Ring lights for your Phone and Makeup - Find out all you need to know and prices in Nigeria

2. Plastic or metal used to house the LEDs

This is the round ring enclosure where the LED lights go into.

4. Power supply source or connector

This is how the ring light is powered. It might be by batteries for smaller lights, using USD charging by power bank or from your computer.

5. Stand or holder

Stands can be table top types or tripod stands. Some can be adjustable or rigid.

Phone ring light (Phone light ring ) vs ring light

There differences between a ring light, and a phone ring light.

A ring light is a device that has LED light in a ring-like shape. It comes in different sizes. Some come with a tripod stand, some come with a table stand, and some others come with a stand and phone holder so you can attach your phone.

A phone ring light also has LED light but the difference is that it is attached to your phone. See this picture below

Best Ring light for makeup

Depending on what you want to do with the ring light, there are specific types of ring lights that are well suited for applying make up.

When you choose a ring light for make up, you want to choose a ring light based on the following criteria

1. You need to have a lot of light when applying makeup by yourself or for someone. So you have to choose a ring light that gives you the most light. For this the bigger the better.
2. You also do not want to hold the ring light while making up. This means that the you need a ring light that can stand or be positioned without you holding it. So you may want to look at ring lights that come with a stand.

Ring light size

Ring lights come in different sizes and measured by the size of the ring. If you want to measure a ring light, see this picture below:

The picture above shows how to measure a ring light size.

The common ring light sizes are 14 inch ring light, 18 inches ring light and 10 inches ring light. There are other sizes but these are the most common sizes. However, the phone ring light is really small and measures about 5-6 inches but it is very handy and portable.

Ring light price in Nigeria

You might be wondering how much is a ring light is in Nigeria. Popular online shops sell it at different prices depending on the size, color and components

On Konga.com, ring lights price range from.N1.8k to N30k for different sizes excluding delivery costs

Ring lights on Jumia are priced from N1K to N665k for different sizes excluding delivery costs

How to Choose a ring light

Choosing a ring light might be difficult when there are so many choices with different shapes and sizes but read on to see how make a good choice.

If you want to use it for make up, you can see the guidance we provided earlier. After deciding on the ring light you want, you have to look at a few other things as follows:

1. Power source

   Ring lights require power supply for them to work. Some of them like the table top and phone ring lights mostly use batteries. Some are also rechargeable. Some can also be powered from USD port of power banks or from computer USB port.

   Read more on Ring light electricity consumption and how to find the right capacity to power them below

2. Brightness

   Some ring lights are brighter than others. You may want to put on a few of them and compare their lights before you make a decision. However, ring lights are using LEDs which are generally bright and have controls that all you increase or decrease their brightness

3. Colors

   Many ring lights now come with different colours. This is made possible by the manufacturers including different colors of LEDs. They usually have controls where you can change the colors.

4. Flexibility

   Ring lights now come with adjustable stands that are flexible. This is usually seen in the table top types where you can adjust and bend the light in any shape or position. If you want that feature, you can look out for it when you are deciding which ring light to get.

5. Additional Holders

   As you can see from the picture above, the Ring light holder comes with a phone holder. Some other ring lights come with holders for 2 phones and even a microphone for people who want to use it for video. You may also look at that as you decide

6. Ease of Installation

   The more sophisticated the ring light is, the more difficult it is to put together. Although it is fairly easy to assemble, you may want to get the smaller ring lights if you do not want to stress over how to set up your ring light. See this video that shows how to assemble a ring light with a stand here

Ring light electricity consumption

The amount power you need for your ring light depends on the number of individual LEDs (beads) contained in it.

We have done a little research and we can confidently say that 1 LED consumes 10 - 15 milli amps per hour or 10mAh - 15mAh

If your LED has 32 beads, it will consume a minimum of 10 * 32 = 320mAh

What does that mean?

If you use a power bank with your ring light, you want to make sure that it can last as long as you want.

In this our example, we will need a power bank of at leaset 1600mAh on full charge so that the Ring light will last for 5hours 

If that was complicated, you can use the calculator below to find the size of power bank you need for your ring light 

Please note that if you need anything above 10,000mAh, you might have to use the home AC supply or buy a big battery.

Powerbank calculator

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Summary

Ring lights are great for many uses like taking great pictures, selfies, make up light, video calls, meeting and so on and I think everyone should get one.