Hi, I've read various things recently about the risks of do it yourself gel nails. I've had a mylee LED lamp for something like 7 years now and do my own fingernails and sometimes toenails pretty much every two weeks. I've built up quite a polish collection.
Since covid / having kids and extra handwashing etc my skin is already pretty sensitive, so reading articles about the increased contact dermatitis / allergy risk does make me want to avoid acrylates etc, but i LOVE having brightly coloured nails and im pretty sure if i went gel free for any length of time my nails would be pretty damn weak 😬
So I'm trying to work out what I should do going forward... for example, if I buy a new lamp (ie it definitely cures properly!) and only use HEMA free gel polishes that are within a couple of years old (bluesky advertises as this and is mostly what i have anyway!), would this be considered low risk? Or am I better off scrapping the idea of gel and looking at some of the acrylate-free regular polishes (looks like Nails Inc do a plant range)? Or alternating? Or something else? Appreciate any advice!