Wanqueen, zp1.82 2019 Upgraded Bug Zapper with UV Light, Indoor Outdoor, Black

When I started researching LED lamps, I had difficulty finding out what the differences were, and what was ultimately needed to cure my gel polishes completely and safely. The Vogue LED lamp comes with paperwork stating LED wavelength is 385-405 nm. This is key. Normal UV lamps are 320-400 nm, broad spectrum. Most LED gel polishes cure at 385 or 400. There's lots of confusion regarding LED vs UV nail lamps. LED lamps use UV light, just in a specific range, concentrating the energy just to the wavelength actively curing the product, reducing exposure time and overall wavelengths. Btw, both LED and UV lamps emit UV-A, not the harmful UV-B, light. The LED lamp has one "off" and two "on" settings. Clicked "down" it stays on continuously. In the "up" setting the lamp comes on automatically with my hand going in and turns off after the 30s. If you hit the timer setting button it runs 60s with one push, 90s with two, and back to 30s with three. I started doing my own gel/shellac mani's using the Thermal Spa double hand 36W UV lamp, which is a great lamp which I finally gave away along with my CND Shellac polishes. I thought I would still use them, but 2 minutes to cure each coat is so SLOW compared to the LED that I loathe using UV. I use this Vogue LED lamp to cure my OPI GelColor, Harmony Gelish polish and Structure, IBD Just Gel, TruGel EZ Flow polishes as well as a couple random LuckyStar, Ms Kieko and Mabel's Gels polishes. For all my polishes I use the OPI base/top coats. They all cure beautifully and so QUICK!!! Hope this helps you in your purchase of an LED lamp, saving you lots of $$$.

This is the best LED light I have ever found. It dries my gel polish in seconds. I saw a reviewer complain that the timer didn't work, which I thought too until I turned the unit around and looked at the power switch. The power switch on the back is a dual switch. If you flip the switch toward the top, the timer and hand sensor come on - you can then set the timer to 30/60/90 seconds. If you flip the switch toward the bottom, the unit comes on and stays on (which may appear as if the timer isn't working). Lastly, the hand sensor is small dark spot in the very bottom center of the opening of the unit, so if you are only drying a finger or two, make sure you pass over the sensor if you are attempting to use the time function.

I had been getting my nails done at a salon for a long time, and finally decided to start working on them myself.The biggest challenge for me was the light. I had been using a small LED, but having to do four fingers, then my thumb, was making me question this decision. I saw this light and it appeared to be large enough for my whole hand or foot, so I bought it. I'm glad I did. It's actually huge! I can splay my fingers completely out (Yogini style) and they don't hit the edges, and I have a fairly ample sized hand for a girl.To take a step back, I use CND shellac. I know, I know, I'm not licensed, but it is a good product that works on my hands, and I can't afford to pay the talented ladies to do them for me. There is a lot of misinformation about minimal wattage needed to cure this product. Wattage is only a measurement of the electrical pull a device uses. Back before the days of LEDs and CFL, it could be used interchangeably with output (Lumens et.al - not sure what the measurement is of UV light waves, but it ain't watts) because all things were created equal. LEDs, being a more efficient light source, will give you the more output for a lower wattage, (hence your household lightbulbs give wattage equivalents on the package) so the wattage of a lamp/light etc. is no longer an interchangeable measurement, and shouldn't be considered when comparing traditional bulbs to LED.That all said, this device seems to have cured my nails as well as, if not better than, the proprietary lamps in the salon I used to go to using the same time tables as a traditional bulb lamp. From the salon, my nails were dry, but a little 'dentable' for a good few hours afterward, and they just seem less so with this unit. (I know Shellac needs a full cure for a few hours regardless, but there it is)The instructions cut the timing down to less than half, but those seconds weren't worth doing an experiment to see where the sweet spot was. Better safe than sorry. Although, using this lamp for whatever minimum time works will cut down the UV exposure to your hands, so there's that.The readout was clear and bright, and easy to set up, and as long as I set the timer, the lamp would turn on as soon as I put my hand in it (It does have a separate start button as well) On the power toggle it has a setting where you can just turn it on without the timer (I is timed, 0 is off II is ON) which I thought was a nice touch. There is no time beep or indicator, but the timer is clear enough that you can count down.The bottom is flat, and not tapered to rest my hand on; so it was a bit challenging getting my thumb and four fingers to all point up, but given the more than effective job it did as crooked as my thumb was presented, I am happy to go with it.I would recommend this as a more than ample device to cure gel based polish based on my experience.