The powder, the gel and the lacquer on one number, seven dollars.
NotPolish builds its whole catalog around a single shade code, so the dip jar, the gel and the matching lacquer all carry the same OG or M number. C8 stocks over 300 NotPolish items in Garden Grove, over 250 of them sit below list today, and the trio is $7.
Short answer: NotPolish is a professional nail brand from Notpolish Inc in El Cajon, California, best known for 2 in 1 dip and acrylic powders that carry the same shade number as a matching gel and lacquer. The company says on its own About page that its acrylic products are made in the USA to a specific standard and with less toxic ingredients, and it lists an in house chemist and two master educators on its team page. Its named ranges include OG and M powders, Oh My Glitters, Candy Coated, Glow in the Dark, Cover Acrylics, Solo Gel, Thickie Gel, Sculpt It Gel, Cat Eye and the Press X tip line. C8 Nail Supply carries over 300 NotPolish items at wholesale pricing in Garden Grove, California.
The number is the product
Most brands sell you a color. NotPolish sells you a code. Pick OG229 and you can order it as a 2oz powder, as a gel and lacquer duo, or as the three piece trio, and every one of them is the same shade wearing a different jacket. That is a small idea with a large consequence at the front desk, because a client who chose a color for her hands in July can point at the same number in November and get it on her toes without anybody guessing.
The catalog is built the same way all the way down. OG and M are the two backbone powder ranges, and the effect ranges hang off them: Oh My Glitters for sparkle, Candy Coated, Glow in the Dark, Cover Acrylics for the pink and white work. The brand's own site describes the assortment as arranged by season and by color family, which is how a color wall gets merchandised rather than just stocked.
It also means a NotPolish shelf is not really competing with your gel nail polish wall. It is competing with the part of your dip powder nails shelf that never had a matching gel, which for most rooms is most of it.
What NotPolish is known for
Two of those deserve a second look before you write a purchase order. The 2 in 1 jar is the one that changes your ordering, because a room running both dip and acrylic normally carries two powders per shade and NotPolish asks you to carry one. And the HEMA Free category is worth reading closely rather than assuming: it covers specific lines on the brand's site, not the whole catalog, so confirm the individual item before you promise a sensitive client anything. If you want the hardware side too, the Luxe Pro sits alongside every other LED and UV nail lamp C8 carries.
Tech favorites at C8
Seven picks, priced as they sit on c8nailsupply.com today. Every strikethrough below is a compare at price pulled live from the store, never typed in.
NP-P-OMG, 1oz jar, 39 shades in the range
Half price, and the cheapest honest way to find out whether your clients will pay the glitter upcharge. The mixed particle sizes are the point: a single grade of glitter goes grey at a distance, a mixed one keeps throwing light across the whole nail.
Oh My Glitters $5.75
Powder, gel and lacquer, 1 color chart, 1 NotPolish LED lamp
The whole OG range in all three formats, delivered with the printed chart so the wall is shoppable the day it lands. A lamp is in the box as well, which is a real line item a room being built from scratch does not then have to buy twice.
130 color trio set $1,872
Glow In The Dark set, 33 colors
OG222 2 in 1 powder, 2oz
M014 trio, powder gel and lacquer
Luxe Pro LED lamp, four colors
$185
Gelaxy GEL02 soak off gel, 0.5oz
$10
What techs keep saying about it
Across the professional community the praise lands in three places, and none of them is the packaging. The first is the 2 in 1 powder, which techs describe as the reason to switch at all, because one jar covering dip and sculpt is one line on the order form instead of two. The second is the pigment load in the glitters and the color powders, which comes up constantly and which you can check yourself in one coat rather than three. The third is the matching lacquer, for the same unglamorous reason it comes up with every matching system: it takes the color hunt out of the pedicure.
Our honest position: NotPolish earns its shelf in a room that already runs dip volume and is tired of stocking a separate acrylic powder for the same shade. It earns it slowest in a room that is gel only, because the gel side of this catalog is the newer half and it is competing against deeper walls. If you want the same matching logic from an all in one powder instead, the Kiara Sky brand spotlight covers that approach, and the LeChat brand spotlight covers the gel and lacquer version. A test order at this week's pricing costs less than one full set service.
NotPolish FAQ
What is NotPolish 2 in 1 powder?
It is a single jar formulated to work as a dip powder and as an acrylic powder. You dip with it or you sculpt with it using monomer, which means one 2oz jar covers two services instead of the two separate powders most shades normally require.
Where is NotPolish made, and who makes it?
Notpolish Inc is based at 412 Front St in El Cajon, California. The company's About page says its acrylic products are produced in the USA to a specific standard and with less toxic ingredients, and its team page lists a chemist and two master educators in house.
What is the difference between the OG and M collections?
They are two separate numbered color ranges with their own printed charts and their own numbering. OG runs past 230 shades and is the original range, M runs past 128 and is the second. A number in one is not the same shade as that number in the other, so order by chart.
Does the powder have a matching gel and lacquer?
Yes, that is the point of the system. Most OG and M numbers are sold three ways: the 2oz 2 in 1 powder on its own, a gel and lacquer duo, or the trio with all three. The shade code is the same across all of them.
Is NotPolish HEMA free?
Some of it. NotPolish runs a HEMA Free category on its own site covering nail tips, top coats, rubber base and builder gel, but it is a subset of the range rather than the whole catalog. Check the individual product before you commit it to a sensitive client.
How many NotPolish items does C8 carry, and is it on sale?
Over 300 NotPolish items are live right now, and over 250 of them carry a real markdown, from 10 percent to 50 percent off list. Stock moves in the showroom as well as online, so call 714-868-7088 to confirm quantities on a specific number before you build an order around it.