Frequently asked questions
Which brands are in the spring gel and lacquer collection?
Eight lines share the page: DND with 76 listings, DND DC with 67, OPI with 64, LAVIS with 64, DND Diva with 51, NuGenesis with 33, SNS with 31, and LDS with 21. That mix is deliberate for a seasonal page, because a spring wall usually needs the named OPI drops clients ask for, a deep numbered chart like DND or LDS for the everyday shades, and a pastel range such as the LAVIS Korean pastels to fill the soft end. Thirty-two of the 407 are out of stock at the time of writing.
Can I buy the gel without the lacquer?
Usually yes. These listings are sold by style: 238 offer the gel and lacquer together, 238 offer the lacquer alone, 195 offer the gel alone, and 165 also bundle a matching dipping powder. Buy gel only for a colour wall used at the gel table, the pair when the same shade goes on hands and toes, lacquer only for pedicure-heavy weeks and the retail shelf, and the dip option when a shade needs to be available to clients who do not want gel.
What makes a shade a spring shade?
Softness and clarity rather than any single hue. From March to May the wall sells Korean-style pastels, milky pinks, mint and sage greens, butter and lemon yellows, lilac, peach, and fresh nudes, with a coral and a clean pink as anchors so the display still reads from across the room. Pastels also need a clean base underneath, because a milky shade over a stained plate turns grey, so a cover base or an extra coat belongs in the service rather than in the upsell.
Why are some shades tagged for more than one season?
Because they genuinely work in more than one. On this page 162 listings are also tagged for summer, 74 for fall, and 65 for winter, and those overlaps are the shades to buy deep: a soft coral or a milky nude earns its shelf space from March through August, while a true Easter pastel has about a six-week window. Sixty-six listings here also carry the clearance tag, which means they sell at the regular price until gone and are not reordered, so anything going onto the display should either be restocked or bought in pairs.
What is in the spring gel and lacquer collection
407 listings at wholesale, all of them matching gel polish and nail lacquer shades, drawn from eight lines: DND, DND DC, OPI, LAVIS, DND Diva, NuGenesis, SNS, and LDS. Thirty-two are out of stock as this page was written. A duo listing means the client can have the same color as a soak-off gel manicure on her hands and as air-dry lacquer on her toes, or leave with a bottle that matches the set she is wearing, and a salon only has to learn one number.
The lines on this page
| Line | Listings | What it brings to a spring wall |
|---|---|---|
| DND | 76 | The widest numbered chart, named shades such as Air of Mint and Lemon Juice |
| DND DC | 67 | The DC numbering, strong on soft pinks and sheers |
| OPI | 64 | The seasonal drops clients ask for by name |
| LAVIS | 64 | Korean pastels and the pastel-bright collections |
| DND Diva | 51 | Effect finishes alongside the solids |
| NuGenesis | 33 | Duos that also match a dipping powder |
| SNS | 31 | One-step gel shades |
| LDS | 21 | The LDS numbers, priced at the value end |
What a spring palette is made of
Spring is the softest quarter of the year on a colour wall. The shades that sell from March to May are Korean-style pastels, milky pinks, mint and sage greens, butter and lemon yellows, lilac, peach, and the nudes that read fresh rather than warm. On this page that shows up as names like Air of Mint, Lemon Juice, and the pastel groups inside the LAVIS and LDS charts, with the OPI spring drops sitting on top as the shades clients name at the desk.
Two things separate a spring wall that works from one that looks washed out. Pastels need a clean base underneath, because a milky shade over a stained plate turns grey, so a cover base or an extra coat is part of the service rather than an upsell. And every pastel wall needs two or three saturated anchors, a coral, a true pink, or a warm yellow, so the display does not disappear from across the room.
Duo, gel only, or lacquer only
Most of these listings are sold by style rather than as a fixed pair, and that choice is worth making deliberately. 238 listings offer the gel and lacquer together, 238 offer the lacquer on its own, 195 offer the gel on its own, and 165 also bundle a matching dipping powder. A salon buying for the service usually wants the gel; a salon that sells retail bottles or paints toes during a pedicure wants the pair; and the matching dip option is how a colour becomes available at every station without swatching a second chart.
- Gel only for the colour wall used at the gel table, where the lacquer bottle would sit unopened.
- Gel and lacquer for a salon that runs manicure and pedicure services on the same shade, which is most of them in spring.
- Lacquer only for pedicure-heavy weeks and for the retail shelf.
- With dipping powder when the same shade needs to be available as a dip set for clients who do not want gel.
Building the spring wall
- Start from last spring. Pull the shades that were rebooked in March, April, and May; those are the anchors, not the new drops.
- Add one pastel family. A run of five or six related pastels reads as a collection on the display and photographs as a set.
- Add two anchors. A coral and a clean pink, both saturated, to stop the wall going flat.
- Add one novelty. A glitter or a shimmer for the accent nail, which is where most of the upsell on a pastel set happens.
- Swatch everything on a tip. Pastels are the shades clients misjudge from a bottle, so a swatched tip laid on the nail bed sells the colour and prevents the repaint.
- Order the duo for the shades that go on toes. Pedicure season starts before the weather warms up.
Shades that carry past spring
At ND a shade often carries more than one season tag, and that is useful buying information rather than a tagging error. On this page 162 of the listings are also tagged for summer, 74 for fall, and 65 for winter. Those overlaps are the shades to buy deep: a soft coral or a milky nude earns its shelf space from March through August, while a true Easter pastel has a six-week window and should be bought at a depth that matches it.
The practical rule is to keep the crossover shades in the sizes the salon reorders and to treat the narrow seasonal shades as a display feature. A wall that is entirely narrow-season shades has to be rebuilt four times a year, which is expensive in stock and in the tech's memory.
Clearance inside this collection
Sixty-six of the listings here carry the clearance tag, which at ND means the shade sells at its regular wholesale price until the stock is gone and is not reordered. There is no markdown attached to the tag. For a seasonal wall that matters twice over: a clearance shade that a client falls in love with in April cannot be reordered in May, so anything that goes on the display and into the booking system should either be a restocked shade or bought in pairs from the start.
Matching gel to lacquer, and where it goes wrong
A duo is sold as a match, and inside one line the match is close, because the gel and the lacquer were pigmented together. What no duo guarantees is that the two finishes will read identically on the nail. Gel cures to a hard, glossy film and lacquer dries to a slightly softer, flatter one, so the same pigment looks a shade deeper in gel, especially in pastels and sheers. Two coats of lacquer against two coats of gel will often need a third lacquer coat to sit level with its gel twin.
That is worth saying to the client before a pedicure rather than after it. The practical habit is to swatch both halves of the duos the salon uses most on one stick, gel on one end and lacquer on the other, so the tech can show the small difference instead of explaining it. Across brands there is no match at all: a DND number and an LDS number that share a name are not the same colour, so a shade promised on the hands should be finished with the same line on the toes.
Wholesale pricing at ND Nails Supply
Every duo, gel, and lacquer on this page ships at wholesale pricing for everyone, with no business license, no minimum order, and no membership fee. Free shipping on orders $75+, and in-stock bottles ordered before 2pm PT on weekdays leave the same day.