Collection: A'DOR Gel-Ons 72 Colors HEMA & TPO Free

What is A'DOR Color Me Gel-Ons?

A'DOR's curated gel polish line: 72 shades, numbered 01 to 72, every one a cream finish (one neon), in a 0.4 oz brush-on bottle. Like the rest of A'DOR, it is formulated without HEMA and without TPO, builds to full opacity in two thin coats, cures in 60 seconds under an LED lamp and soaks off like any gel. Made in the USA.

Where Signature 144 is the whole A'DOR catalog, Gel-Ons is the edit: the creams a salon reaches for most, sorted by season, with none of the shimmers and glitters. Every shade sells as a single, and the line also comes as two sets of 36, Part 1 and Part 2, for a wall that wants the full 72 in two orders.

Why a cream-only line?

Creams are the working shades of a gel wall: they cover in two coats, they photograph true, they sit under nail art without competing with it, and they are what a client means when she asks for "a red" or "a nude". A shimmer wall is a second decision. Gel-Ons keeps the first decision simple, which is the point of a curated range, and it keeps the bottle small: 0.4 oz is sized for a shade that gets used up before it has time to thicken in the bottle.

For a salon that positions on what is left out of the bottle, the cream-only range is also easier to explain: one finish, one formula, one cure time across the wall.

The 72 shades by season

Each listing names the tone and the season clients tend to ask for it. Sorted by that tag, the line splits roughly in half between the warm months and the cool ones:

Numbers 01 to 36 are all spring and summer shades: the pinks, corals, peaches, pastels and brights. Numbers 37 to 72 hold the fall and winter tones, the mauves, rose browns, plums and darks, plus a run of summer brights from 49 to 57. Screens shift color, so treat the listing swatch as a guide and paint a swatch stick from each bottle when it arrives.

Which set should a salon start with?

• Opening a HEMA-free option on an existing wall: eight to twelve singles that mirror what already sells in regular gel, a nude, a blush, two pinks, two reds, a white, a black, and the seasonal shade clients are asking for this month. Gel-Ons has a cream for each.
• Spring and summer clientele: the shades numbered 01 to 36. Between them they carry every pastel and bright in the line.
• Fall and holiday menu: the mauves, rose browns and plums from 41 to 48 and 58 to 72, with the five winter shades (61 to 65) for December.
• The whole line: both 36-sets. Two orders put all 72 on the wall and every reorder after that is a single by number.
• Home users: one nude, one red, one seasonal, plus a gel base and top. The 0.4 oz bottle suits a shade that gets painted every few weeks rather than every day.

Gel-Ons 72 vs Signature 144

The two lines cure the same way and share base and top, so a wall can carry both. Everything else A'DOR makes that we stock is under A'DOR, All Products.

How do you get two-coat coverage from a cream?

1. Prep the plate. Cuticle back, shine buffed off, dust and wipe. A cream shows every ridge, so a smooth plate matters more here than under a shimmer.
2. Base, cured 60 seconds. Thin. A'DOR pairs its color with its own base and top; Base & Top Gel cures under the same lamp.
3. First color coat, thin, cured 60 seconds. Thin enough that the nail shows through. It will look streaky; that is the first coat doing its job.
4. Second coat, cured 60 seconds. Float it on rather than pressing. Two thin coats of a cream reach full opacity; a thick single coat shrinks at the edges and cures unevenly.
5. Top, cured 60 seconds. Cap the free edge. Wipe if the top leaves a tacky layer.

Cure times are for an LED lamp: ours is under Nail Tools & Accessories, Lavis lamps under Lavis Nail Lamp. Wear depends on prep and on the client's hands; most get a few weeks, the same as any gel color. Removal is a soak-off: file the top, wrap in acetone, wait, push.

Creams as a base for art

A cream is the layer most nail art sits on. A nude or white Gel-Ons shade under Pat Pat Gel gives the ombre something to fade into; a black cream under cat eye gel makes the magnetic line read brighter; a bright cream on eight nails with two accent nails of art is the standard summer set. Because the whole line cures in 60 seconds, the base cream adds one minute to the service, not a second product routine.

Related collections

• A'DOR Signature 144 The full A'DOR catalog, 144 shades, 0.6 oz.
• Gel Polish, All Brands SNS, A'DOR and Lavis gel color on one page.
• SNS Gel Only Our own GelStar gel polish, matched to the SNS dip books.
• Base & Top Gel Base under and top over any gel color.
• Pat Pat Gel Ombre gel palettes that sit on a cream base.

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