base & top coat
A beautiful manicure starts and ends with the right layer. A base coat protects your nail from staining by dark polish and gives the colour grip, a top coat seals the colour and adds shine. Read more
Ellen’s advice
How to choose
A beautiful manicure starts and ends with the right layer. A base coat protects your nail from staining by dark polish and gives the colour grip, a top coat seals the colour and adds shine.
How to choose:
- Soft or damaged nails: the Mii Cosmetics boost + benefit base coat or preserve + protect base coat, both also nail hardeners.
- Thin, peeling nails: the Mii Cosmetics strong + stable base coat.
- Ridges in your nail: the Alessandro spa nail care ridge filler smooths the surface.
- Fast drying: the Mii Cosmetics gloss + go fastdrying topcoat or shine + shield turbo dry topcoat.
- Shine: the Alessandro gelactic top coat.
Tip: add an extra layer of top coat mid-week and your polish stays beautiful a few days longer. Colour is in nail polish.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you want to know
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Who helps you?
I'm Ellen, the Ellen behind LLN.beauty (say it as Ellen beauty). Beauty therapist since 2003, with my online beauty store since 2008. In 2019 I trained in orthomolecular therapy at KPNI, to tackle skin problems from the inside as well.
For years I treated clients in my salon. I stopped, because a treatment only works for a short while. Lasting results come from the basics you do yourself at home. That's why I now help you with a routine you'll actually stick to.
Which routine do you want to tackle first?
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