Three bottles of blooming gel did four times their usual week
That is the whole story of the last seven days at Brookhurst. Everything else on this page is marked down, and the markdown is already in the price.
Over 450 items are sitting at half price or better right now. No code, no minimum, nothing to enter at checkout.
Shop over 450 items half priceSix markdowns worth the shelf space this week
These are the six with a real compare-at price behind them, so the saving is arithmetic rather than a claim. The lamp is the one to look at first. A mini curing lamp at $24.97 is the cheapest way to stop a client sitting with one hand under the big lamp while the other dries badly, and it is half of what it was. If you are restocking colour at the same time, the full gel nail polish shelf runs alongside this and is where most of these markdowns live.
04102US, single unit, LED
A second small lamp on the table is what lets you cure a thumb without breaking the rhythm of the set. At this price it costs less than a week of the time it saves, which is the argument for buying two.
Gelish Mini LED lamp $24.97
Cre8tion Butterfly Nail Art Stickers, 42 styles
WaveGel Acrylic Powder
OPI Gel Matching A61 Taupe less Beach
LeChat Perfect Match Mood Gel 047 Ultraviolet
Cre8tion Mini Silver Mandrel 3/32
The rest of the 40 percent shelf
19 items
The mandrel is the least interesting thing on that grid and the one most likely to be missing when you reach for it. Sanding bands wear the shank, not the other way round, and a spare at $5.80 beats an emergency at list price on a Saturday.
Over 450 items half price or betterDon't sleep on these
Three markdowns that are easy to scroll past, because they sit deep in a collection rather than on its front page. None of them are new and none of them are exciting on a shelf, which is exactly why they are still here at half price. In case you missed them:
Gelish Clear Dip Powder 3.7oz
IBD Just Gel Nail Polish 0.5oz
Apres Gel Couleur, G collection
Clear dip powder is the one nobody writes on the order sheet and everybody runs out of. A 3.7oz jar at $12.50 covers a lot of encapsulated tips, and it is the same jar the rest of the dip powder nails range is built to sit under.
What actually sold this week
Order counts for the seven days ending 16 September 2026, against the seven days before them. We publish this because a markdown is only half the information. The other half is what other salons are already buying.
| Product | This week | Week before |
|---|---|---|
| Cre8tion Blooming Gel 0.5oz 3 | 21 orders | 5 orders |
| Cre8tion Blooming Gel 0.5oz 2 | 19 orders | 5 orders |
| Cre8tion Blooming Gel 0.5oz 1 | 18 orders | 4 orders |
| ORLY Gel FX Builder In A Bottle, Crystal Clear | 15 orders | 4 orders |
| Cre8tion Dew Drop Art Gel 0.5oz | 10 orders | 1 order |
Four of those five are art gels, and three of them are the same product in three shades. That is not a colour trend, it is a technique trend. Blooming gel spreads a drop of colour into a soft watercolour edge on its own, so one bottle turns a flat set into art without anyone learning a new hand. It is $7.95, it is not on markdown, and it is the busiest thing in the building. The HEMA free and TPO free version, Magical Layer, is $8.95 and did 12 orders in the same week.
Cre8tion Blooming Gel 0.5oz 1
$7.95
Cre8tion Blooming Gel 0.5oz 2
$7.95
Cre8tion Blooming Gel Magical Layer, HEMA free
$8.95
If you are building a fall set around it, we broke the base, finish and accent choices down in Build Your Fall Set, and the cure times that matter for art gels sit with the lamps in our LED nail lamp range. The OPI taupe above is part of the wider OPI nail polish markdown, which is the quietest 20 percent in the store.
Questions we got at the counter this week
Do I need a code for any of these prices?
No. Every markdown on this page is already in the listed price. There is no code, no minimum and nothing to enter at checkout.
Does blooming gel work over any colour?
It works over a cured colour coat, not over a tacky one. Brush the blooming gel on, wipe your brush, then drop your art shade into it. If nothing spreads, the layer underneath was still wet. Wipe the inhibition layer and try again.
Is a mini lamp enough to cure a full set?
It is not meant to be. A mini lamp is a second lamp, for thumbs and for repairs, so your main lamp never sits idle. For a full set you still want a 36W or larger.
How long do these prices hold?
These are standing markdowns, not a dated sale, so we cannot promise you a date either way. What we can say is that the price on the page is the price you pay, and when an item sells through it comes off the shelf rather than changing price.