Most manicures you perform will allow you to use one or the other or perhaps just natural light to cure the nails.
Cure nail polish with uv lamp.
No regular nail polish requires air drying whereas gel polish contains a polymer that must be cured by a uv or led lamp for it to become hard.
Purchase a non uv gel polish for an easy at home option.
Place your hand in an led or uv nail curing lamp to dry the gel.
Repeat this step another time if you want a third or even a fourth layer of gel.
Place your nails under the uv lamp again for at least 2 minutes.
It takes up to a couple minutes per coat to harden the gel.
Easy home methods 1.
Leave your nails under the lamp for the recommended amount of time.
There are several nail polish brands nowadays that make.
Led technology uses more narrow uv wavelengths that targets specific photoinitiators in the gel polish so the gel cures faster.
For this reason most types of gel nail polish require curing to dry set and harden.
Gel nail polish is cured by ultraviolet uv wavelengths hitting the molecules called photoinitiators in the gel and activating them.
Huretek nail polish curing lamp is a cutting edge nail drying lamp with a full complement of 36w 12 led light beads enabling it to quickly cure all types of led gel nail polish for easy salon quality home manicures that look amazing.
Cure the topcoat under an led or uv lamp.
Typically you want to disinfect with roughly 260 nm uvc leds.
Secondly uv disinfection is kind of an uphill battle.
This can only be done with a nail polish curing lamp that has an led or uv light that activates the polish to begin the process.
The best answer for curing resin based nail polish coating fast is using high voltage uv lamps that emit an intense spectrum of light in the uv region and generate a cross linked network of polymers through photo chemical reactions.
However if you want to optimize time i highly recommend you get a nail lamp specific for your curing needs.
Gel nail polish under an led drying lamp the base coat will take 10 seconds then the gel polish and top coat will take a further 1 minute.
Typically you will need to cure for 30 seconds under an led lamp or 2 minutes under a uv lamp.
To help you transition from regular nail polish to gel polish we re sharing this buying guide on nail polish curing lamps.
Can you use uv light to dry regular nail polish.
Apply a quick drying nail polish spray to freshly painted nails.
Spray just painted nails with canola.
Brush on a second coat of gel the same way that you applied the first coat.
Uv lamps emit broad uv wavelengths so it takes longer to cure but works on all gel.
For example uv absorbing viruses or bacteria on top shield those in lower layers.
Look at the label on your topcoat to determine the correct curing time.
First nail gel leds are at 365 nm and 405 nm.
Lay one of your hands out on a flat surface covered.
Unlike regular nail polish gel polish is made with a polymer formula.
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