Regular polish dries on its own while gel polish requires a lamp and won t cure unless it s sat under the lamp.
Curing regular nail polish with uv light.
Hold the can of quick drying nail polish spray about 6 inches 15 cm away from your hand and then spray a light coat over your nails while the polish is still wet.
Uv light happens in a broad band of uv wavelength that is between 100 and 400 nm.
Cure the first coat by putting your nails under the uv lamp for at least 3 minutes.
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For this reason most types of gel nail polish require curing to dry set and harden.
Unlike regular nail polish gel polish is made with a polymer formula.
Can you use uv light to dry regular nail polish.
The curing time settings last for either 30 or 60 seconds while the motion sensor triggers 99 seconds of light.
Apply a quick drying nail polish spray to freshly painted nails.
Use a gel base coat cure it apply regular polish and wait for it to dry completely then use a gel top coat and cure it.
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 bay underneath the led nail curing lamp is large enough to treat five fingers or toes at once.
The sunuv nail dryer cures both uv and led gel polish as well as gem glue.
Regular nail polishes can t be used with uv or led lamps and it won t dry any quicker from being put under the lamp.
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.
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Lay one of your hands out on a flat surface covered with newspaper or paper towels.
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.
Led light emitting diodes operate on a narrower band of 400 410 nm.
Since uv lamps emit broad uv wavelengths it takes longer to cure uv nail polish.
Only gel polish can be cured under a uv lamp.
It features both a timer with two settings plus a sensor.