What WATT of the led nail lamp you guys are using to cure the gel nails?

I am using 7w led nail lamp to cure gel nails, but it might take more times, some people said 36w led nail lamp will better , but i rarely found 36watt ones on sale. what watt are u using when curing nails. What  are the results ?

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I am using 7w led nail lamp to cure gel nails, but it might take more times, some people said 36w led nail lamp will better , but i rarely found 36watt ones on sale. what watt are u using when curing nails. What  are the results ?

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I use Shany Cosmetics Gel UV Lamp which has four 9W lamp tubes for a total of 36W. It works fine but I can't compare it to say the ones sold at drugstores or places like ULTA.

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I use Shany Cosmetics Gel UV Lamp which has four 9W lamp tubes for a total of 36W. It works fine but I can't compare it to say the ones sold at drugstores or places like ULTA.

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Yes, i have also seen the uv nail lamp you said, but i just found that it was a little cheap in quality and i chose another brand Uspicy to get the 36w uv nail lamp, but currently i have changed it to LED nail lamp, did you ever USE the LED LAMP? What are the results?

I have not used an LED lamp. And you're right the Shany one is one the cheap quality side which is why it's so inexpensive. Since I don't do gel nails often enough I just haven't had the desire to use LED. What are your thoughts on LED vs UV?

I use a 36 watt lamp that I bought on ebay for less than $30.  I've had it 2 years and still going strong.  It has no name brand that I know of.

I used to use it all the time for doing my own gel nails but now I only ever use it for when I break a nail and need to sculpt the tip to get it back to the length the rest of them are.

I use an 18w USpicy cures in 30s then when I do my final cure I usually do 60s on dark colors and 30s on lights ... If an accent nail is dark of course ill just do the 60

Would it be different between the dark colors and other color??