• This engineer doesn’t use nail polish, but his wife does. • And he deals with plenty of PCBs. • What do these things have in common? • Speaking of LEDs that lose their original intensity over time and use… In the fall of 2020, after accepting that due to the COVID pandemic she wasn’t going to be getting back inside a nail salon any time soon, my wife invested in a UV lamp so she could do her own gel polish-based nails at home. • While the terminology I just used in the prior sentence, not to mention the writeup title that preceded it, might be “old news” to at least some of you, others (like me, at first) might be confused. • Here goes: Gel details First off, what is gel nail polish, both in an absolute sense and relative to its traditional counterpart?

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