Prestigious_Carpet29 t1_j52tw21 wrote on January 20, 2023 at 12:24 AM

Reply to comment by JensenWench in Researchers at UC San Diego found that a single 20 minute session under a UV-light nail polish dryer results in cell death for 20-30% of exposed cells. The UV emissions also damaged DNA and caused cellular mutations. by bog_witch

I'm a guy, and am not into fancy nails at all. Also a physicist - gut response is I can't imagine why you'd want to use UV light for that for more than 30 seconds!

(And/or if it really takes 20 minutes of UV there's probably a better way of achieving the same end)

JensenWench t1_j52u4jp wrote on January 20, 2023 at 12:26 AM

I get my nails done once every two weeks. Simple polish.. the gel polish takes 30 seconds under the lamps to set. I read the headline and I was like huh?

ubermeisters t1_j55mdt6 wrote on January 20, 2023 at 3:50 PM

I'm a guy. Not into fancy nails. My best friend is a girl who is definitely into fancy nails. I also have 3D printing as a hobby, part of that being UV resin related. I have worked out that the UV light which I use to cure my models after printing, is the same wavelength as the acrylic setting UV lights. it doesn't even take 5 minutes for a large model to be cured all the way through, and that model doesn't need to be clear. The longest I've seen nails take is like 3 or 4 minutes. so where does 20 minutes garbage is coming from, I really don't understand? That's a fuckload of UV light, and would make the nails beyond brittle...