QuestionHi!
I've recently started doing my own acrylic nails, but felt that the shine disappeared quite quickly and that my nails were discolored after a while. I then read online that preventing this is the reason to applying a gel sealer or gel topcoat on your nails. My first question is what's the difference between a gel sealer and a gel topcoat? And my second and most important question; do you have to cure a gel sealer/topcoat? I've read somewhere that it will dry and harden without a uv-light, but is it true and how long does it take, do you get the same result without curing?
Answer............
wow!!!
That is actually a whole "gel manicure at home class"!!!
Just joking!
So...
First of all I need to know the brand that you use.
I need you to tell me the whole procedure that you follow step by step so I can give you a direct and correct answer.
Are your fake nails discolored? Or your own nails?
A gel top coat is usually the final layer on our manicure (or pedicure) and brightens the result. It chips easier that the sealer and may discolor your nail if it has certain ingredients.
You have to cure them if they have to be cured....! A UV product needs a UV lamp to go along! If not there is a "non-cure" mark somewhere on the packaging...
Of course there are products that can simply dry and become hard as UVs...
But if it is a product that has to be cured then it will never dry...
I will wait for more details....
J.
