How to strengthen nails with gel polish. If you do not want any color on your nails and want to add some strength to your thin nails, gel basecoat and topcoat will be a good nail strengthener. Both need to be applied thinly on the nails and cured under a UV light for 30 to 45 seconds separately.
It takes a bit longer to do gel nails at home than regular polish because you the prep process is a bit more extensive, it requires more coats, and each coat has to set for 1-3 minutes under a UV light. However, it’s a small price to pay for the perfect, shiny gel manicure that lasts over 2 weeks! Curing gel nail polish under UV lamps will usually require more time as compared to those cured under the LED lamps. Usually, you need around 90 seconds to cure UV gel nail polishes. However, it will only take about 30 seconds to cure the LED gel polishes. Tati, AKA The Natural Nail Guru, takes a similar approach. In a YouTube video, she explained how she tempers her clients' nails to the heat by asking them to keep them under the UV lamp for a second or two before removing them, and then repeating the process until they're accustomed to the heat. UTnSmIf.