Thermo gel polish

Manicure today is not just beautiful and well-groomed nails, emphasizing the femininity of nature. Thanks to a huge selection of products from the nail industry, today it is also a way to stand out from the crowd, showing your individuality and creativity. One of the brightest and most spectacular nail coating products is thermo gel polish.

Thermal gel polish is a plastic gel, a special formula that combines the best properties of a modeling gel and the quality characteristics of a varnish. This is a novelty nail coating that is applied like a regular varnish, but requires polymerization (drying), like a gel.

The name "thermogel" means thermal product. The main feature of this type of lacquer coating is its effect: it is able to change the shade of color depending on the change in temperature. This is a chameleon effect finish.

The effect of a colored jacket can appear even if you hold a cup of hot tea in your hands or put your hands in cold water. Such gel polish begins to manifest itself already in the process of application. It allows you to be always different, gives a lot of positive emotions to the owner.

The composition of the temperature gel polish contains special heat-sensitive components that react to cooling or heating. In heat, the shade becomes light; in frost or cold, it darkens. This tool manifests itself at any time of the year, constantly changing shades during the day and night.

The surface of the nail plate differs in different temperature areas. At the base it is warmer than at the end. Therefore, the color of the gel polish will not be monophonic. In addition, the length of the nails also affects the effect. If they are short, the tone transition will be more uniform and less pronounced. In the case of long nails, the transition is simply fantastic.

Often the difference in shades is very significant. When warm, thermo gel polish can be almost white, and when cold, the pigment takes on a dark tone. In addition, the unique coating of thermal gel polish can combine contrasting shades. For example, a pink tone, reacting to cold, becomes blue, white - lilac, green turns into a chocolate color.

Like any gel polish, thermal gel is a coating with a high degree of durability. Depending on the choice of branded nail cosmetics, it can stay on the nails. two weeks to one month. At the same time, the coating often does not need to be adjusted, does not form chips, does not crack, and is resistant to scratches and mechanical damage.

Thermal gel polish is affordable and easy to use. This allows you to save the budget and perform a professional manicure, as in the salon, on your own at home. It has a comfortable brush for application, a dense texture and excellent pigmentation.This rich coating, which lays down evenly, is distributed over the surface evenly, without leaving streaks and unpainted areas.

The advantage of gel polish is that it is applied to natural nails that do not need to be filed, as with extensions. This provides the most careful attitude to the nail plates, although they lose their natural protective layer. Often, manufacturers produce hypoallergenic products with vitamins that strengthen nails and saturate them with useful substances.

Since thermal gel polishes are firmly attached to the surface of the nail plates, they prevent air from entering in the right amount. This slows down the growth of nails, and in some cases leads to delamination and brittleness.

Unlike conventional varnishes, manicure technologies using thermo gel polish have their own characteristics. To create a perfect manicure you will need:

• soft nail file;
• polisher (buff);
• dehydrator;
• primer;
• transparent base for gel polish;
• pigmented thermogel;
• fixative;
• lamp for polymerization of thermo gel polish;
• soft, lint-free wipes;
• liquid to remove residual stickiness.

The execution technology itself is quite simple and does not require special skills.It is available not only to the master: every woman can learn how to use thermo gel polish correctly.

You can give your nails beauty, a spectacular and flawless look on your own, if you know certain nuances of the procedure:

• Before starting work, you need to correct the manicure (without pre-soaking). You can remove the cuticle, trim the free edge of the nail, give it the desired shape. Nails should be uniform in length and shape. Then you need to remove the remnants of the cream or oil, if they were used.
• It is equally important to prepare the surface of the nail plate itself. The strength of the coating depends on a good base. It must be delicately sanded, removing only the gloss.

• After that, it is necessary to degrease the surface with a dehydrator. In addition to the main function, it will remove the remnants of sawdust and remove microparticles that accidentally fell on the surface of the nail.
• After removing the keratin layer, you need to apply an acid-free primer. It is this product that is needed for soft and weakened natural nails. Acid is used in working with extended nails: here it is inappropriate.
• A thin layer of base coat is applied to the prepared surface. It is a kind of primer layer that promotes better adhesion of the surface and the pigment. After applying the base, it must be dried in ultraviolet rays. Curing time depends on the type of lamp.
• Having prepared the base coat, apply a pigmented thermo gel polish. It is important to paint your nails in a thin and even layer: a dense and thick layer will not stay on the nails for a long time. It may swell or form waves already when drying in a lamp.

• In addition to the main cover, after a layer of coating, drawings can be applied to the surface of the nail or stamping can be done.
• After the pigment, a fixative is applied - a top coat. The layer thickness can be thicker, but it will also require more drying time in the lamp (3-4 minutes in UV rays, 1 minute in LED lamp).
• The final touch of the manicure is the removal of the dispersion layer (residual stickiness). To do this, use a special alcohol-containing solution and soft napkins without lint.
• AT At the end of the procedure, you can apply cuticle oil. It is better to moisturize the skin of the hands with a nourishing cream or oil (coconut, olive or almond).

Gel-based professional cosmetic preparations can be dried with two types of lamps: ultraviolet and LED. Experienced craftsmen working in beauty salons and at home use different devices. LED lamp is considered a professional deviceIt dries gel polish faster. The polymerization time of one layer in it is from 10 to 30 seconds. This is a powerful device that reduces the overall time of the manicure procedure. However, it does not dry all branded products.

UV lamp is considered a standard device, it has compact dimensions and dries absolutely any thermal coating in 2 minutes (each layer). Choosing such a model, you need to buy a lamp with a power of 36 watts. This is enough not to spoil the coating and not harm the skin of the hands.

We recommend watching the following video on choosing lamps and comparing them.

Thermal gel polishes have the same shelf life as other gel-based coatings. Usually it is indicated on the bottle or packaging itself and is two to three years from the date of manufacture of the product. During this time, the components that make up the gel polish do not change their properties, so the characteristics of the product correspond to the declared ones.

However, a lot depends on the master who works with thermo gel polish. With proper storage and use of the product, it can last for a long time even when idle. When the vial is opened, the volatile liquid is pushed to the surface, so the texture will become thicker.

To extend the shelf life of thermo gel polish, you need to close the bottle during the manicure polymerization procedure. In addition, at the end of the work, you need to remove the remnants of the gel polish from the neck, and then tightly close the bottle and put it in a cool place away from sunlight.

Chameleon gel polishes for nails can be of a wide variety of shades. Conventionally, they can be divided into several groups:

1. Pastel range. These are predominantly light and delicate shades with a soft color transition. The group includes soft transitions of beige and brown, white and pink, powdery and brick, pink and purple, olive and bronze. This is a light range of colors.
2. Juicy tones. Muted, but saturated colors with a smooth transition. This is a large range, the shades of which are suitable for any time of the year. The palette includes bright and calm combinations of yellow, orange, light green, pink tones, as well as shades of fuchsia, ultramarine, rich blue and many others.
3. Contrasts. A pronounced transition of two, three contrasting shades. It can be sharp combinations of light and dark shades, warm and cold colors (silver + purple, scarlet + black, crimson + dark blue and others).

Temperature gel polish looks much better on long nails. However, more natural length nails are in fashion today. This makes the transition of shades less pronounced. When performing a manicure with a thermo varnish, you need to consider that some types of design are perfectly realized with its help:

• French manicure. The French turns out to be inverted: the shade of the free edge will be darker than the base. And the width of the “smile” itself depends on the length of the nails.
• Tricolor coatings. Such gel polishes are more sensitive to temperature changes. They form three main tones and two intermediate ones.
• Gradient. First you need to apply a regular pigmented gel polish, and then cover the surface of the nail with a second layer of temperature varnish, picking it up with soft transitions to match the tone of the base.

• Stamping. The unusual idea lies in applying a thermo gel polish on a pigmented gel polish of a different color. The manicure effect will be simply amazing: not only the pattern will change, but also the background base.
• Glitter and micro glitter. They need to be applied when it is already noticeable how the finished coating looks in these temperature conditions. You can cover the nail in the form of a moon manicure, jacket, completely, partially, diagonally.
• Rhinestones. With their help, you can bring a festive mood to any type of gel polish. They will add showiness, go well with stamping, sparkles.

For more information on how to properly fix rhinestones under gel polish, see the following video.

Today, the choice of temperature gel polishes is diverse. They allow you to create many interesting compositions. Among the available cosmetics, there are several branded thermo gel polishes, marked by a mass of rave reviews from masters and lovers of nail design.

The brand produces a wide line of shades of thermo gel polish, taking into account the opinions of consumers. This is a professional line, which is in demand among experienced craftsmen and bright admirers of the brand. The texture of the thermo gel polish is optimally thick, which allows you to achieve an even tone in just one or two layers. This varnish does not flow, quickly self-levels on the surface of the nail plate in 5-10 seconds, leaves no streaks and unpainted areas.

Brand temperature coatings are considered professional nail cosmetics. They cost a little more than their counterparts, but their quality characteristics are higher. These gel polishes are designed to work in the salon, although they do not make it difficult to carry out a manicure at home.

This is a noble palette of colors, each of which, for convenience, is signed with a female name. It has about 20 different premium shades. Varnishes have a liquidy consistency, dry quickly in ultraviolet rays and do not require adjustment all the time while they are on the nails.They are marked by numerous reviews as cosmetics, easy to use, allowing you to make the cleanest manicure.

A cover that is simply made for changeable natures. The volume of the bottle is 15 ml, which allows you to use the product for a long time. This is a 3-phase coating that needs a base coat and a top coat.

The texture of the product is medium density, for an even tone you need two or three thin layers. The company's thermal coatings include 24 colorful tones. This is a budget series of temperature gel polishes, which are highly resistant and do not need to be adjusted.

Color contrasts will please even the most sophisticated fashionistas: orange + pink, lemon + pale green, gray + coral. In addition to bright combinations (saturated green and yellow, brick and lemon), the line includes pastel colors and smooth transitions of the same color (emerald green + light green, black blue + blue).

The brand's products are available in stylish 7 ml bottles. They allow you to get the effect of a jacket and ombre. Thanks to a convenient brush, they are applied to the nails easily and quickly. However, due to the texture of medium density, it is necessary to apply the product in three layers. The uniqueness of the varnish lies in the fact that it changes color in different ways depending on the temperature.

Thanks to especially sensitive components, transitions can be not only smooth, with an ombre effect, but also sharp. The coating can change color in seconds, especially in cold weather.

One of the brightest and most unusual temperature gel polishes with a rich color palette. They stand out noticeably against the background of analogues of other brands.In addition to the main tone, coatings can be with a shimmer, interspersed with sparkles. The brand offers different color combinations - from smooth transitions to bright highlights.

Trademark coatings stay on nails for two to four weeks, are easy to apply and delight with color contrast of shades. The brand's gel polish is not only a fashionable and spectacular coating, but also protects the nail from delamination and brittleness. It creates a beautiful and durable shield, strengthening the nail plates.

Premium line of thermal gel polishes, cosmetics for salons. They differ in luxury of shades and include pastel, juicy and contrasting range of combinations. Most of the palette is bright and saturated.

In addition to the classic coating options, the brand produces thermal varnishes with the Cat's Eye effect in a volume of 10 ml. This is a small series of temperature varnishes with dense pigment and pearlescent particles. This gel polish differs from analogues by a combination of two effects at the same time. In addition to the main color change in warm and cold, the varnish has a vertical highlight.

Temperature gel polish gets a lot of rave reviews. It stands out noticeably against the background of conventional monochromatic gel-based coatings. Both experienced craftsmen and ordinary customers who have tried this varnish note the unusual and unique effect, good and easy application, dense pigmentation of such products.

In addition, a lot of reviews are devoted to the color palette. Thanks to the huge selection, you can buy a varnish with a combination of two or three of your favorite shades. Many girls like to choose such nail products for colorful and spectacular art, decorating painted nails with rhinestones, stamping and sparkles.

The disadvantages of such a coating include the difficulty of removing thermal gel polish of some brands. Sometimes it does not respond to a special removal fluid, so the coating has to be cut off. However, in this case, it is worth listening to the recommendations of manufacturers that offer special accompanying liquids for removing their gel polishes.