It's the oil and the time. Orly recommends 10 minute soak. Oil after not during

I heard ( not saying it's true, but something to look into) reason you can't buy the gel from website like that is that there product is 100% gel where gel nail polish is actually a mix of gel and polish .

I am a professional, we pay good money to go to school , pass boards , keep our license up to date and have certain standards because we are working on the public . I personally also pay good money to take as many classes as are available in products I will use to get certified. If people want to use products on family and friends that's fine . Me personally I have liability insurance as a business incase anything was to happen. To each their own. I also live in a state where licensing for nails or esthetics isn't required!!! So I'm not sure why products are not allowed to everyone??? I mean being licensed things are less expensive to us and we have easier access , but I can show anyone in my state how to do a Mani and pedi and they can seek out a job and then get access to products so as much as I like the idea that it's in the best interest of the company to have professionals use their products, that professional term is sometimes used to loosely.

Can it be used as a primer aswell?

I use only Orly Gel base coat for my ladies and it does literally flake off once you remove the soaking pads. I do leave on for at least 10 full min. I agree that 5 min isn't enough but my ladies love it because there is no damage to their nails. However, I see you use pure acetone..I do not use pure acetone to remove gel..I believe that should be only for acrylic removal. I use the Harmony Gelish remover its pink and it is so much less drying to the nail beds and cuticles. I loved how you used oil before wrapping for removal. Never thought of that – Thanks for the tip!!

you should with a peel off base be able to take a cuticle stick or some nail tool & just peel it right off.. I use the opi peel off & the sally Hansen insta dri top coat , the one in the mouroon bottle in a box its usually with the sally Hansen nail treatments at Walmart..anyway I use that for peel off acrylic nails and builder gels..it works like you wouldn't believe acrylics & gels just pop right off no problem… & yes it sucks that certain companies think that because a person isn't licensed they shouldn't sell their products.. I can get most any acrylic /gel supplies I need but there are a handful that do that I hate it its so irritating..i guess they don't want to make money..cause theyd make a lot more capital if they just sold to everyone like a lot of the others do ..enail couture ..naio nails..nsi.. ibd..theres a lot that sell to anyone

do you use this as a basecoat over your builder gel overlay? if so how do you change out the nail color and soak it off without disturbing the overlay?

Your nails are sooo beautiful!

Interesting demo! I'm curious about the way you only did one coat of the gel polish though, I guess you like the look of it sheer? I was under the impression folks usually do several coats of gel. Orly is such a great brand, I just signed up for the Color Pass.