 and the first step is really to sand that Formica, and you're basically going to clean it real well, and then you're going to sand it to sort of take the gloss off, and that's really all that I did. I also took the additional step of changing the front edge of the countertop because mine had a weird sort of notch in it that I didn't like, and I wanted it to look like a solid marble slab when I'm done. And so once I sanded that up, I applied the primer. There's a base coat that comes with the product, and I'll tell you, I applied a black primer first,