Frequently asked questions
What is in the LDS Color Craze winter collection?
220 listings: 213 LDS Color Craze 0.5 oz gel singles in the winter palettes, four 36-color sets (Winter 1 Holiday Spirit, Winter 2 Sweater Weather, Winter 3 Wonderland, Winter 4 Alpine Haven), and three 72-color sets (Festive Fables, Frosted Fairytale, Crisp Morning). Every shade in every set is also sold as a single, and every single sits at one price.
Is a 36 or 72-color set cheaper than the singles?
No. Checked against the single price at ND on the day of writing, the sets are priced as the bottles inside them. A set is the one-order way to put a whole winter mood on the wall with the shades chosen to sit together; the singles are the way to restock the reds, whites, and plums that run through first.
Which winter set should a salon buy first?
A salon with no winter chart usually takes one 72-color set: Festive Fables for the holiday reds, wines, plums, and teals, or Frosted Fairytale for the frosted pastels and cobalts of January. A salon that already holds an LDS chart adds the one 36-color mood it is missing, most often Holiday Spirit in October and Wonderland in December.
Is LDS Color Craze HEMA-free?
Yes. Color Craze is the LDS Healthy Gel line sold HEMA-free and TPO-free, cures 60 seconds under LED or UV, and is rated by the brand at up to three weeks of wear with proper prep. Winter hands are drier, so the dehydrator step at prep matters more this season than in summer, and a thin first coat of color cured fully is what stops the deep reds from wrinkling.
How many coats do the winter shades need?
Two thin coats for the reds, plums, teals, and cobalts, which are opaque in two; three for the frosted whites and pale pinks. Cure each coat a full 60 seconds, seal with LDS top, and soak off with acetone at the next visit rather than peeling, which takes the plate with it. A glitter accent comes from the LDS glitter powders or the glitter gel sets on the bulk page.
LDS Color Craze winter: the cold-season palettes of the LDS gel line
This page holds the winter side of LDS Color Craze at ND Nails Supply: 220 active listings, 213 of them 0.5 oz gel singles and seven of them boxed sets, covering the reds, cranberries, plums, navies, teals, forest greens, and frosted whites that a salon chart needs from October through February. Color Craze is the seasonal-drop side of the LDS Healthy Gel line, sold HEMA-free and TPO-free, and each winter drop arrives as a named 36-color or 72-color set with every shade also listed as a single. The sets are how an owner fills a winter chart in one order; the singles are how she restocks the four or five shades that run through first. Everything is wholesale-priced for everyone, no license and no minimum.
What is on this page
| Listing | Size | Palette |
|---|---|---|
| Winter 1 Holiday Spirit | Set of 36 | Holiday reds, wines, plums, berries, hunter green, cocoa |
| Winter 2 Sweater Weather | Set of 36 | Teals, deep blues, plums, cherry and cola reds, cocoas, mauves |
| Winter 3 Wonderland | Set of 36 | Frosted pinks, whites, lilacs, sky blues, mint |
| Winter 4 Alpine Haven | Set of 36 | Cobalt, indigo, sapphire, winter grey, violets, grape, eucalyptus |
| Festive Fables (Winter 1) | Set of 72 | The Holiday Spirit and Sweater Weather shades together |
| Frosted Fairytale (Winter 2) | Set of 72 | The Wonderland and Alpine Haven shades together |
| Crisp Morning | Set of 72 | Greys, greige, mauves, slate blues, deep reds and blacks |
| Singles | 213 x 0.5 oz | Every shade in the sets, sold one bottle at a time |
The palette column is read from the names of the singles that carry each set's tag, so it describes the mood of the box rather than a strict color rule; read the swatch grid on each set listing before choosing. The four 36-color boxes are the way to buy one mood at a time, and the two paired 72-color boxes are the way to buy two moods at once.
Reading the winter shades
LDS numbers Color Craze in release order, so the numbers are not families; a few names from this page show where the palette sits:
| Number | Name | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 405 | Berry Noir | Blackened berry |
| 408 | Victorian Plum | Deep plum |
| 410 | White Out | Frosted white |
| 441 | Crystal Teal | Jewel teal |
| 603 | Hunter's Dream | Hunter green |
| 607 | Copenhagen Blue | Slate blue |
| 626 | Cobalt Blue | True cobalt |
| 838 | Naughty or Nice | Holiday red |
| 867 | Cranberry | Cranberry red |
| 945 | Black Dahlia | Near black |
The winter calendar for a salon chart
- Late September to mid-October. Put the Sweater Weather and Crisp Morning moods on the wall: cocoas, mauves, teals, greys, and slate blues carry the weeks between fall and the holidays.
- November. Add Holiday Spirit. The reds, wines, plums, and hunter greens book from Thanksgiving week through New Year's Eve; 838 Naughty or Nice and 867 Cranberry are the two reds to hold in depth.
- Late December to February. Move Wonderland and Alpine Haven forward: frosted pinks, whites, lilacs, sky blues, cobalts, and indigos are the January chart, and the same shades carry a winter wedding.
- Buy a month ahead. A chart needs the new mood on the wall about four weeks before clients start asking for it, so the November box is a September order.
Which set to start with
A salon with no winter chart usually starts with one 72-color set and adds the singles it runs through. Festive Fables covers the holiday season end to end with the reds, wines, plums, teals, and cocoas of its two 36-color halves; Frosted Fairytale covers the frosted pastels and the cobalts and indigos for January and February; Crisp Morning is the grey, greige, and mauve run that carries the whole season on a client who wants winter without red. A salon that already holds an LDS chart adds the one 36-color mood it is missing, most often Holiday Spirit in October and Wonderland in December. Every shade in every set is also sold as a single, so a set is never the only way to get a color; it is the one-order way to get the whole mood. Keep a swatch stick of the set at the desk so the client picks from cured gel rather than from the bottle cap.
Applying LDS Color Craze in winter
- Prep. Push back, remove shine, dust, dehydrate. Dry winter hands lift gel at the cuticle faster than summer hands, so the dehydrator step matters more this season.
- Base. A thin coat of LDS base, cured 60 seconds under LED or UV.
- Color. Two thin coats of the Color Craze shade, each cured 60 seconds. The deep reds and plums are opaque in two coats; the frosted whites and pale pinks may want a third.
- Top. LDS top, cured, and wiped if the top is not a no-wipe. The brand rates the gel at up to three weeks of wear with proper prep.
- Removal. Soak off with acetone at the next visit rather than peeling, which takes the plate with it and shortens the wear of the next set.
Winter services built on the set
The winter chart earns more when the shades are sold as services rather than as colors. A deep red or plum from Holiday Spirit under a coat of LDS top is the classic holiday manicure; the same red with a fine line of LDS Line Art Gel in white or gold is the candy-cane and snowflake set that books through December. The frosted pinks and whites of Wonderland carry a winter French, with the white on the tip and a Wonderland pink on the bed. The cobalts and indigos of Alpine Haven take a chrome powder well for a New Year's Eve set, and a glitter powder or a glitter gel from the LDS bulk page layers over any cream shade from the box for a party accent nail. A swatch stick of each of these combinations at the desk sells the upgrade before the client sits down.
Storage and restock
The gel bottles keep for years out of sunlight; store the set in number order in its box so a tech can pull a shade without hunting, and keep the cured swatch stick with it. Restock the singles by number as they run through. In a typical winter the two holiday reds, the frosted white, and the deepest plum empty first, and the singles page lists every shade in every set, so a set that is missing four bottles is still a full chart.
Wholesale pricing at ND Nails Supply
Every LDS Color Craze winter listing, singles and sets, is wholesale-priced for everyone, with no business license, no minimum order, and no membership fee. The 36 and 72-color sets are priced as the bottles inside them, so they are the one-order way to put a whole mood on the wall rather than a discount, and every single on the page sits at one price. Free shipping on orders $100+, and in-stock bottles ordered before 2pm PT on weekdays leave the same day.