How to make a UV lamp for nails with your own hands?

All the fair sex love to take care of their nails, often visit beauty salons for manicure procedures. But only earlier, in order to do permanent manicure, I had to look for an intelligent master and pay a lot of money, today it can be done at home. But you will need a special lamp and materials for this. It is important to choose a quality device to perform the necessary manipulations yourself. Knowing how to make a UV lamp for nails with your own hands, you can save a lot of money. Today, we not only understand this issue, but also get acquainted with the features of the most popular varieties of dryers for manicure.

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Features and basic characteristics of lamps for manicure

Electric lamps are quite popular among manicure masters and lovers of creating high-quality and long-term nail art with their own hands. To purchase a ready-made device that meets your requirements, you should first familiarize yourself with the main characteristics, features, design and advantages of such devices. In addition, if you know them, stock up with everything you need, then you will get a decent nail dryer with your own hands.

Table lamps have the simplest design:

• Ordinary building.
• Outdoor control panel.
• Special light bulbs.
• Timer.
• Fan.

Important! Some dryers have more functions, but their cost due to this is greatly increased.

Let’s separately consider each parameter that needs attention:

1. Sizes. The most important difference of all lamps is their overall dimensions. There are models that allow you to dry the permanent coating simultaneously on both hands. Choosing a device for home use, you can safely stop on a small lamp, without a timer, additional functions. It is inexpensive, takes up a minimum of space, consumes electricity sparingly.
2. Power. It is also very important. Modern installations for manicure have power indicators in the range of 9-54 watts. They can have from 1 to 4 special lamps at a time. Less and less used are low-power appliances, even for home use.

Important! The best option is 36 watts. Naturally, in nail salons they use more powerful models.

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Varieties of Nail Dryers

When creating nail art, it should be borne in mind that ultraviolet rays have an effect on each varnish layer separately. Therefore, the total time for the total ultraviolet effect on the entire nail plate should not exceed ten minutes. Otherwise, you violate sanitary standards, nails and skin of the hands can be severely damaged. If you plan to do multi-layer manicure yourself, then buy quick-drying coatings.

At the moment, there are such types of lamps:

• UV dryers. All manicure devices are equipped with fluorescent or LED lamps. But the most affordable cost is precisely the ultraviolet lamp for drying gel polish. With your own hands, with its help you can create real masterpieces on your nails, the main thing is to use it correctly, not to violate the established rules and norms.Such a model can be purchased on the Internet, a specialized store, or even made independently.

Important! Their only minus is the short life of the bulbs used inside and the content of mercury hazardous to health in them.

• LED lamps for nails. Today they are considered the best in this field. Such devices operate using LEDs, so the drying process is completely safe for health, economical, fast. Polymerization is carried out in just 20-30 seconds, that is, there is no need to wait three minutes. There are no harmful substances inside the lamp, so if it breaks, then no one will be hurt.

Important! Over time, LEDs do not become less powerful.

To summarize, it becomes quite clear how they differ. LED lamps are something new for the fashion and beauty industries. Ultraviolet dryers are considered a proven and cheap option, which once again proves the currently relevant overview of lamps for drying nails of various manufacturers. The main advantage of LEDs is their long service life, which devices with fluorescent lamps cannot boast of. But most importantly, LED models are absolutely safe.

Important! When planning to make such a device and use it at home, read also interesting information from our other publications:

1. The harm and benefits of nail polish and gel polish.
2. Nail gel polish without a lamp at home.

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Making a lamp for manicure with your own hands

If you intend to save, then try to make a drying device yourself. A lamp for manicure with your own hands is made using the lamp itself. Be sure to collect everything you need before starting work:

• UV bulb (low-cost models, for example, those that are used in typewriters to check notes).
• Energy saving light bulbthat fits a standard size cartridge.
• Block under the screws.
• Lamp holder and wire with plug.

The lamp is quite inexpensive, but the rest of the materials can be found at home or in any lighting store. To make or replace diodes, you can buy it there. Repair and replacement of parts is also not difficult to do ..

The assembly diagram of an ultraviolet dryer consists of the following steps:

1. We fasten the UV lamp to the pads. Since it’s difficult to find connectors, it’s best to use pads. Wires are connected to the pads. Cables for local area networks are ideal in this case, you just need to twist the pairs of wires in them and use them together.
2. We take out a plate with electronics from an energy-saving lamp. We cut off a pair of wires coming out of it to the flask, then we solder and solder the twisted wires in pairs in their place. We collect the electronics base back. As a result, we get the power source of our lamp.
3. We attach the device with a plastic strip to the base and get the basis of the dryer.
4. The housing can be used either ready-made or made independently from an old computer power supply.
5. We insert a lamp into the body.

Important! When you practice with a device assembled with your own hands, you may still want to buy a more effective device from the professional series. Or maybe you even want to develop your business in this direction. Then our articles will help you:

• Shellac lamp - which is better?
• How to start a nail business - is it profitable?
• Manicure design ideas for different occasions.

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As you can see, there are no special problems in the manufacture of a manicure machine, but of course, this is not an LED lamp for nails. With your own hands, you can create a very high-quality device for home use and do manicures of any complexity.