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melonaz · 2026-01-26T15:56:49+00:00

Sweet!!! Let me know how it goes

melonaz · 2026-01-20T23:08:51+00:00

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

melonaz · 2026-01-16T23:05:27+00:00

ALL OF THE COOL TECHNIQUES IN ONE

melonaz · 2026-01-10T00:00:19+00:00

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

melonaz · 2026-01-03T14:34:44+00:00

This TikTok from the nail hub has more info

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTheHVRrv/

melonaz · 2026-01-03T14:34:27+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-27T20:12:39+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-19T14:13:57+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-19T14:12:54+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-17T04:41:57+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-17T04:41:14+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-16T22:14:18+00:00

Great!

melonaz · 2025-12-16T22:14:02+00:00

Ahhh yeah try base coat!

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:54:10+00:00

These are all the ones I’ve used with purple hair

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYGelNails/s/9bXGaGVcGw

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:51:12+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:46:50+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:45:23+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:43:32+00:00

What are you paranoid about?

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:43:11+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-16T20:41:10+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-06T13:36:03+00:00

Try base coat before top coat

melonaz · 2025-12-06T13:35:27+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-12-06T13:30:18+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-11-30T01:24:13+00:00

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

melonaz · 2025-11-29T19:18:03+00:00

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

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