Soft Gel Tips and Natural Nail Tips
Soft gel tips are pre-shaped full-cover extensions made from cured soft gel. Instead of sculpting, you size each finger from the box, apply gel inside the tip, seat it on the nail and cure. A full set goes on faster than acrylic and files down with far less bulk, which is why the service spread so quickly. Apres popularized the category as Gel-X, and our Apres range sits at Apres. This collection holds 46 tip products, including plain natural nail tips for classic tip-and-overlay work.
The workflow that keeps them on: prep and dehydrate the natural nail, choose the tip that covers sidewall to sidewall without pinching, lightly file the inside of the tip, apply a thin layer of gel to both the tip and the nail, seat it at a low angle so the air pushes out, flash cure, then cure again from underneath. Size before you apply anything. A tip one size too narrow is the most common reason a set lifts in the first week.
Stock the middle sizes heaviest, because you will run out of them long before the widest and the narrowest. Build the rest of the service from builder gel for apex and strength, nail glue, files and buffers, nail drills and drill bits for shaping and removal, and color from gel and lacquer. Orders ship in 1 to 2 business days, free over $150 in the 48 contiguous states.
