Gel nail polish is a great way to make your nails, basically your hands beautiful more than ever. It not only makes you look high maintenance but also gives you a clean look, stating that you are hygienic, which is a concern since the global pandemic. But what if your expensive gel nail polish is on the verge of breaking every now and then, and there is no way you can fix it?
You try to remove it, with all of your manicure skills. Cause, you don’t have a tree of money, and you want to save when you can. In this scenario, most of the people being greedy, try to take off the gel nail polish directly. No matter how tempting it sounds, it won’t be worth all the damage it will cause because then, you will not only be peeling off the gel nail polish, but also the very thing layer of your nail, which might lead to serious injury later resulting in brittle and broken nails. You will ultimately be taking off the part that actually grows out.
This read can help you save your precious time and money in the expensive salon, and you’ll be good to go.
Let’s go ahead with a method that will take little or no effort of yours to remove the gel nail polish:
One of the easiest ways to wipe out that irritating unbearable damaged gel nail polish is to use cotton balls dipped really well in acetone and covered in foil. Rinse off the extra acetone and use it directly on your nails for clearing it all.
Acetone is easily accessible and cotton balls are there in almost everybody’s house. But still, if you don’t have the products, you can avail of them easily on various websites. But what do you exactly have to do with the acetone and cotton pads, there are so many minor things you need to take care of, which will be covered below. Even if you’re going to remove your gel nail polish at home, the procedure of doing so is exactly how it would be done in any salon.
Here’s a detailed procedure for doing so!
Step 1 – Filing it down:
Yes, as authentic and salon’ish as it sounds, this is the real procedure of how it is done in the salon and also in your home. Start off with a fresh nail file, you can get plenty of them online at the best quality and best price.
It is also suggested by one of your favourite nail salons of everyone Oliver and June, Sarah Gibson, to gently file down the nail if it breaks from either of the sides to give it a shape that you like.
If you want to take all of the gel nail polish, it’s recommended to start by filing it down gently initially, slowly taking off the topcoat of your nail. It is hard and may cause damage to take off the entire manicure, so you must take care of it.
Step 2 – Soak it off:
This step is hard, if you don’t have a lot of patience, it will be harder for your sensitive nails, if you’ll rush into the process. So you might want to read it carefully and follow up gently.
Just take a cotton pad, or cotton ball, dip it into the acetone, and place it on your finger while putting the tip of your finger in an aluminium foil. If you don’t have any acetone, you can just put your hand in warm water, containing a mixture of dish soap and a teaspoon of salt.
If your gel nail polish isn’t removed properly, it must be because of not soaking the cotton pad enough in the acetone.
You can opt for plastic instead of aluminium foil if you don’t have one. After doing the procedure with all of your nails, let it soak off for 10 -12 minutes. Depending upon how rigid your gel nail polish is, you can lengthen the time of soaking as well. By then, the acetone would have worked and you can easily take off the polish.
Having your cuticle well prepared for the procedure beforehand is a must though.
Step 3 – Remove gently:
As we mentioned before, it was to check up on your patience level. So, even after trying that hard, if your gen nail polish isn’t sliding off like a butter spread, then you might have to put off some extra effort.
Take a fresh acetone-soaked cotton pad and wipe it down on your nail, with gentle force while twisting and squeezing it at the same time. And voila!
You can have your brand new, healthy nails back.
Step 4 – Nourish and take care of your nails:
Now most people, while removing their gel nail polish, don’t actually take care of their nails, which leads to unhealthy nails eventually, it happens because removing gel nail polish suddenly will make your nails dry and sensitive. So you need to nourish your nails while constantly moisturising them.
First of all, try to take off all the acetone from your nails, if there’s any remaining on your nails. Now, you can use any oil to make them a little less dry.
You can also opt for a body moisturiser, try to apply some of it to your hands before going to bed, and you’ll be good to go!
If you have found the procedure easy to go, and manageable, kudos!
But if you think it’s too much of an effort, then there are gel nail polish remover kits available on the market and you can definitely go for it.
You can have all the products you will be required for removing the gel nail polish in one place, to make your work easier.
Studies have proved, that the excessive use of acetone on nails can break them much earlier. So you might want to limit the excessive use of acetone on your nails.
