OPI Intelli Gel & Lacquer Duo - Hps05 Red Velvet Vixen

HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen gives you a blue-based red and a wet-look gloss in one bottle. Red shows brush strokes more than most families, so two thin coats beat one thick one.

What you get in the bottle

• Self-correcting application: OPI built Intelli-Gel around a responsive gel network that settles itself after every stroke, so a slightly heavy hand does not end in a flooded sidewall.
• Thirty-second cure: each layer of OPI HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen sets in 30 seconds under the OPI Star Light lamp, which takes real minutes out of a full set.
• Wear a client notices: about three weeks of glass-like shine before the colour needs a fill.
• Made for sensitive clients: no HEMA, no TPO, and no animal-derived ingredients in the formula.

Specifications

Application steps

1. Shape and clean the plate: file to shape, ease the cuticle back, buff off the shine and wipe the nail.
2. pH step: a single coat of OPI Bond-Aid readies the plate for adhesion.
3. Super Base: one very thin coat, capped at the free edge, cured for 30 seconds.
4. First colour coat: lay OPI HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen on thin and let the brush settle the edge, cure 30 seconds.
5. Second colour coat: this is the coat that brings the shade to its full depth, cure 30 seconds.
6. Top coat: finish with Super Gloss for maximum shine or the No Wipe top coat when chrome or art is going over it, cure 30 seconds.
7. Last check: cuticle oil, then run a finger down each sidewall before the client stands up.

Where this shade gets booked

• Evening and date-night sets: red shows brush strokes more than most families.
• Pairing work: it sits next to a glossy top coat and a clean cuticle line.
• Classic pedicures, where a glossy finish is what the client asked for.

Which option should you add to the bag

On this page you are choosing between OPI HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen in different formats. Gel Polish & Lacquer is the matched gel and lacquer pair, so the client can take the polish home in the same shade. Intelli Gel Only is the Intelli-Gel bottle on its own. Lacquer Only is the air-dry lacquer on its own, no lamp needed. Most reorders are the plain duo, because the base and top coat outlast any single colour. The OPI HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen bundles are worth it the first time the shade enters the wall, not on the third reorder.

Storing the bottle

Keep OPI HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen upright with the cap tight and out of direct sunlight, because daylight will start curing gel in a half-empty bottle. Wipe the neck before you close it so the cap does not seize. Pigment-heavy and glitter shades settle between services, so roll the bottle between your palms rather than shaking it, which puts bubbles in the first coat and shows up under the lamp.

OPI HPS05 Red Velvet Vixen is stocked alongside every OPI shade ND carries, the whole gel and lacquer category and OPI Intelli-Gel combo sets.