Premium Rubber Base Gel Viscosity and Self-Leveling
Here’s a relatable scenario for you. A technician decides to buy a cheap rubber base gel, with big mistakes to show for it. She picks up her brush, ignores the excess, and determines the safe amount. After depositing the gel on the nail, the gel acts up and stubbornly rushes to the cuticles. After some time technology, she has to utilize her clean up brush. She has to “sculpt” the gel where she wants it to go. Guess what. This is called a viscosity failure. Premium rubber base is where you want to stay in in viscosity range. Warm, thick, and honey like, with enough body to stay where you put it with a slow set cure, providing thickness to not self level and the magic: self leveling. A truly premium rubber base self levels in a magic like way. Self leveling is strongly described and ride the surfaces of the nail, fill it to make a consistently smooth surface, without an additional touch. It’s like magic. That’s truly premium base gel.
This balance is very tricky to achieve. Getting it right requires investment in great raw materials and not fillers or bad formulations. While lower tier and high volume products often try to make up for poor cohesiveness by being overly runny and thick, it is damaging to the technician or the nail. The ideal premium level rubber base gel offers working time (maybe between ten and fifteen seconds) to act and maneuver pliancy, and once done, it sets firm and level. It reduces the need for filing as it traps air bubbles. The sculpting colors don’t need to be the end step to achieve a great, level, and structurally sound overlay as it is the gel that structurally and moldably does the initial sculpting. The gel does the upfront and great job as sculpting overlay, serving as a great base for the color. It does the initial great job. ColorMark focuses a lot on this, as we know that many technicians first look for this upon trying a new product. This is also why we pride ourselves on this.
Elasticity and Flexibility of Premium Rubber Base Gel
Let’s discuss what truly sets rubber base gels apart from hard gels – the flexibility of natural nails. A static hard base coat hardens a nail’s natural flexibility and creates stress fractures within the nail. Over time those stress fractures will cause the entire manicure to delaminate from the nail. The Premium Rubber Base Gel remains semi-flexible post curing to give the support your manicure needs while still allowing for the flexibility of natural nails.
This flexibility should not be mistaken as a lack of curing or weakness. At its core, it is an intentional decision by designers. To unpack this, picture a flexible piece of candy compared with a piece of brittle hard candy. The hard candy snaps. The leather bends but snaps back. The rubber base is a shock inhibitor by being sandwiched between a the rigid top coat and color layers above and the natural nail below. The rubber base also tends to absorb the micro movements of day to day life and helps distribute the stress evenly across the nail instead of concentrating the stress at the edge which is where the lift typically begins. Clients with thin, and peeling, or broken nails, this flexibility is more than just a manufactured trait. It of a longer flexible nails as compared to the traditional that peel and are removed by the end of the week.
Premium Rubber Base Gel HEMA Free Formulation
There is an ongoing conversation, and it is long overdue, in both salons and in nail communities about what raw materials are in nail products. HEMA is a monomer and is prone to creating and maintaining strong adhesion and durability; however, it is also one of the most common causes of nail product allergies. HEMA is a sensitizer, meaning that frequent and prolonged contact can cause severe dermal contact allergy and gel product intolerance, not only to the clients, but also to the technicians that use the products on a daily basis. Competitors to Premium Rubber Base spend a great deal of time and effort to address these concerns by offering HEMA-free formulations.
Omitting HEMA is a unique challenge. Redesigning the chemistry to match required parameters for adhesion, flexibility, and durability is no small challenge. It involves more advanced and costly monomers and manufacturing. HEMA-free premium rubber base gel is a logical and valuable choice. This gel lowers the risk for the entire salon ecosystem and allows technicians to work with less concern. It also provides clients with known sensitivities or a preference for HEMA-free products a safe option for gorgeous and long-lasting artificial nails. A good strategy for evaluating premium products is to look for HEMA-free products. This is a good signal for a brand that is more concerned with the long-term welfare of their product’s users than the short-term profitability of a less complex product.
Filling and Coverage with Premium Rubber Base Gel
One noticeable and practical effect of a premium rubber base gel is a smooth nail canvas. Everyone’s nails aren’t completely straight. They have vertical and horizontal ridges, dips, uneven textures, and discoloration which can be caused by polish stains. Which is why a thin base coat won’t do anything to cover these imperfections. Instead, that watery thin base coat just settles into the uneven nail ridges and imperfections and shine through the color, while, with a rubber base gel coat that is thicker and highly pigmented, the gel fills these uneven imperfections. It levels itself by filling ridges and uneven dips and creates a smooth arch that is consistent across the nail.
Superior formulations achieve a subtle opacity with a milky pink or a translucent nude. There are two main benefits to this subtle opacity. First, it helps to conceal a customer’s nails’ natural discoloration, creating a smoother more neutral nail to serve as a foundation for a client’s desired sheer or French manicure. Second, sheer polish is more visually opaque to ensure full and even coverage, making it easier for technicians to see any spots requiring more polish to avoid uncured sections. A high quality rubber base gel has the added ability to keep a manicure looking crisp for even longer. A smoother and more even base stops the areas where polish is more likely to lift and break. Plus, it fills in the natural grooves on nails, ensuring a flatter surface. All of this leads to a high quality, structurally complete manicure.
Conclusion:
That Premium rubber base gel excels in the market is clear when you analyze the features and benefits of our product. Finding the right balance of viscosity that doesn’t lead to flooding as well as elasticity to complement the natural movement of the nail is no small task. Manufactured accordingly, the Premium rubber base gel encourages healthier nails and longer lasting manicures. Colormark is also dedicated to the safety and the long-term well being of our clients as demonstrated by our commitment to HEMA-free base formulation. Premium rubber base gel also provides the best filling ability as well as the best overall coverage. It is the best product to use if you want the most flawless, vibrant, and professional looking nails. The differences in truly Premium products are clear and so are the choices.
With Colormark, our clients know we’re committed to building the best product and aesthetic potential by offering a HEMA-free base they can feel confident and safe using.