The week everyone rebought their rubber base
Our register doesn't lie: bases, builders and lamps outsold color in the first week of August. Salons are rebuilding their setups before the back-to-school rush, and the markdowns below happen to agree with them.
Over 600 items sit at half off or better. While stock lasts.
Shop over 600 items 50% offFix the lamp situation before the September books fill
Here's a pattern from our own orders: UV and LED nail lamp purchases over-index on weekends, 23.9% of lamp orders land Saturday and Sunday against a 21.3% baseline for everything else. Techs shop for hardware on their day off. If that's you this weekend, the 30% rack is where the lamps live.
LED cure, salon workhorse, single
The station lamp that takes a full workday without a fan tantrum. At 30% off it costs less than two fill appointments.
iGel LED Pro $87.50
Kiara Sky Beyond Pro V2, cordless
Apres Gel Couleur #251-260
Apres Gel Couleur #351-364
The $11 OPI shelf, still stacked with the sheer neutrals
The milky neutral is still the ask, and the whole family is still on markdown: every OPI gel nail polish in the 20% rack rings up at $11 instead of $13.75. Sheer nudes and soft whites are the shades doing August's quiet French tips, and they restock fastest.
GC-SH4, 0.5oz, single
The sheer that built the Always Bare for You collection. One coat is a clean blush veil, two coats carry a full milky set.
Bare My Soul $11
L00 Alpine Snow, the French-tip white
H82 Let's Be Friends, milky pink
H39 It's a Girl!, petal pink
Three clearance picks that earn their shelf space
The clearance rack is where back-bar staples hide at half price. If your dip powder nails menu is busy, the powder below is the one to case up on.
acrylic system, half price, single
Straight 50% off a working acrylic powder. It files clean and it costs less than most sample sizes right now.
WaveGel powder $11.69
Three sets almost nobody ordered this quarter. Their loss.
I check the slow movers every week, and these three deserve better. Each one gives a client a reason to book the add-on, and all three are stocked at Brookhurst. Call 714-868-7088 to confirm what is physically on the shelf.
Cre8tion 018 Blushing trio $6.50
Gel + lacquer + dip in one blush
Cre8tion 069 The Queen trio $6.50
The name sells itself chairside
Wavegel Glow in the Dark 02 $3.75
Lights-off reveal, $3.75 add-on
The blush trio pairs with the $11 sheers above for a full milky menu. The glow trio is the cheapest "wait, do that to mine" moment you can stock before Halloween season.
What sold the week of August 6
Cre8tion Rubber Base Coat went from 3 orders to 14 in the seven days before this post, the sharpest jump in the store. A good rubber base gel is the layer that stops the chip complaints, so a base run usually means salons are tightening up their sets for a busy season. The magnet tools for cat eye gel polish more than doubled too, 9 orders against 4 the week before, which tracks with the cat-eye kits from the new-arrivals post that Monday.
And the milky hero from the previous deals post was the single most-ordered product in the store that week: OPI's Bubble Bunny logged 156 orders in 30 days. It isn't marked down. It doesn't need to be.
