BTArtboxnails Nail Tips Builder Gel - Long Lasting 15ml Builder Gel with Portable Nail Lamp for French XCOATTIPS, 30+Days French Protection Duo Nail Extension Tool for Nail Art

100% WORTH A TRY! I am now obsessed with this entire line. I am so impressed that I'm going to go this route which not only saves money, but time! This was my first time using QUALITY press-on nails after years of paying $$$$ for dip nails at the salon. I purchased this kit, along with xcoattip nails and nail dehydrator because I was going on vacation and had a packed work schedule with long hours the entire week before the trip, so it didn't give me any time to get to the salon. I purchased the multipack thinking I would need to do them several times while on vacation to get me through until I could go back to my dip nails when I returned...because drug store brands I had done in the past only lasted a day or two.LET ME TELL YOU!!! ONE set lasted me 3 WEEKS and only removed them because they were grown out and few lifted a little bit along the top that my hair would catch a little. The nails are thin but strong. I had so many compliments on them and I have told all of my close girlfriends how impressed I am. I am incredibly hard on nails because I run a construction business and constantly either doing a single dip myself (which always looked TERRIBLE) or at the salon for a cracked nail replacement.It took roughly 45 mins for me to prep the cuticles/nails and apply everything else. Here are the steps I took.Prep-cleaned the cuticle really well around the entire nail.-used a medium course foam file block across the entire nail making sure to get along the edges really well-scrubbed the nails well with dish soap (probably over kill, but I have oily nails and do this on my toes before polish for max adhesion)-wiped with rubbing alcohol-applied nail dehydratorNails-I did one nail at time going back and forth between my right and left for each nail, I wanted my pointer and thumb fingers to be last. With the xcoattip uv glue on both my nail and press on nail- when you press the nail on make sure to go at the 45 degree angle per the instructions so there are no air bubbles and hold it down firmly so it's tight when you flash cure it. After all the nails are done I cured them for another 2 mins just to be safe.-filed nail tip to shape the little connector tab off.-applied and cured xcoattip primer, cured-applied one coat of UV polish to give a little more dimension to the nail (personal preference) cured-applied xcoattips top coat, cured-I am not the best at polishing, so cleaned up the polish the best I could around the nailbed before curing, but did end up also filing around the nail between coats.Removal is another story....it was difficult and took some time to get them off. I did buy a nail glue removed that kind of worked, but would have used the entire bottle...so I switched over to 100% acetone and soaked them for several rounds while loosening in between around the edges with a cuticle stick.

I have been doing my own nails for at least 5 years, even before Covid. Mostly I do shellac, but I have a ton of glue on nails too. I had bought a set of glue on nails from this brand a while ago but went back to shellac before I used them. Found them a month ago and just loved the look of them. Looked at what else they had on Amazon and came across some beautiful sets that use the uv cured glue, which I hadn’t used (or heard of) before. I ordered the nails and this set of glue, builder gel and top coat. Put the nails on and they were so beautiful. Two nails popped off in the first three days but I definitely chalk that up to user error. I reattached the same nail that popped off using the original application directions and it’s been 2 weeks of minimal issues. I think like 2 more nails have popped off but each time (even today) I just put that same nail back on; the glue typically sticks to my real nail and not the glue on nail, making it so easy to reapply. When I reapplied today I gave all my nails a fresh coat of builder gel and top coat and it refreshed the shine a bit. Even after two weeks I look at my nails daily and I just love them. I don’t know if I’ll ever use another type/brand of glue on nails, these just work so well; better than I could have imagined. You need to follow the directions and if you do you will be so pleased with this set. Get their nails, they are just gorgeous. Every time I leave the house somebody compliments the nails and I have showered, washed dishes, cooked, cleaned, worked out etc and these nails/glue are phenomenal. Ten stars.

I bought these nails for my birthday and they were absolutely stunning. Very durable they last a long time. I was able to put my own design on them. If you have to go press on go for these because they last for a while and they feel just like an acrylic set

This brand works great! Quality product you can't get anywhere in stores. It's pricey tho.

I am not a DIY girl, these nails seemed dummy proof needing brush-on gel and top coat to last 3wks+. For my first application, I'm pleased even though I can make corrections. The nails are sturdy like salon nails. Will have to follow-up on how long they last but if it holds the three weeks it is well worth it. The salons, charge $80+ for a set the quality is poor, I've had to get a broken nail redone or repolished for a chipped nail. I like the number of nails in this kit to do a full set and enough to do fixes at a fraction of what they cost at the salon. Unless the nails don't last three weeks at least, I have no cons.

I love love this product. I use it for press on nails and the builder gel a top coat to them and they make them last forever. I have no complaint with that. My problems are when I tried to use the small UV lamp that came with mine the end piece of the charging cable broke off into my uv lamp and I can't use it. Thank goodness a friend left her uv lamp at my house and I used hers after I had gotten the gel builder on my nail and needed to cure it or I would have been in a pickle. The other problem I had was both my bottles the gel builder and the top coat was not full size product. My friend bought a set also and hers was completely full and you could tell both of mine were not. We even poured them out to compare and mine was a lot less. So I hate to say this because I love this product, but after a couple uses my bottle of both are pretty much empty. Which saddens me because I paid full price thinking I was getting full sized products. But with all this happening to me with my first experience I would still give them a 5 star rating because of the couple uses I did get from the product it was GREAT!!!! Not sure how to reach out to the company for a new uv lamp and possibly full size bottles of the builder gel and top coat but it would be so great if they could send me one. It would seem only fair for the price I paid for it. I will update if I hear or do not hear back from this company. But again if you wanna take your press one's to the next level and make them last you a lot longer and be more stronger this product is for you.