Collection: LAVIS C10 Light of Dawn Collection

What is Lavis C10 Light of Dawn?

C10 Light of Dawn is a 24-shade gel polish collection in the Lavis C-series, the specialty-finish range that runs from C01 to C17. Finish: water-light gold cat eye. Twenty-four shades of water-light cat eye: a light gold cat eye effect on soft pastel bases, sunrise-inspired. Every base is a pastel and every line is gold, so a mixed hand still matches.

Every shade is formulated without HEMA, comes in the standard 0.5 fl oz (15 mL) salon bottle, and cures in 60 seconds per coat under a UV/LED lamp. We carry the line as 24 singles and as the 24-color set.

The 24 shades, as singles or the set

The C10 Light of Dawn 24-color set listing carries every shade as a Style option plus a full-set option, so it is a second way to buy any single code or to stock the whole line at once.

Each code links to its own page with swatch photos; the short description is Lavis's own note on the shade. Screens shift a shade more than a swatch does, so if a client is between two codes, swatch both on a tip before committing.

Singles are the way to trial a line: two or three codes, a few weeks of bookings, then the set once the requests keep coming. The set is for the salon that already has the clientele and wants every code on the wall from one order, with the singles as the restock route afterward.

Who is C10 Light of Dawn for?

Lavis pitches this line for spring and all year. In the salon it tends to book for:

• Spring bookings: pastels with a warm gold streak instead of a cool silver one.
• Sunrise and gradient sets: pastel bases that blend, one gold line across all of them.
• Warm-undertone clients: gold flatters where silver reads cold.
• Bridal daytime sets: soft and luminous without sparkle.

Within the Lavis range, C14 Secret Garden is the other pastel cat eye line with a moonlit-gold sweep, and C09 Morning Dewdrop the jelly one. The whole C-series runs from C01 to C17 with one specialty finish per line, jelly, pearl, cream, neon, glass and cat eye, so most salons pick two or three lines by finish rather than stocking all of them.

How do you apply Lavis C10 cat eye gel?

1. Prep and base. Push cuticles back, buff the shine off, wipe, then cure a thin gel base from Base & Top Gel.
2. First coat. A thin coat of the C10 Light of Dawn shade, cured 60 seconds, no magnet. This is the color bed.
3. Second coat and the magnet. A slightly fuller coat; before it cures, hold a cat eye magnet a few millimeters above the wet gel for a few seconds, then cure that nail at once.
4. Full cure and top. Cure the hand 60 to 90 seconds, then seal with a glossy gel top. Lavis quotes up to 21 days of wear with proper prep.

Magnets are sold separately in our Magnet collection; lamps and prep tools are under Nail Tools & Accessories.

Straight, diagonal or double: where the magnet goes

Hold the magnet lengthwise over the center of the nail for the classic single streak, or angle it so the line crosses on a diagonal. Two short passes on either side, with a flash cure between them, give a double line. A magnet held flat over the whole nail spreads the pigment into an even glow with no line.

On the lighter bases in C10 Light of Dawn the line reads soft; a cured coat of black or a deep solid from SNS Gel Only underneath makes it read strong. A matte top from Base & Top Gel turns any of the shades into a velvet cat eye.

How is a 24-shade C-series cat eye different from the 12-shade CE drops?

The CE drops are Lavis's 12-shade magnetic cat eye capsules, each built around one mood with the 9D pigment. The C-series cat eye lines are twice the size and lead with the base: water-light gold cat eye. Pick C10 Light of Dawn when a client wants a range of bases with one consistent line; pick a CE drop when the line itself is the point. Our own SNS Cat Eye Gel, Crystal Twinkle and Diamond Twinkle, covers 24 shades each across the full color range.

What does HEMA-free mean on this page?

HEMA is the small monomer in most gel products and the one most often named when a client reacts to gel. Lavis formulates the whole C-series without it, and we state that as what is left out, not as a promise that nobody can react; no cosmetic can honestly make that promise. For a tech, it answers the client who has had trouble with gel before.

Wear, removal and stocking the line

• Wear: Lavis quotes up to 21 days with proper prep and a top coat. When the top dulls, a fresh glossy top brings the shine back.
• Removal: a normal gel soak-off. File the top thin, wrap in acetone, wait, push the softened gel away. Never pry.
• Shelf: caps tight, out of window light, at room temperature. Roll the bottle before the first coat of the day; shimmer and pigment settle between uses.
• Stocking: most salons open a C-series line with six to eight codes and the set listing for restocks, rather than all 24 at once.

Related collections

• SNS Cat Eye Gel Crystal Twinkle and Diamond Twinkle, 24 shades each.
• SNS Gel Only Solid cream gel color for full coverage.
• Base & Top Gel The base under and the glossy top over every shade here.
• Cat Eye Magnets Bar, stylus and dual-line magnets for the streak.
• Nail Tools & Accessories Lamps, files and prep.

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