nails because I use regular polish and working in a hospital, I have to wash my hands constantly and polish won't survive more than a day or two. I'm looking forward to using my regular polish with a gel top coat and seeing what I can accomplish 😁

[jadas_purple_socks]

I literally just bought my first gel polish/gel top coat, how did you know I needed this?!!??

[moonstonemagic]

Omg Suzie, you have no idea how much I’ve been waiting for this! I just did this last night on my mom‘s nails and I figured out that I needed to use a polish that could just be applied in one coat and then it didn’t wrinkle or dent, but that can be hard and could take a long time to find one coat polishes. So I still need help. Thank you so much for creating this video!!! 😆😊❤️

[toreef]

I also do a regular base coat (Orly bonder) under gel polish color with a quick dry polish top coat. It lasts longer than just polish but is easier to remove than gel polish.

[chromeoiran]

I always wondered about combining gel and traditional polish, but never took the time to experiment. Thanks to you, now I know exactly what to avoid. Suzie, you're the best! 😘

[patriciademchuck]

Great video! I let the nail polish dry 24 hours and put the gel coat on top it and used my lamp. It worked perfectly