However, CND only works as a whole system. I have read many blogs that you only need the base and topcoat and can use a lower color lacquer (possibly even ordinary nail polish), but I can not confirm. The CND polish has a rubbery consistency in the cured state. I assume that this is exactly why the holds as well. The paint comes with the nail when I where reinhakelt, desk or everything is softened when bathing or washing. All other trademarks are hard but are also very brittle and burst very quickly in exposed places. The smallest quirk in it and you can wait it that half the nail exposed. With CND has indeed seen to limp two weeks on the nail tips that he has long been on it, but it was like a slow, gentle abrasion by wear, but no irregularities in it, no flaking of larger parts. If longer than 2 weeks looked good if you do not meticulously investigated, but then with me personally usually too much grown out, which then acts no longer maintained. The price may seem daunting, but the stuff is more than worth the money.