11 year old has done her own nails with UV lamp

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Im so shocked that she has done this AIBU? Surely this isn't normal for someone of this age to have access to this kit? Am I completely over-reacting? Please tell me i am as I'm very unpopular right now! This is in light of all the allergy stories I have read and damage to nails etc.

How do the school know just by looking in passing whether a nail polish is gel or normal?

Get them taken off and buy her some zao nail varnish for Xmas - it’s plastic and toxic free so it’s kinder to the environment and to children (I don’t work for them, I just like it)
www.zaomakeup.co.uk/all-products/nail-polish

Wish they were at my school

Gel, even if it’s not builder, is much thicker. Normal nail polish wipes off with remover. Gel doesn’t. It has to be soaked for 10 mins and even then filed/lifted off.

I can tell the difference by looking.

At least they aren't piercing each others' ears with needles, or cutting each others' hair.
Unclench. Most (normal) girls play at makeovers.

Any varnish at all is banned at ours.

I stopped getting gel polish a couple of years ago after it completely weakened my nails. I had no idea about the allergy thing. I have let my dd get acrylic nails on a couple of occasions. Not anymore after learning about this.

The polish doesn't damage your nails and the UV lamp is pretty harmless. If you're worried you can put suncream on first.

What damages the nails is that salons tend to file the actual nail surface to make it stick better. You really don't need to do this. A light file with a regular file is fine. They tend to use diamond files used for acrylics.

Your DD will be fine.

To remove the polish put on acetone based nail varnish remover. The same we've been using on our nails since the 1980s. Leave it to soak and then wipe off using make up remover pads or kitchen roll.

OK butvwhy would one type be allowed and not the other. What could the reasoning be

My gel polish is the same thickness as regular polish. It's Mylee. It wipes off with acetone nail polish remover. No soaking. No filing. No lifting.

It does have a better finish than regular polish though and usually I only need one or two coats as opposed to the three I need with regular polish. So you might spot a difference.

I would talk to the friends parents first before over reacting. It could have been a kids fake UV light. Do your homework first IMO

As others have said, the polish contains ingredients that can cause allergies. And those allergies can have serious repercussions later on. Most allergies are caused by incorrect curing or the product getting on the skin.

I’d bet on the fact that the children applying the polish in this case, won’t have been able to do so without touching the skin and I’d also bet that the equipment won’t have cured the product properly. There’s a reason why the companies (CND, for example) only sell to professionals and that they advocate using their own lamps with their own products - and that’s because they’ve been rigorously tested to ensure when they’re applied and cured as per their instructions, they’re cured fully.

I daresay as a one off she’ll be ok, OP, but I wouldn’t be happy either.

Oh Dear…

Here’s what allergic reactions to gel polish can do to your nails… these were taken the day I had the polish removed. All the white bits dropped off. It’s a life long allergy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65273991

And here - a week after the polish was removed. It took 18 months for my nails to grow back.

Ugly at the time but totally harmless. Snogging boys as others say is also on its own quite harmless. Gel nails however may not be harmless. No you don’t want your child downing three quarters of a bottle of vodka in a park and having unprotected sex at 13, but why do some posters think that makes gel nails fine? They are a completely unnecessary risk for children that age.

That looks so sore, bless you. My sister’s went like that too. It caused her a lot of pain and sensitivity for a very long time.

i would be fuming too I think
the patent should of checked with you first . it’s way too young and she may wreck her nails if they’re not removed correctly. I developed an allergy to gel nails and now I’m allergic to all manner of things and yes as another poster said I had to tell my surgeon when I had a new hip so they had to find an alternative cement.

Don’t be so idiotic! The effects of UV can show up decades later. My dh has had melanoma twice and he’s never used a sun bed. Doctors have put it down to possibly one trip abroad as a child 40 years earlier. The treatment is absolutely brutal with major surgery. No child of mine would ever go near uv lamps. Another friend is now dying of terminal melanoma in her early 20s after just a few sunbed sessions ( about four) to get a “base tan” for a holiday.

Not if done correctly!!!

But a child applying it themselves at home is not going to be doing it correctly.

I get gel nails every three weeks as does my adult daughter. Neither of us would ever contemplate doing it at home. One of the brands mentioned on this thread is a brand we actively avoid due to the inferior make up of the product and increased risk.

She’s an eleven year old child. I think the OP would have mentioned if her dd had done a beauty therapy course.

Lol at no child of mine would ever do that.!!! How are you going to stop them as a teenager

Don’t you think that her children will know about it?

Maybe they aren’t thick so will think ‘oh, I won’t use UV lamps because of what happened to dad’.

When did their dad use UV lamps then? Poster said " My dh has had melanoma twice and he’s never used a sun bed. Doctors have put it down to possibly one trip abroad as a child 40 years earlier."

So what's that got to do with using UV lamps?

Also you seem to forget teenagers think they are invincible .