One question that most of our clients ask is if one can apply regular nail polish and treat it with UV. Well, nothing can stop you from doing that, but it would be a waste of time if you are looking to achieve the same results as if you used gel polish. Regular polish and gel polish are fabricated from completely different formulas. You can achieve aesthetically remarkable results by, say, sandwiching regular polish between two layers of gel polish, but the durability would be highly compromised while the costs will remain high.