Reddit reviews MelodySusie 36W UV Nail Lamp Dryer, Professional UV Gel Nail Polish Curing Light with 3 Timer Setting, Sliding Tray for Manicure Pedicure Gel Polish, UV Resin, Acrylic, Polygel, White
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❤Important Tips: We recommend you to wear a shield glove when using it for long time. This nail lamp can only use in 110V. And its plug is US plug. So if you use this nail dryer in other countries or areas without a transformer, the nail dryer will burn.❤Amazing Curing: Its wavelength is 365nm, make it Well compatible with all kinds of gel nail polishes, 3D prints, jewelry resin, Acrylic gel, hard/builder/extension gel, polygel, CND Shellac, nail sculpture gel, rhinestone gems glue. Achieve professional salon results in minutes with this nail lamp.❤3 Timer Setting & Sliding Tray: 120s/180s/30min timer setting to meet your different curing requirements well and make you control the curing time easily. The sliding tray ensure you can cure your resin, 3D prints, toenail gel polishes perfectly and clean the nail lamp easily.❤Fast Drying Salon Edge Nail Lamp: Powerful 36W nail dryer shorten your curing time by 50% than normal nail lamp with low heat and painless. The large curing space ensure you cure your 5 fingernails or toenails easily. It is an ideal choice for salon and home!❤Premium Materials: MelodySusie Sol 1 Gel Nail Lamp is made of Premium Engineering ABS plastic, which is lightweight, sturdy and healthy. It is an essential tool for nail art technicians and starters.
I do my own gel at home and have been for about 3 years. I purchased something like this on amazon - they work pretty well but not as well as a soaking dish. The soaking dish usually gets my polish to shed right off, but it does dry out my skin so that's the main downfall. For whatever reason, only my right hand fingers get really dry. I think since i'm R hand dominant its the same hand I use for cleaning and I definitely need to wear gloves more for cleaning but still fail to do so :) So it could very well be a majority from the cleaning chemicals, not the soak.
I use 100% acetone (target) to soak off my polish with either method. For the clips, I just a cotton ball with it but actually rip them in half because it fits better and then it's completely saturated in acetone without wasting a ton.
You'll also need regular alcohol rub to clean your nails.
The biggest mistake people make at home & why they pay for them to be done is because they don't prep their nails correctly, causing the gel to peel early & chip. You need to clean it up with rubbing alcohol & be sure to clean your cuticles. Applying gel means precision as far as not getting it on your skin (like when regular polish gets on your skin, it comes off, but with gel, it'll harden and get deformed and those pieces make it highly likely the entire nail will be ruined).
I also rough up the top of my nail after cleaning up the nail bed with my nail file. The rougher surface gives the base more to adhere too. Not super hard or anything, but don't buff your nail top smooth (they do this at salons too)
I also purchased this mega light from amazon so I can do my entire hand, I hate those small lights. This thing is awesome and even came with an extra light but 3 years later I have yet to replace it. Warning though, normal cure time is about 1 min... this one does 90sec + so I pull my hand out early. Over curing will make removal harder.
It definitely takes practice, and can be discouraging at first, but with some practice and looking online for tips you'll get it and save a ton of money!
My favorite gel brand is actually the sally Hansen kind. They've worked the best. I think Orly's line has been the worst for me. I tried 2 red carpet ones once, one of them was supposed to be rose gold but it ended up being normal gold and same with another color I forgot and it made me really mad because it was for a wedding so I had to do my nails 2x... I returned them and haven't purchased from them since because I don't trust what color will turn out. Sally Hansen gel polishes can be found in bundles usually on ebay for a great price, that's how I ended up with literally every color they have lol! They don't have a ton and don't come out with new colors very often but their colors are more than enough for what I need/want
Here's the list of stuff I got.
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MelodySusie 36W UV Nail Lamp Dryer, Professional UV Gel Nail Polish Curing Light with 3 Timer Setting, Sliding Tray for Manicure Pedicure Gel Polish, UV Resin, Acrylic, Polygel, White
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SC Products 4" Rotating Display Stand, Solar Powered, Chrome Finish, by Sunrise Crystal
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ELEGOO ABS-Like 3D Printer Rapid Resin LCD UV-Curing Resin 405nm Standard Photopolymer Resin for LCD 3D Printing 1000Gram Grey
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ELEGOO Mars UV Photocuring LCD 3D Printer with 3.5'' Smart Touch Color Screen Off-line Print 4.72"(L) x 2.68"(W) x 6.1"(H) Printing Size Black Version
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MelodySusie 36W UV Nail Lamp Dryer, Professional UV Gel Nail Polish Curing Light with 3 Timer Setting, Sliding Tray for Manicure Pedicure Gel Polish, UV Resin, Acrylic, Polygel, White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012MEZP2E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_d.NpDbTKRB76S
I don't have a link to the post any longer, but approximately a month ago someone on here posted Guru alters of some of the Battle for Zendikar full art lands. Inspiried by this, I bought a UV lamp from Amazon and put it inside of an empty dresser drawer; my dresser is thick so I wasn't particularly worried about harmful UV rays. Then I picked out 4 lands, since that's all I could reasonably fit in it, slid them inside, and left the thing on 24/7 from August 24th 2017 to today, September 16th 2017, minus at least two 24 hour periods that I turned it off for reasons I can't remember, and being off an additional 48 hours or so because of Irma.
I also put in a Crumbling Necropolis, Amonkhet Full art Swamp, and an Hour of Devastation Full art Swamp. These didn't have noticable changes yet, but I believe there's two reasons for that.
Sorry that the picture quality isn't very good; I just wanted to take a really quick snapshot with my phone.
I haven’t tried setting a whole piece out in the sun to cure because I am very impatient haha. It would take at least thirty minutes to 6 hours? I’ve heard people saying they’ve waited days for their resin to cure via sunlight and it still ended up tacky. I will, however, leave some of my larger or more opaque pieces in the sun for a day just to make sure they’re cured completely.
That all being said, I just started making (liquid) shaker charms and I find them extremely difficult to do, even with a fast curing UV lamp. YMMV, I’m no expert, but it might be best to wait until you get a lamp to make sure your resin cures and to stop leakage. If you don’t mind paying a little more for a lamp, Sallys Beauty in my area has 36 watt Uv bulb lamps. To get them around 30$ cheaper, amazon has some amazing ones. This is the one I use, it has a removable tray and some timer settings, so I always remember to flip my resin pieces.
This looks exactly like mine, but mine is old and beat up.
As for removing the print, I lay the build plate on a paper towel or paper plate and scrape it a few times with that plastic scraper they give you in the box. Then I pick it up with a small pair of tongs and drop it in the IPA and swish it around with the tongs. I should probably remove the supports before I do this but I don't. I pull it out and pop them off then cure it.
The cheap containers I got don't seal well enough to keep the IPA in or I'd just shake it up. I'll get something sealable when I get tired of what I'm doing.