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UV & LED Light Technology Following on from NailFile’s last article on how misinformation is harming our industry, SONETTE VAN RENSBURG discusses the facts about UV & LED gel light technology, a topic that is just as important
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raditional UV lamps have been around since gel nail products first came onto the nail scene a number of years ago, but today mostly LED technology is being used. Both UV and LED are used for the curing process of gel nail coating products – these are some of the most technically sophisticated and complex products in the beauty industry. They have a very specific formula containing photoinitiators, which work like a switch and require the use of UV light to
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kick-start the polymerisation process. A traditional UV lamp has long, tube-like bulbs known as CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights), whereas LED Lamps have many tiny little LED (Light Emitting Diode) bulbs. LED lamps, however, are known to cure gel products much faster than traditional UV lamps. Nowadays everything is about being able to conduct services in a much faster time, as time is money, right? Well, not always, so never compromise quality and most of all, safety, for
Although UV and LED lamps work pretty much in the same way, they have different wavelengths and intensities. While UV emits a broader spectrum of wavelengths, LED emits a narrower and more directed spectrum of wavelengths.
