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Cobbling together a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle while in lockdown comes to mind, as does doing your nails — basecoat, color, topcoat.

It peels off easily with no muss, no fuss and no basecoat, for easy glamour on the run.

However, one of my decorating jobs involves stripping and sanding a bannister that has a lead basecoat.

They would be using the same plywood, the same Structo-Lite basecoat plaster, the same Georgia Pacific extruded polystyrene boards, to give form to multimillion-dollar apartments.

To keep the final result from looking overly “costume-y,” she left the bottom portion of the nail uncolored, polishing it with a clear coat of Nail 999 Rescue Basecoat.