Soak off gel and gel polish?

[Jess88]

Hi Geeks

Please can someone tell me the difference in these products, as I have been looking at soak off gels and the application seems pretty much the same as a gel polish application and am guessing they give the same results and last the same, so why use a gel polish instead of a soak off gel?

 

[NailsXpress]

Ordinary soak off gels can be use to create extensions (like acrylic extensions). Soak off gel POLISH is exactly what it says. It's a polish that can be soaked off after 2 or 3 weeks depending on longevity.

 

[Jess88]

So you couldn't use a thin layer of soak off just to create a colour, it would have to be built up to create an enhancemnet?

 

[Belle Vie]

Soak off gels like Bio Sculpture can be used either to create a standard colour overlay (similar in look to gel polish but in my experience harder wearing) or by building to create an extension. Hope that makes sense.

 

[NailsXpress]

A soak gel POLISH is applied like a polish and set with a uv or led lamp. A soak off GEL is for extending the nail or used as overlays for added strength. Both products come in colours. It depends on what you want to do.

 

[NailsXpress]

What are you wanting to achieve?

 

[Maz101]

Which products have you been looking at? Might help us to answer your question

 

[Jess88]

I have been looking at the soak of colours by ASP

Buy Soak Off Colour Kit from Beauty Express

and some of the gel polishes, various brands, I am wanting to do gel manicure and looking at the soak off gels as they seem more cost effective to use than buying gel polishes and wanted to know if I could do it this way and what the differences would be in results, timings, how long it would last e.t.c