Beetles Nail Tips and Glue Gel Kit - Kiara Sky Dupe?
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2021
- Beetles Nail Tips and Glue Gel Kit - Kiara Sky Dupe?
Hey guys! In this video I am finally reviewing the Beetles nail extension kit from Amazon. Is this a “dupe” for Kiara Sky or Apres? I’ll be the judge of that!
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I got this kit so far I’m two weeks strong no lifting or anything! I do housework and constantly washing my hands! These tips are very long and I’m not good at shaping and etc so I did order some shorter ones off kiara sky.
Same they are hanging in there. I cut down the tips too/ I can’t do really long nails.
How did you prep your nails and tips?
@@317BIGred4238 I cut my natural nails, filed the free edge, pushed my cuticles back, cut my cuticles, buffed the surface of my nails. Cleaned off the dust with rubbing alcohol, applied dehydrator on my natural nails then applied primer on my natural nails. Buffed the inside of the nail tips after finding my size. Glued those on, buffed the surface as well as getting rid of excess oozing then polished with gel polish. ♥️
Couldn’t have said it better myself 😜
So it actually does work. I’m going to try it.
It’s refreshing to hear a CZcams video where the voice isn’t overly annoying or squeaky to make the content seem all “sunshine and rainbows” sometimes we just want everything to get down to business and the details well explained . So thank you !
Thank you so very much! I’m just trying to be myself
Watching & listening to you take me through the steps was like having a friend help me. You clearly explained everything & added your opinion about the steps which I loved. I've done glue on nails for years. I'm now entering the new world if gelly nails & polygel nails. I was nervous to try the gellies but you made me feel at ease. Thank you so much & can't wait for your next video. Thank you for taking me through the steps, your honesty & laugh (we've all put the crooked nail on) 💜
You are too sweet 🥰. I’m so glad you liked it and welcome to the fam 🤗. Also, that crooked nail haunts me lol
I really liked this kit when I used it, I kept my set on for a month. I’ve used Kiara Sky and Apres and it’s definitely comparable in application and longevity. Great video.
For sure and you can’t beat the price
I just got my kiara sky gelly starter kit .. is it worth it ? Do they last long or break I’m a new mom so haven’t found time to do them yet
I don’t have the kit but I do have the nails. I love them. They are worth the hype bc they are good nails. There are definitely alternatives but the quality is nice. So is the service.
I am on week 2 with these nails and i didn’t etch them because i wanted to follow the instructions to a t. And they are still going strong. Especially with the length I’ve bumped them and been in water etc.
I made it two and half weeks and my son stepped on my nail yesterday while I was putting on his shoe lol. Unfortunately there was a casualty 😂
@@LuxeNailsbyJen those darn boys i tell you
Can’t live with em can’t live without them 😊
If you use an acid primer u can chemically etch the underside of the tips 😉 and u can etch the surface to begin your polish application without buffing. Hope this helps someone
Thank you 😊
Amazing video! I will probably re-watch this a million times every time I do my nails lol
OMG thank you! I’m so glad you find it helpful
The nail bending part really educated me AAAAALOTTT thank you
I’m glad I could help!
I’m so impressed with this kit, the tips are strong to the point i was worried they wouldn’t come off. The soak is literally SOAK OFF it just came off I’m not going back to the salon ever
Right they are so good and yes they do soak off so easy as you could see 😂
Is it a specific soak needed
I love your reviews is so honest and right to the point.
Why thank you!!!
Hey there! New subscriber here 🤗 I’ve just gotta say, I love your energy! Can’t wait to see more videos!
Thank you so much! Welcome to the fam 🤗
I love, love, love this kit, especially the lamp. I’ve had mine for about 3 or 4 months. Hope I don’t burn it out. It helps with nail art and on the go.💕😍
You know what, I I didn’t like the lamp at first, but I keep it on my desk now for flash curing and it’s great.
Yay! Finally! You got the kit looking forward to this video and if you like it or not!
Thanks for recommending it!
@@LuxeNailsbyJen I totally agree with you about the lamp it's not that easy to use. I just ended up using a flashlight I have on a holder. But for $20 I think it's a great kit!
Yea you can’t beat it! I actually love the gel
@@LuxeNailsbyJen yeah I do as well and I think your right I think it's just a builder gel. I just ordered the Beetles mermaid polygel kit and omg I absolutely love it!!
I work as a online personal shopper for a huge company. My job I'm battering my hands and nails. I've had acrylics done and they always lift off. I bought this kit and had my nails on for about 5 days now. No sign of lifting or no damage. They are going strong. Honestly so impressed. I recommend getting a dehydrator and primer along with the kit. Super impressed for £26. That's one set of nails at salons near me!
It’s so worth it! I will never go to a salon again
I love their base and top coats. They are think but are amazing 🤩
Me too!!
I love this brand!
😍 💅🏻 ❤ Great video. Thank you.
Thank you hun!!!
Also if you file around the cuticle a little bit to smooth it and you get a small Gap use your Builder gel or a little clear polygel
Thank you for the tips!! Totally appreciate it as I’m just a nail lover but far from a professional. I just started playing with nail last year after I was stuck in bed from surgery.
Great review! I reviewed this kit on my channel and absolutely loved it! In fact, I love all things Beetles. Tfs! 😊
I love this kit! I have been using their gel exclusively since I did this video
@@LuxeNailsbyJen Yes. I was first introduced to their gel polishes and now that's all I use as well. They have such good products! 😍
I bought this kit a while back and it definitely is my favorite I love thier "nail glue" it works amazingly :)
Yes! I was literally using that exclusively for a while.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen i need to order some more I'm almost out of the one that came in the kit... have you applied your tips with polygel before?
@@LADYANGEL091 I tried be but they wouldn’t stay
@@LuxeNailsbyJen oh okay I've been wanting to try it that way but I'm not sure it will work for me.
This kit is life !!!!!
Love it!
Love this kit. I use a long charger cable and it works in case you still use it on your desk
Yea I found a longer one to use. I don’t know why they make them so short in these kits.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen 🤷🏻♀️😁😁😁
Note: turn the lamp so that the open and is facing away from you and it will make it a lot easier to put your open hands under the lamp. You will then have to lift your hands over the top of the lamp and bring it in towards the solid part that should be now facing you. Or, only hold the nail tip and place the open part of them lamp facing 3 o'clock...switch the open part of the lamp to face 9 oclock when you do the opposite hand. Hope that helps.
Wow thank you that helps a lot!!
I saw Long hair pretty nails demo of this and have wanted to get it. Your review made me put it in my cart. I wish you had shown when to use the base coat and that we could just use alcohol to dehydrate or not if you don’t think so. First time. Good review.
Thank you so much! So I use the base coat before I apply nails. You can definitely use alcohol as dehydrator as well.
I've had this for about 2-3 months now, and I absolutely love the tips perfect sizes length and all, def not a rip off def a dupe lol.
They are great! And def a dupe 😆
It was probably the brush is why you had such a hard time with the Kiss kit. I’m new to nails and I do see a huge difference when I used a better brush. LHPN did a video with the kiss kit so I know it’s not the products in the kit that were my issue. This is a cute kit tfs
Hey thanks. I’m definitely going to try more acrylic since I got some in my nailboxy box.
I got the skit about 3 weeks ago and I love it. You just got to get used to the lamp. I really love this kit
Yea I’m sure I’ll get used to it. It will be nice to have something to flash cure with.
Love this kit my nails lasted over 3 weeks
Yes they are great
I watch long girl pretty hair and y'all go girl
Got my daughter a kit for xmas. Fingers crossed
I hope she likes it! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
yassssss queeeen
I love this kit!! How do you avoid getting bubbles under the nail
Just practice. I put the gel in the nail bed and I scrape the excess from the brush on the nail. Then I rock the nail from my cuticle area to the top of my nail. I usually get air bubbles when I don’t use enough gel.
Love this set! I need lots more practice with it but such a cool idea. Wish they offered flatter tips. Great review! =)
You’ll get used to it in no time. I think square is usually flatter
Yer i brought this for the lamp I’ve tried this technique in a normal lamp and it was impossible to get perfect I get mine today I can’t wait I’ve taken a years break from nails I’ve missed having them 😂🤣😂
I hope you like it!!!
OMG SHOULD I GET IT
Yes it was great 👍
is the little lamp strong enough to cure polish as well? i feel like this would b handy for travel if it is.
Yup it sure is!
I just got this last week to try! I haven’t got to try it yet because my nails are still healing from the damage the taxol chemo caused my poor nails 😩
I feel your pain. I did dioxirubicin and cisplatin. That’s why I got into nails because mine were in terrible shape. Hope you are doing well! What hospital are you with?
@@LuxeNailsbyJen I travel 3hrs away to Lexington Kentucky to see some of the best cancer drs Kentucky has to offer thank goodness. I live in such a rural area we have to travel away to see good specialists for anything like this or for other serious health issues. My daughter has been a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic since she was only 3yrs old and now she is 25yrs old and sadly due to our area not having a good diabetic dr we also travel 3 hrs away to west Va for her to see a good endocrinologist since she was just a baby and thankfully even though her dr is a pediatric endocrinologist he still sees my daughter to care for her diabetes and that is a blessing for us. She’s his oldest patient lol..
Well sounds like both of you have a good team
How do you do a fill in? Or when your nails grow out how do you continue with the Original set
So would fill them just like you would acrylics or gel extensions. File off and products that are lifted, apply your dehydrator, and primer to natural nail, then apply your product to the exposed natural nail. All we can do now is wait
I’m new at doing my nails at home and just bought this kit. Is it necessary to hold your nail when curing it?
Yes unfortunately it is. If not then it won’t cure in the right place and you’ll get a lot of air bubbles
I would like to see an in-depth on how you removed them. Are you soaking and efile or will scraping work?
I can totally do that for you!
Hey hope you saw the video a couple weeks back!!!
I got this kit but haven’t used it yet I’m so afraid of putting them on crooked! I want them a bit short would you recommend cutting them when they’re on or off the nail?
I usually cut them on because the length depends on how long your nail beds are
This video was super helpful. To give some constructive criticism the fast hand gestures and movements are a little distracting but I also talk with my hands so I totally get I think I only notice more because you show detailed shots
Thank you. I’m really bad at that…I’m a New Yorker 😆 I almost feel like I do it more bc I’m not showing my face. It’s definitely something I want to work on.
Do you think that if I paint the nails first that the nail glue would work with the uv light?
It won’t work unless it is a translucent color. The light needs to be able to penetrate the nail in order to cure the gel.
Can you use a regular lamp that you use for gel or only this lamp
Yes. Before I had a table lamp I would turn my lamp on its side so I could cure my nails.
When you paint the nails, do you need to do a base coat? Or can you just use the gel polish and cure it? I just ordered mine and I’m excited to try!!
There are mixed opinions on this some say you don’t need to other say you do. I just like to bc the polish glides better when painting the nail.
What tips would you recommend for someone with super flat nails. My daughter wants me to make her some press ons but she wants to use nail glue and not the gel to adhere them. In other words she just basically doesn't want to sit still long enough for me to do her nails with cute designs and just wants to be able to glue em on and go🤦♀️🤷♀️😒. Every nail I've tried so far are all sculpted at least to some degree.
The only thing I can think is that maybe the nails are too long. The longer the nail the more sculpted it is. Or you could try putting a couple layers of nail polish on to thicken the nail. This will decrease the distance between her natural nail and the tips. If all else fails I wonder if some place like clairs would have nails for little girls that aren’t too sculpted. Let me know if any of this helps.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen they are all long tips so maybe that's it. I have to trim them down alot.
Could you take store bought press on nails and use that with this kit?
You could but they couldn’t be opaque nails. The light needs to be able to penetrate through the nail to cure the gel.
Do you know of this gel/glue has any HEMA? I assume if it’s gel there might be? I can’t seem to find the exact components on their website. I’m trying to find solution to my HEMA allergy and I thought these could work but I kinda need to know if it indeed has it! If it does, I’m thinking maybe to try a different HEMA free builder gel to cure the tip to …
I tried searching on their Amazon listing but couldn’t find anything either.
do you put the nail glue on the natural nail and the tip? or just the tip?
You put a layer on your natural nail then cure it. Then you put it inside the tip before you stick the tip on your nail.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen thank you!!
Hi, I had an allergic reaction with the beetle gel polish kit. I’m not sure with the polish or the light? You think it’ll be the same with this kit?
I’m not sure to be honest with you. I would say try something else. There are so many kits you can get now. I’ve done reviews on a few.
It was likely the polish so you'll want to be careful with gel products as gel allergies are becoming more known.
Are the full coverage nail tips dissolvable in acetone? Like soft gel tips?
Nvm need to watch full vids from now on 🤣
Lol no problem
I do that all the time
Just subscribed 😉
Thank you sooo much!!!!
I bought a UV/LED torch to do the flash curing before going into my bigger lamp for the full cure
I want to try one so bad
@@LuxeNailsbyJen theyre amazing i got mine off amazon for arond $10
@@AaronW-ww4ds I’ve definitely been considering it. I just have so many of these little lamps from kits it’s crazy
To me it’s basically base coat. I use base coat to apply my full cover tips the gelx way and they last. I have 2 friends that I did their nail using base coat to apply and it’s been 3 weeks no lifting. I just soaked off my 3 weeks nail
I wish base coat worked for me but it just doesn’t last
All tips are plastic. Even the ones that say they're "soft gel". It's just a different type of plastic.
Also all base coats can be used as slipped solution for polygel. Just so you know.
😊
Question: what’s the difference between gel x nails and plastic full nails ?
So from what I’ve researched and other on here have told me, all tips are basically plastic and gel. I guess what really matters is the chemical make up and how exactly they are made. Confused, me too 😆. I guess some are just made stronger and better.
Plastic ones are made from ABS where as actual gelly tips are made out of soft gel which is the kiara sky ones which is why theyre more flexible with the natural nail where ABS doesnt have much flex
How long did you cure the glue part ?
I always use the 120 sec settings on my lamp
Btw you dont have to etch the inside of the tip if you add primer to the tip instead.
I know I just wanted to give it a fighting chance. And it definitely helps . You should give it a try 😘
Holaaa como lo puedo adquirir Aki en Ecuador
Posiblemente Amazonas. Lo sienti no lo se.
do you think their website is safe to order from or should I get it on amazon?
I would just order it from Amazon
Order from Amazon. I ordered January 10, was supposed to get the package by January 19, it never arrived and I never got any updates after January 16. After emailing them like three times and writing on their insta (with a bunch of other people that had the same issue, that btw they later on deleted all comments) they send me other package that took another 10-12 days, I just got it the other day and when I opened it, there was two of each??? Like they just find my old order and just packed everything together.
Amazons service is definitely better.
@kortiz CZcams deleted your comment sorry
Are you able to cut the tips shorter?
Of course. I use a tip cutter but you could use anything
How are these holding up? Nice video
I had them on for two weeks before I soaked them off. I like to change to my nails up often.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen thanks for replying I appreciate
Anytime!
@@LuxeNailsbyJen I’m new to your channel loving the videos. Do you have any reviews for the enail couture 123 go nails similar to this?? Thanks 😊
I do actually. It was a couple weeks ago 😁
Wait why they said they aren’t real gel that’s crazy because these are literally the exact same as kiara sky jelly tips I have both and compared them yesterday when I got my Beetles package they are literally the same exact nail length width and everything!! 🤔
I’m definitely only buying the Beetles nails for 10 bucks now instead of 30+ shipping for Kiara sky🤷🏻♀️
For real. Even if they aren’t gel who cares. They are literally the same thing. I’ve had them on for about a week now and have had zero issue with them.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen yass just did mine lastnight 💅 i was looking forward to seeing how you’d design them 🥺 im always looking for nail inspo 💕💕
@@ilovenails1276 filming it tonight!
@@LuxeNailsbyJen yay 💅💕
Set your lamp more eye level with you and you will not have the problems with them going on crooked and cure them all in a large lamp
Sorry I’m not sure what you mean by more level with… like higher so I don’t have to go down to put my finger in?
How long did they last for
They can last up to 3 weeks with proper prep and application. I usually wear mine for around two weeks before I remove them but you can full them with builder gel if you want.
I have this kit they are not abs they are a plastic material but not abs cause you can bend them and the line goes away and they don’t soak off well
I’m sure I’ll get used to it. I didn’t have an issue soaking them off. I had to do it twice while filming 😂
Just so I know for the future so you know what kind of plastic it is? There were no real answers on Amazon.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen I have the little clips to soak of and that didn’t work well I had to use a bowl with a little acitone
I think they are acrylic but like what you find in paint cause the are more clear then the makartt regular tips not the pump up
@@latortura1986 good to know. I still have a hard time telling the difference. Thank
How do you reccomend to remove these nails?
You just trim them, file the top surface, then soak a cotton pad or pad in 100%acetone then wrap with foil. It may take anywhere from 10-30 minutes but it should turn into like a flakey mush. Then you can scrape it off with an orange wood stick or cuticle pusher. I have a video coming out soon 😄
@@LuxeNailsbyJen thank you for the response, I will be looking forward to that video🤗
Video is live now of how to remove them 😄
@@LuxeNailsbyJen omg thank you,i just saw the response
@@enidofori3142 anytime
Do you have to soak off gel nails ?
You can file them off but it’s much easier to soak them off.
Also much safer bc when you file them off you risk damaging your nails
You can use the nail glue as all 3
I love that stuff can’t wait to use it more
I love doing my own nails but I’m not good
I wasn’t “good” when I first started either lol. I was just looking for a hobby and now it’s a passion.
ANYONE KNOW HOW TO TAKE THESE OFF! I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GONNA BE PERMANENT THEY'RE ON SO GOOD.
I file them really well and then soak in acetone and cover with foils. It takes about 10 to 20 mins for them to soak off. Glad they worked so good! They are one of my favs.
@@LuxeNailsbyJen thank you so much Im going to try now! I applied them to close to my cuticles and they're uncomfortable. Ill reapply after lol
Ok let me know how it goes
@@LuxeNailsbyJen girl, it worked perfectly! 😘🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 thank the nail gods
Kiera sky is too expensive in my opinion, how powerful is the little nail lamp
These lamps in all these kits are just like KS. They just have a patent on that particular style I believe .
The lamps only like 3 watts which is only meant to flash cure before doing a full 60 second cure in a minimum 36 watt LED lamp
Lightning deal going on right now, 15.99
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up 😀
Is the sale on Amazon or the beetles site?
@@426adina both
what if you don"t have enough money for a drill?
:(
Most things you can do with a hand file. But I’m about to review a inexpensive drill so we’ll see if it’s any good 😊
@@LuxeNailsbyJen Tysm!
You’re so welcome
Do yourself a favor and buy solid nail glue 😉
I did lol
You shouldn’t make statements That aren’t facts, because I never file the inside and most time when I do gel x nails I only prep my nail and I dehydrate with alcohol or acetone and they last 3 sometime 4 weeks im having a hard time getting these 4 week old gel x nails off that was placed with all the shine in the original nails so don’t say that just because you prefer not file them 🙄
If that works for you great! Unfortunately, I have noticed that my nails do not last without filing the inside. In addition, the seller on Amazon stated it is not necessary to use a dehydrator or primer, however, they still recommend using it for the best adhesion. Everyone’s method may be different. What works for one person may not work for another. Thanks for watching!
Its actually fact that they have to be etched as gel does not sticky to shiny surfaces youll get lifting between the enhancement and natural nail
Thank you 🤗