Gel polishes

[Spoiledbyjen]

Hi everyone, I am a licensed Nail Tech, and when i say that, (and I do not mean any disrespect,) I attended a 350 hour course over the span of 9 weeks, this past summer. I'm not sure what all I am supposed to include, but I attended a Paul Mitchell Partner School, and work at a salon/spa.
My question is pretty basic, but I am getting a bit confused with what I am finding online.
What polishes cure under a uv light, and which ones an LED light? I have uv lights, but I also have the dashing diva light pod, which is LED, and a mini LED one I got with a young nails sparkle toes kit. I would like to use these lights, but wonder if anyone else has, and what they think? I hope I'm not asking too many questions, but I know how knowledgeable some of you are, and how helpful I have seen you all be, s

I'm sorry, I accidentally sent this before I was done.
Anyways.... Thank you in advance for any help offered.

 

[kate5mith]

Hi everyone, I am a licensed Nail Tech, and when i say that, (and I do not mean any disrespect,) I attended a 350 hour course over the span of 9 weeks, this past summer. I'm not sure what all I am supposed to include, but I attended a Paul Mitchell Partner School, and work at a salon/spa.
My question is pretty basic, but I am getting a bit confused with what I am finding online.
What polishes cure under a uv light, and which ones an LED light? I have uv lights, but I also have the dashing diva light pod, which is LED, and a mini LED one I got with a young nails sparkle toes kit. I would like to use these lights, but wonder if anyone else has, and what they think? I hope I'm not asking too many questions, but I know how knowledgeable some of you are, and how helpful I have seen you all be, s

I'm sorry, I accidentally sent this before I was done.
Anyways.... Thank you in advance for any help offered.

I work with bio sculpture who used to have all of their gels set in a UV lamp, they then brought out new gels which would set under a LED lamp.. i was still using my UV lamp to set the LED gels and it was totally fine but I'm not sure if you could do it the other way round and set UV gels in an LED lamp..

Are you trained to use a specific gel? Can you not contact the company to ask what gels set in which lamp?

Sorry I can't help you more, thought i would just tell you about my experience.

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[jordanmichael.l]

General rule is...,
UV will cure UV & LED cured products (so basically anything)

LED will only cure LED products.

If you have a product that cures in both then the downside to a UV is that the cure times are longer, usually 2 minutes when LED is 45-60 seconds. Which I never find an issue because after I've done one hand and set it off curing, then by the time I've done the second hand the 2 minutes is up and it's time to switch around again.
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