How To Take Off Acrylic Gel Nails

Make sure your nails are completely submerged and keep them in the bowl for at least 30 minutes.

How to take off acrylic gel nails. Place that bowl inside. Redip your nails for five mins then gently push again. Today Im showing you how I remove my gel nails at home without breakage.

Shortened extensions mean less product. File or buff off the shiny top surface completely. Fill a bowl with acetone.

Next make sure that you keep the area around the cuticles moist and avoid drying it out as this can cause the nails. Acetone softens the acrylic explains Choi. With a metal cuticle pusher gently push the polish off your nails pushing from your cuticles downward.

Here are the most effective and least damaging ways to do it. Gel nails tend to be easier to remove than acrylics. Follow it up with lots of cuticle oil.

How to take off acrylic and gel extensions at home First things first youll need to clip your nails down using nail clippers or scissors. The shorter the nail the easier it will be to get them. Once youve filed away the top layer of polish put your fingers in a shallow bowl of warm pure acetone.

This goes without saying but be careful to not stick your fingers in liquid that is too hot After that you should be able to easily scrape the gel polish off with a metal nail file or wooden stick without damaging the acrylic underneath. If youd rather just soak the nails off you can do that too says Punjani. Once youve got as much off as possible using either method use a coarse nail file to file the remaining gel or acrylic.