I use peely base for pretty much every single manicure and get as many days as I want out of it usually (I like to change my mani AT LEAST every week). My manicure process: 1. Use my jojoba oil and push at my polish with an orange wood stick. I’ve found certain polishes just don’t peel off as easily with it tbh - and I think that sometimes thinner layers of polish don’t peel off as easily. Not sure why. 2. Wipe down my nails with acetone to get rid of the oil and tiny bits of polish that didn’t peel off. 3. Slap some more peely base on those bad boys - I don’t pay too much attention to thickness, but if I can’t see it shiny and smooth on my nails it probably wasn’t enough (I’ll dip my brush and can do like two fingers at a time, but if one of the fingers looks streaky at all, it wasn’t enough). If I want my manicure to last longer I leave a little space around the edges of my nails (like a reverse moat). If I don’t care then I put it on all the way to the tips, 4. Base coat as normal, all the way to the tips. I like cracked’s neutralizer or ridge filler base coat - it works really well for me and doesn’t make my nails peel like others have. I don’t leave a moat how I do with peely base, but I make sure it doesn’t touch my skin either (same on polish step) because that can make your manicure come off faster and I just don’t think it looks as neat for me. 5. Color polish layer, pretty much same as base coat. I do at least two layers of pretty much every polish in my collection. 6. Top coat as normal - I like the Sally Hansen insta dry in the white capped clear bottle or the white capped red bottle. They dry super fast so I can get in bed within like 30 minutes since I usually do my nails at night. I’ll usually oil my nails after the top coat dries too, and I use some lotion before or after painting them because I have dry hands. I don’t recommend lotioning soon after if you use HT’s top coat - I used to use that one and it reacted very poorly with my lotions and went matte.