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Rhiannon Derbyshire

This £9 base coat convinced me to break my gel nail habit and paint my own nails

An image of Orly bonder base coat beside an image of a woman's hands with freshly painted black nails, filing her nails with an emery board.

Think a gel polish is the only way of getting your manicure to last longer than a few days? Think again. This base coat has completely transformed the staying power of my regular polish.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve lost my manicure mojo. A period of back-to-back gel manicures left my nails feeling as flimsy as tissue paper, so I've forced myself to take a break. I don’t want my salon stalemate to mean having bare, boring nails, so I've been seeking out some gel manicure alternatives, starting simple with good old regular polish.

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