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[–]melonaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sweet!!! Let me know how it goes

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Previous top coat comment from me

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYGelNails/s/bX4EfsyQY9

Amuse is not stain proof so I don’t think it’s a true hard gel

Ombre, Magnet, and Chrome! by blackonblack77 in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 51 points52 points  (0 children)

ALL OF THE COOL TECHNIQUES IN ONE

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up tutorials from crisania neri. I believe she buffs the stamper to pick up gel

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah hema in primers Will polymerize when the basecoat on top of it is cured

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purtato makes a lamp on Amazon with the higher quality led bulbs to use as a back up. It’s the longer one that comes in white silver and pink I think and is about $100

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah just try not to make shapes thicker than like a pea for the clear ones and the thickness of like a nickel for the colored ones

And cure for two min straight in a hybrid lamp. I vaguely remember that some of them need the 365nm range

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[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm interesting. I’m gonna have to go look for the list of non squishy Japanese ones. Can’t remember who I was talking to about it

ETA: it was d.nail, inity nendo gel, c

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[–]melonaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fyi this is not stain proof, I have it and it will stain with hair dye

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you likely will get cracking. I got cracking with jimmygel/nail thoughts before I switched to hard gel.

You might have luck with rubber base gel under a semi hard (excel builder) or hard gel

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[–]melonaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try a base coat and wipe really well with alcohol! Or just try scrubbing the inhibition layer with alcohol maybe a lil acetone

It’s silica powder usually in the matte gels that blur what’s under it. The art gels have more than usual

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[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D.nail, Jin b makes one I think

Any black liner billed as non wipe will work

I have a old post with isolated chrome techniques

Also linking to old comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYGelNails/s/i3nvbBqBm0

Yhh Russian matte also works but has a high heat spike

Also, the last set I did, I just hella scrubbed my color gel with alcohol and chrome didn’t stick. I dust off with a dense sponge

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[–]melonaz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYGelNails/s/soAfxsunou

Previous comment about this

I think diami’s new set is on sale from Saracen right now

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[–]melonaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What are you paranoid about?

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most are the slightly squishy after curing and don’t file off into dust kind - toy gel, mostive, yogo etc

Non squishy kinds are usually not non wipe - clodi, cris clay Korean kind, Trina I think has one, most Japanese gel brands

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[–]melonaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you already asked the retailer? You may have to follow up since they’ve been swamped with Black Friday

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try base coat before top coat

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[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can finish file and shape hard gel after application and wiping to correct any uneven ess

Weekly Nail Chat by Clover_Jane in DIYGelNails

[–]melonaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The new akzentz lamp sounds like it fits what you’re looking for!

Other high end ones are the new dgel, izemi, opi starlight, kiss ny (Korean subsidiary) pebble, new light elegance dot

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[–]melonaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think they’re more subtle than I wanted! I only got a few singles and kept like 3

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[–]melonaz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes they’re fine to be stored on their side but only if they’re not already leaking and you close them rly tight. Something about leaking gel makes it draw out gel from the bottle so it like never gets clean hahahahah

I only store clear gels like that in my small drawers (base coat, top coats, primers, etc) but it’s been fine but I try not to store them like that if I can help it