Base and Top Coats Built for Salon Volume
A base coat and a top coat are used across services rather than tied to one shade, so this page keeps them separate from the color wall. It groups the base coats and top coats we carry from iGel, CNC, OPI and Gelish, so you can restock the layers that carry the service on their own schedule and shop nail color separately.
Read the bottle title first. Where a top coat is labeled non-cleanse, as the iGEL UV/LED Non-Cleanse Gel Top Coat is, that wording tells you how the manufacturer intends the last layer to be finished, and it changes how many passes a tech makes at the end of a set. Because the wording sits in the product title rather than on a spec sheet, you can standardize the salon on one label instead of leaving techs to work out which bottle at the station behaves which way.
Size is the part that is easy to underplan. The iGEL base and top coats are listed both as a 0.5 oz bottle and as an 8 oz refill, so a busy salon can buy the refill and top off station bottles instead of reordering singles. Fewer small bottles also means fewer half-empty ones in a drawer.
Matching the system you already run
These gel base and top coats are UV/LED products, so check the cure time the manufacturer gives for the bottle against the lamp at the station and follow those directions. A salon standardized on one brand can stay inside that system end to end: OPI users can pair these with the OPI gel range, and salons selling matched gel and lacquer sets will find those under gel and lacquer. We offer free shipping on orders over $150 within the 48 contiguous states, and orders ship in 1-2 business days.
