UV + LED Combo Lamp From MelodySusie Brand

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and today’s PcT Product Demo, we’re

00:00:08 –> 00:00:18 talking about the Melody Suzie 24-Watt LED and 36-Watt UV Lamp and this is a 2-in-1 lamp

00:00:18 –> 00:00:22 that does both LED and UV light.

00:00:22 –> 00:00:28 Now, this is a nail art lamp, and you’re probably wondering why the heck a Polymer Clay person

00:00:28 –> 00:00:34 is talking about nail art lamps, well, there’s a couple of reasons.

00:00:34 –> 00:00:40 First of all, we like to…or I like to use UV curing resin on Polymer Clay, it does a

00:00:40 –> 00:00:53 beautiful job, and the one that I really use a lot is called UV Epoxy and it’s from EpoxyJewelry.com.

00:00:53 –> 00:01:00 And I have covered some pieces here, some ultra-thin Polymer Clay pieces of clay here,

00:01:00 –> 00:01:07 so here’s one cut out, this is from the Art Sheet technique that we did a tutorial on

00:01:07 –> 00:01:14 quite a long time ago and when you put UV Resin on it, it looks like this, so it’s domed

00:01:14 –> 00:01:20 up and it looks really, really pretty, and it makes it strong and beautiful.

00:01:20 –> 00:01:27 Here’s a couple of earrings I made using some very thin sheets cut with a die cut actually,

00:01:27 –> 00:01:36 I used a Sizzix Die Cut, and I cut out the baked Polymer Clay sheet, and then added the

00:01:36 –> 00:01:46 UV Resin, so that is why I use a UV Lamp, but I also like to use it for doing UV Nail

00:01:46 –> 00:01:48 Gels and things like that.

00:01:48 –> 00:01:58 So a little while ago, we did…I did a review on the Melody Suzie…now this is the 12-Watt

00:01:58 –> 00:02:06 LED Light and I found that it worked really well for curing nail gels like the UV Nail

00:02:06 –> 00:02:15 Gels, but it didn’t cure very well for the UV Epoxy that we use on the Polymer Clay,

00:02:15 –> 00:02:21 and it was because it wasn’t the right watt and it wasn’t the right frequency.

00:02:21 –> 00:02:30 In that video, I also mentioned that Melody Suzie also carried a 2-in-1 Lamp that did

00:02:30 –> 00:02:43 the 24-watt LED and the 36-watt UV, and it’s the 36-Watt UV lamp that we need for the resin,

00:02:43 –> 00:02:47 and the LED we can use for the nail art gels.

00:02:47 –> 00:02:54 So anyways… so they sent me this beautiful lamp, that’s the 2-in-1, and I tested it and

00:02:54 –> 00:02:57 I wanted to show it to you today.

00:02:57 –> 00:03:03 Now this is the particular one here, in comes in…it’s a little bit larger box, it’s

00:03:03 –> 00:03:16 called the Violetina model, and this one, on their website at MelodySuzie.com, they

00:03:16 –> 00:03:28 have it listed as a retail price of being a $120 or $121 with their price being $69

00:03:28 –> 00:03:33 or just about $70 which is a really good price.

00:03:33 –> 00:03:40 And I’ll show you what it comes with, now okay, so first of all, it comes with a little

00:03:40 –> 00:03:45 nail buffing thing, so that you can use to get your nails ready, which is a nice little

00:03:45 –> 00:03:46 thing.

00:03:46 –> 00:03:52 But it comes with…where’s the box here… okay so I have the LED bulbs in here right

00:03:52 –> 00:03:58 now, and I’m just gonna move this forward, and it has a nice sliding tray, so if you

00:03:58 –> 00:04:04 have your fingernails on it, or if you’re putting a tray of resin pieces on it, you

00:04:04 –> 00:04:08 can set it on here easily, and then just slide it right in, which is a nice feature, you

00:04:08 –> 00:04:15 can also remove that, so that if you had a whole bunch of pieces on the table top, you

00:04:15 –> 00:04:18 could actually just set it right down.

00:04:18 –> 00:04:24 Then it has these light bulbs in here…these are the LED bulbs, and I’ll turn those on

00:04:24 –> 00:04:34 for you so you can see what they look like….hang on, what have I got…oh, probably would help

00:04:34 –> 00:04:39 if I would turn it on, okay, so there you go, and you can see I have the UV Nail Gel

00:04:39 –> 00:04:45 on and see how much my fingernails glow when they’re underneath there, so those are the

00:04:45 –> 00:04:53 LED bulbs, and they pop in real easy…I’ll just flick this off here, they pop in just

00:04:53 –> 00:04:59 by… you pull them out and pop them in and they just…they work like that, and you just

00:04:59 –> 00:05:00 snap them in.

00:05:00 –> 00:05:08 Now I’ll show you what the UV bulbs look like, the UV bulbs are the same kind of design at

00:05:08 –> 00:05:14 the bottom here, and they pop in the same way like this…so you have to just kind of

00:05:14 –> 00:05:21 slide them in there and snap them in, once they’re all the way in, you can hear it snap,

00:05:21 –> 00:05:27 so you’d set that up for…you pop these all out and put in the UV bulbs.

00:05:27 –> 00:05:38 Now, I found this to work beautifully for the UV bulbs…or the LED bulbs worked beautifully

00:05:38 –> 00:05:45 for the nail gels, and the UV bulbs worked beautifully for the resin.

00:05:45 –> 00:05:55 Now, the way the buttons are on the back…I’ll just move this out of the way, the buttons

00:05:55 –> 00:05:59 are set up on the back, which is a little bit of a pain, it would be nice if they were

00:05:59 –> 00:06:07 on the top like they are on the smaller units, but it’s easy…once you get used to where

00:06:07 –> 00:06:10 they are, you just come back and push the button.

00:06:10 –> 00:06:19 You can set them up for 120 seconds, you can have the timer off or you can have it at 180

00:06:19 –> 00:06:27 seconds, and that’s more for the nail gel side, when you’re using the UV nail gels,

00:06:27 –> 00:06:32 they are really short cure times, they are in the…you know, in the 120 seconds…2

00:06:32 –> 00:06:36 minutes to 3 minutes, that kind of thing.

00:06:36 –> 00:06:41 And the way that works is you put it…you set it up to the…however long you want it,

00:06:41 –> 00:06:47 so if I’m gonna do it 120 seconds, and then I would push this button down here and…oh,

00:06:47 –> 00:06:53 actually I need the ‘on’ over here first, okay, so you set the on/off switch here, and

00:06:53 –> 00:07:03 then you would press this button and you can see that the light is on there now, okay,

00:07:03 –> 00:07:08 then you can just turn it…oh, no you have to turn it off here, like that.

00:07:08 –> 00:07:13 Alright, so…but if you wanted to use it for a longer cure time, so if you’re doing

00:07:13 –> 00:07:21 the UV resin on these pieces…which takes about 20-30 minutes, I usually do it for 20

00:07:21 –> 00:07:27 minutes, then what you do is you have the timer off, you have to turn it back on again,

00:07:27 –> 00:07:34 and then you just turn it…okay you have it turned off…the timer off, and then when

00:07:34 –> 00:07:42 you press this button, it just stays on for the amount of time that you need, okay, so

00:07:42 –> 00:07:49 you would have to use your regular, just, you know a separate timer to record that amount

00:07:49 –> 00:07:50 of time.

00:07:50 –> 00:07:58 Now, I really like this design, it’s nice, the matte Black is a nice finish, it’s a little

00:07:58 –> 00:08:05 bit smaller footprint than my older one, even though the inside is about the same size and

00:08:05 –> 00:08:09 the bulbs were the same size, the footprint is just a little…it’s a little more…it’s

00:08:09 –> 00:08:14 a little more sleek, if you wanna call it that, also too…the finish on this older

00:08:14 –> 00:08:20 one I have, the sun has really bleached it out and it’s looking kinda faded and not quite

00:08:20 –> 00:08:22 as nice anymore.

00:08:22 –> 00:08:31 Now another thing that I have found… that the UV bulbs over time seem to wear down a

00:08:31 –> 00:08:38 bit, I’m not sure if it’s…they still work, like in my other unit there, the… it’s seemed

00:08:38 –> 00:08:45 like over the years, I had to run it for a little bit longer… like 30 minutes instead

00:08:45 –> 00:08:49 of the 20 minutes when I was curing my UV Gel, just because I think the bulbs were wearing

00:08:49 –> 00:08:57 out, and I noticed when I plugged this one in and put the bulbs in…the UV bulbs, they

00:08:57 –> 00:09:00 cured in the 20 minutes like they used to.

00:09:00 –> 00:09:06 So I’m thinking maybe they wear out, I’m not totally sure on how that works, but I think

00:09:06 –> 00:09:13 this is a really nice deal, it’s a beautiful unit, it’s nice if you’re gonna be doing nails

00:09:13 –> 00:09:20 as well as the Polymer Clay resin, there’s a lot of different products out there that

00:09:20 –> 00:09:28 will work with both UV or LED or one or the other, so having one unit is quite great,

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